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Another damn boxing film?


Am I the only one who thinks boxing movies are really out of fashion already? Theyre all just too predictable and cliché. As an MMA fan I think an MMA movie would sell better today than a boxing one.

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I think it's well-worn and doesn't need to be rehashed. This film looks like it offers nothing in the way of surprises.

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This movie will be more than just a boxing movie. It chronicles the life of Vinny and his spirit of never quitting. A true story about a man who defied the odds.

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This is the narrative of literally every boxing film.

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It goes far beyond boxing and I am sorry you feel this way. I urge you to see beyond the fact that Vinny was a boxer and see the story behind a man who wouldn't give up at life when he could have. I think stories about ppl who chose not to bow out in their life and choose to take the hard path and not the easy one is a great story that we need to see more examples of in cinema.

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Right? I thought jasonfandrich was being sarcastic until I read his reply to you lol.

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Defying odds? Yeah totally not like Southpaw, Almost every Rocky movie, The Fighter, or Cinderella Man right?

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Except all those are fantasy and this is actually real

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Actually those aren't all fantasy. Half of those were true stories. Or wait, were you joking? It's so hard to tell on here

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Cinderella Man and The fighter are based on true stories

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"As an MMA fan I think an MMA movie would sell better today than a boxing one."

Yeah, because Never Back Down proved that people will flock to see an MMA movie.

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Warrior...

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Warrior flopped too. Not sure if you were pointing that out or using it as a counterpoint.

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http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=neverbackdown.htm

It made a world wide box office of USD41 million which isn't so bad considering it cost 20 million to make (for whatever) reason. I had to look it up as I had never even heard about the film before.

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I'm the other guy that saw Never Back Down... and all two of us loved it!!

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as a boxing fan, I can't complain lol
don't like mma though

alright, alright, alright

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As a fan of both sports I feel a Boxing film will always do better box office wise. MMA films most of the time have a B movie feel to them, think MMA doesn't have the mass appeal that Boxing does.

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And it's not as like... ingrained into the social consciousness.

Non boxing fans can have an easier time relating to a boxing movie than an MMA movie I think.

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Mma did we not have them bad movies come out already ?
As for enough boxing movies and having enough i agree and disagree.

We have had enough boring predictable rocky films.

Yet when it comes to this and southpaw they are very different and have a new story.

Some people dont like these as they are not enough like rocky but thats the reason most others do

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Creed was a smash hit and Oscar nominee...

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And it's funny because I don't think any of these boxing movies made big bucks in the last 10 years.

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And it's funny because I don't think any of these boxing movies made big bucks in the last 10 years.


Creed made $173.6 million so that's certainly big bucks...

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I bet $20 there will be a workout montage of him getting ready for a big fight

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