05-25-2009, 05:29 PM
I really wanted to like this film. I love pro-wrasslin. LB, ED, KB & DM used to go. We used to pay good money to see it. We used to make the trek up the Palacio de Bovino, down some sixers and huff a j in the lot and have a grand time. An Oscar-nominated flick about past-his-prime pro wrasslin? I'm all over that like a wet blanket on a flaming stuntman.
But it sucked. The film is so painfully predicatable that I knew every plot move and this is without even seeing the trailer. It goes exactly where you predict it will go - the sense of being a has been, the relationship with the daughter, the stripper with the heart of gold - even the ending is totally predictable from the poster alone.
Maybe it's because I hate Mickey Rourke. I hated him when he stuck his pecker in the popcorn in Diner. I hated him when played big-white-man-on campus in Year of the Dragon. I hated him when he fed Kim cough syrup in 9 1/2 weeks. Sure, it's his big comeback and he's all buff now, but do we really have to see his bare ass twice? He's just overrated, just like the Wrestler.
There was a short moment when they started to develop this idea of perfomers on stage (wrasslers & strippers) versus their real miserable lives, but it failed to develop Marissa's character any more. It never got past Rourke. This film was so disappointing, even Marisa stripping couldn't save it.
But it sucked. The film is so painfully predicatable that I knew every plot move and this is without even seeing the trailer. It goes exactly where you predict it will go - the sense of being a has been, the relationship with the daughter, the stripper with the heart of gold - even the ending is totally predictable from the poster alone.
Maybe it's because I hate Mickey Rourke. I hated him when he stuck his pecker in the popcorn in Diner. I hated him when played big-white-man-on campus in Year of the Dragon. I hated him when he fed Kim cough syrup in 9 1/2 weeks. Sure, it's his big comeback and he's all buff now, but do we really have to see his bare ass twice? He's just overrated, just like the Wrestler.
There was a short moment when they started to develop this idea of perfomers on stage (wrasslers & strippers) versus their real miserable lives, but it failed to develop Marissa's character any more. It never got past Rourke. This film was so disappointing, even Marisa stripping couldn't save it.
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