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Johnny Walker
Nov 19, 2014
Published in
The Athletes
Although most people labeled Mickey Rourke as nuts when he gave up Hollywood for boxing, he was an accomplished amateur boxer and natural for the role of Johnny Walker (don’t you alcoholics love that name?), a movie he took three years before he temporarily gave up acting. Rourke just fit as the man one punch away from serious brain damage, exhibiting the kind of brooding sympathy that only he could deliver in the late 80’s. In retrospect, this was almost training for what would be his comeback role as Randy “The Ram” Robinson from “The Wrestler”, another nominee here, but this is a performance that while forgotten, might be worth a thought.
The Bullet Points:
Movie Appeared:
Homeboy (1988)
Actor:
Mickey Rourke
Why You Should Vote For Him:
Seriously, we are all in for the character name alone.
Why You Should Not Vote For Him:
Boxers on the nominee list are flooded here. Did this character stand out enough? Probably not.
Johnny Walker
Sep 06, 2013
Published in
The Athletes
Let’s make sure we understand this correctly. The guy who played Farmer Ted in Sixteen Candles; a character that we will make a claim was the absolute geekiest of all High School related film characters, is supposed to be considered believable as the most widely recruited Quarterback in his senior year in High School?
Let’s add some more fuel to this. This is also the same guy who only a couple years before was the nerdy brain in the Breakfast Club, and had a bra on top of his head while designing the perfect girl in Weird Science.
So again we want to make sure we understand. Anthony Michael Hall who again was coming off this trifecta of geek roles was a Quarterback whose girlfriend was Uma Thurman, and whose sidekick was the future Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), who was one of his tormentors in an earlier film (Weird Science).
Nobody bought Hall in this role, and though we respect the fact he wanted to avoid being typecast, we don’t believe Farmer Ted is being recruited by any Football power in Texas.