"The Wrestler"
We've seen a few movies over the last little while that I'd like to talk about, in theatres, one on DVD. We saw "Watchmen" in regular theaters and IMAX, "Coraline" in digital 3D, and "The Wrestler" on disc. Seeing "The Wrestler" in theatres was tough to do, because it just wasn't there long. It's a small budget movie, from auteur director Darren Aronofsky, and I was especially interested to see his work because he's doing the "RoboCop" reboot next. "Robo", at least the first film, is one of my favorite all time movies. I doubt it can be made as good as Paul Verhoeven's version, where he had his own stamp on satire and dialogue with ultra-violence blended in so seamlessly. Mickey Rourke's Randy 'the Ram' Robinson is a mirroring of his own life, I don't know if it was intentional on the writer's part or not. Rourke's had a tough life after some modest success i