[quote]FrozenNinja wrote:
Christian Bale emaciates himself again to play this role, I don’t see why he just can’t hold his muscle, I doubt the writers demanded him to lose weight for the role, and if he played the role with some muscle I doubt anyone would really nit pick that much. IDK. I know he’s a user in the film, but users do come in all shapes and sizes,
I respect the art of getting into the role…but at some point the body pays the price. The yo-yo effect actors put themselves through to play different roles isn’t necessarily too healthy for the body, I mean lose a couple pounds here or there fine, but blowin up to 205 and then back down to 150 or so isn’t too healthy. I’m just sayin.
Rumor has it that there’ll be another Batman movie and he’s going to have to get up to muscle carrying again…what abuse. [/quote]
Not that he’s ever played action-hero roles like Batman, but I read an article once that mentioned how Tom Hanks actually experienced long term health problems after he first gained and then lost a major amount of weight for that movie where he was marooned on an island.
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Cast Away?
Hanks looked the same throughout the entire movie. I remember thinking he was pretty soft for a guy living on coconuts. He wasn’t fat, though. I’m calling bullshit.[/quote]
Could be it is bullshit. I’m just repeating something I read in a article somewhere. And I saw Castaway so long ago, I don’t remember what Hanks looked like in it. Still, there’s no question that having your weight yo-yo a lot is not good for long term health.[/quote]
Haha he definitely looked like shit. For sure a change from the beginning when he leaves on the plane. By the time Wilson starts floating away you can tell he isnt exactly taking in excess calories, pretty thin if I’m remembering correctly.[/quote]
He was leaner, but it’s not like he had abs or anything.
It doesn’t seem like nearly a dramatic enough difference to cause health problems.
Also why would the director not want that? The goal is to keep it as real as possible, if the person he is playing was skinny he has to be skinny to. I was told to drop weight for a couple of college plays because they were set in the early 1900’s and I was “too big” to be the lead.[/quote]
I suspect a lot of guys who did heavy manual labor jobs back then but made enough money to eat well were hardly small. And back then you also had people like Eugen Sandow, Louis Cyr, and George Hackenschmidt - the inventor of the hack squat.[/quote]
Again the problem is not whether or not big guys were around back then but, if it fits with the story. My play was about a poor family around the great depression, it would not look right if I walked around at a lean 190 lbs.
Bale is playing a drug addicted ex-fighter not Batman. Maybe he should have walked around at 200 lbs of muscle in Rescue Dawn to, I’d by it.
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
Those Ward/Gatti fights are among the best I’ve ever seen in boxing.
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That, along with Castillo-Corrales I, were certainly the greatest fights I’ve ever watched. Better than Foreman and Ali, Frazier and Ali, better than anything.
Manny Steward called Round 9 the “Round of the Century” and the fight won Fight of the year for 2001.
This is a highlight reel of Mick… he truly was a warrior, ALWAYS went out on his shield and put his life on the line with every fight.
Can’t wait for this to come out. Read the book & it should be a great movie. Micky’s bro is a douche & tried to screw Micky on this movie, but he’s blood so Irish sticks with him.
Too bad Gatti isn’t here to enjoy this.
A Arturo Gatti movie next? I also read not too long ago that purse strap held a dummies head (only 30lbs.) and broke the strap after 30 secs.
Brazilain BITCH will get her day.
Also, miss seeing Micky’s body shots, what a left to the body he had. DAMN.
And I believe he was featured on ESPN fights more than any other boxer.
I didn’t really read the article. I just used it as a source to support the proposition that nobody asked him to lose the weight for The Machinist. The director was quoted in the article saying that.
[quote]Thunderrage wrote:
I noticed in the trailer that when bale hits the cop you can see that he has a big boldspot…wtf batman.
Anyway could be an awesome movie[/quote]
I assumed costume/make up - you know older brother drug addicts dont always have the most luxurious head of hair
Also was I smoking crack or was there really a debate on how swole people addicted to crack are?
That, along with Castillo-Corrales I, were certainly the greatest fights I’ve ever watched. Better than Foreman and Ali, Frazier and Ali, better than anything.
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Yeah man, I remember that first fight so clearly. I love boxing but don’t know all that much about it. I was at some dive bar with some friends and the owner put Gatti/Ward on the big screen. I had no idea who they were, and apparently neither did anyone else in there…people kept playing pool, throwing darts, etc. People gradually started watching and thinking “holy shit!” and by the end of it, literally every person in the bar had their eyes glued to the screen.
I had purchased some boxing PPVs in the past and felt ripped off by early knockouts, dives and glorified sparring matches, but after seeing those Gatti/Ward fights I felt redemption.
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
Those Ward/Gatti fights are among the best I’ve ever seen in boxing.
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That, along with Castillo-Corrales I, were certainly the greatest fights I’ve ever watched. Better than Foreman and Ali, Frazier and Ali, better than anything.
Manny Steward called Round 9 the “Round of the Century” and the fight won Fight of the year for 2001.
This is a highlight reel of Mick… he truly was a warrior, ALWAYS went out on his shield and put his life on the line with every fight.
So where in the clip does the left hook from hell come into play?
My brother sent me this link on Youtube. It’s a 7 part documentary from 1999 about crack addicts in Lowel and one of them users in Dickie. I found it quite depressing, especially when you consider that the guy has such a young kid and also had so much potential.
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
Those Ward/Gatti fights are among the best I’ve ever seen in boxing.
[/quote]
That, along with Castillo-Corrales I, were certainly the greatest fights I’ve ever watched. Better than Foreman and Ali, Frazier and Ali, better than anything.
Manny Steward called Round 9 the “Round of the Century” and the fight won Fight of the year for 2001.
This is a highlight reel of Mick… he truly was a warrior, ALWAYS went out on his shield and put his life on the line with every fight.
So where in the clip does the left hook from hell come into play?[/quote]
[quote]Dahollow wrote:
I’m not a fighter, but can someone tell me how it feels to get a direct hit on the liver? It seems very painful![/quote]
Me too, I’ve never experienced this. Is it worse than getting knocked in the balls? Cause I have felt that. They say getting that liver shot your body just shuts down. How cool is that. Ha. Ward would tap the guy with his left to the head then go right for that killer punch.
[quote]Dahollow wrote:
I’m not a fighter, but can someone tell me how it feels to get a direct hit on the liver? It seems very painful![/quote]
Don’t know personally, but Bas Rutten says it’s one of the most painful shots in fighting…[/quote]
The only time I’ve ever been dropped while sparring was to a shot to the liver. That shit was unpleasant. The only thing I wanted to do was drop to a knee and contemplate life for a while. And that’s getting hit by a fellow weekend warrior… I can’t imagine taking shots from the pros and wanting any part of continuing to fight.