Comments on: Mickey Rourke Paints ‘Mona Lisa’ With Bullets

By: _Christopher_M

_Christopher_M — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:05:17 +0000

Mickey might be angling for nominations again…Bob Hoskins won best actor at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival and also a Oscar nomination for the original movie….

By: _Christopher_M

_Christopher_M — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:05:00 +0000

Mickey might be angling for nominations again…Bob Hoskins won best actor at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival and also a Oscar nomination for the original movie….

By: Jackie

Jackie — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:45:23 +0000

I would like to see Rourke pull this off. I think given the chance and the right director he could expand his roles. I'm a sucka for come back stories. I think Rourke has just begun to show us what he can do.

By: jack2jack

jack2jack — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:45:00 +0000

By: _Christopher_M

_Christopher_M — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:47:13 +0000

I enjoyed most of Lary Clarke's films…although Ken Park went a little too far in the WTF department…then he started experimenting with porn after that..the concept/cast sounds great but Clarke is still too odd for such a mainstream project…I can't see any studio actually wanting to hire Clarke

By: _Christopher_M

_Christopher_M — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:47:00 +0000

By: bb6640

bb6640 — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:02:52 +0000

Very strange combination. Larry Clarke remaking Neil Jordan? WTF? I'm sorry, Clarke isn't a good director.He has yet to make a coherent film. He's like Gus Van Zant without the genius talent. I think he's great at shocking and/or pandering to his audience and critics but that's about it.

By: bb6640

bb6640 — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:02:00 +0000

By: Rick Gershman

Rick Gershman — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:46:37 +0000

What a weird, weird film that will be. The original was a pretty good flick with a great performance by Bob Hoskins. Rourke seems a strange fit for the role (though I'm sure everything except the basic concept is being tossed. But Larry Clark, writing and directing? That's what makes it interesting. Seems a fair bet this will be 10 times as gritty and nasty as Jordan's original. I'd expect this will either be a pretty killer flick or a massive train wreck–no in-between.

(And I'm sorry, but as great as Rourke was in The Wrestler, not to mention Sin City, I have my doubts about him sustaining this comeback too much longer. Though I'd love to be proven wrong.)

By: Rick Gershman

Rick Gershman — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:46:00 +0000

(And I'm sorry, but as great as Rourke was in The Wrestler, not to mention Sin City, I have my doubts about him sustaining this comeback too much longer. Though I'd love to be proven wrong.)