Mickey Rourke Was Robbed!

[casie p]

What does that even mean?

[Najmi]

Jack Nicholson is a legend and is the best actor alive today!

[RedBoNe]

If you really think that's all Sean Penn did then I guess you haven't seen the film or didn't really watch it properly.

On the other hand, as far as I can tell, Rourke played Rourke and nothing else. He did it very well but doesn't necessarily mean it's worthy of awarRAB.

[Layzie]

He is clearly nothing of the sort.

[bola]

I saw the Wrestler and I could not believe any of the plaudits that Rourke had received, none of the awarRAB made any sense to me, he played himself in that film, there was no acting involved. I'm astonished he was ever the favourite to win anything let alone an Oscar.

To be honest, as much as I loved Milk and thought that Penn was incredible in it, I would have preferred Langella to take the statuette because he was magnificent as Nixon. I can't comment on Jenkins as haven't seen that film but Pitt was (as ever) dire.

[imxfamousx101]

Seconded. Some of the comments on here really make me cringe.

[Fiz501]

Not entirely sure you know anything about acting, certainly not enough to 'educate' anyone else, you certainly seem to have a handle on being patronising though. And I'm afraid I'm with Laurence Olivier on method 'actors.'

And since we're going for patronising, it's Jack NICHOLSON. Simply throwing his name into the 'debate' added nothing, there was no significance because it wasn't relevant.

Mickey Rourke could have been a great actor but he screwed up his life and his career. The fact that he held it together long enough to produce a half decent performance in a mediocre film is all well and good but imho he didn't even put in the best performance in that film let alone of last year.

[PanicSuiteheart]

Haven't seen either film but I do know Sean Penn does every role he takes justice so wouldn't be surprised if he was the more deserving.

I for one was pleased with this result as he's a consummate actor. Meh!

[Mister Sister]

Oh dear, all the bitterness is just pouring out of people about this result.

"Penn only won because they didn't give it to the gays for Brokeback! Booo!"

What a bunch of drama queens. Sean Penn was totally deserving of this award. It was a powerful performance that was technically stunning and a total transformation. Mickey Rourke's was gut-wrenching in its raw power, but a lot of the time he seemed as if he was just playing his usual, crudely-charming self.

Like I said - either one deserved it. It's sad to see so many people writing off as great an actor as Sean Penn because of imaginary "Oscar politics".

[Rudi]

I dont like either Penn or Rourke but I would rather have seen it go to Rourke....just cos his chihuahua died.

And the fact that I hate Penn - he is so obviously desperate for an Oscar win - which can be seen from his recent movies - his desperate need to be in a film he thinks has the 'worthiness' to win an Oscar ie boring drama, biopic, american 50's/60's/70's drama or my own personal favourite of his.....mentally disabled/unhinged person......

I mean, come ON! He is so transparent! He probably got down on his knees at some point and wailed to an open sky in downtown LA......'PLEASE, ACADEMY, ACKNOWLEDGE ME, I AM BRILLIANT, I AM WORTHY, I AM PENN......!'

D1ck......