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

[foo]

beatings to his face doesn't excuse the scraggy bleached ponytailed hair....

just been watching this - i hadn't realised he has been so notorious in the media over the years. i just remember him in Angel Heart, which i loved.

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/mickey-rourke-on-dark-side-of-fame/2092616003/?icid=VIDURVENT07

 

[mentalchik]

I'm glad he has scraped back a career......weird face and all.......always thought he was an underated actor...although mostly sabotaged by himself methinks......



and he was so purty too.......

 

[Orang Utan]

Well, Mickey won a Golden Globe, so well done Mickey

 

[Diamond]

Saw this tonight. It's an excellent film. Highly recommended. Mickey Rourke has to be a shoe in for the Oscar now.

 

[camouflage]

Top film, top actor, I beleived all of it.

 

[Diamond]

I'm still thinking about this film this afternoon. It's such a brilliant piece of work. It's got all the best parts of American cinema in the mix. Being a bit pretentious, I'd say that it's a pretty neat metaphor for America as a whole.

 

[kained&able]

I have heard lots of good things about this film but i need to know if they make out that wrestling is real or not in the film.

Any film where wrestling is real instantly loses my respect as i presume everything is pitched to under 13's.

Do they kinda acknolege/hint that pro wrestling is fake/staged/pre determined? If not can't be arsed.

Although i think necro butcher is in the film and he amuses me no end.


dave

 

[cliche guevara]

I'm still thinking about this film this afternoon. It's such a brilliant piece of work. It's got all the best parts of American cinema in the mix. Being a bit pretentious, I'd say that it's a pretty neat metaphor for America as a whole.

That's not pretentious at all, I think that it's somewhat the point, look at when The Ram snaps the Iranian flag when fighting the Ayatollah.

 

[cliche guevara]

I have heard lots of good things about this film but i need to know if they make out that wrestling is real or not in the film.

Any film where wrestling is real instantly loses my respect as i presume everything is pitched to under 13's.

Do they kinda acknolege/hint that pro wrestling is fake/staged/pre determined? If not can't be arsed.

Although i think necro butcher is in the film and he amuses me no end.


dave

Half and half. They admit that it's staged (supposedly worst enemies in the ring planning their moves together beforehand), but that the training, and injuries are very real.

 

[DotCommunist]

Half and half. They admit that it's staged (supposedly worst enemies in the ring planning their moves together beforehand), but that the training, and injuries are very real.

isn't that properly depicting wrestling though? The skill lying in the fact that they DON'T badly fuck each other up while appearing to lay fearsome moves.

 

[Diamond]

That's one of the most interesting parts of the film. The camaderie between the wrestlers and the sense that they're putting on a show. That's brought out really well while also showing it as a very, very tough profession. It's a bit like the wrestlers are all playing a team game, with that element of solidarity that competition brings, but there's no direct opponent.

ETA:
It made me realise why those wrestlers gave Louis Theroux such a hard time.

 

[kained&able]

ahh good stuff. will definatly give it a watch then.



dave(bit of a wrestling mark)

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

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

I thought he was good in it and I quite like the film.

 

[goldenecitrone]

One of the best actors around. Barfly is brilliant.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

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

I would say it was a return to form. I loved it.

 

[Ms T]

I thought it was a rather hackneyed story (washed-up middle-aged man, stripper girlfriend, estranged daughter) brilliantly brought to life by Mickey Rourke. It was a really great performance and of course his physical appearance is perfect for the role. Wasn't all the plastic surgery to repair boxing injuries?

Marisa Tomei was excellent too.

 

[100% masahiko]

Thank fuck the role was handed to Mickey Rourke and NOT NICHOLAS CAGE!!
And how the hell was Nicholas Cage had first pickings anyway?

Interesting to read why and how Axel Rose allowed Aronofsky to use "Sweet Child o Mine" for free.

For a low budget docu-film, the Wrestler never gassed out though if you blink you may miss the odd moments of humour.

That final speech 'Randy the Ram' made -wow, that was some powerful shit - great performance from the gut...no-one else could have acted this movie.

Aronofsky has yet to make a shit film. He's way up there.

 

[100% masahiko]

The Fountain?

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

I loved The Fountain!! I'm a big comic/sci-fi fan and that film was shot like one. Everyone - as in the producers, the studio, Pitt/Blanchet pulled out before it even got started. The end product was never in his intention - but it's still a beast of a production.

I wonder if Aronofsky will ever move into comedies.

 

[100% masahiko]

You've NEVER watched a film on telly?

I wouldn't like to watch a good film on telly 'first.'

No probs with crab like Resident Evil, Final Destination etc - those are good for TVs.

 

[perplexis]

This film is really good. I found it rather moving. Rourke was awesome. Aronofsky is still on form.

 

[Part 2]

I wouldn't like to watch a good film on telly 'first.'

Thats not what you said before

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I'm glad he has scraped back a career......weird face and all.......always thought he was an underated actor...although mostly sabotaged by himself methinks......



and he was so purty too.......

He was beautiful.

I consider myself to be totally hetero, but have a scrap book from my youth which has plenty of pics of Mickey Rourke. I fancied him rotten, as a man I wanted to be like. I didn't want to fuck him, just be him.

 

[blossie33]

I didn't realise he used to look like that ^^^^^

I don't go to the cinema that often and then usually mainly to see foreign or off beat films but I went to see this at the weekend and thought it was excellent, really moving.

 

[Refused as fuck]

Saw this at the weekend, it was shit.

 

[butchersapron]

Was Micky Rourke in it? You know, Mickey Rourke.

 

[Fruitloop]

I couldn't get past how much I fucking hate wrestling. All the massive violently-inclined idiots at my school were heavily into wrestling, and I hadn't realised how much I still loathe everything about it.

 

[Refused as fuck]

Was Micky Rourke in it? You know, Mickey Rourke.

Something that looked a little bit like him was in it. I don't think you could call it human.

 

[Bob_the_lost]

Good film, really liked it.

 

[kropotkin]

I watched it last night.
I went out afterwards and punched myself in the face with some barbed wire.

It was good- the film not the disfiguring self mutilation.

 

[plasticene]

Not a very original story but its all about Mickey Rourke, who is great.