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Old 09-15-2008, 02:40 PM   #1
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I am not trying to say I am, BDC just said what's the big deal about it winning a film festival award, and I was basically saying it's just really good indication of the movies goodness.

Those clips look amazing though.

And I'm sure the ROH stuff is gonna be great publicity for them.
It isn't a big deal because there are enough film festivals win some sort of award for your dumb film. The entire movie industry loves to give each hand jobs, why else would they have Cannes, Sundance, the Oscars, the Golden Globes, MTV Movie Awards, Emmy's, Toronto, Vience, Berlin, and Slam Dance. I mean there are enough awards given out by enough people looking for enough things that every movie is going to win a award.

And an Indy wrestling promotion being featured in an Indy movie isn't going to do shit. Now if it was Harold and Kumar go to RoH, then they would be great publicity.
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Old 09-15-2008, 02:34 PM   #2
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That's not true at all bdc, many wonderful indipedent films never see mainstream. Same with music, sometimes because the artist doesn't want them to sometimes because it's too much for mainstream consumption to avant garde or something.
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Old 09-15-2008, 02:41 PM   #3
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That's not true at all bdc, many wonderful indipedent films never see mainstream. Same with music, sometimes because the artist doesn't want them to sometimes because it's too much for mainstream consumption to avant garde or something.
And some awesome mainstream stuff gets shunned just because people view it as mainstream. It could go either way.
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also I would say the percentage per movie mainstream to indie shittiness would be like mainstream 1/2 and indie 1/3 tbh
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Totally arbitrary statistics based on a huge variance in opinions. No Clox.
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But if Harold and Kumar went to any wrestling show, it was be TNA.
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I think a lot more hipsters who don't like wrestling will after this.

And yes great mainstream movies get shunned as well. And yes my statistics are very arbitrary. And Yes Harold and Kumar would go to TNA.

But no not every film wins an award, especially not a top award, some films get shat on by everyone, yeah some good films too. Critics aren't the be all and end all but it's at least a good sign that a number of people enjoyed a film with a subject matter that is mocked if not taboo in today's society what with the Chris Benoit, steroids scandal, Katie vick...
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Not they won't. Hipster will be interested in RoH, find out it is not like the movie at all, and go back to not watching it.
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So let me get this straight...some of you think this movie sounds dumb? Yet, you read stories about Ariel leaving TNA and shit. And watch current wrestling programming?

Sounds very interesting to me. It's far less silly than wrestling itself (which don't get me wrong I love). But it's hard to reconcile calling this silly with actually watching wrestling. If anything, we should understand it more and be understanding of people unknowingly calling something silly that they know little about.

Sounds to be compelling, like beyond the mat, and Mick Foley/Jericho's autobiographies
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So let me get this straight...some of you think this movie sounds dumb? Yet, you read stories about Ariel leaving TNA and shit. And watch current wrestling programming?

Sounds very interesting to me. It's far less silly than wrestling itself (which don't get me wrong I love). But it's hard to reconcile calling this silly with actually watching wrestling. If anything, we should understand it more and be understanding of people unknowingly calling something silly that they know little about.

Sounds to be compelling, like beyond the mat, and Mick Foley/Jericho's autobiographies

To be fair, I've lost interest in wrestling ever since Jericho won the gold. Not because Jericho is unworthy, but the booking is so bad.
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But I also love movies far more than wrestling
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Fair enough, I've lost most interest long ago, but I still think it's hard to view this as stupid.
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Wrestling is stupid, but this film doesn't capture the stupidness of wrestling, therefore the movie is stupid.
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You haven't seen it, you're just judging the idea. So am I, but I think the concept seems more engaging since it captures a side of wrestling that is more thought provoking, interesting and importantly, real. This has been seen in things like Beyond the Mat, or books.

Capturing the stupidness of wrestling has been done in Ready to Rumble, and No Holds Barred. Needless to say, I think the quality lies in truth based accounts, rather than in big screen attempts at kayfabe and silliness.
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What ever Noid just said, I'm sure he missed my point.
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Noid, I was saying Ernest Miller's character is the Flair or Hogan. A guy still wrestling. Does Hogan ever call up Iron Sheik for one more match? When is the last time Flair called up Steamboat for another match? Has Sting ever...um who is Sting's arch-rival? Flair? Well that might draw.

The point I'm trying to make that an early 80's wrestler that is still active isn't going to call up another early 80's retired wrestler for one more match especially if the retired guy has heart problems.

I say it all sounds silly. I'll watch it because I like wrestling, but I don't think they really get it.
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Noid, I was saying Ernest Miller's character is the Flair or Hogan. A guy still wrestling. Does Hogan ever call up Iron Sheik for one more match? When is the last time Flair called up Steamboat for another match? Has Sting ever...um who is Sting's arch-rival? Flair? Well that might draw.

The point I'm trying to make that an early 80's wrestler that is still active isn't going to call up another early 80's retired wrestler for one more match especially if the retired guy has heart problems.

I say it all sounds silly. I'll watch it because I like wrestling, but I don't think they really get it.
How the fuck do you know that The Ayatollah is the one who does the calling? Hogan tries to bitch out Savage all the time. Doesn't Sid Vicious want to make a comeback? There are rumours that Ricky Steamboat is looking to get back into the ring. Wasn't there some infamous Hogan vs. Piper match in WCW?

