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I loved it; good movie

posted a year ago by redban (6770)
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I watched it last night. I loved it. I'm a big wrestling fan. I've read a bunch of wrestling bios that detailed the old NWA territory system (e.g. Terry Funk and Stan Hansen's books). So I quite enjoyed seeing WCCW, the Sportarium,and the Von Erichs' etc. on the big screen. The wrestling scenes, which occur in a dimly lit standing-area room, were well-done. And I think wrestling fans can appreciate that, despite the tragic story of the Von Erichs, the movie doesn't cast the wrestling profession itself as villainous. The acting was great all-around, and the setting really looked 1980s

I see that the movie didn't get any Oscars. How they could nominate "Barbie" for Best Picture but not "The Iron Claw" is baffling. Efron should have got a Best Actor nomination.

A+

[–] olioz (3844) 6 months ago

I've never watched wrestling and before this movie I had never heard of the Von Erich brothers. What a tragic story this turned out to be, but I loved the movie, It was excellent.

I was really relieved at the end to see that Kevin made it after all that happened. The scene where he was crying and holding his boys really got to me. Zac Efron gave a great performance and so did everyone else.