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Post by Silent Brad on Jan 3, 2009 16:13:32 GMT -5
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Post by domrep on Jan 3, 2009 16:18:30 GMT -5
Man...the whole scene where he's doing coke and banging the ring rat only to come home and see his picture of his daughter on the fridge and forgetting his dinner date tore me apart. I was angry, but also felt sorry for the guy.
I don't think I've ever experienced this type of emotion from a movie. It's very rare, at least for me to feel sympathy for the main character, but this one tore me up inside.
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Post by Monster Under Your Bed on Jan 4, 2009 19:45:16 GMT -5
Well, that was tears, as expected.
Good stuff.
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Post by Threadkiller [Classic] on Jan 5, 2009 3:56:24 GMT -5
I haven't seen this movie yet because I'm in one of those cities that won't get it until January 23rd, but I have been looking up all I could about the movie since I first heard about it over a year ago (back when Nic Cage was still attached). Anyway, I wanted to listen to Bruce Springsteen's title track for the movie and wound up finding this. Perhaps it was the fact that it was my first time hearing the song that it resonated so greatly with me, but I damn near cried buckets.
There's one for Bret Hart too and it's equally gut-wrenching. I just never thought that there would ever be a song, of all things, that would so accurately sum up the triumph and tragedy of this business that has meant so much to us all. You'd think Springsteen had been a fallen wrestler himself. Of course, I could never deign to know what it's like to be in a position like the Snake or the Ram, but it affects me all the same. I grew up with wrestling. These men were my heroes. That's why a song like this strikes every emotional chord a song could strike. Because nobody wants to see their heroes fall - but sometimes they remain your heroes even when they do.
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Post by D2: Sweet & Sour Edition on Jan 5, 2009 17:32:10 GMT -5
Damn ending. Goes off the top...then black screen?! Dammit!
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Jan 5, 2009 18:17:04 GMT -5
I haven't seen this movie yet because I'm in one of those cities that won't get it until January 23rd, but I have been looking up all I could about the movie since I first heard about it over a year ago (back when Nic Cage was still attached). Anyway, I wanted to listen to Bruce Springsteen's title track for the movie and wound up finding this. Perhaps it was the fact that it was my first time hearing the song that it resonated so greatly with me, but I damn near cried buckets. There's one for Bret Hart too and it's equally gut-wrenching. I just never thought that there would ever be a song, of all things, that would so accurately sum up the triumph and tragedy of this business that has meant so much to us all. You'd think Springsteen had been a fallen wrestler himself. Of course, I could never deign to know what it's like to be in a position like the Snake or the Ram, but it affects me all the same. I grew up with wrestling. These men were my heroes. That's why a song like this strikes every emotional chord a song could strike. Because nobody wants to see their heroes fall - but sometimes they remain your heroes even when they do. This video for obvious reasons got me thinking about Beyond The Mat and how Blaustein contrasts Jake appearing at WM III with his indy appearances in North Platte, Nebraska. Does Arronofsky do anything similar with the Randy the Ram character in the form of showing him in a fictional big time company before his indy wrestling matches in ROH/CZW or show the character on the cover of fictional/fictional pictures on real wrestling magazines? A couple of weeks ago I was my local movie house (the Worcester North location of Showcase Cinemas) to catch the film Milk in the "Showcase Art" part of the theatre where they put the more "advant garde" (i.e. the critics faves that they feel won't be as commercially viable to the masses as other films) and during the "coming attractions" they showed The Wrestler trailer and there was a poster in the hall way of the "Showcase Art" part of the theatre. Yet nothing has shown up on the website for National Amusements (the parent company of Showcase Cinemas) as far as release dates or locations for The Wrestler. So despite this should I expect my theatre to get this film due to the trailer and the poster?
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Post by heyguesswhatidid on Jan 6, 2009 10:58:51 GMT -5
Saw it for the 2nd time in theaters yesterday, still great.
It's the subtle things that make Mickey Rourke so good.
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Post by Flying Leg Kicks on Jan 6, 2009 22:31:08 GMT -5
Damn ending. Goes off the top...then black screen?! Dammit! and then.....I woke up
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Post by FrankGotch on Jan 6, 2009 23:39:47 GMT -5
Well now it looks like I have to see this thing no matter what it takes.
