Mickey Rourke in Sin City

Mickey Rourke Talks 'Sin City 2', 'Iron Man 2' & Hollywood

31.10.11

“To be honest with you, after I was out of work thirteen, fourteen years (or whatever the hell it was) I remember I went back to Cannes with Rodriguez for “Sin City” and I was sitting in the car and I thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m getting a chance again.’ Because all the years go by, and it’s thirteen years, and you’re living in a room. After like seven years go by you think, ‘Yeah, I really f**ked up.’ And then ten years go by and it’s like, ‘They’re not gonna let me back in the door again.’ Especially I was out here (Los Angeles) and this is the worst place to be when they grind you into the ground, and they can’t wait to do it. And I helped them do it. I really thought I could turn it around in a year or two and they’d let me back in, but it just didn’t happen.

And so I thought it’s too shameful and degrading to feel like this. I was really close to going back to Miami and doin’ I don’t know what, but I wasn’t gonna sit around and be yesterday’s news. That’s just too hard. I remember buying a pack of cigarettes. I was in the line and it was like two in the morning. Some a**hole, some fat guy goes, ‘Hey didn’t you used to be…?’ (laughs) Oh, God, and he mentioned the wrong name! I remember walking two blocks going, ‘Oh f**k!’ I’m very grateful that period is over. And I’m very capable of having that happen again so I’ve gotta watch myself on a daily basis, you know?”

Source: Screen Rant

Sin City review

“Walk down the right move backwards withdraw from alley in Sin Urban district, and you can feel anything….”
–Mickey Rourke, “Sin City”

The 2005 film-noir thriller “Sin City” from Dimension Films, originator Frank Miller, and directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino created a minor sensation around the country, an essentially old-fashioned angry-and-white soldier flick with an episodic “Pulp Fiction” flair and decidedly graphic, coeval action. But it was also a little leathery to supersede, and its initial bare-bones DVD presentation did small-minded to satisfy its most-insistent public. So here is the promised two-disc remarkable edition, recut, extended by twenty-three minutes, and unrated, along with the basic theatrical version and a legion of extra features. If there’s anything more its fans could want, short of a whole different look-alike, I can’t think what it might be.

First, though, a say about the movie, and I would be remiss if I didn’t launch by providing a warning and a disclaimer. “Sin City,” rated or unrated, as its honour implies is an hellishly violent and atheistic membrane. Its indulgence in blood and gore is uninterrupted and unrelenting, glorying in murder, mayhem, mutilation, decapitation, cannibalism, torture, and the destruction of every carcass part, public and private, you can name. Yet it manages to engross the senses from the principal bantam to the last. It is not a film through despite your Aunt Martha from River New Zealand urban area. It may not equable be a dim for you. Undeniably, I find it bemusing to note that since the movie’s release, it has been assailed by any number of self-proclaimed critics who prepare denounced its violence, the very same people who no doubt praised the excessively brutal liberties taken in Mel Gibson’s “Passion of the Christ.” Go figure. Nevertheless, for those folks who are forewarned and, therefore, forearmed, “Sin City” can be a load of pleasure.

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