10 Bizarre Wrestling Movies You Must Watch

5. The Jesse Ventura Story (1999)

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This timely biopic, released right after Jesse Ventura was elected governor of Minnesota, is based upon a true story. Not to put too fine a point on it, but so was Balto, and that movie is about talking sled dogs.

We learn, for example, the Jesse quit the wrestling business in disgust after personally witnessing the infamous Montreal Screwjob. You remember, when Raven defeated Kanyon for the WCW title through the machinations of, uh, Vince McMahon? Ted Turner, maybe? 

We also get to see The Body wrestle against that famous star of the 1970's territory days, Bill Goldberg. They didn't even put a little perm wig on him and call him Harley Race or whatever.

The whole movie is filmed in this strange, Ferris Bueller confessional style, where the Body will occasionally address the viewers in a kind of Shakespearean aside. Worst of all, the guy they got to play him doesn't even try to approximate the Body's extremely distinctive voice.

Sucka sounds like Chavo Guerrero and looks like G. Gordon Liddy. Caaaaastinnnngggg.

Forget weather machines and chemtrails, it looks suspiciously like this movie was cooked up by a secret society bent on making sure Jesse Ventura never served a second term.

Immortal Dialogue: "It's cool to be the bad guy beating up on the good guy. Good and evil! That's what it's all about."

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