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The Iron Claw

The Iron Claw

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Released: 21 December 2023
Country of origin: UK, US
Genre: Drama, History
Production companies: A24, BBC Film, Access Entertainment, House Productions
Watched by: 907 of 866 187
Runtime: 2 hours 12 minutes
IMDB rating: 7.7 of 10 56 632
kinopoisk.ru rating: 7.4 of 10 117 071

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The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.

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AnnLemon
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19 Jan 00:16 #
Oh, well, Zach is just the star of the movie, I'm glad that he finally has a decent project lately!
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sadykh
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16 Feb 22:21 #
@AnnLemon: "Over a beer" also cool with him
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niggapig
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29 Jan 22:29 #
The curse of the family is the presence of the father in it 😥
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Nitanael
Nitanael
07 Feb 02:24 #
I really wanted to love it, but unfortunately I don’t feel the story and I’m sorry for that.
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Hidji
Hidji
11 Feb 23:12 #
It's a good movie, by and large. There are a couple of movies and a better and more interesting TV series, but no more. However, it did not go well to cinemas outside the United States. Wrestling has not become popular in other countries.😅
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GreenHedgehog
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13 Feb 12:11 #
It is clear that this film is not for everyone. He is very slow and even stringy somewhere. There are a lot of jumps through time, so sometimes it is difficult to keep track of what is happening. But on the other hand, the story is gorgeous in terms of storytelling. The scene with the brothers at the end actually touched my heart. And morality— even if banal, is still very important.
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Khrustalev
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15 Feb 08:25 #
I started watching in the hope that I would now wash my face with tears and grab my heart, but I finished with only one thought - what ridiculous wigs.
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AlisaZabluTshaya
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16 Feb 15:35 #
It was interesting to read the history of this family before watching the movie. Overall, a very good movie came out
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AlisaZabluTshaya
AlisaZabluTshaya
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18 Feb 14:01 #
@AlisaZabluTshaya: and in terms of the plot, I would rather watch the series, because well, everything was done very crumpled, although a lot of events happened in the family
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suzanna9491
suzanna9491
17 Feb 01:15 #
Yes, that's really the steel grip their father had, control over the lives of all his sons.. In reality, their story is even more cruel, many points are very tangentially touched upon here. Well, it's strange how one brother was crossed out, I understand that there are so many events, but this is not just a trifle
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devilrwf
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18 Feb 13:34 #
@suzanna9491: as I understand it, they deliberately decided so, firstly, according to the chronology, the film would have been longer, and secondly, there are a lot of deaths
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suzanna9491
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18 Feb 22:22 #
@devilrwf: I understand, but again, this is not a small thing for a movie about this family
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_monicalyons_
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20 Feb 22:07 #
Dad's a curse. Literally and figuratively.
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MashaLarina
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22 Feb 14:29 #
I was very touched by the moment when it was shown that the brothers met in the afterlife 😭💔
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julikarr
julikarr
22 Feb 18:25 #
A moment in the afterlife 💙
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Necromantica
Necromantica
23 Feb 01:23 #
It's a very heavy and sad movie, a good one.
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juliawishes
juliawishes
24 Feb 11:04 #
Efron's horribly distorted face ruined all my impressions.
How disgusting he is, some kind of frog man.
Jeremy Allen White is good! Actually, I turned on the movie for him.

Mike was very sorry, poor kid. He just wanted to be himself, to make music. The asshole dad just broke it.
David died in the name of his dad's ambitions, he didn't even give himself a chance to stop.
Everything was falling apart because of a crazy dad, and my mother was so weakly watching all this shit.
I liked the movie. Efron and his game are categorically not. He didn't pull it out.
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Paul_Wolf
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29 Feb 17:50 #
🤼‍♂️ I am a fan of this sport, mat is sacred and of course I watch wrestling every day, from British REVpro, Japanese NJPW,NOAH to American AEW, WWE, TNA and even archivally study the times of WCW, NWA, which have gone into the annals of wrestling, well, NWA is still floundering, but obviously that's not it anymore. For this reason, I immediately knew that such a film was being shot and all expectations were met, eh, another worthy sports biopic with outstanding acting, drama and transition to that warm era when boys rocked, girls wore shorts and in general American was Great and Great.

