Finish your damn movies...seriously! and another thing...

OK, first off, why is it that in order for anyone to like anything these days there has to be some cerebral intellectual component involved? I honestly want to sit everyone down who saw the Wrestler and claimed it be to this earth shattering expose, "nothing like wrestling" in front of a television and make them watch RAW or Smackdown and give them a quick talking to. This IS wrestling. Not a dramatization, not a film masterpiece, the exact same thing any wrestling fan has seen for the past 30 years. Now with the WWE putting out "the story of" DVD's like a baby changes clothes, this is almost blasé for a wrestling fan.

What is most annoying is these film geeks who carry themselves with that Holier than thou, I am so cultured and love Films, not movies attitude, the joke is on you. You enjoyed the same thing you dismiss as "fake" and immature while you drank in this movie. Sure Mickey Rourke was amazing, I can admit that, but this was the Jake "The Snake" Roberts story guys. The story was not even original. So next time you look down your nose at wrestling and wrestling fans, we will all laugh because your criticism now applies to  you as well. YOU ARE WRESTLING FANS. Sorry nerds, thats just the truth. Hurts doesn't it? You are one of US...the unrefined, ignorant and immature. Enjoy your humble pie and try not to dip your skinny tie in it. Enjoy Wrestlemania!

Now, my bigger point - finish your movies. Complete the story. I am not interested in your stupid artistic interpretation. I want to see that you can create a complete story...with a beginning, middle and end. Is that too much to ask???? The last two movies I saw were The Wrestler and W and both had these stupid ambiguous endings. I understand that is what "artists" do, leaving it open to interpretation, but it is lazy...plain and simple. You are essentially asking the viewer to complete your work for you while you haul in millions of bucks for an incomplete piece of work. If you turned in a term paper with an ambiguous ending, you'd get a shitty mark. If I left projects at work with ambiguous endings, I'd be fired. It is the cinematic equivalent to a fade out...ULTRA LAZY! Yet for some reason, the "film" fans love it. 

When Tannis and I went to see The Police we were annoyed that Sting would leave lines for the crowd to sing...That's your job Sting, not mine. I payed my $120 and I expect you to sing the songs to me. Thats the deal. I should not have to do anything except sit back and enjoy my beer while I listen to you. It is insulting that you pawn off part of your job on the ones supporting you. I apply the same logic to movies. Do you job and write a full story. Further write an original full story. Sadly The Wrestler had neither of those two things. That being said, I enjoyed it. As Ed Lauter says in True Romance, "Great Fucking Movie!"

uh oh, there is me not being original, but at least there is no question as to where I stand. Unlike most filmmakers, I am not afraid to take a position and stay committed to it. Where did all of our collective back bone go??? I can tell you where; it left as soon as the idea of Political Correctness reared its ugly, creativity curbing head. It is hiding out with listening skills and the ability to actually exchange ideas. All we are left with is loud talking (which is the new form of reasoning), indoctrination and a fear of offending anyone.