Mickey Rourke in good film shock!? "The Wrestler"

[Nanker Phelge]

I hadn't heard anything about the film, The Wrestler, but it's to have wowed the Venice Film Festival.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7600873.stm

It's good to see Rourke back, even with that rubbery new face of his.

 

[cybershot]

Yeah, this does look quite good.

 

[Maltin]

This was the surprise film at the London Film Festival. It was very good with an impressive performance by Rourke.

He was also entertaining when he appeared onstage afterwards.

Marisa Tomei was also very good.

Not sure if it has a release date for the UK yet.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I would have liked to have been there for that!

Perhap's Mickey Rourkes gonna shock us all and be the actor he should have been first time around?

 

[Grandma Death]

I actually felt a degree of sympathy for Rourke after seeing him being interviewed on Piers Morgan's 'The Drak Side of being a Celebrity'.

Thats all frittered away after watching him Graham Norton last night. He made my skin crawl the way he was letching over Jessica Biel. It was embarrassing to watch-the guy was like a dog on heat.

 

[Maltin]

A trailer is now online.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/thewrestler/

 

[tarannau]

Yep. Went to the premiere of this last night and it was very good indeed. Would definitely recommend - it manages to straddle that delicate line between humour and pathos very well.

Mickey Rourke makes a fucking good stab at the title role, although his face and mannerisms would seem ideal for a beaten up wrestler. Apart from the strange botox sneer perhaps - he's looks even more bizarre in the flesh. Like a bizarre Charley Boorman crossed with a melted Barbie.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I've downloaded this, but am not gonna watch it. Waiting for cinema release. Looking forward to it.

 

[tarannau]

I think it's worth the cinema fwiw. Wince inducing noises, crowd sounds, Rourke's plastic mug stretching 20ft across the screen - that kind of thing.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I think it's worth the cinema fwiw. Wince inducing noises, crowd sounds, Rourke's plastic mug stretching 20ft across the screen - that kind of thing.

Yeah - after seeing the trailer on the big screen my g/f said 'Does Mickey Rourke really look like that now?'

 

[cliche guevara]

Darren Aronofsky film, so hopefully it'll put him back on form.

 

[Mr T]

watched this last night and thought it was excellent - i was properly into wrestling until about 15 and it all seemed spot on how you imagine it backstage away from wwe/f

 

[DotCommunist]

the posters make him look like leslie ash tbf

 

[tarannau]

You should see him in the flesh then. Weird

 

[cliche guevara]

I have read two very positive reviews of this film today.

 

[Biglittlefish]

Its good but not great. Its not at all like any other of Aronofskys movies. No flashy effects. Def worth the price of admission.

 

[Melinda]

Apart from the strange botox sneer perhaps - he's looks even more bizarre in the flesh. Like a bizarre Charley Boorman crossed with a melted Barbie.

That is a perfect description. He's quite distressing to look at- I cant look without wincing- he looks like a burns victim.

I saw him on Graham Norton a few weeks back, he was being vile and gropey with Jessica Biel, and it was actually nauseating.
He totally didnt recognise personal boundaries, and couldnt see her body language screaming 'FUCK OFF ME.'

He freaks me out- his behaviour, his hair, the skin- bleurgh.

Career resurrection maybe premature though- what else could he be cast in?

 

[Sadken]

Seen it on a perfect torrent. It's a really good film; I used to love WWF and WCW when I was a lad, so I was gripped by it. It seems to be based loosely on the life of Jake the Snake Roberts, who "starred" in a documentary called Beyond the Mat (?), which showed him as a washed up drunk after an 80s heyday. The more I think about it, the more it seems that this film is almost a cover version of that docu, but, anyway...Rourke is perfectly cast but the film is terminally depressing. I liked it, but I doubt I'll ever watch it again unless I go to the cinema with my mate who I promised to see it with and who I haven't been able to tell that I've seen it already now.

It gets 7 and a half kens.

 

[elbows]

Its pretty shocking that a decent film about wrestling has finally been made - most are made of fail. Beyond the Mat was sad, Jake the Snake didnt just have a drink problem, but drug problems, family problems and a very dark past. Neither Jake or Vince McMahon have anything good to say about Beyond the Mat though, methinks it reveals too much about the sick side of wrestling culture, and from what Ive read, Vince hates this new film The Wrestler, for similar reasons, which is probably a good reason to see it.

 

[Part 2]

Seen it on a perfect torrent.

Cheers for the heads up, got it on the go just now.

 

[King Biscuit Time]

I saw the trailer last night - looks ace and i'm definitely going to see it when it comes out.

 

[Greebozz]

I do tend to few films as good or bad these days. But I was lucky enough to be in the right mood when I watched The Wrestler and found it hugely moving and enjoyable.

 

[5t3IIa]

the posters make him look like leslie ash tbf

His nips stare me out at Holborn stn every eveing

 

[100% masahiko]

Darren Aronofsky film, so hopefully it'll put him back on form.

Never knew he went out of form...

The Wrestler - looks amazing. I will watch this on the big screen -the way films should be watched (unless it's some rubbish Kirsten Dunst flick).

 

[damnhippie]

might be tempted. he was kind-of-alright in Spun though the film itself is a massive towering piece of shit.

 

[Part 2]

I will watch this on the big screen -the way films should be watched

You've NEVER watched a film on telly?

 

[cliche guevara]

Never knew he went out of form...

The Fountain?

Anyway, this film is fantastic. It's about growing old, and is really quite touching. Plus the wrestling scenes are sweet.

 

[foo]

You should see him in the flesh then. Weird

has he ever talked about why he had all that shit done to his face? or even acknowledge that he is one big lump of plastic now?

i really really really don't get why people would rather look like that, over sporting a few wrinkles

i take all this back if he had some kind of accident i hadn't heard of.

 

[tarannau]

I don't know. I didn't actually go up and ask him: 'what's up with your face Mickey?'

But he's not that tall in real life, and he wears an actor scarf. The cheeky rapscallion gets to flaunt the smoking ban because he's nearly Hollywood A list too, or so it seems.

Strangely, he'd seemed to have formed a showbiz trio of him, Simon Le Bon and Mick Jones. Gawd knows what they have in common

 

[Sadken]

Yeah, he has. It was surgery and getting beatings to the face, basically.