Probably one of the best movies I've seen the past decade. Surprised it slept under my radar for this long. Probably the best acting I've ever seen from Mickey Rourke and just a really fucking raw story. Not the kind of typical washed up redemption story I expected it to be. Any other brothamen seen it?
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- Mr. Tomlinson's feud started after members of the now-defunct Reddit site r/opieandanthony got his Twitter account suspended, causing him to threaten some bored trolls who never heard of him with a libel lawsuit. The trolls responded predictably.
- Mr. Tomlinson has been instructed many times by friends, family, police, and attorneys to stop engaging with his trolls, and that continuing to provoke them will cause him to be trolled even more. Mr. Tomlinson wilfully ignores this advice.
- He would eventually file a defamation suit against 60 anonymous people which was dismissed with Mr. Tomlinson being ordered to pay $34,762.25 for opposing parties' attorney fees.
- He ended up paying $83,736.99 due to his unsuccessful attempts to dodge the court-ordered judgement, for which he faced jail time and contempt charges.
- He also filed 2 frivolous restraining orders against people who had engaged in First Amendment-protected behavior (one for texting him and another for attending his contempt of court hearing), both of which were dismissed.
- Early on in the lawsuit, Mr. Tomlinson vandalized his own motorcycle and submitted a false police report blaming the people he was suing.
- He accidentally sent surveillance video of the alleged vandal to a troll. The individual in the video is very obviously Patrick S. Tomlinson.
- Mr. Tomlinson has never submitted this video footage during any of his many media tours, and desperately tries to scrub it from the internet.
- Mr. Tomlinson claims that the surveillance video was initiated by his "motion-activated" camera, which only collects "30 seconds at a time", despite the video being 32 seconds long and beginning several seconds before the "vandal" enters into the frame.
- On 13 April 2023, the individual responsible for calling the fake emergences (SWATs) to Mr. Tomlinson's house, a SWAT-for-hire dealer named "Torswats", revealed that Mr. Tomlinson ordered the SWATs to his own house because he wanted to get in the news and sue the MPD for money.
- Torswats would repeat these allegations in private chats which were not intended for public view.
- Mr. Tomlinson has gone on multiple news tours since the SWATtings started in order to promote his victimhood brand, utilizing the services of Lenora Claire.
- He also recently sued the MPD for money.
Where we at with The Wrestler (2008)?
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I’ve heard it’s great but never watched it. If another brotherman is suggesting it I’ll have to give it a watch.
Great movie. Loosely based on Jake The Snake, if I recall.
Marisa Tomei looks fucking sexy as hell in that role.
Marisa Tomei looks fucking sexy as hell in that role.
Good work by Aronofsky. Pi was a good one too. Requiem for a Dream was pretty PFG too.
I really enjoyed it, although it did sugarcoat the "independent wrestling scene" a bit too much for my liking.
It's good. Nothing fancy, just a simple story about a washed up has-been played perfectly by a washed up has-been. It watch pretty gud
Even that shitty Noah one was a decent watch. His next film is about some 300 lb gay man played by Brendan Frasier. Sounds like another good one.
Watched it again recently for the first time in a while and I forgot how relentlessly bleak and dark it is. But that's what makes it so realistic. The part where he takes the stripper out to the shit bar and they sing round and round by ratt by themselves like a couple of old washed up drunks was so painfully real. Everyone's been to a dive and seen that shit in real life. And I loved how the movie tells you to go fuck yourself every time you think shit might be looking up for Randy. The daughter shit especially. He almost does the impossible and reconnects with his daughter but nope, he ends up snorting coke and fucking some weird whore with a firefighter fetish and sleeps through their reunion dinner. They did such a great job making Randy a somewhat likeable fuckup that just cannot help himself and does kinda deserve all the bad shit that happens to him. But you dont enjoy watching it. Fantastic job by Mickey Rourke.
It was pretty good but nothing I've felt compelled to watch again. I liked seeing him working in the meat department at Safeway. It would be pretty funny if you were ordering a pound of salami and Marty Jannetty sliced it for you.
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I love this movie. That's all.
I like it for the same reason I like true stories about wrestling but can't bring myself to ever watch the WWE.
Marisa Tomei aged as well as black women think they do.
Marisa Tomei aged as well as black women think they do.
It was based on Jake, and the real life reunion/rejection with his daughter really happened and was actually captured on film in the documentary Beyond The Mat (1999) ...which next to VICE's Dark Side of the Ring is the greatest depiction of wrestling in normie media
If you have seen/enjoyed all those, check out the documentaries about "ECW" - Barbwire City, Rise and Fall, Forever Hardcore.
Those fuckers got away with murder. (well, attempted homicide, but I digress)
2008... Fawk! time flies
chris jericho as mickey rourke was a legendary performance.
I fucks with it. The scene where he’s working a square job at a grocery store reminds me of so many dudes I’ve worked with: rode hard and put up wet, cashing in the good years early.
Ram jam!