Very depressing film
God this was a dark one.. That theme of loneliness and getting old... Whew..
shareAgreed, I watched this the other night - very well done but damn, depressing as $chit.
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I hear ya. A real downer. It's good for the serious wrestling fan like myself, but if I wasn't one I wouldn't have watched it. But there is a large audience that likes that. The more depressing and disturbing a movie is, the more it's considered a masterpiece.
shareIt's a real downer but I loved it. Super sad.
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Its not really about loneliness and growing old in the traditional sense, its about a man who lived for the present and never became an adult, twenty years later.
Ram was a loser, I've seen the film several times, and I've tried to sympathize with the character, but he's just pathetic.
I totally sympathize with him. I just watched it. I felt bad for him 5 minutes in. Poor guy.
X-Men: Apocalypse 8/10. TMNT: Out of the Shadows 9/10. RIP Doris Roberts. You were wonderful in ELR.
I feel sorry for the character, its just that he brought all his problems on himself. When you consider what he did to his daughter, he becomes an unsympathetic figure, in my eyes.
Regardless, you're right, we're meant to sympathize.
His daughter went a little over the line, I thought. No matter what he's done, he's still her father. Show him some respect.
X-Men: Apocalypse 8/10. TMNT: Out of the Shadows 9/10. RIP Doris Roberts. You were wonderful in ELR.
Its not really about loneliness and growing old in the traditional sense, its about a man who lived for the present and never became an adult, twenty years later.
Ram was a loser, I've seen the film several times, and I've tried to sympathize with the character, but he's just pathetic.
Spot-on.
Still, I can't help but be moved by the ending. Here's a man who was only really ever good at one thing, and he's reveling in it, perhaps for the last time. share
I sure was, Old.
X-Men: Apocalypse 8/10. TMNT: Out of the Shadows 9/10. RIP Doris Roberts. You were wonderful in ELR.
Dark topics usually make for better stories...so I say bring on the darkness!
shareI've seen this movie 3x. It never gets easier to watch.
The worst part....this is also an 'everyman' story. Whether it's the guy who keeps his 'employee of the month -1989' plaque on the wall, or the guy still reminiscing in the bar over 'the catch' he made in the high school game 20 years ago, or the person still stubbornly keeping that pair of jeans that fit 40 pounds ago....we all have a moment in life that is IT. The pinnacle. And then we have the slow, steady slide downhill for the rest of existence.
Some folks can't get over the IT moment, and are stuck there mentally forever. In a funny way, it is similar to Galaxy Quest, where the actors were stuck in that rut for so long after the show. The Wrestler went the route of tugging at the heart strings, while Galaxy Quest took the humor (at least, humor on the surface) angle.