Eminem's Boxing Movie Dropped by DreamWorks
by Scott Christ on Aug 11, 2011 10:59 PM EDT
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PrintDeadline.com reports that the Antoine Fuqua-directed Eminem vehicle Southpaw has been dropped by DreamWorks, but will look for another studio home.
Screenwriter Kurt Sutter says this about the movie:
"In a way, this is a continuation of the 8 Mile story, but rather than a literal biography, we are doing a metaphorical narrative of the second chapter of his life," Sutter said. "He'll play a world champion boxer who really hits a hard bottom, and has to fight to win back his life for his young daughter. At its core, this is a retelling of his struggles over the last five years of his life, using the boxing analogy."
Deadline suspects that DreamWorks may have been put off by various factors, such as too many recent combat sports movies, or their own unsuccessful gamble on Cowboys & Aliens. While The Fighter did very well, the MMA film Warrior is set to hit the market, and timing may just not have been right for Southpaw, at least in the eyes of the people at DreamWorks.
Realistically, I couldn't care less. I'm not that interested in seeing another thinly-veiled Eminem biopic propped up by boxing, though I'm sure I'd eventually watch it. To be fair, I still haven't seen the fighter, but I always approach boxing movies very cautiously, and can't remember a time I was legitimately enthusiastic to see one, especially now that I spend so much time talking about boxing. I'd rather watch a movie about almost anything else at this point.
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My favorite boxing movies in no particular order: 1.) Ali the motion picture, 2.) The Champion 2002 (story of Deuk Koo Kim) 3.) Rocky Marciano (1999) 4.) The Hurricane 5.) Raging Bull 6.) I’d like to say Kids Return, but that was one of the saddest movies I’ve ever seen… so….I guess that’s it… The Fighter was at the bottom. It was a piece of crap in my opinion. Good acting, good character development, ZERO boxing… if a boxing movie spends 75% of its time in a living room watching drug addicts (family) arguing, then it’s not my type!
"According to all the laws of aerodynamics the bumble-bee should not fly, but the bumble-bee does not know this and so flies anyway."
I've been meaning to see that Kim Duk Koo one
Did you get it on Netflix?
Most people don't know shit about boxing. At all. Period. - Roger Mayweather
by The Kittitas Kid on Aug 12, 2011 12:43 PM EDT up reply actions
sorry scott.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NR0HPQMK
"According to all the laws of aerodynamics the bumble-bee should not fly, but the bumble-bee does not know this and so flies anyway."
As a boxing fan, The Fighter was meh.
As a film fan, it was meh as well.
Wear something sexy to my funeral.
by Pops Daniels on Aug 12, 2011 12:00 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
The Fighter
I thought The Fighter was an amazing movie
. I didn’t go into it looking for boxing, because in movies blows. If your gonna have boxing in a movie go all out Rocky style where they beat the shit out of each other.
Exactly edub, it's hard to make a realistic boxing movie. I too liked The Fighter.
I didn’t want to see it because it was a ‘boxing movie’ but because of the plot/story or whatever you want to call it. We saw a piece, however close to the truth, of Ward’s life and I enjoyed it.
However, with that being said, I enjoy the Rocky movies just for pure entertainment.
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by SmittytheCutman on Aug 12, 2011 1:09 AM EDT reply actions
The first Rocky movie is more than pure entertainment. And arguably the last is, too. The middle ones are “pure entertainment.”
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by Scott Christ on Aug 12, 2011 2:01 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
When we were kings.
My fave.
"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer"
---- Muhammed Ali
Awesome
For those of us born decades after, it’s hard to believe a fight could have that much import to the culture as a whole.
Most people don't know shit about boxing. At all. Period. - Roger Mayweather
by The Kittitas Kid on Aug 12, 2011 12:44 PM EDT up reply actions
There was actually a documentary called “Southpaw” about a gypsy in Ireland who was a decent amateur. Anybody saw it? I bought the “VHS” a long time ago when it was in sale at Best Buy. Pc! Don’t get me started on documentaries! Too many to name! Or that “Latin Legends” documentary that was about former champions…
"According to all the laws of aerodynamics the bumble-bee should not fly, but the bumble-bee does not know this and so flies anyway."
Sounds like Eminem's boxing movie was already done...
twice before – it’s called “The Champ.”
anyone gonna check out the movie 'Knuckle'?
Its a film about a traveling irish bareknuckle fighting crew which is feuding with another group. Check the youtube trailer
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by SmittytheCutman on Aug 12, 2011 10:30 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
no doubt...
I watched a while ago, but it definitely got quite a bit dusty in the room.
How is this not a carbon copy of every other fight movie?
-Once great fighter falls on hard times.
-Once great fighter finds new motivation to fight.
-Once great fighter wins the day because of said motivation.
-Roll credits.
The boxing movie I want to see is where the once great fighter fails miserably despite his motivation. Yet he keeps trying and failing because he has no other skill set, and has run out of money. The movie ends with him continuing to go out and get his brains punched in despite everyone around him calling for his retirement. Like the Wrestler but with actual fighting.
-Ring of Fire is one of the best boxing movies I have seen.
It’s on Netflix now, so I will. I even expect I’ll really like it. Me with boxing movies is kind of like boxing movies — I really, really like a few of them, they’re among my favorite films. But when a new one comes out, I struggle to find the motivation to watch one. Then I do, and I usually like it at least a little. Roll credits.
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by Scott Christ on Aug 12, 2011 5:44 PM EDT up reply actions
Sorry guys, I’m going to again disagree. I feel the fighter is worth watching, was it good? Not to me. I think as a movie fan and a boxing fan, it fails. If I don’t have on my artsy fartsy cap and TRY to make it into this fantastic “gritty” and dramatic portrayal of Ward’s life, I might like it, or if I like it b/c the critics are raving about it, I might like it, but I don’t care about that. If it was a “realistic” portrayal of Ward’s life/career, I don’t think he spent 75% of his time during that period sitting on a couch listening to his mother argue with his sisters/managers. Realism would have shown: some more time in the gym, more than a 30 sec. montage across 5-10 fights, a look at Arturo Gatti. Again, I thought Christian Bale was great, Mark Wahlberg was a great actor, the acting and drama seemed real, but the movie just dwelled on the neuroticisms just a tad too much (or like WAY too much). Holler!
"According to all the laws of aerodynamics the bumble-bee should not fly, but the bumble-bee does not know this and so flies anyway."
a look at Arturo Gatti
That’s what The Fighter 2: Still Fightin’ is for.
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by Scott Christ on Aug 12, 2011 5:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Speaking of, what do you guys think of this docu on Arturo Gatti?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRK6eyVxG0s
"According to all the laws of aerodynamics the bumble-bee should not fly, but the bumble-bee does not know this and so flies anyway."
One of my peculiar failings is a dislike of movies generally. I’ve seen very few, find them hard to sit still for, etc., etc. Everybody was bugging me, “have you seen The Fighter, seen The Fighter, you gotta see The Fighter,” on and on. Finally I sent them all links to youtube Ward-Gatti 1 and told them to watch the fighter and then talk to me. They got off my case.
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