Films/DVD Asylum

The Wrestler

123.200.194.109

dave c

This is the film being toiuted as Mickey Rourke's big time comeback, but I think it is a far different film to that.
It is a tale of a washed up ex champion wrestler and his maybe girlfriend the lap dancer.
Sounds fun?
Errr... actually it's more like a garish coloured Bukowskian fable in the American heartland.
Rourke looks like Iggy Pop on steroids, a truly telling performance that goes close up on the ins and outs of wrestling.
This is a small film.
It has a handful of main characters and a few in the background.
They are beautifully drawn. The dancer especially in near porn grainy close-up.
It's a must see film.

Follow Ups:

I've always liked Rourke's work from.... - mpathus 22:13:41 12/17/08 (0)
..."Diner", "9 1/2 Weeks" (with Kim Bassinger!), and "Johnny Handsome" to "A Prayer for the Dying" where he plays an IRA hitman who finds redemption the hard way.

Rourke is so internal in his style and mesmerizes in anything he is in (even if bad) - an amazing film talent.

I'll look out for "The Wrestler" - good to hear he's back.
I still watch "Angel Heart" once in a while.....great film. * - mr grits 12:10:48 12/16/08 (2)
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- Yeah, Mickey Rourke should never have got fat + ugly - grinagog 18:03:23 12/16/08 (1)
  only Brando could get away with it....
  
  Angel Heart is a great film
  
  GW
  - Happened to Bambi and Babe too; more to go round though. [nt] - chris.redmond2@bushinternet.com 06:54:59 12/31/08 (0)
    nt
    Best Regards,
    Chris redmond.
I think it's a great pity Mickey squandered, for so many - tinear 11:35:50 12/16/08 (3)
years, his prodigious talent as first evidenced in his break-out role in, "Body Heat."
Now, he's remembered only for some soft porno he made decades ago.
I hope this changes it.
- I used to work with a woman... - dave c 13:30:12 12/16/08 (2)
  ... who had previously lived in LA when married to a show biz lawyer who had Rourke as a client.
  She told me he had insisted on carrying on boxing after having plastic surgery to his face.
  The new work had no chance of standing up to being pummelled but he had been determined to carry on.
  Strange that someone would have such a fixation, but then there's nowt so strange as folk.
  - It would have been terrible if Rourke would have run into Ryan O'Neal. nt - tinear 21:07:50 12/16/08 (1)
    d
    - A jogging accident???? nt - dave c 23:03:45 12/16/08 (0)
      bleep

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