Mickey Rourke!!!! Please, clue me in...

[Sparky Kronkite]

Lack of acting abilities asside - 15, 10 years ago - wasn't that guy pretty good looking?

I picked up a lousy B-movie the other day - and my GAWD! He looks like Lou Ferigno!!!

Do I spy cheek implants? Much eye work? Even looked like a bad toupe' up on the crainial dome.

I had read that he kinda took a beating boxing - but - was it so bad that it warranted that much work?

Why would a guy do that?

Is he a psycho or what? Let me know all you movie trivia buffs - what gives with Mickey Rourke?

 

[CreamyLady]

Well, he always had that Westie look to him, and boxing, age and dissipation didn't help.

However, having seen a picture of him in his briefs, weighing in, I would say that what he was packing in the boxers constitutes his real charm. I worked, very briefly, for a producer who thought he was really hot stuff about 10, 15 years ago.

Of course, her taste in men diverges widely from mine. I really can't figure it out, myself.

 

[RonG]

I don't think you can blame boxing. Actually, the handful of fights this guy had were against real creampuffs and I think Mickey was undefeated. He fought the same type of tomato cans that Mark Gastineau fought.

I suspect good old fashioned hard living beat Mickey up. He has always been one to drink hard, presumably do drugs hard, etc.

But mystifyingly, he is thought of as a great talent in France. What happened there is truly frightening - one generation embraces Josephine Baker, their descendants idolize Jerry Lewis and Mickey Rourke?

 

[Isabella Thorne]

Ohhhhhhh but that food scene ...

oh yea ... but no one has mentioned 9 1/2 weeks .... one of the hottest movies I have ever seen .... lack of acting abilities I think not ...

OMG .... Mickey is hot ....

I would do him today ... even after bad living has left its mark on him ...

kind of like Keith Richards .... who I would also do today ... but he has to do something with that damn hair ... I mean what's up with those feathers? lol

 

[Slut_boy]

I had heard "somewhere" (doesn't sound like a very credible source does it) that his boxing carreer was really not a boxing carreer at all - just a ploy to try and save a poor actor from being forgotten. An effort to get publicity to try and jump-start the acting.

I saw one of his fights - absolutely pathetic. Definately staged. It looked no more real than WWF. He wasn't boxing for real - I don't think. But my source, as I mentioned, isn't very credible.

Has anybody else heard something similar?

 

[angie girl]

I blow hot and cold on the guy (well not literally) and heven't even seen a pic of him in years. 9 1/2 was hot, especially the hotel room scene. Wish they had played that out!

The boxing thing sounds like Johnny Cash once being in prison. All a hoax. But I am not a fight fan.

 

[RonG]

Actually, he boxed a little prior to "stardom" and he never actually stopped. So the media went to his fights and made a big deal out of it since it fit the notion of the next James Dean. Yeah, he sucked but 99% of the fighters suck - until you actually do this, it is awfully hard to comprehend how difficult it is to be good at this sport. Skillwise, Mickey Rourke would fall behind Butterbean and maybe ahead of George Plimpton and Mark Gastineau. Ali's daughter would probably kick his ass.

Diner was a great movie but he was probably the tenth reason. Great script, great music, Daniel Stern, Kevin Bacon, Michael Tucker, Steve Guttenberg, Ellen Barkin, great cars. And Rourke.

 

[Chuckus]

Check out Harley Davidson and The Marlboro Man with Mickey and Don Johnson, pretty decent flick.......I just liked the name of it and had to see what is was about....