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Is that Mickey Rourke? Wait. Am I Crying?

What’s Wrong with You? Get It Together. It’s Just a Trailer / Dustin Rowles

Trailers | November 21, 2008 | Comments (44)

Darren Aronovsky. Mickey Rourke. Marisa Tomei. He’s a washed up wrester, a broken down piece of meat. She’s a washed-up stripper, pining for days before Kurt Cobain took away the Crue. A love story. A powerful performance. A Springsteen song about a one-legged dog. And a trailer that might just make you weep.









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Comments

Yes yes yes fucking YES!

MR is my favorite actor and my hero. I love him. I love him so much that I have a tattoo of him on my back.

Posted by: courtney 2 at November 21, 2008 11:07 AM

Will Marisa Tomei ever age? That woman is just as hot as she was 10 years ago.

Posted by: dylanj at November 21, 2008 11:09 AM

This looks good. That being said, I don't know if I can look at Mickey Rourke's busted face for two hours straight.

Posted by: Sarah C at November 21, 2008 11:09 AM

Mickey Rourke's slow dissent into total oblivion is a sight to behold and enjoy. I was born and raised in Miami and I can remember back in the day that douche bag walking around South beach like he owned the motherfucker, with his fake boxing matches.

Posted by: Pookie at November 21, 2008 11:10 AM

Wow, that actually looks.....good. Plus its got wrestling and a stripping Marisa Tomei. MMMMMMMmmmm Tomei.

Posted by: admin at November 21, 2008 11:11 AM

Oh hey, Pookie? I'm going to have to kill you.

Posted by: courtney 2 at November 21, 2008 11:13 AM

Mickey Rourke knocks me out in every performance I've ever seen. He was even good in 9½ Weeks, which was lurid puerile garbage in every other respect.

This particular performance is getting a lot of attention--including talk of awards. I am impatient for a chance to see this movie.

Posted by: Jerce at November 21, 2008 11:15 AM

Does Pookie use "dissent" for "descent" out of ignorance or calculation? This is the stuff which births doctorates, man.

Posted by: Neodiogenes at November 21, 2008 11:20 AM

This movie looks pretty watchable , i mean sure its not harley davidson and the marlboro man but hey what movie is ?

Posted by: GILP at November 21, 2008 11:27 AM

This does look good. And Marisa Tomei as a washed-up stripper? Hell YEAH!!! How is it possible she still looks this good? Plus, I know her record of performances is a little dicey, but when she's good, she's VERY good. And when she's bad, I still love her.

Posted by: Jimbob at November 21, 2008 11:34 AM

It had me until Evan Rachel Wood. There's a rumored real-life romance between the two and I assume it flowered while filming. Ick.

Posted by: L at November 21, 2008 11:38 AM

I didn't get a chance to see this when it was in Toronto for the Film Fest, but a good friend of mine did, and spent the better part of an hour raving about the film, Mickey Rourke's performance, specific scenes... on and on.
Needless to say I'm dying to see it.

Posted by: jay at November 21, 2008 11:41 AM

Was that Ron "The Truth" Killings? Oh my god... how do I know this? God! Stupid trivia trap brain! One time I saw him juke and jive on the television screen and it wormed into my mind!

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at November 21, 2008 11:48 AM

Wow. You hear about a movie and how good its supposed to be and you think "meh" ...but that trailer just sold me.
BUT eewwwwwww, ERW plays his daughter in this? So much ewwwww.

Posted by: jamiepants at November 21, 2008 11:48 AM

Neodiogenes, who the fuck are you my editor?

Posted by: Pookie at November 21, 2008 11:49 AM

Holy shit. This movie sounded awful, and, despite my appreciation for Aronovsky, I was going to skip it.

Now I have to fucking see it. That trailer fucking wrecked me.

Jeebus.

Posted by: Soulless Merchant of Fear at November 21, 2008 11:54 AM

I am sold. I love MT, ever since My Cousin Vinny she has has my undying love.

