The Wrestler[views:11659][posts:53]______________________________ [Nov 21,2008 12:15pm - mOe ""] http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2008/11/the_wrestler_trailer_flying_el.php The old wrestling fan in me is making me REALLY wanna see this movie. When I first heard this movie was being made I thought it was a joke but it looks AWESOME. |
| _________________________________ [Nov 21,2008 12:37pm - xmikex ""] The best part about this movie is that Nicholas Cage was originally cast for the lead, but was then replaced by the immortal Mickey fucking Rourke. |
| _________________________________ [Nov 21,2008 12:41pm - xmikex ""] I'd also like to add that Aronofsky is king, and I totally forgot that Marissa Tomei was in this. It will undoubtedly lead to at least 3 or 4 months before, and after the release of me annoying my girlfriend with the George Costanza voice yelling "MARRISSA TOMEI!!" |
| ____________________________________________ [Nov 21,2008 12:42pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] CANTSTANDYA |
| _________________________________________ [Nov 21,2008 12:52pm - AndrewBastard ""] Yeah, this looks awesome. He got all jacked and has sexual long hair for this role... |
| ______________________________________ [Nov 21,2008 1:18pm - orgymf@work ""] i heard that Roddy Piper cried when he saw this |
| ______________________________________ [Nov 21,2008 1:22pm - orgymf@work ""] this does look like a really good movie |
| _________________________________ [Nov 21,2008 1:29pm - oscarct ""] the reviews have been very good. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 22,2009 3:20am - goatcatalyst ""] I was gonna go see this at the theater in New Haven tonight but was randomly given a DVD screener earlier in the day. Fucking great movie. Marisa Tomei's ass is GOLD. She totally made me fat in the pants. Highly recommended. |
| _______________________________________ [Jan 22,2009 7:49am - thuringwethil ""] probably seeing it this weekend. Psyched. Rourke is one my faves. You guys have seen Angel Heart and Barfly, I hope! |
| __________________________________ [Jan 22,2009 8:50am - BrianDBB ""] Saw it a few weeks ago... definitely worth the trip. Fantastic movie, awesome story... and as a huge wrestling fan this isn't corny at all. Rourke NAILS the role. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 22,2009 8:51am - goatcatalyst ""] Ram Jam! |
| ___________________________________________ [Jan 22,2009 8:52am - MikeofDecrepitude ""] Saw this and enjoyed it. Mickey Rourke is one of my favorite actor's and he gave another strong performance. I found the story to be both humorous and somber. Angel Heart and Barfly are both backed as great films. Falling Angel was also a cool book. |
| _________________________________ [Jan 22,2009 9:01am - oscarct ""] Great movie. Tomeis ass and tits were def the star of the movie. |
| _________________________________ [Jan 22,2009 9:02am - oscarct ""] orgymf@work said:i heard that Roddy Piper cried when he saw this I heard that you cried when you read that. |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 22,2009 9:05am - dreadkill ""] i really want to see this. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 22,2009 9:35am - orgymf@work ""] oscarct said: orgymf@work said:i heard that Roddy Piper cried when he saw this I heard that you cried when you read that. WHO TOLD YOU?! I WILL FIGHT HIM! |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 22,2009 9:38am - orgymf@work ""] haha, seriously though, i just saw this on saturday...it was great, i would reccomend it to anyone....wrestling fan or not.... it's just an excellent movie, plus ya get to see Marissa Tomei naked (who looks alot better naked than i thought she would). and, if you are a wrestling fan, the matches in the flick are really well scripted, it's pretty damn cool. |
| __________________________________________ [Jan 22,2009 9:59am - largefreakatzero ""] thuringwethil said:probably seeing it this weekend. Psyched. Rourke is one my faves. You guys have seen Angel Heart and Barfly, I hope! "Here's to all my frieeeeennnnds!" [img] |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 22,2009 10:01am - brian_dc ""] this looks really good...and I'm a sucker for old school wrasslin' |
| __________________________________ [Jan 22,2009 10:02am - RustyPS ""] first movie in a very long time that I have heard literally no bad things about...def want to see this |
