Where we at with The Wrestler (2008)?

[Getoffmylawn2]

Probably one of the best movies I've seen the past decade. Surprised it slept under my radar for this long. Probably the best acting I've ever seen from Mickey Rourke and just a really fucking raw story. Not the kind of typical washed up redemption story I expected it to be. Any other brothamen seen it?

 

[Gay Faggot.]

I’ve heard it’s great but never watched it. If another brotherman is suggesting it I’ll have to give it a watch.

 

[ThePepsiColaRapist]

Great movie. Loosely based on Jake The Snake, if I recall.
Marisa Tomei looks fucking sexy as hell in that role.

 

[Meownaw]

All I remember is Todd Barry is in it.

 

[BraunsGhost]

Good work by Aronofsky. Pi was a good one too. Requiem for a Dream was pretty PFG too.

 

[TokenX]

I like that movie a lot. It's a good character study.

 

[satanssockpuppet]

I really enjoyed it, although it did sugarcoat the "independent wrestling scene" a bit too much for my liking.

 

[AntsBatteryCharge]

It's good. Nothing fancy, just a simple story about a washed up has-been played perfectly by a washed up has-been. It watch pretty gud

 

[Meownaw]

Good work by Aronofsky. Pi was a good one too. Requiem for a Dream was pretty PFG too.

Even that shitty Noah one was a decent watch. His next film is about some 300 lb gay man played by Brendan Frasier. Sounds like another good one.

 

[Snake]

I rammed my thumb into the deli slicer to protect the business, brother child.

 

[AwfulManTitTankTop]

Watched it again recently for the first time in a while and I forgot how relentlessly bleak and dark it is. But that's what makes it so realistic. The part where he takes the stripper out to the shit bar and they sing round and round by ratt by themselves like a couple of old washed up drunks was so painfully real. Everyone's been to a dive and seen that shit in real life. And I loved how the movie tells you to go fuck yourself every time you think shit might be looking up for Randy. The daughter shit especially. He almost does the impossible and reconnects with his daughter but nope, he ends up snorting coke and fucking some weird whore with a firefighter fetish and sleeps through their reunion dinner. They did such a great job making Randy a somewhat likeable fuckup that just cannot help himself and does kinda deserve all the bad shit that happens to him. But you dont enjoy watching it. Fantastic job by Mickey Rourke.

 

[DeadWithoutMyDavid]

It was pretty good but nothing I've felt compelled to watch again. I liked seeing him working in the meat department at Safeway. It would be pretty funny if you were ordering a pound of salami and Marty Jannetty sliced it for you.

 

[guest]

I love this movie. That's all.

 

[wbgreen]

I like it for the same reason I like true stories about wrestling but can't bring myself to ever watch the WWE.

Marisa Tomei looks fucking sexy as hell in that role.

Marisa Tomei aged as well as black women think they do.

 

[DMAN]

Great movie. Loosely based on Jake The Snake, if I recall.

It was based on Jake, and the real life reunion/rejection with his daughter really happened and was actually captured on film in the documentary Beyond The Mat (1999) ...which next to VICE's Dark Side of the Ring is the greatest depiction of wrestling in normie media

If you have seen/enjoyed all those, check out the documentaries about "ECW" - Barbwire City, Rise and Fall, Forever Hardcore.
Those fuckers got away with murder. (well, attempted homicide, but I digress)

 

[Kim_Jong_Poon]

2008... Fawk! time flies

 

[Ladynyahh]

Solid movie but only saw it once. Will have to watch it again. Mickey Rourke may have had some work done, I don't know.

 

[Tony2Shirts_mybb]

chris jericho as mickey rourke was a legendary performance.

 

[RedGlareRecipient]

I fucks with it. The scene where he’s working a square job at a grocery store reminds me of so many dudes I’ve worked with: rode hard and put up wet, cashing in the good years early.

 

[Mr. Faggotry]

Ram jam!