FITE: Eric Roberts vs. Mickey Rourke

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Wow - who's sleazier? Bigger fall from grace? More talent or potential? Who would you be more or less inclined to sleep with (or let your girlfriend sleep with)? Who is more eminently watchable? Who is the better actor? Who's been in better movies?

God, the list goes on and on. (Hint - whoever you think has the other easily whipped...doesn't. You just haven't remembered some things the other did. Seriously, take some time with this one, check out the imdb, etc.)

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 2 January 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

There are five actors named Eric Roberts in the IMDb
but only one Mickey Rourke
who starred in a documentary called "Mickey Rourke, Actor of Boxer?"

I rest my case

― Zzz (-_-) zzZ (Wintermute), Friday, 2 January 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG!!! I've only just read Mickey Rourke's real name

Eric Roberts wins

― Zzz (-_-) zzZ (Wintermute), Friday, 2 January 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

(sorry for jumping the gun there)

― Zzz (-_-) zzZ (Wintermute), Friday, 2 January 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Roberts 1
Rourke 0

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 2 January 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

wtf girolamo??!!! i think u nd to call and xplain this 2 me...

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 2 January 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I vote rourke all the way man, such a better fall from grace (returning to boxing and fuxoring his face all up)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 2 January 2004 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

mickey rourke brought his dog on letterman, threatened to beat up a new york daily news photographer, was in year of the dragon and angel fire and some knock-off w/ dennis rodman, could've been the robert mitchum of his generation (i.e., great actor with AWFUL choices in movies), and is worshipped in france jerry lewis-stylee = mickey rourke EASILY wins this battle.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 2 January 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Mickey Rourke is my favorite actor next to Steve McQueen. No contest - Rourke.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 2 January 2004 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

angel heart, not "fire." sorry -- it's the one where he banged lisa bonet.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 2 January 2004 06:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Rourke for "Diner" alone. the only thing I know about Eric Roberts is the SNL sketch where Rob Lowe played him.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 2 January 2004 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, I was gonna say diner! diner kinda rules!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 2 January 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

what's m/r's real name?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 2 January 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

rickey mourke.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 2 January 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

that's sounds like the punchline to a (tasteless) joke about japanese people.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 2 January 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Alright my theory is this : Mickey Rourke...

- has at least seven tatoos including a tiger head with Chinese symbols on his left shoulder, a bulls skull on his right biceps, and a shamrock on his left forearm
- is a motorcycle enthusiast
- got arrested by the LAPD and charged with spousal abuse
- owns a gym in West Hollywood called Shapiro
- became a professional boxer in 1991 but retired in 1995
- and boxed an exhibition with former middleweight great, Carlos Monzon, who knocked him out cold with his first punch

...solely because his birth name is Philip Andre Rourke Jr.

― Zzz (-_-) zzZ (Wintermute), Friday, 2 January 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Did Eric Roberts ever have his front teeth removed for a part?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 2 January 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Dudes, I'm telling you, it so is Eric Roberts you don't even know. I can't explain it, it's just deceptive like that.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 3 January 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Guys, guys guys....... It's ERIC ROBERTS !!!! Shame on yas(grin)

― Gale, Saturday, 3 January 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

It's Eric Roberts, because he was astonishingly good-looking when he was younger. Everyone go rent "The Coca Cola Kid" and be astonished.

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Sunday, 4 January 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Mickey Rourke was the Motorcycle Boy in every 17-year-old would-be tormented soul-cum-expressionist film freak's favorite film, Rumble Fish, so he wins.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 4 January 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

(at least it was my favorite...)

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 4 January 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Mickey Rourke has not to date given a slightly unnerving, cruncy granola, touchy-feely, New Age overdosed interview to some English tabloid. Ergo, Mickey Rourke wins. Plus, dude, remember 9 1/2 Weeks -- how else was I going to vote here?

(He is rather easy on the eyes in that film, which is intriguing particularly because I know how he looks like at present. Talk about your falls from [physical] grace. But still, he rocks my personal casbah.)

― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 4 January 2004 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

other than some ridiculous 1985 film about a runaway train (or truck, whatever the same thing), i'm having a hard time thinking of any eric roberts films. c'mon, GS, help us out here or else it's going to rourke by default!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 4 January 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Alright, I'll throw you three very large (but by no means largest) bones in the Roberts arsenal. These may seem laughable at first, but they will sit with you, I promise.

1. Best of the Best (with or without its sequels, as the case need be)
2. Any direct-to-video/HBO movie stuff from 1994-1999, roughly.
3. Consider that he emerged from the same household that produced Julia Roberts.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 5 January 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

nineteen years pass...

Pope of Greenwich Village is on Prime (RIP Burt Young)

Is it just me, or did Rourke & Roberts have way more romantic chemistry going on-screen than Rourke did with Daryl Hannah?

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 21 October 2023 22:48 (one year ago)

Didn't like this at the time, I'll take another look.

― clemenza, Saturday, 21 October 2023 22:59 (one year ago)

(I remember it as a slavish Mean Streets imitation.)

― clemenza, Saturday, 21 October 2023 23:00 (one year ago)

have a couple cognacs, like gentlemen

― brimstead, Saturday, 21 October 2023 23:07 (one year ago)

I remember it as a slavish Mean Streets imitation.

You remember correctly...and now you'll probably see a lotta Sopranos forecasting, with Young, Frank Vincent, and Tony Lip in the cast.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 22 October 2023 00:14 (one year ago)

Pope unlocks one of the mysteries of Mickey Rourke in one of the argument scenes with Hannah: his hair isn't slicked back and suddenly he's 50% less handsome.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 22 October 2023 00:17 (one year ago)

Is it just me, or did Rourke & Roberts have way more romantic chemistry going on-screen than Rourke did with Daryl Hannah?

It's definitely not just you.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 23 October 2023 12:59 (one year ago)

Rourke had more wasted potential by far.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 23 October 2023 12:59 (one year ago)

Thinking more on Pope, it really feels like they were doing a Buddy Film Mixtape: Mean Streets is the foundation, but there's a good bit of Midnight Cowboy (they're trying to escape to Florida!) and even a little California Split in the last race track scene.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 October 2023 13:11 (one year ago)

They took his thumbs!

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 23 October 2023 13:12 (one year ago)

Geraldine Page kills it in her, what, six-minute appearance?

― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 October 2023 13:12 (one year ago)

otm

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 23 October 2023 13:13 (one year ago)

Weirdly, just the other day I was trying to remember in which film she delivered the line, "My Walter was like a bar of iron."

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 23 October 2023 13:17 (one year ago)

I guess the line is "My Walter was as tough as a bar of iron, and he didn't get that from his father."

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 23 October 2023 13:17 (one year ago)

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