| ________________________________ [Jan 22,2009 11:27am - tylor ""] yeah, isn't it directed by darren aronofsky? i need to see this and gran torino |
| ________________________________ [Jan 22,2009 11:54am - rbss ""] This movie was absolutely amazing. Rourke delivers one of the most complete and moving character portrayals I have ever seen. He deserves an Oscar for his role. |
| _______________________________________ [Jan 22,2009 12:56pm - orgymf@work ""] he got a golden globe. but i agree....he deserves an oscar |
| __________________________________ [Jan 22,2009 1:10pm - BOBDEAD ""] I saw this over the weekend...really good and Rourke was brilliant as a famous wrestler coming to the end of his career. Sad and poignant... Also watched Gran Torino which was great too. Classic Eastwood... some amazingly funny as fuck one liners from the original tough guy. |
| ________________________________ [Jan 26,2009 9:58am - xmikex ""] This film is incredible. The fact that Rourke didn't win every oscar possible, plus all of next year's oscars is a complete injustice. I'm still hearing rumors that Nicholas Cage was originally cast to play the lead in this, and I think it would have robbed the world of an amazing work that only Mickey Rourke could have done justice to. POSSIBLE SPOILERS COMING UP... Aronofsky is the man too. This was a really visceral film in a lot of ways, not just with the mayhem going on inside the ring, but with the more subtle scenes that showed the pain and discomfort he went through in his daily life. There were a couple things I could have done without. #1. The scene with him and his daughter on the wharf. Their relationship was necessary for his character, I get it. But that scene just didn't fit in the film. It was too bright, and used too many wide shots. It went from an Aronofsky film to Sleepless in Seattle for that whole scene, and I just didn't appreciate it. #2. I didn't like that they added the applause and cheering tracks to the scene where he was getting ready to go out to the deli counter. I think it was more than enough to keep it subtle, and to shoot it the same way they shot his wrestling entrance scenes. I'm not an idiot, I get the point they're trying to make. Aronofsky, traditionally rarely uses non-diagetic sound like that, and I think it was kind of overkill for that scene. Other than those 2 minor things I can't think of anything I'd change about this film. |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 27,2009 9:36am - dreadkill ""] i saw this last night. it more than lived up to the hype. an oscar wouldn't do rourke justice. his performance goes beyond an oscar. nicolas cage would've ruined this movie. |
| __________________________________ [Jan 27,2009 9:39am - brian_dc ""] been trying to find a torrent for this because I don't really like movie theaters |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 27,2009 9:40am - dreadkill ""] xmikex said: #2. I didn't like that they added the applause and cheering tracks to the scene where he was getting ready to go out to the deli counter. I think it was more than enough to keep it subtle, and to shoot it the same way they shot his wrestling entrance scenes. I'm not an idiot, I get the point they're trying to make. Aronofsky, traditionally rarely uses non-diagetic sound like that, and I think it was kind of overkill for that scene. i agree. i thought the sounds of the machines humming and whirring in the back of the store hinted enough at being crowd noise, so the actual crowd noise wasn't necessary. the machine sounds, combined with the way the scene was shot with him walking toward the curtains, did enough to mimic a wrestling entrance. |
| _______________________________ [Jan 27,2009 9:41am - rbss ""] xmikex said:This film is incredible. The fact that Rourke didn't win every oscar possible, plus all of next year's oscars is a complete injustice. I'm still hearing rumors that Nicholas Cage was originally cast to play the lead in this, and I think it would have robbed the world of an amazing work that only Mickey Rourke could have done justice to. POSSIBLE SPOILERS COMING UP... Aronofsky is the man too. This was a really visceral film in a lot of ways, not just with the mayhem going on inside the ring, but with the more subtle scenes that showed the pain and discomfort he went through in his daily life. There were a couple things I could have done without. #1. The scene with him and his daughter on the wharf. Their relationship was necessary for his character, I get