"Iron Claw" reaction thread

[Grigs2.0]

If this belongs on the "Everything Else" board, feel free to move it.

Guys, I'm the oldest of four brothers and I felt gut punched a few times.. Kevin Adkisson must be a courageous individual to have sat through it.

The Von Erich are presented as flawed people who love each other deeply, although they seem to have a weird way of expressing that. It wasn't a hatchet job, but also not a replay of a 700 Club segment.  

The guy who portrayed Harley Race wasn't acting, he was channeling.

The actress who played Kevin's wife was a heartbreaker and I mean that in a positive way. If Pam is like that in real life, Kevin is lucky that he saw her first.

As for the depiction of Ric Flair. If they give me a blonde wig and 50 bucks, I can save them a bunch of money on the sequel.

If we list the historical inaccuracies. it will take up most of the bandwith we have here. Fritz getting an offer to go on ESPN in 1979? Kerry's motorcycle wreck taking the place the night that he beats Flair for the title? If the screenwriter had only picked up a few Apter mags....

Rated R for language(honestly, can you depict a wrestling locker room with no "F bombs"?), depictions of drug use and suicide. The one sex scene is in shadow. I wouldn't take the kids. Wait until the edited version shows up on TNT.

The Lance Von Erich material is a "blink and you miss it" sort of deal. If I wasn't familiar with what happened IRL, I wouldn't have known what I was seeing. If you were planning on going solely to see MJF, you might wanna pick Aquaman.

I liked it, but it was almost too sad to watch. A non-wrestling fan might get lost in a few spots.

[Kimmel]

Just saw it and I’ll post more later, I get why they left him out but I hate they left Chris Von Erich completely out. Made me a little sad because he killed himself cause he knew he would never be his brothers and in a movie about the family he is left out.

[Grigs2.0]

I hate it, too, but I can see why that decision was made. It would have made the movie unbearably sad, plus the movie was already a bit crowded, plot wise.

[tlyne]

I enjoyed it. I agree with a lot of what has been said here. I, too, was very impressed by Lily James performance. She is a very talented actress. I see both sides of the Chris situation. He had very little impact on the wrestling part of the family. I read somewhere that didn’t want to make the story any sadder than it already was. It would be pretty hard to do that. You have to remember it’s not really a wrestling movie, so some of the things they left out, or changed, didn’t bother me. The portrayal of Ric Flair was terrible, but it was a very small part of the story. I had read some people complaining about the actor playing Harley Race, I thought it was fine. I’ll finish with this I enjoyed it, it was well done, but after Kerry died, I really felt like, OK let’s get this over with. The four dead brothers scene was surreal, but I didn’t hate it. On a final, final, note, the actor playing Bill Mercer didn’t say “Norwegia”, or “Iceman Man”, once.

[tlyne]

On the Lance thing, it would have been hard to make him look worse in just a few seconds. I always felt sorry for Ricky Vaughn. He had a good look, wasn’t bad in the ring. What was he going to say when Fritz, or whoever, said come to Dallas, pretend you’re a Von Erich, and wrestle on the top of the card? No, that’s OK, I’ll stay in Portland and wrestle opening matches.