Besides, if you want instances where kayfabe rivals go at it years down the track, I think you are missing the point. If you cannot accept a hypothetical situation based closely on the realities of the wrestling business without a literal analogy to connect it to, then that is your failing, not Darren Aronofsky's. Besides, they will probably only been rivals in the sense that one was a top babyface and one was a top heel. How do you even know that Ernest Miller's character is still wrestling? How can you assume that it won't be like the much-rumoured Stone Cold vs. Hogan match, where both guys are out of the spotlight, but both step back into the ring for one big match?

How can you assume that Ernest Miller's character knows about Mickey Rourke's heart condition? Injuries in wrestling are often close-guarded, and guys work through a lot of that stuff because they don't want to be seen as bitches you need to take time off and ruin the plans of promoters. Keep in mind this is set in the 1980's, when kayfabe was runnin' wild and a hero character like Ram Robinson would probably need to appear indestructible.

As for this movie sounding like Noid booking? You are retarded. If there is one thing I avoid, it is booking Kevin Nash against Hulk Hogan in a battle of the octogenarians. I fantasy book new age, less clear-cut face/heel stuff.
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This movie sounds like Noid booking, no wonder he likes it.
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I'm not really looking at this in terms of it being a good movie as I am looking at it in terms of it being a good WRESTLING movie. It just sounds that the way they are handling wrestling as a profession is pretty stupid. It may have the greatest romance story ever written, but that doesn't mean it couldn't still have the dumbest wrestling story ever written in the very same script. Even if it's winning awards, chances are that those awards aren't coming from actual wrestling fans.
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I'm in agreement with Anybody Thrilla. What is the point of writing a great story around faulty ideas?
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I'm in agreement with Anybody Thrilla. What is the point of writing a great story around faulty ideas?
A story builds from its ideas. A great story will be composed of great ideas. What the fuck do you have to go on that there are faulty ideas here? You know nothing about this project.
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I want to make a movie about a senile Ric Flair randomly calling people because he want's another match with them.
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*Ring Ring*
Terry Funk: Hello?
Recorded message: You have received a collect call from "WHOOOO! YOU AND ME BABY! STYLE AND PROFILIN ONE MORE TIME! COME ON!! I'LL KICK YOUR ASS! LET'S....." Do you accept the charges?
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Old 09-16-2008, 08:32 PM   #29
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I think there is sound logic in hipsters following ROH after this movie. I am, of course, basing this on what Darren Aronofsky films did for heroin use, the search for patterns in the stock market, and the quest for eternal life. Those hipsters love non-conformity.
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That's not really a valid (although it is funny and witty) arguement.

Heroin use was negatively viewed in that movie.

There are no secret numbers in the stock market.

That movie was so out there, of course no one is gonna be inspired by it.

Pro wrestling is a thing that people can watch or not watch and it have no effect on there life all that much, I would imagine some who like the movie, might say , hmm I might give pro wrestling another chance, some might not
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You know, I'm pretty sure the involvement of ROH and CZW goes only as far as that parts were filmed at the shows because they needed a crowd. I highly doubt the name ROH will be an issue in the movie. At best, it may be on the ring, or they might get some sort of a mention, but I doubt it'll be a big deal.
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You know, I'm pretty sure the involvement of ROH and CZW goes only as far as that parts were filmed at the shows because they needed a crowd. I highly doubt the name ROH will be an issue in the movie. At best, it may be on the ring, or they might get some sort of a mention, but I doubt it'll be a big deal.
This is correct

And Terry Funk as someone posted up there is quite apt as they seem to have given Rourke's character the same kind of 'really needs to retire but can't because he's hooked on being a performer too much' kind of angle. He's a nobody if he's not in the ring, but in there he's a star.
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I am just saying. I am not expecting this movie to cause a bunch of guys in corduroy blazers to start showing up at ROH shows. Plus to actually follow the thing takes kind of a commitment and ROH doesn't even have a tv show.
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lol at Noid freaking out.

1) The movie starts in the 80's, he retires and comes back nowish.

2) I'm not going to bother arguing with Noid because he doesn't get it.
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We're all talking pretty much from our asses here. There's absolutely no reason to get heated about it until any of us have seen it.

Noid, if I were you, I might try and chill out a little bit, or I'm afraid you may be drastically disappointed by this film.

All I'm really trying to say is that from the description of the film, it seems like the way that the wrestling business will be portrayed may not be as accurate as a smark like myself would like it to be. Sure the story may be great, but I just don't think it will be a great WRESTLING movie, which is what I would expect from a movie called The Wrestler. I could easily see myself being disappointed with it just as much as I was with Ready to Rumble. At least that had some semi-big names in it, though.
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Sorry, semi-big WRESTLING names.
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I agree with Trilla still. It sounds like they are vaguley basing the movie off of wrestling.
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It's rare that BDC and I agree on something. This should be archived. Or closed. I can't figure which.
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I'm think it is because we are think logically and seeing it for what it is instead of trying to build it up on a pedestal. People (not just in this thread) like to think indy stuff has a magical ability to change the world and is untouchable because the indy visionaries have some sort of superior ethics. Be it indy-rock, indy-movies, indy-wrestling or whatever. And this is a combination of an indy-movie and indy-wrestling so it has to be good and do things no one has any real proof that it can do.
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I'm inclined to agree with that as well.
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