sooooo not gonna add an image to this one cause of painful copyright stuff...really??? lol another thing for another post
anyway getting back to the topic, The MMA fight movie Warrior was highly reviewed, acclaimed, praised, all that stuff, and trust me its good, i saw it in the cinemas when it was released
but.....the crucial element i forgot when i decided to rewatch it, the ending...just blllaahhh...well to understand my beef so to speak i have to tell you a bit about the movie in case you havent seen it:
The movie in my opinion is heavily centered on Tom Hardy aka movie name Tommy Riordan aka mega awesome badass who easily bashes and knocks out one of the world contenders at his local gym (in a warmup)
so yeah lots of indepth stuff on tommy, who at the start and throughout movie learn has issues with father, and moved out at a young age with his mother due to his dads past alcholism, many other aspects of it are subtly shown/talked about but anywayyyyyy
cut to the friendly physics teacher and family man, tommys distant brother, Brendan Conlon, who does mma as a secret side thing at stripclub parking lots, a good and decent guy in his own right, but in my opinion by no means a fighter (which ill touch on soon) and suddenly gets suspended form teaching after other staff/principal find out he'd been fighting, without a job for a while, and house/family fees/whatever else hes got going decides to try and join the MMA tournament sparta, winner takes all 5 mil prize moneyand heres where it gets interesting....tommy decides to enter for some reason which eludes me, but later on satates giving all money to widow of army buddy if won, while brendan doing it for his and familys lifestyle - still ok right?
so to the fights...Tommy like the true awesome badass one, knocks out/dominates and beats every guy, while on the exact opposite spectrum, Brendan is quite literally getting the crap beaten out of him in EVERY fight and only squeezing his way through and winning via submission, and then of course it comes down to brother vs brother - if you dont want spoilers now's the time to look away-so tommy continues on his way it seems, beating down brendan in the fight, though his brother kept saying emotional stuff i dont know! loool but yeah somehow brendan ends up dislocating tommy's his shoulder since he refused to tap, and then tommy continues to fight, but obviously with a dislocated shoulder theres not much you can do, so eventually brendan again got into another submission fianlly getting tommy to tap out and then saying all this forgiveness and im sorry i love you stuff...arrrrrrr
alright dont get me wrong im not gonna bash that part of the movie in itself, im doing it for its placement...wheres the badass tommy gone??? wheres all my awesome in depth development???? wheres that guy who beat the crap out of everyone gone!
all gone..... :( while brendans story may in its own context/focus/movie be a good one, in this movie its just ovverrode the complete movie pretty much and just took a dump on the ending for me putting it quite simply thats what it did to the ending, bottom line, dont go ruining my awesome/badass/violent movie with some family man emotional guy winning in the end!!! save that for another movie!!!!!! so yeah thats my reason whyyyy i think tom hardy definately should have won, yes very opinionated i know, lol but sure beats non biased reviews for sure!!! 1000x more fun to write lol
