80s Mickey Rourke

excuse me playing to type but will probably vote Barfly. in my head i thought White Sands was an 80s movie, was surprised it wasn't. let us never talk of Prayer for the Dying again.

Pope of Greenwich Village wd be another contender and in a kind of lesser but frankly fucking entertaining mode, Year of the Dragon. i wish i could remember more of Francesco than his butt.

man Wild Orchid is 80s?

i know. only just tho, i guess all the glossy tv soft porn spin-offs were 90s

voting for best movie or best perf?

Didn't like Barfly at the time cos it didn't really feel true to what I saw as the Bukowskian spirit (I think I thought Rourke seemed way too clownish in it or something). I was a somewhat idiotic teenager though, so I think my crit meter was giving very squiffy readings. I haven't seen it for years and definitely don't give a fuck about Bukowski anymore either, so maybe time to reappraise?

i did and do give a fuck about Buk and seeing as he wrote the film i'm happy that it fits in with part of his world at least. it's probably not the best adaptation of his work but i haven't seen Tales of Ordinary Madness in forever either and am a Ben Gazzara stan so who knows.

xp voting for best performance imo

i think pope of greenwich village has to be the best performance then. on a sidenote whats the deal with his accent slowly morphing into something vaguely southern-ish over the years

saw pope when it came out and enjoyed, but can't remember a damm thing abt it now other than poor old eric roberts and his hurt paw

barfly def authentically bukowskian imho, and buk's bk abt the making of it - Hollywood - is v v entertaining ("jean-luc modard")

gonna vote diner, i think, maybe not the best movie on this list, or even mickey's best peformance, but it was my first exposure to him and he was really something new - simultaneously vulnerable and tough, handsome and ugly.

Didn't Bukowski want someone else in the role? Sean Penn, was it?

that rings a bell but whether it comes from Bukowski or Sean Penn i don't know

yeah diner would've been my other choice. a lot of guys are good in that (as is ellen barkin) but hes the standout. i always crack up thinking about the ending shot of him on the horse though, cuz it looks like he's never been on one in his life

is it possible that Diner will be underrated in this poll?

and his bit in Body Heat?

For stupid fun, Year of the Dragon over Angel Heart.

i dont like mickey rourke

sorry

I've seen 7 of these (most looooong ago), it's between Diner and Barfly. I'm not much of a Bukowski fanboy type, so Diner.

Diner for me, though he does an amazing job in Rumble Fish.

Wish I could find the early-90s standup-comedy bit where some guy play both Eric Roberts and Rouke in Pope of Greenwich Village.

Going to post this clip both here and on the Body Heat thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLAbh_LceNw

'rumble fish' all the way.

I still haven't seen Diner why because I am fail

It'll be between Rumble Fish and Barfly for me, though I have to dig deep and only vote for actoryness vs handsomeness

stanley white!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdwJuVZZJKc

Wait, there's goth Eastern European music halfway through that one.

i wish there was an option of just voting for 80S MICKEY ROURKE

i've seen 9 of these movies and he's the best thing in all of them

actually ok the forest whitaker/morgan freeman stuff in johnny handsome might top his work in that

diner is definitely the movie of all these i'd recommend to your average human being, but then your average human being isn't usually in the market for 80s mickey rourke

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR ANGEL HEART IN THIS VIDEO but please appreciate the choice Mickey makes at 1:43

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4FBg9Nz6oo

Was looking for this one before realizing it's '91:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/04/Harley_davidson_and_the_marlboro_man_movie_poster.jpg/220px-Harley_davidson_and_the_marlboro_man_movie_poster.jpg

He was the only thing worth watching in that goddamn stupid movie (ie Angel Heart). Yes yes I know naked Cosby w/e

Awesome, Joe Queenan's "Mickey Rourke For A Day" article is online:

http://movieline.com/1992/12/01/mickey-rourke-for-a-day/

5:21. Kick over two trash cans (Pope). 5:26. Smoke fourth Marlboro, grind out butt with heel of my boot. 5:27. Work out on speed bag at gym (Home-boy). 5:45. Kick over two more trash cans (Pope). 5:49. Order French fries with gravy (Diner). 5:52. Smoke fifth Marlboro. 5:54. Call passing motorist "motherfucker." 5:56. Get in line for train to New York. Man tries to sneak ahead of me. "Fuck you, mother fucker," I snarl, as Rourke has in several of his interviews. "You fuck with me, we're gonna fucking get down. You're not gonna cut off my balls the way they cut off Michael Cimino's." Ancient, short retiree skulks off. 5:58-6:25. Sneer and snarl a lot on train to Manhattan. 6:25. Get off train at 125th Street and run madly through streets of Harlem (Angel Heart).

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Angel Heart is good for like 15 minutes and then it becomes obvious what the twist is and then it's infuriating

it's pretty terrible

the stupid ending makes me want to punch things

Bobby de Niro eating an egg is good

but yeah i wdn't put Angel Heart in Mickey Rourke's best movies list

I love the scene where Denise has sex with Elvin while covered in chicken blood.

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oh hai motorcycle boy

do ppl think RF is any better than The Outsiders just cuz it's in b&w?

It's a little better, actually; whether I credit the B&W or Coppola doing this material a second time, it's marginally more severe than The Outsiders while still existing in fantasyland.

Like Jonny Greenwood's TWBB score, I'd rather hear Stewart Copeland's away from the movie.

every time i see a film from his '80s era he really does seem like the best actor in the room a lot of the time, and usually the most charismatic too. But damn...he looks like pre-surgery Johnny Handsome now, though. just saw some 2018 pics and i want to pretend i never did. it's tragic, whatever happened to his psyche.

agree

yeah

the stories of his abuse of carrie otis make me hope there’s some tradeoff wrt all the plastic surgery and he’s no longer the abusive crazyperson he was idk

he was v handsome though

"barfly def authentically bukowskian imho, and buk's bk abt the making of it - Hollywood - is v v entertaining ("jean-luc modard")"

I think there was also a very funny Buk take on Tom Jones in Hollywood ("Tab Jones") where he portrays him as a grotesque/sweaty/hairy narcissist. I can't remember the details, but it seemed very funny at the time.

Recalling, as I often do, that Mickey Rourke was the only celebrity to attend the funeral of Mickey Rooney, and told the following to the Hollywood Reporter of the experience. pic.twitter.com/ZlU49aY73g

— ℑ 𝔇𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔅𝔩𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔜𝔬𝔲 (@NickPinkerton) July 21, 2019

I find it sad that Mickey is doing a gofundme thing to pay his rent... where'd all his money go??