This weekend marks the release of the new Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard movie “Fighting” that seeks to capitalize on the growing popularity of my second favorite sport… MMA (Mixed Martial Arts). Yup… just days away from the release… and I’m not hearing ANYONE… no I mean ANYONE talking about it at all. Not in the blogsphere, not in the theaters when the trailer plays, none of my friends… NO ONE. I’m not hearing anything. Nothing good… nothing bad. Just nothing, despite the fact that it has a pretty aggressive marketing campaign (I’ve seeing the trailers everywhere).
The funny thing is that I’m a combat sport fanatic. I love it. I’ve even trailed for a while at Randy Couture’s (former UFC Champion) gym for a while when I was in Hollywood. But even I have absolutely no interest in seeing this movie. I can’t even really tell you why. I’m not sure. I like Terrence Howard (even though it seems like he’s fallen off the train a bit in the last while), I love combat sports… so you’d think I’d be really pumped for this one. But I’m not. Not even a little.
So I throw the question out to you my international friends: Are you planning on seeing “Fighting”? If not… why not? Is so, why? And do you hear people talking about it, either positively or negatively?
