Steel chair! Steel chair!
So I keep seeing previews for The Marine, the new movie with Wrestling star, John Cena. The one thing that sticks out of the preview is that Cena does some sort of choke-slam to a guy. Now I don’t watch enough wrestling to know what the exact name of the move is, but that sort of crap is exactly what’s wrong with these wrestling movies. It’s pure cheese.
I remember watching The Rundown and seeing The Rock give a guy the Rock Bottom in a fight. Like seriously? Everyone knows that these guys are wrestlers, what’s the point behind throwing in their ‘signature moves’.
At the basis, I think wrestlers could be decent action heroes, maybe even actors. They can’t be much worse then guys like Arnold and Jean-Claude Van Damme. The Rock has been able to almost carve a respectable career out of it. He’s not there, but he’s getting close. However, there needs to be a seperation between film and ring, and not have the corny nod to wrestling by having the stars trying to find a way to squeeze a finishing move into a street fight.