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Post by Monster Under Your Bed on Jan 7, 2009 0:26:14 GMT -5
Well now it looks like I have to see this thing no matter what it takes. I completely agree with that non-review. That visceral reaction is the best way to describe it. I still feel for the character, and its been several days since I watched it. Characters don't tend to stick with me that long.
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Post by VINTAGE GRIDLOCK! on Jan 7, 2009 10:28:59 GMT -5
its Drell from sabrina the teenage witch!
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Post by Gopher Mod on Jan 7, 2009 13:20:18 GMT -5
its Drell from sabrina the teenage witch! Never heard of Penn and Teller, I take it?
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Post by kittylimits on Jan 7, 2009 22:56:11 GMT -5
Beautiful film. Even more amazing is that it was about pro wrestling.
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Post by Gobbledy Demon on Jan 8, 2009 12:09:27 GMT -5
This movie could have been about a rocker, a boxer, a fricking dairy farm worker and it still would've been just as emotional, Rourke stole the damn show, and it put so much emotion into the movie it fealt like watching your own father struggle, and sadly movies don't do that anymore.
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Post by Brick Killed a Guy on Jan 8, 2009 21:47:44 GMT -5
Just found out the movie opens tomorrow in a theatre just 4 minutes from my house. I'll make that my early birthday present.
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Post by Gopher Mod on Jan 9, 2009 16:41:12 GMT -5
Just found out the movie opens tomorrow in a theatre just 4 minutes from my house. I'll make that my early birthday present. Whereas me.... it will be an hour trip just to make it to the closest city with The Wrestler playing, and lord knows I don't want to go to Detroit.
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Post by andrew8798 on Jan 9, 2009 16:48:39 GMT -5
What Mr. Kennedy had to say about the movie
And what JBL had to say about the movie
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Post by nate5054 on Jan 10, 2009 2:48:17 GMT -5
Just saw the movie tonight.
Absoultely fantastic. Very authentic feeling, well acted, sad and yet funny in parts. 4 Stars. Couldn't recommend it any more. Rourke should get Best Actor for it.
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Post by domrep on Jan 10, 2009 23:36:32 GMT -5
I haven't seen this movie yet because I'm in one of those cities that won't get it until January 23rd, but I have been looking up all I could about the movie since I first heard about it over a year ago (back when Nic Cage was still attached). Anyway, I wanted to listen to Bruce Springsteen's title track for the movie and wound up finding this. Perhaps it was the fact that it was my first time hearing the song that it resonated so greatly with me, but I damn near cried buckets. There's one for Bret Hart too and it's equally gut-wrenching. I just never thought that there would ever be a song, of all things, that would so accurately sum up the triumph and tragedy of this business that has meant so much to us all. You'd think Springsteen had been a fallen wrestler himself. Of course, I could never deign to know what it's like to be in a position like the Snake or the Ram, but it affects me all the same. I grew up with wrestling. These men were my heroes. That's why a song like this strikes every emotional chord a song could strike. Because nobody wants to see their heroes fall - but sometimes they remain your heroes even when they do. This video for obvious reasons got me thinking about Beyond The Mat and how Blaustein contrasts Jake appearing at WM III with his indy appearances in North Platte, Nebraska. Does Arronofsky do anything similar with the Randy the Ram character in the form of showing him in a fictional big time company before his indy wrestling matches in ROH/CZW or show the character on the cover of fictional/fictional pictures on real wrestling magazines? A couple of weeks ago I was my local movie house (the Worcester North location of Showcase Cinemas) to catch the film Milk in the "Showcase Art" part of the theatre where they put the more "advant garde" (i.e. the critics faves that they feel won't be as commercially viable to the masses as other films) and during the "coming attractions" they showed The Wrestler trailer and there was a poster in the hall way of the "Showcase Art" part of the theatre. Yet nothing has shown up on the website for National Amusements (the parent company of Showcase Cinemas) as far as release dates or locations for The Wrestler. So despite this should I expect my theatre to get this film due to the trailer and the poster? From what I gather, he was a pretty big star in the 80s. He has an action figure and everything, so he must have been a pretty big deal. I believe it was mentioned he sold out MSG against the Ayatollah back in the 80s. They do show posters and stuff at the beginning of the movie.
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Post by The Line on Jan 11, 2009 4:23:33 GMT -5
There is no chance in hell that I'll be seeing this in theaters at this point, so I hope it either gets a wide release, or comes to DVD ASAP.
And I wish it good luck tonight. 3 golden globe nods.
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