Never Back Down

[m4tt]

This film (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1023111/) was released over here a week ago and I've been meaning to make this thread ever since. It was the only time I'd heard of MMA outside of this forum. Do you think popular media such as cinema is a good way to advertise MMA? Is mainstream attention beneficial or detrimental to the sport as a whole?

Discuss.

[Northern Lights]

I went to see the film and actually thought it was reasonably good, despite the reviews.

I think that it was a good way of promoting the sport.

[Dean]

I never went to see the film and I don't intend to. It could just be the advertising, but it looked like one of those movies with actors pretending to know sh*t about the sport, when they don't really at all. They had guys pretend to know about MMA, I guess. The punches looked really lame... stylistically, they weren't representative of the sport at all. From the commercial, it was a bunch of pretty boys who didn't look like MMAs at all and were throwing some p*ssy punches.

I don't want to see it... It looks like the worst representation of a sport since Nacho Libre.

[Northern Lights]

... Nacho Libre was a comedy, though.

[Austin.]

I know what ya mean Dean.
I hate watching shows where someone has someone in say a rear naked choke and they call it a sleeper *cough**cough* WWE *cough*cough*.

I haven't even seen previews for this movie.
May look into it though.

[Dean]

... Nacho Libre was a comedy, though.

This one is pretty unintentionally funny, from the commercials.

All the punches are weird looping ones that wouldn't be effective at all. There are a ton of theatrics involved with the fights. It's the most basic storyline ever. All the fighters look like random "dudes" from California who were walking on the pier and got stopped by some wannabe director and asked, "Hey, do you wanna pretend to beat each other up for a few minutes so we can get it on film?"

Okay, I'm going overboard.

[Northern Lights]

Yeah, a few of the punches looked a little... off.