it. But that scene just didn't fit in the film. It was too bright, and used too many wide shots. It went from an Aronofsky film to Sleepless in Seattle for that whole scene, and I just didn't appreciate it. #2. I didn't like that they added the applause and cheering tracks to the scene where he was getting ready to go out to the deli counter. I think it was more than enough to keep it subtle, and to shoot it the same way they shot his wrestling entrance scenes. I'm not an idiot, I get the point they're trying to make. Aronofsky, traditionally rarely uses non-diagetic sound like that, and I think it was kind of overkill for that scene. Other than those 2 minor things I can't think of anything I'd change about this film. I think I see what you mean stylistically regarding that beach scene with his daughter, but I think that the symbolism there was that the light and openness and relative happiness of that scene was meant to contrast with his normally very depressing, constricted lifestyle. I also thought that the conversation he had with his daughter was one of the strongest moments of his acting in the entire film. |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 27,2009 9:43am - dreadkill ""] xmikex said: There were a couple things I could have done without. #1. The scene with him and his daughter on the wharf. Their relationship was necessary for his character, I get it. But that scene just didn't fit in the film. It was too bright, and used too many wide shots. It went from an Aronofsky film to Sleepless in Seattle for that whole scene, and I just didn't appreciate it. that was one of my favorite scenes in the movie, but i agree about the way it was shot. the cinematography in that scene was more polished and typical, while the rest of the movie was grittier and more low-end. |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 27,2009 9:46am - dreadkill ""] rbss said:I also thought that the conversation he had with his daughter was one of the strongest moments of his acting in the entire film.i haven't cried at a movie in a long time, but that scene made tears come out. maybe it's because i have a daughter and i never want to see my life come to that someday. i don't know if i've ever sympathized that much with a movie character before. |
| ________________________________ [Jan 27,2009 9:50am - xmikex ""] dreadkill said:i haven't cried at a movie in a long time, but that scene made tears come out. FAG!!! nah, I'm kidding. That movie messed me up some. |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 27,2009 9:51am - dreadkill ""] CRY OR YOU ARE A PUSSY |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 27,2009 9:52am - dreadkill ""] i was originally going to say the movie made me cry like a fag or cry like a bitch, but i figured i'd just leave it open for someone to say FIGHT THE TEARS OR YOU ARE A PUSSY or something like that. or maybe just YOU ARE A PUSSY. |
| ________________________________ [Jan 27,2009 9:53am - xmikex ""] rbss said: I think I see what you mean stylistically regarding that beach scene with his daughter, but I think that the symbolism there was that the light and openness and relative happiness of that scene was meant to contrast with his normally very depressing, constricted lifestyle. I also thought that the conversation he had with his daughter was one of the strongest moments of his acting in the entire film. I don't know if I buy the symbolism angle, but yeah in retrospect I guess it was a different set of emotions and a very different situation from the rest of the film so it needed to be shot very differently. Shooting a scene like that the same way they shot the gritty visceral scenes in the rest of the movie wouldn't have worked. It just threw me off a little still. |
| _______________________________ [Jan 27,2009 9:56am - rbss ""] I cried during this movie. I don't care. Pussies care what other people think, I cry when I want to and I don't give a shit. |
| __________________________________ [Jan 27,2009 9:58am - brian_dc ""] TEARS ARE FOR QUEERS |
| _______________________________ [Jan 27,2009 10:36am - Yeti ""] rbss said:I cried during this movie. I don't care. Pussies care what other people think, I cry when I want to and I don't give a shit. fuck yeah dude. |
| _______________________________ [Jan 27,2009 10:36am - Yeti ""] that wasn't sarcastic either. |
| _________________________________ [Jan 27,2009 10:44am - xmikex ""] Crying. ftw. |
