Today's blog starts out with my review of "The Fighter." The Fighter is a movie starring Mark Wahlberg, AKA Marky Mark of the former Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. The movie is based on the life and times of "Irish" Micky Ward, the lovable bruiser that slugged his way into the hearts of fight fans the world over with 3 amazing fights (great link due to awesome 80's music) against the late Arturo Gatti. The movie was pretty good. Christian Bale plays Dickey Ward, Micky's crack head brother who has a knack for jumping out of windows when his mother comes looking for him. Bale knocks this role out of the park...very unlike this. Amy Adams plays Micky's love interest Charlene and also does a pretty great job. I'd expect Bale and Adams to both be nominated for some sort of awards for their solid performances. Marky Mark...well not so much. Let me say, I really like Mark Wahlberg as an actor. the problem is, he's not very versatile. Here's a sampling of his work....The Happening...Shooter...The Departed...Boogie Nights...Renaissance Man. Ok, so I slipped an extra "The Happening" scene in there, just cuz I can! Anyhow, you get the point, he was fine in the movie, just not much different than those other guys he played.
The Texans smell so bad, they make right guard turn left. That is all. They are 5-9, and Gary Kubiak is going to be fired and replaced with either Bill Cowher or Ron Rivera. Oh, and there's this...so mad at the situation that they're fighting eachother.
While I'm writing this, Brett Favre got knocked out of the MNF game with a concussion. Bad move by the NFL to let them play that game in -1 degree weather, amounting to what equates to playing on concrete. Favre would be dumb to come back and try to play this season, but we all know Favre is dumb. Rmember, he sent nudie pics to a chick he was trying to score with while wearing crocs. (Yet again another opportunity to go dirty link with Favre I have refrained from. I'm so grown up now.)
That's all I have for now, til next time, at least you have this.
Ahh man, I love those gatti/ward clips--i feel like I check those out every year or two--always incredible. And that wasn't just 80's music, My Man--that was the Helltrack qualifying theme from RAD.
ReplyDeleteThere is indeed thunder in your heart. Awesome!