ESPN writer Bill Simmons saw an advanced copy of the new Darren Aronofsky and Mickey Rourke tag team film, “The Wrestler”. Simmons gives an interesting take on the film because unlike most of the movie reviewers who are giving the movie high praise, Simmons was actually a fan. He watched in the 80s and was there for the hot period in the late 90s as well. He says that he would still buy the big PPVs up until last year when Chris Benoit killed his wife and child.

He gives a relevant take on the film as a sports movie and also through the eyes of a former wrestling fan. He says that he hasn’t given up on the idea of being a fan again, but steps need to be taken. He’s the fan who Vince McMahon and company have turned off over the years in droves.

As someone who counts Superfly Snuka’s steel cage leap against Don Muraco as one of the most exciting moments of his childhood, I’d never root against wrestling. I’ve just moved on. For now. The sport can have me back when it institutes a pension plan for retired wrestlers, when there’s an off-season that mirrors those of the major sports so bodies can recover, when it cracks down on all enhancers, when someone explains to me why I shouldn’t care that so many ghosts showed up for my private screening.

You can read the full article, which is also going to be in ESPN The Magazine, by going to his website.

I also received an e-mail from someone who is doing promotional work at Fandango and is trying to spread the word to the blogs like this one about the movie.

Here’s “The Wrestler” page on Fandango.

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