FITE: Eric Roberts vs. Mickey Rourke

Rourke had more wasted potential by far.

Thinking more on Pope, it really feels like they were doing a Buddy Film Mixtape: Mean Streets is the foundation, but there's a good bit of Midnight Cowboy (they're trying to escape to Florida!) and even a little California Split in the last race track scene.

They took his thumbs!

Geraldine Page kills it in her, what, six-minute appearance?

otm

Weirdly, just the other day I was trying to remember in which film she delivered the line, "My Walter was like a bar of iron."

I guess the line is "My Walter was as tough as a bar of iron, and he didn't get that from his father."