Quote:
Originally Posted by BigDaddyCool
His rival would be just as old as him then, and would be shit in the ring, so what promoter would put it on?
So the rival still wrestling would be like Hogan or Flair. And neither of them would call up old retired wrestlers to fight. Flair would try to help newbs out, while Hogan would try to beat the new maineventers. So the story makes no sence to me.
|
What the fuck are you on about? Sure the wrestlers will be "past their prime," but you are talking about an industry that will still call Hulk Hogan back to wrestle, and just saw Ric Flair retire from active in-ring competition. You have an old billionaire get in the ring for hardcore matches, and Sting is getting paid more money than you deserve to see for his work in TNA.
Also, you compare the fictional characters in this to Hogan and Flair, and then expect that one would
have to be an egomaniac, and the other would
have to be interested in creating new stars. How fucking crippled are you in the mind? This movie is not going to fit your every fantasy about it, because most people aren't as dumb as you, and don't need their movies as dumb.
Yes, sometimes awards are handed out to films that don't deserve them. The Wrestler has been doing pretty well, however, and there are surely more "unique" choices at these festivals. That they are giving it to a movie that stars Mickey Rourke, was going to star Nicolas Cage, and is about a form of entertainment you can be sure they have each snubbed at least once in their life, you can be assured something is there. It may be overrated, and it might not be a classic, and maybe Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood just get naked enough, but saying it sounds dumb based on an incomplete blurb from a website, and making all these assumptions based off it, make you sound stupider than anyone who is going by what a bunch of critics are saying. These people have studied and live film. They know bad ones. Sometimes they are wrong; they are human, but they know bad ones.
Also, you'd be able to assume that "The Ayatollah" is a foreign heel type character. The relationship between Mickey Rourke and Ernest Miller will probably be synonymous to Hulk Hogan and The Iron Shiek, or something. Rourke will probably come back to the ring for the same reason as other guys do -- the need to get in front of a crowd again, the money, and the need to solidify one's legend. Didn't one icon of the sport recently say that they wanted to die in a wrestling ring? It'll most likely be Rourke's character tossing up his desire to wrestle (even if it means early death) with a future with a damaged woman and a daughter who might hate his guts and think wrestling is stupid. Death immortalised by sports entertainment, at a time where many believe it is real, and need the Americans to win; or life as a nobody and a traitor to the industry, to wrestling fans and to himself.
Also, if Harold and Kumar went to a wrestling promotion, it would probably be CHIKARA or PWG. Those two guys possess an ironic understanding of the racial stereotypes associated with their cultures. If they went to TNA, they would have to play a kung fu master who couldn't speak English and a telemarketer who owned a convenience store. They wouldn't be too happy about that, and would instead go to a more respectful promotion.