Mickey Rourke For Best Actor!
OH YES BABY!
I finished watching The Wrestler earlier today, and I love it so much I'm an instant Mickey Rourke supporter! And I know Oscar nominations are out already, so the first thing I asked totoro79 to check was (coz I was on my BB and it was being super retardedly slow-loading):
"IS MICKEY ROURKE NOMINATED FOR BEST ACTOR?"
And she said YES.
OMG. I so hope to God that he wins it. He already won the Globe so I'm thinking he's got good chances on getting a Best Actor Oscar, but until the fat lady sings... I'm just gonna hold my breath. He deserves it, he truly does.
BUT OH GOD. THIS MOVIE IS SO DAMN SAD!
Why does Darren Aronofsky keep making all these depressing films??!?! One of the most disturbing films I've ever seen in my whole entire life is Requiem For A Dream and guess what, Darren Aronofsky made that too! I wasn't a fan of The Fountain although the concept was promising... but I shut it off ten minutes into the film because it was too WTF and confusing. I don't know why on earth he made such a STRANGELY INCOMPREHENSIBLE movie!
But The Wrestler... wow. Thumbs up. Seriously. It's like a huge slap of reality that serves as a reminder that you really can't defy age, no matter how famous and glorious you once were. One day you're gonna end up old and somewhat broken, and that's one nature's course you can't defy no matter how hard you try.
In a way, I kinda felt like this movie was also a tribute to Mickey Rourke himself though. Just few weeks ago, I randomly watched 9 1/2 Weeks streaming on MegaVideo while searching for some old 80s movies that I once caught when I was younger, such as Masters of the Universe, Goonies... well, I didn't find any of the other ones but randomly found 9 1/2 Weeks and OMG! MICKEY ROURKE WAS SO HOT BACK THEN! I swear he really looked a like a young Bruce Willis crossed with a young Don Johnson back in the 80s. And yet there was no trace of all that young 80s Mickey Rourke in the today Mickey Rourke! I swear, I look at him and I can't see that dashing mysterious New Yorker in 9 1/2 Weeks! The only remote similarity I detected was his mouth. The rest? None whatsoever.
I decided to read up on him though, coz growing up in the 80s, I recognized the name "Mickey Rourke". My dad rents a lot of movies on LaserDiscs back then (OMG how ancient were LaserDiscs! Geez.) and I remember seeing a lot of his movies (although at that age I wasn't allowed to watch them yet coz most Mickey Rourke films were uh... XXX. LOL.) but then he just fell off the radar and I wanted to know what happened to him. And apparently, he quit acting in the late 80s and chose a career path as a boxer! What's interesting about his boxing career was that Mickey Rourke The Boxer's entrance song was actually Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child O' Mine, which was also the exact same song used by Randy The Ram's final fight against the Ayatollah! (A friend also told me that Axl Rose actually put down some money for this film's funding? Wowzah. And apparently Bruce Springsteen gave a song for free!)
So in a way, this movie feels like it could serve as a tribute to Mickey Rourke himself too. And to me, it means a hell lot more because it touches on a lot of far more real stuff than just something pure fictional in the likes of Benjamin Button. This is a story of an old, broken has-been who was once glorified on top of the world, and what's so sad is that he doesn't really know how to do anything else but wrestle, and yet it's all that wrestling that led him to be so broken and tattered. And he sacrificed everything, and I mean like everything in his life for his wrestling career.
It's so sad and depressing though. A lot of the scenes were showing such sad and harsh realities. I was watching the whole movie and thinking to myself, how would I deal with it if I were him? How does one person accept the bitter reality of no longer being on top of the world after already tasting the glory of being on top of the world? How does one deal with the harsh reality of not being able to do what one loves the most anymore?
My heart goes out to Randy The Ram. He's a fuck up, no doubt. And he's so hillbilly white trash, more than I can handle! But I feel such deep sympathy for this character! YES, STRANGE. That scene where he and his daughter (played by Evan Rachel Wood) finally got a heart to heart talk made me cry. I bawled even more when they danced in that abandoned ballroom. IT WAS SO SAD!!!! And I was pretty much cringing the whole movie through, especially watching how destructive this sport really is (all the bleeding and smashing and STAPLING! OMG.) Even hearing him breathe was painful.
I think Darren Aronofsky did such a great job directing all the scenes. This movie supposedly has such a low budget, but he made all the scenes work, and they're all so dramatic. I especially love that part where he walks down from his locker room to the front counter of the supermarket where he starts his job as a ham/salad packer, the way Aronofsky made it look like the long walk down from a backstage locker room into the thundering applauding audience of a wrestling match, only for the applause to disappear into an echo as he steps out into the supermarket counter... that is so sad.
I feel very sorry for all these old has-been wrestlers. I respect these performers/entertainers though, for dedicating themselves so whole-heartedly into their art/career to entertain. And that ending, how he went out with a bang... it's like, live and die on stage. And the funny thing is, what springs to mind is Domoto Koichi and his (literally) Endless Shock!
So yeah, right now Mickey Rourke is the only part of the Oscars I'll be looking forward to this year. And believe me, I don't think I've wanted an actor to win this much since........ holy crap, never? Mickey Rourke deserves this, really. (How many times have I repeated this? XD) I'm just a bit disappointed that Darren Aronofsky didn't get a nod as well.
I hope Randy The Ram kicks Benjamin Button's ass next month!
RAM JAMMMMMMM!!!
