I realize I’ve been silent on these “Film of the Day” things the last couple of days, but I’ll try to do these daily the best I can. I’ll do this now, to get it out of the way.

I think “The Wrestler”, starring Mickey Rourke and directed by Darren Aronofsky, was the best film released in 2008. This is really one of my favorite dramas of all time.

It tells the story of Randy “The Ram” Robinson, who is a professional wrestler who works for small independent wrestling companies such as VFW. He also works a part time job at a grocery store and he has a girlfriend who is a stripper. While Randy, struggles to make money and live his life, things around him start to crumble. He becomes addicted to steroids, he loses his stripper girlfriend, he tries to reconcile with his daughter, and many other things. While he tries to get his life back together, there is one thing that he still loves to do, and that is wrestling.

You see, you don’t have to be a fan of professional wrestling yourself, to watch a movie like this. This movie wasn’t made strictly for wrestling fans. It was made to give people insight on what a professional wrestler’s life is like outside of the ring. This film wants to take a realistic approach on things. It’s not just a movie about professional wrestling either. This movie is about what life could be like when a man is aging. While this movie is about a professional wrestler, there isn’t a lot of wrestling scenes in this movie for a reason ’cause this film wants to let people know that wrestlers can be real, and they can be human like us. A lot of professional wrestlers look after this movie ’cause this movie reminded so much of their own life.

Most importantly of all, it’s the acting of the cast, is what made this movie worked, especially Mickey’s performance, and Marisa Tomei was good too. This is a beautiful film, and sad. This movie will bring tears to your eyes for sure. I believe this film should have won, “Best Picture”, that year. Posting about the movie, makes me want to watch this movie again, maybe I will sometime this week.

Kev

As some of you know, I’m a long time die hard profesional wrestling fanatic. I love the sports entertainment stuff to death. I just got done watching, “The Wrestler” finally, and yes, you betcha, I fucking LOVED the movie! Amazing! Jaw dropping!

Darren Aronofsky, definitely knows his shit with the wrestling business. After watching this film, now I can understand why Vince McMahon didn’t like the film that much because Darren exposed the world what profesional wrestling is really all about. It proved that wrestling is fake, and showed the world what it’s like with wrestlers, steroids, and drugs.

Mickey Rourke is some of the best acting, I’ve ever seen in the flick, he was just as good as Sylvester Stallone in the first, “Rocky”. “The Wrestler” is definitely the “Rocky” of this generation.

“The Wrestler” immediately headed up to one of my top 5 favorite films ever made. Ya know, that public feud with Chris Jericho vs. Mickey Rourke for Wrestlemania, try to understand that they aren’t enemies in real life. I’m pretty sure that Jericho and Rourke are great friends behind the scenes, they acted like enemies as part of a wrestling storyline. So in reality, Jericho doesn’t hate Mickey Rourke and all the wrestling legends, Jericho loves and respects them all, of course. Everything about wrestling you see on TV is scripted and storyline stuff.

I have recognized a WWE wrestler that made a cameo in the movie, and his name is Ron Killings, who now wrestles under the name of R-truth on the Smackdown roster. Ron Killings also used to be the Truth in TNA and K-Kwik.

This was a brilliant movie and pretty realistic too. Even if you’re not a fan of profesional wrestling, I would suggest all to watch this. You would understand why we love it so much.

I just love profesional wrestling and I understand why it’s not for everybody but the wrestling business deserves the respect ’cause they work hard to entertain us and put smiles on their faces. This movie gives you an idea of what it’s like being a profesional wrestler.

I feel bad that Mickey Rourke was robbed of the Oscar. This movie will be talked about for years. Will there be a sequel to this movie ’cause the ending kind of left open for another film? I think this will be a continuing series just like Rocky.

Kev