the wrestler in review

so over the weekend i saw the movie the wrestler and this is what i got from it. First off the story was realistic. Wrestlers are often "broke down pieces of meat" once they career ends. This would have made this movie probably pretty eye opening for me if Hogan Knows Best hadn't already showed me this, if his viciously receding hairline while still wrestling hadn't given me a big enough hint. With that being said there are some funny moments of this during the movie(like when his boss was watching porn when he walked into his office, the wrestler side of him would have gone on the intercom and saying "and now entering the checkout counter the great 'I don't lock the door when i watch porn at work'" quickly followed by him singing the 80's classic cherry pie.) Instead he just takes the yelling, weak! Speaking of 80's hair metal, this movie is full of it. Another very realistic touch considering professional wrestling and pro. wrestlers are trapped in the 80's. This movie also features a ton of nudity. Marissa tomei plays an old stripper and is basically naked the whole movie, add that with the occasional Mickey Rourke ass shots and you have an awesome movie to watch when a little kid is sitting two rows in front of you with his parents. The main lesson i got from this movie was that a) reality is pretty boring(why else do you think they script reality tv) and b) at some point in most peoples life they give up on greater things and settle with what is avialable. This was made clear when Tomie's character finally desides to give into Rourke characters "charm?" and be there for him at the end. Too bad 80's hair metal people never settle and Rourke's charater decides he would rather risk dieing doing what he loves, then risk dieing because her(get it because she is a stripper), but once again I already knew that thanks to Brett Brown who even in his 40's still plans to fufil his dream of making a hardcore metal/rap group. Keep on fighting for your dream people from the 80's!!!