Tag: mickey rourke
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Mickey Rourke’s Got Personality
This is so ridiculous, please watch it right now. Mickey Rourke basically cusses and embrasses everyone he knows but is still extremely likeable while doing it. Should be pretty awesome if he wins the Oscar in 20 minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og3tN7P6oKI
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Kindly Remove Your Brain and Simplify Your Morality
Taken Review This movie is mostly what you’d expect, standing out largely in ways that value brute violence over logic and moral/political responsibility. Liam Neeson plays an ex-spy in retirement whose daughter just happens to be kidnapped by Albanian sex traffickers who sell kidnapped tourists to vaguely Arab men. This should play very well in…
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Lamenting the Silent Death of Killshot
What if I told you they had made a movie adapting a pretty decent Elmore Leonard novel (Killshot), and that it starred Thomas Jane, Diane Lane, recently Oscar-nominated (and a good pick to win) Mickey Rourke, rising actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Rosario Dawson and it had been sitting on the shelf forever. Oh yeah, and…
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Bang Your Head!
The Wrestler Review A simple story well told. The Wrestler is a story of an underdog sports hero you’ve seen before (specifically, Mickey Rourke plays has-been wrestler Randy “The Ram”), and will see again. A few things set it apart from the pack. It’s of a higher quality. This is evident in the script (by…