it's the MMA Cain-and-Abel meatfest melodrama WARRIOR (with Nick Nolte as Paddy)

Glenn Kenny calls it an "exhilarating surprise"!

http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie-critic-reviews/warrior.2/?silentchk=1&wa=wsignin1.0

I almost saw this on Tuesday but then they couldn't unlock the theater projector bc their key didn't work and so we all got free passes from the theater and were sent home :(

nick nolte seems like a cast-iron reason to stop and watch all manner of movies i wd otherwise nervelessly skip past: but is this actually true?

(last thing i saw that he was in was in fact "the spiderwick chronicles", all cgi'd up i assume, since i don't remember his presence one bit: anyway i SHOULD have nervelessly skipped past this but i was babysitting and what can you do?)

he is basically the chewbacca of gritty realism, comic or otherwise: discuss

we're here to discuss THIS film, not the career of the great NN

(God I hate movie threads)

haha lock thread

ok will return if/when i ever see it -- unlikely, for reason given, which is stupid but there you are

haha, great thread title. PADDY! I didn't even notice that until the movie was over.

this kinda movie is really in my wheelhouse, but it's much better than you'd probably expect. every scene between Nolte and Hardy is gold, especially the diner scene where the dynamic between them changes on a dime. the Edgerton guy, who i wasnt familiar with, is really good too - and he's got a great mug for playing a fighter. the scenes between Edge and his trainer were a lot better than i expected. it's really nicely shot and a lot of scenes that could've been boilerplate end up feeling pretty natural. there's a few missteps, but nothing major. the fighting veers into cartoon territory a couple times but is mostly convincing. no surprise that o'connor directed Miracle, which was also a better-than-it-should've-been disney crowdpleaser.

weirdest MMA thing in it: kurt angle playing a russian (!) middleweight (!!) modeled after fedor (!!!)

i dont know what 'chewbacca of gritty realism' means but it sounds good - it is true that any movie where nolte has a major role is essentially watchable - i was afraid he'd be a bit player in this, but he has a lot of screentime and is fweakin gweat

Tom Hardy is a must see for me at the moment so I've been pondering this tho I don't really fuck with MMA.

finally my beloved gay skinhead fighting gets the classy cinematic treatment it deserves

This movie was great. Not perfect. Just great.

That is all.