The Wrestler

[MikeRaw]

How can a wrestling forum not have a thread on this movie?

I'm debating going and seeing it. Has anyone here actually seen it yet, considering this is a wrestling forum? Any good?
I'm pretty sure it's Rated R though, and since I'm only 16, I'll just get someone to get me a ticket, but whatever. Or I may download it. But ya, is it worth watching?

 

[Solid Stinger the Big Boss]

Very good movie

 

[gatesoftanhauser]

Excellent movie. Shows the realities many of the old timers go through. It's a bleak and somewhat sad look at the life of an independent wrestler, but it's very rewarding.

 

[J]

Defnitlly worth a viewing. It's a nice, realistic look into what wrestlers can go through after wrestling and then end is pretty good although somewhat predictable.

 

[milkman7]

Yes, see this as soon as possible. This is Brilliance.

 

[CT Styles]

It's a pretty good movie and worth what you pay for the ticket. Shows you the reality of what wrestling really is.

 

[NewHBK]

I look forward to see it. Will hit theatres next month here.

 

[★Chuck Zombie★]

Just to let everyone know, the wrestling bit is pretty much setting. The focus of the movie isn't wrestling. The focus of the movie is actually ABOUT a washed up, has-been with bad health that screwed up his life, and alienated his family after being successful. The wrestling bit could be interchanged with any other profession and it would still work the same way. So if you think it's about wrestling, you are gonna be disappointed when you have to sit through a lot of scenes of him trying to befriend his daughter and hook up with a stripper. I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying that it shouldn't get as much hype from the wrestling world as it does.

 

[THE Brian Kendrick's Biceps]

Went to see it the first time it showed at Chaddy withg my brother, and the cinema was basically empty. ABout ten people there, including some parents who brought there about six year old son. They would have been shocked to see the drug use and strippers, but I doubt the kid understood what it was.

As far as the movie went, it was pretty good. Told a nice story and it really showed what the business can be like. The wrestling wasn't bad for what it was, though there wasn't much of it. Like Chuck said, that wasn't the focus of the movie anyway. It still did make me laugh when we saw Killings hit a hip toss, then win the match thirty or so seconds later with the camera focussd on Rourke in the crowd. Oh that hip toss, such a devastating move. :shifty:


On a semi-unrelated note, that stripper chick was ugly with her clothes on. Yes, I'm being dead serious.