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| "[He] needs to grow up." -- A douchebag Photo Credit: WWE.com |
Michael Bay, director of such cinematic masterpieces as Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen and Pearl Harbor, recently had this to say about Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, one of the stars of his latest film, Pain and Gain:
Dwayne’s hurt tonight. He was pushing it too hard. [He] needs to grow up and stop wrestling 300-pound men.I find it absolutely hilarious that a man who has the intellectual maturity and cultural sensitivity to include robot testicles as a gag and Stepin Fetchit-styled cyborgs in the same goddamn movie is telling another man to grow up with respect to professional wrestling. First Glenn Beck, now Bay? What is it with these hacky, bottom-of-the-barrel types attacking wrestling?
Regardless, Bay is allowed to make dumb movies with schlocky dialogue, one-dimensional characters, and borderline racism in them just as much as Rocky is allowed to wrestle. Rock isn't doing it for the money, so he must really, really love the pro graps if he keeps coming back (even though he keeps getting hurt doing it). One man telling another man to "grow up" is the last line of defense of a stuck up demagogue who has no idea what it means to be a fully realized human being with thoughts, desires, and wants that don't necessarily fall in lockstep with yours.
Should Rock give up wrestling? Maybe he should, maybe he shouldn't. I don't know. I'm not a studio exec, his doctor, or even The Rock himself. I will say that if he continues on in the ring or not, him needing to "grow up" shouldn't play a role in it. And if Bay wants to cast his stones, maybe he shouldn't leave blatant examples of needing to grow up by his own standards in his "art." Because Lord knows Robot Heaven is such a high-art concept compared to Wrest... you know what, I can't even finish that sentence without retching. Not even ironically