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Want To See Mickey Rourke In Darren Aronofsky’s THE WRESTLER?
Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
This isn’t an image from the film, but it may give us our first look at what Mickey Rourke will look like in the film, and that’s worth a peek, don’tcha think?
I still can’t believe the next two films from Aronofsky are called THE WRESTLER and THE BOXER. I can’t wait to see how they play off each other, and how they change him as a director. Sounds like new territory for him.
Hi Harry,
Just discovered what i believe is the first picture of Mickey Rourke as The Wrestler. I found this on the official WXW Wrestling website. I understand that Darren Aronofsky was shooting the new film on February 1st and 2nd February at Hasbrouk Heights, NJ's Pioneer Club.
Mickey Rourke is pictured with Afa the Wild Samoan, who over-saw the action being filmed and who has assisted in the wrestling training and preparation for Mickey. In addition to the matches, several locker room scenes were filmed featuring some of your favorite WXW superstars.
If you use this post, refer to me as BIG Jim and the Twins
Cheers Harry.
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SECOND!
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Always been a fan of Rourke. Heck, I even like Harley Davidson & The Marlborough Man. I know it's dumb, but it sure is fun!
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I'm not a fan of wrestling, and I'm a firm believer that it is staple entertainment for closeted rednecks, but I want to see Aronofsky's take on it, and Rourke deserves decent roles. Guess the Noah thing is on hold.
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well, he looks better for the role than nic cage would have. i wonder what they're going to be doing at the upcoming ring of honor shows...?
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Sounds really interesting, sure can go in a lot of directions.
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...the wrestling site contains a piece of malware called "Trojan-Downloader.JS.Psyme.hz"
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Or is EvilGeek succumbing to senility at the ripe old age of 21???
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Thats cool!Where is DEMON DAVE?
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Yeah EvilGeek,its called "The Fighter" not "The Boxer".It'll star Wahlberg and Pitt as Mickey Ward and Dicky Eklund.Production starts near the end of the year.
A wrestling film by Darren Aronofsky with Rourke,ubermilf Marisa Tomei and Greg "The Hammer"Valentine".Its gonna be great. -
Mickey Rourke doesn't look like Mickey Rourke. I need to read up on this movie.
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How cool would it be to have these two aging tough guys be protaganist/antaganist in some sorta competing bounty-hunter/cowboy/hitman/special-forces type action flick?
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As Stollentroll pointed out, site contains malware
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Feb 08, 2008 10:01:13 AM CST
Remember when Mickey Rourke used to be good-looking...
by caruso_stalker217
...in an "I'd bang that guy" kind of way? NINE 1/2 WEEKS, bitch!
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This looks super cool. Like Lazarus, Rourke has re-emerged as one of the greatest character actors of his generation. Considering the success of Sin City and 300, I still have some naive hope that Miller and Rodriguez will someday get to do their version of "The Dark Night," ripped-from-the-comic-style, with Rourke in the lead and Daniel Day Lewis as the Joker.
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I love Mickey, he's so friggin cool. He's got talen, had a rough patch - but he's back. I hope he makes more sci-fi/action crime movies.
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"How cool would it be to have these two aging tough guys be protaganist/antaganist in some sorta competing bounty-hunter/cowboy/hitman/sp ecial-forces type action flick?"
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Does this mean I'm going to be stalked by closeted redneck wrestling fans?
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went all the way to the site expecting a completely different picture.
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As a fan of Rourke, I'm really looking forward to this.
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http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2076/2245742555_86531edfcd.jpg
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yeah, the GET CARTER remake is no classic... but it's one of my favorite movies just because of the one liners traded by stallone and rourke.
"still pretty?" "yeah, like cat piss in the snow." -
Feb 08, 2008 12:23:27 PM CST
I thought I was looking at Dog the Bounty Hunter for a second
by smackfu
but then I remembered the whole 'don't ever let them catch us saying nigger' debacle, imo the most hilariously ironic recording ever made.
