JCMach1
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Sun Jan-25-09 03:36 AM
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Just watched 'The Wrestler' |
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Edited on Sun Jan-25-09 03:36 AM by JCMach1
What a fantastic but incredibly depressing movie...
Mickey Rourke deserves the Oscar for this... I suspect he even did the steroids to 'feel' the part. What a good, subtle and unusual performance...
The whole film strikes me as a metaphor the good old U-S-A... i.e. we are the broke-down, narcissistic, washed-up, 1980's wrestler...
Anyone else seen it yet? What do you think?
Next on the Oscar viewing list: "The Reader"
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Sun Jan-25-09 04:41 AM
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Mickey Rourkes character seemed to mirror Jake the Snakes life and a little bit of Hulk Hogan (Hulk Hogan currently). But its a pretty common story in the wrestling world.
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Sun Jan-25-09 04:45 AM
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2. I just watched it today, too, plus I watched |
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Revolutionary Road and Doubt today. I never see the nominated movies before the actual Oscars so my husband and I decided to watch some on this long weekend (Chinese New Year so Monday off here in Korea).
Revolutionary Road I found even more depressing. Hit a little too close to home, I guess.
The Wrestler was good and I think Rourke deserves an Oscar. Marisa Tomei was good but I didn't see Oscar. Maybe it's just me.
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Sun Jan-25-09 05:30 AM
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3. For Tomei, maybe best dancing in a film... |
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Edited on Sun Jan-25-09 05:30 AM by JCMach1
Actually both of these roles were unusual in that they had heavy physicality demands. Screw one thing up and it looks fake (remember Demi Moore as a stripper?)
I don't think this is Tomei's year or role... but damn she was smokin' ... ummmmm if only men voted she might win...
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