Posted by: Wormer at November 21, 2008 12:04 PM

AHHH!!!! FUCKITY FUCK FUCK! WHEN ARE DIRECTORS GOING TO QUIT PUTTING FUCKING GOTHTARDED EVAN FUCKING RACHEL WOOD IN THEIR MOVIES! CHRIST ON A DEEP-FRIED STICK SHE HAS THREE EMOTIONS: HAPPY, NOT-SO-HAPPY, AND ANGSTY!

Evan Rachel Wood makes me say the F-word. Someone please clue me in to when everyone suddenly decided that Mini-Dita could actually act? Every movie I've seen her in she's been the weakest character (and usually the starring one)


Does this chick have beer-flavored nipples or something?

Posted by: Annie_Reckson at November 21, 2008 12:06 PM

That is probably the most perfect role that Mickey Rourke could have hoped for. Interesting.

Posted by: Genny (also Rusty) at November 21, 2008 12:07 PM

It looks awesome, but I just can't get past the Springsteen song about a one-legged dog. I've sort of lost track of Springsteen's newer stuff (though I will ALWAYS see him in concert, because he's amazing) ... but that is like Extreme Springsteen, Parody Springsteen. A one-legged dog! Not a dog MISSING one leg - a dog missing THREE legs. It's so absurd it makes me laugh and laugh and laugh - which is not what I think Mr. Springsteen was going for with this song...

Posted by: Edith at November 21, 2008 12:07 PM

I have a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE crush on Marisa Tomei. I could come just by watching the trial scene on "My Cousin Vinnie" when she tears the annoying lawyer a new one. (And her hair was TERRIBLE in that.)

Posted by: Sofía at November 21, 2008 12:09 PM

I have read so many great things about this movie, and somehow I get the feeling it will live up to the hype. I think maybe Mickey owns the role because in many ways it is himself he's portraying. Anyway, can't wait.

And Marisa is too hot to be alive.

Posted by: Cindy at November 21, 2008 12:30 PM

I love Rourke's voice. Gravely and deep, all business. If I were a chick, I think it'd make me wet.

Posted by: chenry at November 21, 2008 12:49 PM

Man, you know. I've been an Aronofsky acolyte since Requiem. The Fountain is one of my all-time favorite movies ever, ever ever (despite as many people hating it with incomprehensible vitriol), so I was absolutely waiting with breath that is bated for his next project.

When The Wrestler was announced, I thought to myself "...Seriously?" and I have to admit I had little to no interest. However, I have to absolutely confess I'm excited for this. Can't wait!

Posted by: Brian at November 21, 2008 12:53 PM

Shut up! Im totally not crying at all!!! SHUT UP


*sniff*

Look i sometimes get misty eyed watching the actual WWE/WWF clips from the old days.

I also still totally watch the WWE but THAT will probably make me kill my self


Just watching the advert, Rourke's on Oscar form. Actual, Oscar form, not the sham of an award they hand out these days, the OLD Oscars, that meant something

Posted by: nadine at November 21, 2008 1:16 PM

Saying that...Evan Rachel Wood is....disgusting...So i'd see this but my hatred for her might ruin it for me

Posted by: nadine at November 21, 2008 1:18 PM

First of all chenry, you are indeed a chick. There isn't a man walking the face of the earth that has th power to get me wet, if somehow I were physically able to get wet.

Posted by: Pookie at November 21, 2008 1:26 PM

I was at the last day of filming for this and in the background when he makes his big speech at the end of the trailer. He's going to surprise a lot of people...he already has.

Posted by: Courtney at November 21, 2008 1:51 PM

The only thing that wept was my butthole.

That Jocelyn Wildenstein is a sexy, sexy bitch, though.

