“Brando never did”!?!?!!?!?! Have you never seen The Godfather?!?!?!?!
F’reel. Some people haven’t seen him in a film in over twenty years and then wonder why he looks different. It’s obvious he’s had plastic surgery but I don’t think he looks that strange. He was kinda odd looking when he was younger but in a younger, sexy way.
Even if his face looks like he’s been hit with a bag of hammers many times, there is something about him that I still found sexy in The Wrestler, especially when he had his glasses on and the ponytail. I’m 29 and just missed knowing the kind of guy he was back in his more typical handsome days (my parent’s weren’t exactly renting me 9 1/2 Weeks), but I don’t see anything wrong with the way he looks today. He has character and charisma, and I would honestly still rather go out to dinner with him than bland Brad Pitt.
I have to disagree with you there. I think his face looks like a really bad wax figurine. It’s bloated, his skin is a weird color and texture, his lips look like someone just punched him in the mouth, and his hair and eyebrows look fake (the hair must be, at least). The picture posted of him above kind of looks like what you’d get if Michael Myer’s Halloween mask was flesh colored.
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By comparison, Rourke was born the same year as Liam Neeson, who is a pretty good example of a man who looks his age but is aging well.
Dying to see The Wrestler, though. I like Rourke a lot as an actor (thought admittedly I haven’t seen much).
Speaking of Michael Myer, and I’m sure this is known by everyone, but that was a William Shatner Halloween mask they painted white for the first Halloween. Good comparison, because William Shatner’s present face has that same bumpy texture that Rourke has. I think it’s called ageing badly (aging? neither of those look right).
I know what you mean! While “sexy” didn’t actually enter my mind, I thought he looked really cool in those scenes. Those were the times he was Robin Razinsky (? or whatever it was) rather than Randy “The Ram” Robinson.
My problem is I can’t get over all the reports that circulated at his peak of employability, late eighties or whatever, that he never bathed and would go to restaurants and meetings smelling like New Jersey. I can’t look at him without reliving that in my mind’s nose. Also, he was so utterly ridiculous in *Barfly *(pronounced BARF-lee), wherein Faye Friggin Dunaway and Alice Goddammed Krige fought over his vomit-caked, urine-encrusted, scabby, gutter-dwelling self-absorbed “poet”–what an embarrassing, delusional macho-fantasy bullshit movie THAT was–I’ve never been able to take him seriously since. Although, we’ll see; I haven’t seen The Wrestler yet.
It has nothing to do with his age.
Don’t forget the hair and clothes. It’s all a disaster. I think he’s mentioned in the current FEMA budget proposal.
Don’t forget the Chihuahua.
But plastic surgery nearly always looks weird. I know he’s older but Kenny Rogers has a similar waxy weirdness.
Liam’s also a guy who boxed in his past, but still looks good. Rourke, not so much.
Ooh, that didn’t go well, did it?
I happened to catch Mickey Rourke on a recent episode of Graham Norton and although the interview started well enough, by the end of the show Rourke was an inconsiderate jerk. Although he is a good enough actor, I always considered him an asshole - looks like that hasn’t changed over the years.
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.
That has to be one embarrassed dog.
Now somebody tell me what the hell happened to Val Kilmer?
He ate Jon Voight?
I thought he said something about gettin’ off the sauce when he was making the circuit after his Oscar win. Maybe he fell off the wagon. I’ll have to google some pics…I haven’t actually seen a picture of him in a while.
I still love his slovenly self.
He says he went into rehab at 22. He must not give a shit. Pity.