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BLACK SWAN IS APPARENTLY AMAZING, SOMEONE C/D

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Lummer:
Ok, so I've seen this now.

Holy shit.

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

Ikrik:
Went and saw it with some friends a few weeks ago.  I was so happy that they all loved it, it's always awesome having everyone enjoy a movie that you go and see.  Our one friend who did ballet as well as a bunch of other types of dance for years was unimpressed by the dancing. 

Also, I overheard a girl saying that it Black Swan was essentially a "low grade horror film with lesbians in it." Which made me slam my head into a desk. 

And in terms of The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke apparently had to learn how to "fall" properly because he was hurting himself.  That film really made me look at wrestling in a completely different light and I loved it for doing that.  I need to watch that film again.

Elysiana:
I still have mixed feelings about Black Swan. I've always loved Aronofsky's work, but I noticed he didn't write this one and I'm not sure if that has something to do with my trepidation to really be excited over it. I haven't seen The Wrestler and need to do so, if only to get a bit caught up and be able to compare the two.

I think this was a strong film, but I was left feeling that it needed a good 20-30 minutes extra. I couldn't even really say why, it just felt like it ended very abruptly. I realize that to some extent that was on purpose but I couldn't help but think it was missing something. There was something about the way he developed the characters that felt a bit too much like the audience was expected to accept them in their roles and not think too much about it. Nobody really felt all that complex to me - not even Portman's character.

Alex C:

--- Quote from: Ikrik on 02 Feb 2011, 00:27 ---And in terms of The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke apparently had to learn how to "fall" properly because he was hurting himself.  That film really made me look at wrestling in a completely different light and I loved it for doing that.  I need to watch that film again.

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Two telling former wrestler quotes:
 "You can't fake gravity."

 "Everyone knows it's fake except for us and the insurance companies."


Pro-wrestling needs a union, seriously. Many pro wrestlers have gone years without health insurance because they're independent contractors and thus are on their own when it comes to paying some of the highest health insurance premiums of any profession. Between the PEDs, painkillers, grueling schedules and constant stunts a lot of those guys end up aging in dog years. A ridiculous number of the people on Deadwrestlers.net died before the age of 50 of either heart failure or suicide. The drug and alcohol abuse is an easy answer and definitely a contributing factor in a lot of those cases, but I do wonder about the role of head trauma since recent findings have been raising suspicions about the kind of brain damage that can be done by a high volume of minor incidents over prolonged periods of time.

ALoveSupreme:

--- Quote from: Ikrik on 02 Feb 2011, 00:27 ---And in terms of The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke apparently had to learn how to "fall" properly because he was hurting himself.  That film really made me look at wrestling in a completely different light and I loved it for doing that.  I need to watch that film again.

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People mock it for this because it reinforces the idea that it's "fake" , but the whole idea of wrestling is to NOT hurt yourself or the other person in the ring and it's really difficult to learn how to do that effectively and still make it look as real as possible.

I really need to see black swan on the big screen again, maybe it's in the cheap theaters by now?...

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