Posted by: firedmyass at November 21, 2008 1:58 PM

Damn. I thought that I could write the Mick off after the everyone-connected-with-this-disgrace-must be-killed-slowly (okay except Caine) remake of Get Carter. Haven't sen anything since to change that until now. I might just put down the sawbuck and watch.

Posted by: jaf at November 21, 2008 2:50 PM

I have a soft spot for comeback/sports stories and will likely be seeing this and sobbing.

Posted by: samantha t at November 21, 2008 3:25 PM

I must be the only one here who thinks that looks really boring...and like crap. I understand that the director is a great director and all but jeez. The subject matter is something i have zero interest in. You can tell how this movie is going to be though, just from the trailer:

Guy is good wrestler.
Guy leaves wrestling.
Guy can't get work because he has no skills.
Guy meets girl.
Girl says go for your dream (and talk to estranged daughter).
Guy talks to estranged daughter.
Guy gets back into wrestling.
Guy loves girl, girl loves guy.
Estranged daughter forgives father; possibly goes to see wrestling match.

Posted by: NotBlonde at November 21, 2008 3:30 PM

The trailer reminds me of a documentary on A&E a few years ago about wrestling that featured Jake "The Snake" Roberts, especially the estranged daughter part.

Posted by: Dan1050 at November 21, 2008 3:57 PM

Hell yes.

Posted by: Mick J at November 21, 2008 6:08 PM

Dan1050, this film is partially based on that.

And - holy crap, Necro Butcher for Best Supporting Actor!

Posted by: Shane at November 21, 2008 11:18 PM

Pookie,

It's "Who the fuck are you COMMA my editor?"

Posted by: bucdaddy at November 22, 2008 12:37 AM

bucdaddy, if I wanted someone to break my balls, I'd still be married. Please don't become my ex-old lady, let me present myself with all of my mistakes. Please let Pookie go unencumbered.

Posted by: Pookie at November 22, 2008 1:07 PM

I was going for the cheap laugh, Pook. And any time it comes down between your balls and a cheap laugh, I'm ALWAYS going for the cheap laugh.

There's another cheap laugh in there somewhere ...

Posted by: bucdaddy at November 22, 2008 3:08 PM

You and my ex-old lady think just alike, the both of you have no problem with using my balls as a pinata.

Posted by: Pookie at November 22, 2008 3:23 PM

*peeks out from under blindfold; performs mental calculation [hypotenuse of the triangle equals ...]; rubs talcum powder on hands; shoulders 2X4, takes practice swing, and ...*

WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAPPITY WHAP

Posted by: bucdaddy at November 22, 2008 4:18 PM

I fucking hate him...I mean, just fucking hate him, like beyond hate...his face makes the hair on the back of my arms stand up I hate him so fucking much.

Bah.

Posted by: Smokin at November 23, 2008 12:44 PM

I'm not immune to Marissa Tomei's charms (in fact, I am terminally infected), but I looked at Mickey Rourke and thought of "Harry and the Hendersons." Doesn't anyone else see the parodies piling higher than "Brokeback"?

Plus--and I am not trying to excuse any of the godawful shit, from Collective Soul to Creed, that came along after 1991--but I am *NOT* going to start feeling *SORRY* for people whose lives haven't been right since grunge killed hair metal! We suffered shovelfuls of that shit while they lived like the world was made for them, and until Mark Arm is a billionaire, they DESERVE to CHOKE on their TEARS.

Posted by: pk at November 24, 2008 12:26 PM

i completely agree with NotBlonde.
this movie looks like shitty shitty garbage.

Posted by: mphunk at November 24, 2008 10:26 PM

Great performance by M. Rourke, but its kind of sad to see what the androgenic effects of testosterone use has done to Mr. Rourkes skin. Juice heads love the strength and physique enhancing metabolic properties of the steroids, but take one look at Rourkes face and you will know the horrors of DHT(Dehydratestosterone, a bi-product of testosterone).

Posted by: TheEdge at January 12, 2009 7:44 AM