Comments on: Movie Notes: The Wrestler http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2009/12/09/movie-notes-the-wrestler/ Entertainment and Tech Digest Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:18:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Webomatica http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2009/12/09/movie-notes-the-wrestler/comment-page-1/#comment-36578 Webomatica Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:55:46 +0000 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/?p=5056#comment-36578 [...] clubs to very few people and even less money. It’s a real-life Spinal Tap, plus the heartbreak of The Wrestler in seeing over-the-hill folks making one last, possibly futile stab at a [...] […] clubs to very few people and even less money. It’s a real-life Spinal Tap, plus the heartbreak of The Wrestler in seeing over-the-hill folks making one last, possibly futile stab at a […]

]]> By: How I Went From A Casual Movie Fan To A Hopeless Critic | Webomatica - Entertainment and Tech Digest http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2009/12/09/movie-notes-the-wrestler/comment-page-1/#comment-33347 How I Went From A Casual Movie Fan To A Hopeless Critic | Webomatica - Entertainment and Tech Digest Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:12:46 +0000 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/?p=5056#comment-33347 [...] – who see hundreds of films annually – need harder stuff to induce that movie high: The Wrestler, Milk, No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood. I remember thinking Siskel was out of his mind [...] […] – who see hundreds of films annually – need harder stuff to induce that movie high: The Wrestler, Milk, No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood. I remember thinking Siskel was out of his mind […]

]]> By: Webomatica’s 13 Best Movies Of 2009 » Webomatica - Entertainment and Tech Digest http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2009/12/09/movie-notes-the-wrestler/comment-page-1/#comment-31843 Webomatica’s 13 Best Movies Of 2009 » Webomatica - Entertainment and Tech Digest Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:59:29 +0000 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/?p=5056#comment-31843 [...] 1. The Wrestler [...] […] 1. The Wrestler […]

]]> By: webomatica http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2009/12/09/movie-notes-the-wrestler/comment-page-1/#comment-31726 webomatica Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:32:19 +0000 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/?p=5056#comment-31726 Slip through his fingers ... Do you mean the bloody butcher counter <br>accident? Heh. Anyway, great flick. Slip through his fingers … Do you mean the bloody butcher counter
accident? Heh. Anyway, great flick.

]]> By: Rob O'Daniel http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2009/12/09/movie-notes-the-wrestler/comment-page-1/#comment-31725 Rob O'Daniel Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:27:39 +0000 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/?p=5056#comment-31725 I'm with you - I despise wrestling and have no particular fondness for New Jersey, yet I got sucked in my Randy's plight. Mickey Rourke's pitch-perfect portrayal drew you in and repulsed you almost at the same time.<br><br>I liked that the story could've gone for an easy, tidy Hollywood ending but instead took a more realistic tack - seeing Randy get so close to pulling it all together, only for it all to slip right through his fingers was agonizing - maybe all the more so because I've known (of) guys whose lives followed a very similar arc. I’m with you — I despise wrestling and have no particular fondness for New Jersey, yet I got sucked in my Randy’s plight. Mickey Rourke’s pitch-perfect portrayal drew you in and repulsed you almost at the same time.

I liked that the story could’ve gone for an easy, tidy Hollywood ending but instead took a more realistic tack — seeing Randy get so close to pulling it all together, only for it all to slip right through his fingers was agonizing — maybe all the more so because I’ve known (of) guys whose lives followed a very similar arc.

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