Mickey Rourke Heading To Wrestlemania

by FakeTrout, filed in Movies on Jan.27, 2009

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Academy, for your consideration of Best Actor In a Motion Picture and In a Wrestling Ring, I reccomend Mickey Rourke.

After a command performance as over-the-hill wrestler Randy The Ram in Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, he’s apparently going to keep the act up. Vince McMahon has invited Rourke to compete in Wrestlemania 25 on April 5. He announced such on the red carpet at the SAG awards Sunday night, see video here.

I really loved The Wrestler and thought Mickey was great inhabiting that character, so flawed but immediately likable. The very fact that he’ll be taking The Ram into the ring against Chris Jericho proves he deserves that Oscar more than anyone else in the category. Is Sean Penn going to keep doing speeches in character as Harvey Milk? Is Frank Langella going to keep talking like Nixon? Is Brad Pitt going to get progressively younger? NO! Mickey Rourke runs this.

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onegoodlogan

He’s no Robocop…
Oh, and you mean to tell me Brad Pitt doesn’t age in reverse, Zac? I find these claims highly dubious.
onegoodlogan

He’s no Robocop…
Oh, and you mean to tell me Brad Pitt doesn’t age in reverse, Zac? I find these claims highly dubious.
http://www.powet.tv/ Rabban

Huh? Mickey Rourke put on 30lbs for the part. Since finishing the movie, he’s lost all that muscle. How is he going to wrestle Chris Jericho without it looking too ridiculous.
http://www.powet.tv Rabban

Huh? Mickey Rourke put on 30lbs for the part. Since finishing the movie, he’s lost all that muscle. How is he going to wrestle Chris Jericho without it looking too ridiculous.
Captain Genius

I just finished reading the Chris Jericho book.
He’s one of my favorite wrestlers.
I’m so not looking forward to this.
Sure the promos for this should be good.

I mean there are 2 reasons why Jericho is the man for this job.
He’s the best WWE has to make a good match out of this farce. He won’t kill Roarke in the ring, and he’ll make him look good.

And he’s the best personallity they have. He can verbally go toe to toe with anyone.

However.
As a Y2J / Lionheart fan from way back, it makes me nervous to see him to this.
He’s very much a WWE company man.
And appears he will do damn near anything Uncle Pawpaw asks.
He’s just finally hit that upper level of stardom.
The superheel.
And he’s damn good at it.

But now this.
I don’t wanna see him job out to an actor.
I don’t wanna see him become a midcarder again.
Captain Genius

I just finished reading the Chris Jericho book.
He’s one of my favorite wrestlers.
I’m so not looking forward to this.
Sure the promos for this should be good.

I mean there are 2 reasons why Jericho is the man for this job.
He’s the best WWE has to make a good match out of this farce. He won’t kill Roarke in the ring, and he’ll make him look good.

And he’s the best personallity they have. He can verbally go toe to toe with anyone.

However.
As a Y2J / Lionheart fan from way back, it makes me nervous to see him to this.
He’s very much a WWE company man.
And appears he will do damn near anything Uncle Pawpaw asks.
He’s just finally hit that upper level of stardom.
The superheel.
And he’s damn good at it.

But now this.
I don’t wanna see him job out to an actor.
I don’t wanna see him become a midcarder again.

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