Oh, and in all seriousness, following the link and landing at that site made me feel like I was watching the dignity of the human race be raped in a prison shower. -
And, even though he kind of looks like it, Rourke was never really dead. But wasn’t until Sin City that he reminded everybody how he could steal the show from even one of the best cast films in recent memories. Bit parts over the last ten years in Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Masked and Anonymous, Animal Factory, The Pledge, and Buffalo '66, were standouts, but it was a looooong slog through the direct-to-video 90’s from his seminal 80’s roles in Barfly, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Rumble Fish, and Diner. He even made uneven 80’s flicks like Johnny Handsome, A Prayer for the Dying, Angel Heart, Nine 1/2 Weeks, and Year of the Dragon interesting as hell. Loking forward to this, whatever the hell he's doing in THe Informers, and, most of all, his return as Marv in Sin City II, which, seriously, is the most similar in form to Frank Miller's aged Dark Knight that I've seen yet
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...because he has been in the ring, for real, many a time over his bad life. Seems like he shoulda be in "The Fighter" too, which also sounds great. Oh, and, Rubbertoes, I would LOVE to see him play Conan, much more than The ol' Governator any day.
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thought it was stalled in preproduction.
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D.A. makes some pretty heady flix. It is curious to see how he'll approach these stories that are much less sci-fi/fantasy and much more reality.I was really hoping that THE FOUNTAIN would be the transcendent genre-bending, mind-melting extravaganza that it was hyped up to be, but it was barely above average IMHO. Though, to be fair it has stood up to multiple viewings. (Many of my friends wanted to watch it with me, so I obliged because the film was fairly complex. Second viewing was probably the best.) Many scenes have stuck with me since I'd watched it.PI, on the other hand, was a well-thought concept, (much like The # 23), but the acting, story, and props were painfully lo-quality. REQUIEM f/a DREAM, was pretty cool for expounding the visual style that PI touched upon, but pandered too much to the hip-druggie crowd, which, IMHO, sent the wrong message (I'll likely get plastered for this, but, hey, flame on, right?) by showing the exact process of drugs (even though the message intended was that it is harmful...kinda), and was very sensational in that vein. Otherwise, I thought it was an interseting follow-up to PI.
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Just trying too hard to get the thoughts out, I suppose...
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It got announced on ROH's site that Ring of Honor is doing 2 nights of shows in New Jersey in conjunction with the filming.
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I am a wrestling fan, and I am not a redneck. Granted, there are wrestling fans who are rednecks, but there are a lot of football fans who are rednecks too. Keep your cheap shots to yourselves. Thanks.
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From the geeked hair, right down to the realistic gynochomastia...
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My comments were insensitive and painted the wrestling audience with a broad brush. I can tell you are a tender and sensitive man, and my words cut deep. My apologies.
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looks like he's gonna be handing out Piledrivers & sleeper holds in this one.
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not rednecks and dumbass republicans. You have to wonder about young males and grown men who love watching beefed up half nude dudes playing grab ass w/ each other. Not saying that they're gay but it is quit interesting what people are into..... OH, and of course the fact that everything about wrestling is fake is another fascinating aspect of the fans.
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An ally for Rourke :).http://tinyurl.com/2s8ser
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"I will destroy him..."
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nice to see some other ROH fans on here!! sweeney would do well to sign mickey rourke to a SnS Inc. contract....he would have the services of tank toland, the hotness of sara del rey, and big bad bobby dempsey at his side! now THATS a stable to be proud of!!!
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Feb 08, 2008 9:27:10 PM CST
"You have to wonder about young males and grown men who love wat
by umaga
I thought you were talking about football until you mentioned half naked. Or has the NFL become the Nude Football League?
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you can make fun of the fans all you want for being morons or gay or what have you...but I never really hear a comeback...people just trade insults back and forth with whoever made the allegations.I'll definitely go on record as saying I think it takes about as low an intellect to be interested in professional wrestling as it does to watch The Hills. different demographic, but equal ability to quiet whatever functional braincells are left in your brain that are telling you this is all staged and moronic and a waste of your time.so there you so, anyone want to step up to the plate and defend pro-wrestling and its fans? or is it sort of like saying, "anyone here masturbate with poop and want to talk about it, raise their hand"?
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I'm not saying every pro-wrestling fan masturbated with their own poop...that said, you can be pretty sure that virtually every one that masturbates with their own poop is a pro-wrestling fan...
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Are doctors stupid? Lawyers? Politicians? I don't get it. I guess those with high intellect watch Willy Wonka?
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Aronofsky is cool.
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thanks for proving my point. silly insults, but no defense of pro-wrestling...nothing is as reliable as simple-mindedness.
