anyone else watched 'The Wrestler'?

[Lo-Co]

If you haven't seen it then you are missing out on a great movie. It was sad as hell but also realistic at the same time. And it makes you think about the things these wrestlers really go through being on the road for days weeks and months at a time.

i saw this when i was 13. all day i had this look on my face

i felt like i left the matrix in a sense.

 

[TheAlbionist]

I'm talking a combo of a main eventer in the 80s + bad drug/alcohol problems + broke and total irrelevance in the twilight of his career + dead from complications. Guys like Jake and Scott Hall are the closest thing to Randy and at rock bottom they still weren't living in a trailer park and working CZW matches just to get paid, and their names still rung heavy in the wrestling industry and to fans worldwide. Plus they're clean and living good now, the movie still could have been realistic while having a happy ending.

Have you ever watched a Darren Aronofsky film before?

 

[jackswstd]

Randy "The Ram" Robinson is a legend

We only acknowledge one Randy round here, may he

 

[y que]

Nah, I think Bret mentioned something about the movie being an overly grim representation of the biz, and saying that neither he nor anybody he knows fell off the path like that (as far as main eventing MSG one decade then being an all out loser two decades later)

uh a considerable amount of wrestlers have miserable lives after their wrestling gig

drugs, depression, suicides, overdoses, broke finances, etc

 

[45123]

uh a considerable amount of wrestlers have miserable lives after their wrestling gig

drugs, depression, suicides, overdoses, broke finances, etc

I'm talking a combo of a main eventer in the 80s + bad drug/alcohol problems + broke and total irrelevance in the twilight of his career + dead from complications. Guys like Jake and Scott Hall are the closest thing to Randy and at rock bottom they still weren't living in a trailer park and working CZW matches just to get paid, and their names still rung heavy in the wrestling industry and to fans worldwide. Plus they're clean and living good now, the movie still could have been realistic while having a happy ending.

 

[y que]

your opinion makes no sense

the film is realistic

 

[45123]

your opinion makes no sense

the film is realistic

I'm not giving a fukking opinion that can or cannot make sense, I'm telling you a perspective corroborated by actual facts and from what I've seen

From Bret:

WWE Hall of Famer Bret "The Hitman" Hart, who was a multi-time world champion in both WWE and WCW, enjoyed The Wrestler and applauded Rourke's "clairvoyant" performance, but called the film a "dark misinterpretation" of the business. He asserted: "Randy “The Ram” Robinson was a main-eventer who sold out Madison Square Garden. So was I... Although the film speaks superbly to the speed bumps all pro wrestlers navigate, I’m happy to report most of us don’t swerve off the road quite so severely."

The Hitman versus ‘The Wrestler’ - Macleans.ca

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

come on Bret is just doing damage control, he has to be. how many more bell salutes to kick off raw do you need.

even if these guys don't follow the same exact path as ram did you gotta think a lot of these guys are already in dark places in the days leading up to their overdose or whatever the fukk it is that ends up taking these guys so early.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

This Movie was

Spoiler: I Can't Believe That I Never Watched It Before.

"I Can't Get Hurt Out There"

Pam seeing her Son playing with that Randy Robinson figure.

Stephanie Robinson: "I Don't Want To See You."

When Ram was sitting there at that Meet & Greet to Sign Autographs and he looked around the room at the other Legends being ...man, that was

Ernest Miller "Come On Ram. PIN ME! WE'VE GIVEN THEM ENOUGH!!"

The Ram: "Nobody Gives A shyt About Me."

Late as ever but still

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Movie showed the darkside of the business like no other.

 

[Broad Street Bully]

Jerry Lynn? Really? I thought Jake The Snake honestly

 

[Rell Lauren]

Bret Hart's opinion is just that, his opinion. This movie brought Roddy Piper to tears because of the realism. Some people don't fall as hard as he did, but there are plenty of wrestlers who were in the big leagues that are back on the Indy circuit wrestling in high school gyms and war memorials for scraps.

 

[ProfessionallyTrill]

Dope flick.

Used to play it on a loop while my cable was being hooked up.

 

[The Girl From Innsmouth]

I think that it's telling that Aaronofsky made this to pair with Black Swan, another story about people who use their bodies to tell stories and who drive themselves to unhealthy ends achieving artistic perfection. It was like a one-two punch of toxic masculinity and toxic femininity, and how the expectations on both performers drive them to their unfortunate end. You have to watch them together.

 

[OmegaK2099]