The Wrestler.
 

Anybody else dig this movie? Great flick and Marisa Tomei hmmmmmmmm......:thumbsup

Excellent Movie! :pimp

Switched it off after 30 mins, it bored me senseless... I was also on a flight home from Toronto and quite grumpy so I might give it another shot.

Yea Ross, give it another go man. Not a plane movie.

ahh, thanks for reminding me, forgot about that and want to watch it, i assume it's on DVD now.......

I'll watch it on my 50inch then and see what it's like.

Yea it's on DVD, I caught it off my box. Great flick bud.

Size of the screen has no bearing on this excellent flick.

Throw a Marvel Comics movie ( Spiderman and the likes ) for that ....

Watched it cuz' of Marissa .. but was a cool flick anyway

Great movie !!!

Gonna buy the DVD. Heard good things about it...

I picked it up on the box too last week. I was quite impressed. And of course Marissa....YUM!

I still want to see that one. I've heard really good things about it. :)

I didnt expect much from it TBH...

But, I thought it was really good!

Marissa's titties saved the movie. :thumbsup

Good movie.....

It's well worth picking up a copy. I enjoyed it.

One of my favorite movies of last year

That one surprised me. I really enjoyed it.

Excellent movie. Mickey Rourke forever!

It was above average

Good movie. Micky owned that roll.

Still haven't seen it yet

I loved it

I loved it. I'm fascinated with what happens to a lot of those pro wrestlers and people like that when they leave the limelight and have to return to a normal life.

Awesome movie.Best performance from Mickey Rourke and yes,Marisa,mmmm :thumbsup

I liked it. The end was a little cheesy, but the character portrait was pretty good.

good movie :thumbsup

The thing that really amazed me about The Wrestler is the accuracy in which they portrayed the industry. My old roommate was a wrestler for the original ECW, and I used to travel with him to shows a lot on weekends when I wasn't working (this was late '90's up to early 2000). ECW used to bring in a lot of the old WWE and WCW names to put over their talent, and it was really sad at times to see guys that I idolized as a kid basically penniless. These were guys that were making millions in the '80's, and they never saved a penny of it.

Pro wrestlers are paid as independent contractors, and more often than not the older names ran afoul of the IRS. That doesn't even take into the account the massive amount of money these guys spend on Vicodin, Soma, and other painkillers and muscle relaxers, on top of living a rockstar lifestyle.

Speaking of my old roommate, Big Vision Entertainment, who produce a lot of pro wrestling DVD's, are shopping around a reality show of his life after pro wrestling in which he goes back to his original profession, bail enforcement/bounty hunting. I really hope some network picks it up...

it have a song of the last album of Slaughter... song "dangerous" when the girl is dancing on the pole.. I almost cryied of joy :(

Good movie.
I would even become a republican if that ment I could bang Marissa

It was good... I've seen better dramas.

yup, and many also don't have medical insurance, so rack up high medical bills...
there's a site that had a video roundtable interview with a bunch of former pro wrestlers talking about the movie: Diamond Dallas Page, Lex Luger, etc. but I can't remember the site for the life of me...

I watched a documentary a while back where they followed a guy named Tony Atlas who used to be a huge name in wrestling ( I haven't watched it since the 80s when I was a kid, but he was pretty big back then). In this movie he was broke and living in a tiny little apartment and wrestling at little shows in school gyms or wherever in front of maybe 50 or 100 people. There were a bunch of guys who I recognized from the 80's who were all in the same boat. At one point they were going to do a show at a gym and it got shut down because there was no legal promoter so Atlas spends the day jumping through some hoops to get a special promoters license so the show can go on. Eventually he does, but they have to move the venue and the end up putting on the show for about 30 people.

It was kind of sad. These guys were pretty short sighted when they were making big money and it looks like a lot of them were never able to make the transition into a normal life afterward. You hear a lot of stories of drug overdoses and suicides and stuff like that.

Easily in my top 10 movies of all time.

I remember that, it was actually an episode of MTV True Life: I'm a Professional Wrestler from back in '99 when pro wrestling was going through a huge boom period. It was when WWE developed the "Stone Cold" Steve Austin character, WCW had the NWO and Goldberg, and both companies were doing huge ratings on Monday night TV every week.

Oddly enough, Tony Atlas is back working with WWE again, working as an on screen manager and also doing public appearances for the company. I think Vince McMahon has a soft spot for Atlas, because every time he is down and out McMahon comes to the rescue and gives him a job.

I think the whole pro wrestling business in general is in for some tough times ahead, as they are having a really tough time developing new stars. Back in the day a collegiate amateur wrestler, a college football player that wasn't quite good enough for the NFL, or any of a number of other high level athletes ended up gravitating to pro wrestling to make a living when they had no other options. Now those same guys have the option to train and try to make a living in MMA, and it really shrinks the talent pool to try and develop new pro wrestling stars...

"The world don't give a shit about me"

Great movie.

Pretty cool Indy Film. The Director's best film is still Requiem for a Dream. The author of the story still incredible even if dead for the unknown "The Room"

Damn, who was he?

That's right, it was one of those MTV things. Sometimes they have some pretty cool stuff on True Life.

Have you read any of the books about pro wresting? I haven't and was curious if they are worth the time. I haven't watched it since I was about 15 and that was when Hogan and The Macho Man and Jake The Snake were big, but it is an intriguing business and the people that do it for a living and their lives are often fascinating.