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Never Surrender - Worst Movie Of 2009

Mossy Monk · 2009-06-20 21:36:50

What can I say. I saw this advertised on the UFC website the other day and thought why not. I am sorry that I did :) This is a story about a man who goes into an illegal underground fighting championship for the money. It features Georges St. Pierre (his voice is dubbed), Heath Herring, Rampage, BJ Penn and Anderson Silva.…

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20-06-2009 10:36pm

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Mossy Monk

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What can I say. I saw this advertised on the UFC website the other day and thought why not. I am sorry that I did

This is a story about a man who goes into an illegal underground fighting championship for the money. It features Georges St. Pierre (his voice is dubbed), Heath Herring, Rampage, BJ Penn and Anderson Silva.

It is awful awful awful straight to video type ****e. So bad it is funny. Has anyone else seen it?

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#2 20-06-2009 10:57pm
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Please tell me it's a remake of the brilliant classic No Retreat, No Surrender!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fszUyLflAQo

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#3 21-06-2009 12:38am
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I've never seen it and never want to see it. But the worst movie I've seen in 2009 is The Day the Earth Stood Still. Even if it was out last year I still think its the worst film ever.

No MMA film can ever replicate the real thing.

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#4 21-06-2009 1:30am
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Although not a movie forum, and at the risk of confusing Pro Wrestling with anything related to Martial Arts - see 'The Wrestler', its seriously one of the best movie's I've ever seen.

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#5 21-06-2009 9:40am
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Yes i had the misfortune of seeing this rubbish , you said it op , so bad its funny , not to be confused with so bad it's good like the martial arts movies of old

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#6 21-06-2009 10:40am
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Emerald Crooked Taskmaster wrote: »

Although not a movie forum, and at the risk of confusing Pro Wrestling with anything related to Martial Arts - see 'The Wrestler', its seriously one of the best movie's I've ever seen.

The Wrestler was a good movie but the ending was terrible.

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#7 21-06-2009 11:21am
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JohnMc1 wrote: »

The Wrestler was a good movie but the ending was terrible.

I'm in a minority in that I thought the ending was brilliant.

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#8 21-06-2009 11:42am
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was it supposed to be a porno?

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#9 21-06-2009 12:04pm
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It had a sense of one of those ****ty movies Bravo used to show late at night about it, that's true.

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#10 21-06-2009 12:55pm
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Emerald Crooked Taskmaster wrote: »

I'm in a minority in that I thought the ending was brilliant.

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Personally I like closure to a film. I invested time and money into watching it so it would have been nice to know if he lived or died [even though all points indicate he died] I hate open ended endings.

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#11 21-06-2009 12:59pm
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JohnMc1 wrote: »

Personally I like closure to a film. I invested time and money into watching it so it would have been nice to know if he lived or died [even though all points indicate he died] I hate open ended endings.

I thought that it was obvious that he
died, but the film didn't exactly make you feel sorry for him

I think that there was another thread a few months back about how bad Never Surrender is

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#12 21-06-2009 6:05pm
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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055562134

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#13 21-06-2009 6:12pm
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you know the movie was actually that bad i had totally forgotten about the late nite bravo style soft porn in it

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#14 21-06-2009 6:41pm
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you think that film is bad, I got dragged to see fighting. My god....utter cack.

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#15 21-06-2009 9:05pm
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I had to turn it off after 15mins, thats how bad it is ha

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#16 21-06-2009 10:52pm
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Fozzy wrote: »

I thought that it was obvious that he
died, but the film didn't exactly make you feel sorry for him

I think that there was another thread a few months back about how bad Never Surrender is

I have a feeling a spoiler tage isn't needed anymore Fozzy. They did build up to him more than likely dying in that match but it would have been nice for some closure and tie up the loose ends in his personal life.

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#17 22-06-2009 10:23pm
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Fozzy wrote: »

I thought that it was obvious that he
died, but the film didn't exactly make you feel sorry for him

I think that there was another thread a few months back about how bad Never Surrender is

I didn't feel sorry for him (spoiling half your spoiler!) but I did identify with him to a huge extent.

At the time I was going through a particularly tough time in my personal life, I was getting by on lots of vodka, sleeping tablets and pain killers whilst still training my arse off.

I remember waking up one morning after seeing the movie and thinking 'The Wrestler'.

For me in more ways than I can mention here (but Judomad and possibly Cowzer know where I'm coming from) I identified with that movie and loved it for its realism.

Even now when I've tied up all the loose ends the movies sound track still pulls on my heart strings..

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I don't care what anyone says, he jumped off the top rope, finished that fight, and went home and lived happily ever after with the striper

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#19 23-06-2009 12:59pm
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The happiest that he ever was in the film was working the deli. He was an idiot for sticking with the wrestling and everything that goes with it. Maybe it's just because I've seen so many guys in real life ruin their lives in the very same way, but I find it hard to feel sympathetic for a pro wrestler who doesn't know when to hang up the boots despite it being glaringly obvious

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#20 24-06-2009 12:37pm
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I remember seeing the film just before UFC 92 and I couldnt help but think of Randy when watching Coleman both his fight and facially.

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#21 25-06-2009 4:22pm
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I thought this film was awesome.

Same sound track as never back down!
BJ Penn, GSP (with special Hispanic over dub voice action), Anderson Silva, Heath Herring and Rampage.
Bj Penn fights at the end and has just about enough cardio to finish the fight, which is hilarious.
The dude 'has been training hard' for one of his fights but all we saw him do was go for a jog on the beach with his girlfriend and do some terrible work on the bag.
Its been a while since I watched it so I can't remember other hilarious incidents.

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#22 25-06-2009 5:28pm
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Wow that is really something!!

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#23 30-06-2009 1:27am
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Mossy Monk wrote: »

It is awful awful awful straight to video type ****e. So bad it is funny. Has anyone else seen it?

I just watched it I feel ill now

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Crackin' performance by Rourke but did anyone else see the similarities between the movie "The Wrestler" and the classic 1999 wrestling documentary "Beyond The Mat" ??

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stubell wrote: »

Crackin' performance by Rourke but did anyone else see the similarities between the movie "The Wrestler" and the classic 1999 wrestling documentary "Beyond The Mat" ??

Agreed, Randy "The Ram" Robinson = Jake "The Snake" Roberts.

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#26 02-07-2009 9:41am
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stubell wrote: »

Crackin' performance by Rourke but did anyone else see the similarities between the movie "The Wrestler" and the classic 1999 wrestling documentary "Beyond The Mat" ??

That is where the screenplay was derived from.

SuperWoody101 wrote: »

Agreed, Randy "The Ram" Robinson = Jake "The Snake" Roberts.

It is more of composite character but the father daughter relationship is defo Jake.

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