Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler

Sounds pretty interesting...

"Randy 'Ram' Robinson (Mickey Rourke) is a retired professional wrestler from the 1980s who is forced to retire after a heart attack threatens to kill him the next time he wrestles. Robinson begins a job at a deli, moves in with an aging stripper (Marisa Tomei), and attempts to form a relationship with his estranged daughter (Evan Rachel Wood). However, Robinson is drawn to the prospect of a rematch with his old wrestling nemesis the Ayatollah, even though the fight may cost him his life"

Doesn't have a distributor or a release date or anything yet, but it should open sometime later this year. Probably in semi-limited release. I actually have pretty high hopes for the flick, even though I'm no big fan of Aronofsky or Rourke. It has gotten great early word of mouth and it just won the Golden Lion over at the Venice Film Festival. Anybody itchin' to see this thing?

Same here, but I'll definitely be checking it out now that it's won Venice.

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I know Altman won for Shortcuts, but he tied some a foriegn film, isn't Aronofsky the first American to win it alone for 65 years?

I think Fox Searchlight has picked it up as well.

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According to wikipedia, yes. And the only other American to co-win it was Cassavetes for Gloria in 1980. I'll still always think of Aronofsky as eurotrash, though.

Yup, and apparently they're planning a humongous Oscar campaign for Mickey Rourke, so it's a safe bet the flick will probably be released after Thanksgiving.

Brokeback Mountain is obviously an American film, even if Ang Lee is Taiwanese. A couple of others have American connections too, but I didn't realize anybody paid attention to the Venice Film Festival anymore; at least other than the filmmakers.

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I heard about this last month. Sounds good, this I will be keeping an eye out for.

Here's a very good story I read in my EW this week.

This looks to be a very important film for Rourke, professionally and personally. I'm now really interested in seeing this.

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New posters. Looking good so far





The first trailer. What's your take on it?

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer...estler/trailer

I liked the trailer and it seems like he will deliver a good performance.

Put it on my must see list.

Looks good but i can tell this movie will have alot of cliches. I get the feeling that it is the Rocky verson of wrestling.

You mean Rocky Balboa....ha

Wow... I didn't get that feeling at all. It's completely different in premise and tone. Cliches? Not really.

Yeah. Me agrees.

I didn't get the feeling either.

It doesn't look cliched, it looks fantastic. This has the potential to be so awesome, and judging by the trailer/critic reaction, it is.

I'll try my hardest to forget The Fountain before seeing this.

Here you go emma. As you can see we already have the trailer.

I've been looking forward to this for quite some time. From what I've gathered, it is almost the exact opposite of Rocky Balboa...

After Requien for a Dream, I'll see anything Aronofsky has to offer. But that stretch between Requiem and The Fountain (which was an okay movie) had me asking, is he trying to pull a Tarantino, or even Kubrick? Just as long as the stretches don't get as indefinite as Malick's huh, 20+ years between Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line.

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Does it matter how long it takes him?

Yes it does.

Even though I hate Darren Aronofsky I want to see this.

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