I'm a huge wrestling fan and its a huge part of my life. I liked this movie very much, and just wanted to know how non wrestling fans felt about this movie? Have any of you started watching wrestling after this?
shareI'm not a big wrestling fan, but I loved the movie. I'm sure most would say the same!
" Super Bowl XLVIII will be most evenly-matched Super Bowl in 32 years"- AH_Fan
I'm not a fan of wrestling, and I love this movie. It's probably what started me getting real respect for the sport, and it's grown more since. Still don't watch it, though.
Real life ain't as dope as the movies.
[deleted]
Whatever it is, then. What is it, anyway?
Real life ain't as dope as the movies.
Performance art or "Sports entertainment". Take your pick of those terms.
imdb.com/name/nm2056893/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1me
Performance art or "Sports entertainment". Take your pick of those terms.
imdb.com/name/nm2056893/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1me
Please don't call it sports-entertainment. It's a sport.
shareI personally know pro wrestlers, have known some that wrestled for WWE and TNA. I don't know any that consider it a sport.
www.facebook.com/groups/ivegotyou
That's why there's so many 90 pound wusses who can't take a beating in it, right?
"I do not like mixing up moralities and mathematics."
Churchill
Of course. I imagine there would be plenty of non-wrestling fans who loved this movie. It is a movie after all, not like a documentary or something.
shareI know one that did, well two I guess.
My best friend has never been a wrestling but he really enjoyed it.
The maybe is my father. When he was younger (in the 1970's and 1980's) he about half followed it. He watched it if he caught on T.V. and didn't make a big deal if he missed, went to a few shows (he met Andre the Giant), and he told me Dick "The Bruiser" was who he thought was the baddest mofo ever. Anyway, he hasn't really watched it for many years (except for when my brother and I were younger and it was all we cared about. It's still all we care about, we just moved out lol), and he really enjoyed it. Of course, Rourke is also one of his favorite actors.
To ask if people like wrestling after seeing this movie is like asking if you like cruise ships after watching Titanic. The wrestling is a layout for the antagonist's addiction and not a celebration of the sport. Sigh. But of course, you see some wrestling, so maybe you find some fascination for it. But it's a Darren Aranifsky movie, not a wrestling movie. I recommended this to a friend once, and she said she wasn't interested because she didn't like wrestling. Again, sigh. I haven't liked wrestling since I was 10 years old and Hulk Hogan was on his peak in the mid-nineties, but I recommend this movie of all my heart, because of the insight in the human conditon.
sharePro Wrestling is a spectacle not a sport, and this movie showed exactly how the "result" is determined beforehand including the dirty tricks etc. There is a willing suspension of disbelief on that part of the crowd who go and watch and have more than 5 brain cells.
This does not mean that wrestlers are not good athletes and that it takes a bunch of physical courage to do what they do ( movie stuntmen would be in a similar class).
I am not a fan but thought this was a great movie, subject notwithstanding.
Roy 72.
I dislike and disrespect this form of wrestling and I consider the film a masterpiece.
It didn't make me want to watch wrestling. I just consider it a masterpiece of film.
It's like Black Swan. The sport is used to tell the story, but it doesn't depend on it. The Wrestler portrayed wrestling as properly brutal and washed out in my opinion
http://www.imdb.com/list/rJuB9UoASlQ/
1. Wrestling is not a sport nor does it pretend to be one.
2. To "disrespect" something that's not immoral is completely asinine. There are things I don't like but I won't disrespect them.
Joseph Chastainme
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Marks-the-series/806493646056177
Im a non wrestling fan and I LOVED it.
shareI'm not a wrestling fan and I freaking loved it! It didn't make me want to watch wrestling though. I think I identified with the fallen warrior aspect of the story because my dad was an ex-boxer who spent the rest of his life dealing with the physical and mental legacy of his career in the ring. This character's life had far more tragedy and challenges than my fathers but it did bring back some uncomfortable memories.
If I watched wrestling now, all I would be thinking of is how they might end up once the limelight fades.