FITE: Eric Roberts vs. Mickey Rourke

(He is rather easy on the eyes in that film, which is intriguing particularly because I know how he looks like at present. Talk about your falls from [physical] grace. But still, he rocks my personal casbah.)

1. Best of the Best (with or without its sequels, as the case need be)
2. Any direct-to-video/HBO movie stuff from 1994-1999, roughly.
3. Consider that he emerged from the same household that produced Julia Roberts.

Pope of Greenwich Village is on Prime (RIP Burt Young)

Is it just me, or did Rourke & Roberts have way more romantic chemistry going on-screen than Rourke did with Daryl Hannah?

Didn't like this at the time, I'll take another look.

(I remember it as a slavish Mean Streets imitation.)

have a couple cognacs, like gentlemen

I remember it as a slavish Mean Streets imitation.

You remember correctly...and now you'll probably see a lotta Sopranos forecasting, with Young, Frank Vincent, and Tony Lip in the cast.

Pope unlocks one of the mysteries of Mickey Rourke in one of the argument scenes with Hannah: his hair isn't slicked back and suddenly he's 50% less handsome.

Is it just me, or did Rourke & Roberts have way more romantic chemistry going on-screen than Rourke did with Daryl Hannah?

It's definitely not just you.

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."