Promo Item Du Jour: Mickey Rourke on a Straw
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Apr 14 2010, 3:04 PM
Mickey Rourke and drinking. They go together like...uhhh...Mickey Rourke and plastic surgery.
Scalpels don't make good promo items, though. They can make you bleed way too much. Which leaves drinking, something Mickey can now assist you with.
No, not booze. SLURPEES.
I never thought I'd see the day that my local 7-11 would be invaded by an army of mini-Mickeys, but thanks to the current trend in superhero movies of actually hiring award-nominated actors, and that little bit of perfect casting that got Mickey an Oscar nod for playing a pro-wrestler...well, now he's playing Whiplash in IRON MAN 2 (he could also play a pretty good Whiplash if they ever do a MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE movie, but that's another story). And if you're a main character in IRON MAN 2, you get merchandise. Rarely, however, is it this ironically appropriate.
The likeness in plastic ain't bad for something so small.
How small, you ask? Here's Mickey with a STAR WARS figure...let's just hope he knows how to fire first...
But if you ask me, I don't really think Mickey would want us to drink Slurpees on his behalf. So let's just repurpose things a bit.
That's better. Because some days, I just wanna get Ram-Jammed.
Luke Y. Thompson is an actor,
writer, and film critic
living in Hollywood.
Mickey Rourke and drinking. They go together like...uhhh...Mickey Rourke and plastic surgery.
Scalpels don't make good promo items, though. They can make you bleed way too much. Which leaves drinking, something Mickey can now assist you with.
No, not booze. SLURPEES.
I never thought I'd see the day that my local 7-11 would be invaded by an army of mini-Mickeys, but thanks to the current trend in superhero movies of actually hiring award-nominated actors, and that little bit of perfect casting that got Mickey an Oscar nod for playing a pro-wrestler...well, now he's playing Whiplash in IRON MAN 2 (he could also play a pretty good Whiplash if they ever do a MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE movie, but that's another story). And if you're a main character in IRON MAN 2, you get merchandise. Rarely, however, is it this ironically appropriate.
The likeness in plastic ain't bad for something so small.
How small, you ask? Here's Mickey with a STAR WARS figure...let's just hope he knows how to fire first...
But if you ask me, I don't really think Mickey would want us to drink Slurpees on his behalf. So let's just repurpose things a bit.
That's better. Because some days, I just wanna get Ram-Jammed.
Luke Y. Thompson is an actor, writer, and film critic living in Hollywood.
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