And how quickly the first hour flew by, I just savored everything that was, there are graphics of old promotions and a primitive, but funny kind of wrestling fighting, now it's no surprise, Okada, Omega and Osprey now show such that I don't even know how they would be filmed in 50 years. It is interesting to watch the promoter's father and how he easily pays the price of losses and still strives for a dream, like a real sectarian. Even when his children are successful, everything is not enough for him and it seems the bar may be higher.

🤼‍♀️ Ironically, it seems that wrestling used to be regional, each state has its own promotion, and as if the competition should be high, but it's still a hard way, because the more a champion travels, the harder it is to get into a full clip. I'll have 100 fights with the champion in each state first, then we'll see. Who did not understand the system, there were no specific brand divisions before, there was a general NWA champion and federated champions, they were lower in the hierarchy than the NWA and for this reason there were often fights for two titles, and he rode tours everywhere, he could go into a small hall or a large one. The Makmen will change the business in the future and the golden era of WWF and WCW confrontation will begin, but this is a completely different story, although the brothers caught this period from the part, the picture did not focus on this.

As a result, there are a lot of loads, exercises and fights. For many, the word staging has become a stigma, the usual fall on the neck has become part of the image, people have forgotten that a person is still flying with his neck into the mats. How much drama has this brought to the world of wrestling, from leaving the business for years or suicides, overdoses and career burnouts, people give 110% of their strength

That's how prolific the first act was for me, at the second I would like to focus on the family and write about each of the brothers, because I saw their matches...

In the picture, we were shown the main triumph of the family competition in general, when they won the legendary Fabulous Freebirds and became triple tag champions.

In just 6 years of his career, David von Erich has become a significant figure, a real charismatic and a potential major champion of business.

Kerry Von Erich has always been my favorite, such a cheeky athlete, with one of the best matches of the 80s against Rick Fleur (who, by the way, was embodied in the film strangely and somehow unlike Fleur). There is nothing to say about Mike Von Erich, he was not loved and in general this business is not for him, the guy should have been given freedom in music.

Kevin Von Erich was just a workhorse, but without any ups, he was always somewhere in the middle and did not reach the big stars in any way. Well, I didn't even see Fritz Von Erich in action, they say that he was good, but then in the 60s wrestling was three times antediluvian.

As a result, turning to the curse, I had some questions, quickly moved on to chthony and shock was replaced by shock, from which I did not have enough timing for all this, even 40 minutes or more emphasis on the breakdown of the personality of men and the career crisis, otherwise they show us glorious moments, and then they combine quite a bunch, although all the terrible events spread over a dozen years, and the business, which developed at lightning speed, injuries accumulated, all this remained behind the scenes, and it was precisely such fundamental things that broke the legends. Ah, well, in any case, the actors pull out a non-trivial task and sit on the screen, giving answers to some questions.

The film clearly deserves Oscars - this is a real American film, with love, brotherhood, cultural popularization and honest conversation.

I'm not even surprised that I'll write so much about my favorite leisure time, so much text.

Visual: 14/15
Atmosphere: 14/15
Soundtrack: 9/10
Main characters: 18/20
Minor characters: 10/10
Plot: 26/30
Total Score: 91 (Green "Iron" Zone).
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saarelaynen
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03 Mar 17:18 #
Does Efron have such a scary plastic or makeup? I remembered Mickey Rourke in the movie Wrestler, both in terms of subject matter and facial plastic surgery.
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suzanna9491
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04 Mar 10:55 #
@saarelaynen: Officially a broken jaw. He fell, hit the edge of a fountain (?) or something, performed surgery as necessary. And there, who knows
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saarelaynen
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04 Mar 21:26 #
@suzanna9491: ох...😓
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saarelaynen
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03 Mar 18:07 #
The story of accounting - 1 in 1 TV series "Hily"
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