# I can't look at Mickey Rourke **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 5, 2009, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-look-at-mickey-rourke/484548 "2009-02-05T10:25:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-look-at-mickey-rourke/484548/41 "2009-02-06T21:02:17Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Have you seen any recent appearances by Philip Seymour Hoffman? Unshaven, unkempt, dressed in sweats, 50 pounds overweight. The guy either just doesn’t give a shit about what anybody thinks of him, or he’s on the pipe. When was the picture taken? Do you have a link? He’s pretty much always been that way though, not giving a shit what people think, and anyway, his last three roles have called for him to be sloppy and dumpy. [Synecdoche, New York](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0383028/) (released) - he’s an obsessed theater director [The Boat That Rocked](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1131729/) (completed) - he’s a underground (well, on water) radio DJ. [Jack Goes Boating](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1278379/) (in pre-production) - IMDB synopsis: A stoner limo driver looks for different ways to improve his skill-set as a way to attract a girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-look-at-mickey-rourke/484548/42 "2009-02-06T21:28:57Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > [The Boat That Rocked](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1131729/) (completed) - he’s a underground (well, on water) radio DJ. Oh shoot. I’d had “he’s a radio DJ” and then went and added the “underground” and forgot to change a to an. I know my grammar, I’m just really bad at previewing. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-look-at-mickey-rourke/484548/43 "2009-02-06T22:35:08Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > It has nothing to do with his age. Exactly- that’s what drug & alcohol miles look like, kids… ☹ It’s too bad- between the mileage and the terrible plastic surgery (a little cartilage in his nose my ass), he is a sad mess, and he was once a very good-looking man. He might still be a great actor, but _damn_… he looks almost deformed. ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-look-at-mickey-rourke/484548/44 "2009-02-06T22:49:09Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > “Brando never did”!?!?!!?!?! Have you never seen _The Godfather_?!?!?!?! I thought it was quite obvious that I meant after the Godfather; the films he made after the Godfather, the decades he obviously didn’t care about acting at all, but nonetheless made films. Sorry for being unclear. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-look-at-mickey-rourke/484548/45 "2009-02-06T23:01:53Z")
> [@Wakinyan](#): > > I thought it was quite obvious that I meant after the Godfather; the films he made after the Godfather, the decades he obviously didn’t care about acting at all, but nonetheless made films. Sorry for being unclear. FWIW, _The Godfather_ was considered a comeback for Brando. His career was considered to be over, and FFCoppola had to go to GREAT lengths to get the studio to approve his casting, because he was thought to be a has been; box-office poison. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-look-at-mickey-rourke/484548/46 "2009-02-06T23:11:48Z")
I can’t listen to Michael Winner. ETA: I can’t look at Paris Hilton. Well I can, but I start to feel ill. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-look-at-mickey-rourke/484548/47 "2009-02-06T23:13:04Z")
Yes – it was the dynamic going into _The Godfather_ that caused my incredulity. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-look-at-mickey-rourke/484548/48 "2009-02-06T23:30:17Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > When was the picture taken? Do you have a link? He’s pretty much always been that way though, not giving a shit what people think, and anyway, his last three roles have called for him to be sloppy and dumpy. He was on the [**Today Show**](http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/29051514#29051514) this morning (about 40 seconds into the video). If you’d seen him in any other venue, you would have thought he was homeless. ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-look-at-mickey-rourke/484548/49 "2009-02-06T23:32:15Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > FWIW, _The Godfather_ was considered a comeback for Brando. His career was considered to be over, and FFCoppola had to go to GREAT lengths to get the studio to approve his casting, because he was thought to be a has been; box-office poison. I know. I admire Marlon Brando like no other. But as I said, I now understand I was uncareful in my parenthesis regarding Brando above. I regret it, and now I will undress, and roll my useless body in ash and never mention Brando in a parenthesisa gain. What I said about Mickey Rourke though, outside the parenthesis, stands without any regrets or self humiliation. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-look-at-mickey-rourke/484548/50 "2009-02-07T03:36:48Z")
> [@Wakinyan](#): > > I know. I admire Marlon Brando like no other. But as I said, I now understand I was uncareful in my parenthesis regarding Brando above. I regret it, and now I will undress, and roll my useless body in ash and never mention Brando in a parenthesisa gain. What I said about Mickey Rourke though, outside the parenthesis, stands without any regrets or self humiliation. Okey doke. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-look-at-mickey-rourke/484548.md?page=2)