Oh yeah, and power to Slumdog Millionaire too!
I finished watching The Wrestler earlier today, and I love it so much I'm an instant Mickey Rourke supporter! And I know Oscar nominations are out already, so the first thing I asked totoro79 to check was (coz I was on my BB and it was being super retardedly slow-loading):
"IS MICKEY ROURKE NOMINATED FOR BEST ACTOR?"
And she said YES.
OMG. I so hope to God that he wins it. He already won the Globe so I'm thinking he's got good chances on getting a Best Actor Oscar, but until the fat lady sings... I'm just gonna hold my breath. He deserves it, he truly does.
BUT OH GOD. THIS MOVIE IS SO DAMN SAD!
Why does Darren Aronofsky keep making all these depressing films??!?! One of the most disturbing films I've ever seen in my whole entire life is Requiem For A Dream and guess what, Darren Aronofsky made that too! I wasn't a fan of The Fountain although the concept was promising... but I shut it off ten minutes into the film because it was too WTF and confusing. I don't know why on earth he made such a STRANGELY INCOMPREHENSIBLE movie!
But The Wrestler... wow. Thumbs up. Seriously. It's like a huge slap of reality that serves as a reminder that you really can't defy age, no matter how famous and glorious you once were. One day you're gonna end up old and somewhat broken, and that's one nature's course you can't defy no matter how hard you try.
In a way, I kinda felt like this movie was also a tribute to Mickey Rourke himself though. Just few weeks ago, I randomly watched 9 1/2 Weeks streaming on MegaVideo while searching for some old 80s movies that I once caught when I was younger, such as Masters of the Universe, Goonies... well, I didn't find any of the other ones but randomly found 9 1/2 Weeks and OMG! MICKEY ROURKE WAS SO HOT BACK THEN! I swear he really looked a like a young Bruce Willis crossed with a young Don Johnson back in the 80s. And yet there was no trace of all that young 80s Mickey Rourke in the today Mickey Rourke! I swear, I look at him and I can't see that dashing mysterious New Yorker in 9 1/2 Weeks! The only remote similarity I detected was his mouth. The rest? None whatsoever.
I decided to read up on him though, coz growing up in the 80s, I recognized the name "Mickey Rourke". My dad rents a lot of movies on LaserDiscs back then (OMG how ancient were LaserDiscs! Geez.) and I remember seeing a lot of his movies (although at that age I wasn't allowed to watch them yet coz most Mickey Rourke films were uh... XXX. LOL.) but then he just fell off the radar and I wanted to know what happened to him. And apparently, he quit acting in the late 80s and chose a career path as a boxer! What's interesting about his boxing career was that Mickey Rourke The Boxer's entrance song was actually Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child O' Mine, which was also the exact same song used by Randy The Ram's final fight against the Ayatollah! (A friend also told me that Axl Rose actually put down some money for this film's funding? Wowzah. And apparently Bruce Springsteen gave a song for free!)
So in a way, this movie feels like it could serve as a tribute to Mickey Rourke himself too. And to me, it means a hell lot more because it touches on a lot of far more real stuff than just something pure fictional in the likes of Benjamin Button. This is a story of an old, broken has-been who was once glorified on top of the world, and what's so sad is that he doesn't really know how to do anything else but wrestle, and yet it's all that wrestling that led him to be so broken and tattered. And he sacrificed everything, and I mean like everything in his life for his wrestling career.
It's so sad and depressing though. A lot of the scenes were showing such sad and harsh realities. I was watching the whole movie and thinking to myself, how would I deal with it if I were him? How does one person accept the bitter reality of no longer being on top of the world after already tasting the glory of being on top of the world? How does one deal with the harsh reality of not being able to do what one loves the most anymore?
My heart goes out to Randy The Ram. He's a fuck up, no doubt. And he's so hillbilly white trash, more than I can handle! But I feel such deep sympathy for this character! YES, STRANGE. That scene where he and his daughter (played by Evan Rachel Wood) finally got a heart to heart talk made me cry. I bawled even more when they danced in that abandoned ballroom. IT WAS SO SAD!!!! And I was pretty much cringing the whole movie through, especially watching how destructive this sport really is (all the bleeding and smashing and STAPLING! OMG.) Even hearing him breathe was painful.
I think Darren Aronofsky did such a great job directing all the scenes. This movie supposedly has such a low budget, but he made all the scenes work, and they're all so dramatic. I especially love that part where he walks down from his locker room to the front counter of the supermarket where he starts his job as a ham/salad packer, the way Aronofsky made it look like the long walk down from a backstage locker room into the thundering applauding audience of a wrestling match, only for the applause to disappear into an echo as he steps out into the supermarket counter... that is so sad.
I feel very sorry for all these old has-been wrestlers. I respect these performers/entertainers though, for dedicating themselves so whole-heartedly into their art/career to entertain. And that ending, how he went out with a bang... it's like, live and die on stage. And the funny thing is, what springs to mind is Domoto Koichi and his (literally) Endless Shock!
So yeah, right now Mickey Rourke is the only part of the Oscars I'll be looking forward to this year. And believe me, I don't think I've wanted an actor to win this much since........ holy crap, never? Mickey Rourke deserves this, really. (How many times have I repeated this? XD) I'm just a bit disappointed that Darren Aronofsky didn't get a nod as well.
I hope Randy The Ram kicks Benjamin Button's ass next month!
RAM JAMMMMMMM!!!
Oh yeah, and power to Slumdog Millionaire too!