Saw The Wrestler today. Excellent film. Definitely not a date movie though. I need to check the odds but Rourke has to be an Oscar favourite. It is the kind of role they like.
... playing Mick "Mankind" Foley.
I didn't see any Foley references other than the fact that he was in a match using barbed wire. I think I also read a review by Foley where he didn't have any connection to the film other than passing up a chance to consult on it.
Yeah you're right, I overstated how much it had to do with Foley. I'd read a NYT review which stated that the character was based on Foley, I swear about a month ago... looked for it but can't find it. Quite possible that I was hallucinating, lol. Here's a review that he wrote for Slate online...
http://www.slate.com/id/2207076/ kind make me want to check it out.
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Pathfinder last night, wasn't really expecting much... but man, what a nice decent movie. It tells the story of the Vikings arrival in North America a couple centuries before Columbus and ponders why despite the early contact they never lasted. The story is seen thru the eyes of the protagonist "Ghost" (Karl Urban, "Bourne Identity"), who is found alive in a wrecked Viking slaver and adopted by an Indian tribe. His name derives from his obvious pale complexion, as he grows up and becomes one of the tribe, which years later find themselves under siege by a marauding band of Vikings who consider them savages- funny in itself, since the Vikings both in this movie and in real life weren't exactly known as exemplars of civilized behavior.
Ghost must lead the displaced tribe to safety and in the process try and find his true self, torn as he is between two worlds. Good movie.
http://www.imdb.com/rg/VIDEO_PLAY/LINK//video/screenplay/vi4020175129/