17 January 2009

More fun than a back full of glass shards

The Wrestler

Crit
This is a film about two sorts of pornographic entertainment, one of which I understand (why a horny guy would pay sixty bucks to have Marisa Tomei gyrate nearly naked a few inches away), one of which leaves me at a loss (why a hormonally imbalanced guy would pay twenty bucks to see Mickey Rourke and some equally attractive guy in spandex roll around on barbed wire and assault each other with staple guns and bug spray).

Actually, of course, the latter characterization is inaccurate: Randy "the Ram," being a certified good guy, is the assaultee only vis-à-vis the nonkosher weapons. (As near as I can tell, the barbed wire and the broken glass are well within pro wrestling's Marquess of Queensberry equivalent.)

Anyway, yeah, Rourke is as good as advertised, and god knows I'm a sucker for a redemption story, particularly a father-daughter one, but it felt a lot more like a movie than like a life.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You'll never check this, but I thought for sure that being a dork in the way that you are, you would have KNOWN the Wolverine origin story. They even hinted at it in the other X-men movies. To set the story straight, without spoiling anything, Logan's mutant power is his healing factor. The experimentation in the Weapon X project is what gave him the adamantium skeleton and the claws.

Now that you're set straight, I'll get back to picking out my bellybutton lint, or some such thing that will make me feel less like the GIANT DORK that I am.
-Dan

cheeseblab said...

Wait a minute . . . if you're Anonymous . . . then who the hell has been sleeping with my daughter?!?!!??

Thanks for the dorky explanation; I loved X-Men, was unenthusiastic about the second one, went to the third only under duress and hated it, so I'm doubtful.