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if you honestly believe that there is a normal distribution of doctors, lawyers and politicians watching WWE...you really need to give me some statistics. you can't claim that there is a legitimate amount of highly educated people watching this junk and not cite a source.
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While in no way disagreeing with your main premise (I have no opinion on this either way) you similarly neglect to cite any sources for your claim as to the intellectual shortfallings of WWE fans.
Pot, Kettle, Black?
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The Fighter looks real interesting. I'm absolutely hooked on boxing movies (and still believe that Ali is Mann's most underrated film). Aronofsky, Pitt, Wahlberg. Sounds like a winner.
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Hopefully we'll get to see Pitt in Malick's Tree of Life.
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I'm a big fan of wrestling...Old school wrestling, where all the guys looked like out of work plumbers rather than body builders. Where a guy like Dusty Rhodes actually had a shot against a guy like Ric Flair. If this movie's about wrestling, I'll see it....I actually have Body Slam on VHS, and watch it every now and again.
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Feb 09, 2008 11:44:53 AM CST
Should anyone on this site be ripping other people for taste?
by inwosuxred
This site is made for people who like entertainment for dorks, nerds, and losers. By simply having a login here, you automatically live in a glass house.
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anyone?
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i"m 31 so I remember when I was growing up and wrestling was quite different. Junk Yard Dog, Roddey Roddy Pipper, etc. And of course I shouldn't speak ill of somebody else's hobbies. But i"m simply not a fan of current sport of "wrestling" and find it surprising when so many men are into it. I assume it's some sort of fantasy of being one of those guys that kicks ass, no? And I know not everybody is into PTA or Spike Jones, David O. Russell, et al...... and I"m a big college football fan. Oklahoma Sooners. But... that is an actual sport.
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someone should get aranvosky some pills
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I'm a wrestling fan, i'm just finishing up my degree and applying for my masters. Sure, "dumb rednecks" watch the product but i can imagine like any form of entertainment it has a wide catchment demographic of fans and how "hardcore" or "casual" they are. For me its entertaining because i see it as an evolution of live theatre for the masses. It has great potential for great human drama within the comnfines of storylines (austin v mcmahon was simply a blue collar v white collar dynamic)as well as actually the in ring product (ric flair kicks someones knee for twenty minutes then wins with the figure four)..granted these highs are not always hit and being a wrestling fan is a dirty little secret but contrats in quality of entertainment is hgardly anything new, especially in geeksville, see batman begins v batman and robin. I personally think the wretling industry is ripe for movie examination in a meaningful way and this most certainly has my interest.
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apoligies for the numerous typos...DAMN MY CHUBBY FINGERS!!!!!
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I could go on forever about this topic. I love wrestling, though now a days I focus more on things like Ring of Honor or watch the old tapes I have of Florida Championship Wrestling...TNA comes close to the wrestling I like...To wit, here's how I would describe 'modern' Sports Entertainment: A lady was in our break room on Friday night and asked why the man wearing patent leather panties was considered 'tough'. I asked myself the same things back in the day...when trunks show off the veins in a dong, you probably need to step back and wear some damned pants. If you're 'tough', put on some goddamned slacks, and fight. I don't need to strip down to my skivs just to wrassle. Though trunks are clearly different now than they were in the 80s...Kevin Sullivan...he wore trunks...so did Hogan, but not leather, boy-cut panty style shortie-shorts.Long live wrasslin'.
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but if you think wrestling is entertaining then you're just lame. just because you might be smart in something doesn't guarantee you to have a great taste. one thing has nothing to do with the other.
but really, if you're a pimply teen and you're into wrestling, then it's forgivable. but if you're a full grown man, a doctor to boot, and STILL love wrestling... then i'm sorry to break it to you, but you're extremely extremely lame. -
I'm sorry i don't quite undertsand what you mean by "lame" i apoloigise if i attempted earlier to show off "how smart i was" or whatever, but i'm struggling to undertand why the topic has become such an easy target were the argument against it is so unfulfilled or frankly poor, u...i would imagine some doctors may watch purely in a vocational sense as they may have patients who have suffered injury thorugh wrestling. Although again i accpet that can be completely wrong. Someone earlier called this site a big glass house,which i would have to agree with. We are mostly geeks here, with interests that may be considred childish or lame, so why discriminate between them?
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