| _______________________________ [Jan 27,2009 10:46am - Yeti ""] Roy Orbison. ftw. |
| ________________________________ [Jan 27,2009 10:47am - Murph ""] BEERS > REARS > QUEERS > FEARS > THE MIDDLE EAST > TEARS |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 27,2009 10:48am - brian_dc ""] but TEARS > CAREERS |
| ______________________________ [Jan 27,2009 10:52am - pam ""] This thread is awesome. |
| _________________________________ [Jan 27,2009 10:54am - xmikex ""] Yeti said:Roy Orbison. ftw. Amazing song. Roy Orbinson's "Crying" at the end of Gummo. FTW! |
| _________________________________ [Jan 27,2009 10:55am - xmikex ""] Murph said:BEERS > REARS > QUEERS > FEARS > THE MIDDLE EAST > TEARS Fuck the Middle East. There's too many problems... |
| ________________________________ [Jan 27,2009 11:05am - Murph ""] Problems cause tears. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 27,2009 11:10am - ouchdrummer ""] I heard an interview with the director yesterday on NPR, he made it sound good. And i think Mickey Rourke is a great actor. |
| ________________________________________ [Jan 27,2009 11:40am - y_ddraig_goch ""] mickey rourke is going to be at wrestlemania, chris jericho will most likely fight him. |
| __________________________________ [Jan 27,2009 11:41am - RustyPS ""] y_ddraig_goch said:mickey rourke is going to be at wrestlemania, chris jericho will most likely fight him.they said this on Toucher & Rich this morning....they were saying this is what he started doing last time that made people start to not take him seriously |
| ________________________________ [Jan 27,2009 1:18pm - xmikex ""] y_ddraig_goch said:mickey rourke is going to be at wrestlemania, chris jericho will most likely fight him. Chris Jericho will most likely lose. |
| ______________________________________________ [Feb 16,2009 9:47am - dogbitedavehumphreys ""] Big Wrestler Bump-n-Jam; Yo what, went to see this awesome movie yesterday, and was really blown away. One thing particular to me is that I am very familiar with that New Jersey area by way of my wife's family and I loved how they worked it all in (the power lines and the train tracks, Bruce final track, Asbury Park boardwalk and Casino where the Stone Pony is right across the street). While that detracted from some here, this was awesome for me; I have run on that boardwalk many times. But more importantly, I feel we got some huge metal props here. Like holy shit, was not BALLS TO THE WALL used perfectly here? Doesn't this song totally nail it as far as Randy's commitment to that fight? I did some head banging in the theater, my wife is used to it by now. Just in case, here are the lyrics, check out how perfect they are to Randy's character. Too many slaves in this world Die by torture and pain Too many people do not see They�re killing themselves - going insane Too many people do not know Bondage is over the human race They believe slaves always lose And this fear keeps them down Watch the damned (God bless ya) They�re gonna break their chains (hey) No, you can�t stop them (God bless ya) They�re coming to get you And then you�ll get your Balls to the wall, man Balls to the wall You�ll get your balls to the wall, man Balls to the wall - balls to the wall You may screw their brains You may sacrifice them, too You may mortify their flesh You may rape them all One day the tortured stand up And revolt against the evil They make you drink your blood And tear yourself to pieces You better watch the damned (God bless ya) They�re gonna break their chains (hey) No, you can�t stop them (God bless ya) They�re coming to get you And then you�ll get your Balls to the wall, man Balls to the wall You�ll get your balls to the wall, man Balls to the wall - balls to the wall Come on man, let�s stand up all over the world Let�s plug a bomb in everyone�s arse If they don�t keep us alive - we�re gonna fight for the right Build a wall with the bodies of the dead - and you�re saved Make the world scared - come on, show me the sign of victory Sign of victory - sign of victory You better watch the damned (God bless ya) They�re gonna break their chains (hey) No, you can�t stop them (God bless ya) They�re coming to get you And then you�ll get your Balls to the wall, man Balls to the wall P.S. the only criticism I have is that he should have been named Randy the SLAM, not Randy the Ram. |
| _________________________________________________ [Feb 16,2009 3:50pm - filthy fucking pervert ""] i would totally huff queefs out of marisa tomei's cunt |