Absolutely, they both shined in their roles, shameful their incredibly powerful acting in this was not given the respect from the Hollywood community that they most certainly deserved.
When i drink i move in the GOOD direction. I am a french man who lives at Brest and i drink a lot of Bud beer. I watch this movie everyday, again and again. 😃
Mickey Rourke was born to play this role, with deep immersion, genius & a hilarity with undercurrents of pathos. No one else could have pulled it off like he did. One for the ages!
I hadnt seen this movie since it came out in 87. I saw that it was going to be on tv a few years ago & i was waiting but i fell asleep. When i woke up, it was this scene, when the detective comes to the door & hes full of blood! Yikes. This movies sure scared me straight from drinking in the bars! "To all my 'friends'!" Ugh...
who rolls into an apartment to a guy covered in blood and does not assume he's a serialkiller? Then the medics roll in and get mad for a "false" call. The guy is covered in blood hahaha
@3:20 : Henry Chinaski, meet Henry Spencer! (i.e. the one and only Jack Nance, star of "Eraserhead," R.I.P. ). :) The sad part is that Nance was really living the role of Chinaski towards the end of his life, drowning in extreme alcoholism, mourning the death of his ex-porn star wife. :(
i love this movie. this is a movie that should be watched when you are about half shit-faced. . it cuts thru all the bull shit about life, and exposes all the human imperfections that i love. mickey is giving an oscar winning performance imho. no bull shit politics, no bull shit morality, just an honest film about people and all their imperfections. this movie should be shown in sociology class at a colege level. violence is for eddie, who has earned it, not for wanda, who must be pitied.
Why the fuck would he deliberately just stand there and allow her to beat him to a bloody pulp?! Just like when he "fought" Eddie. Just stood there allowed the guy to fuck him up.
@losing2woody Thanks for writing back. My first note was a bit reactionary because of my sentimental feeling for Rourke. Yeah, he may have been a bit over the top. Plus, which may make Bukowski happy, I had a few in me when I first wrote. Anyway, glad to see we like a few of the same poets. Also, though, in fairness, Bukowski hated most things! LOL!!!
One thing about movies where they drink alot they never show you when you get the shits all day booze isnt as romantic as you think but im recovering and do miss getting invisable sure is exspensive now
@momwentcrazy you should read the book Hollywood about his experience with the Hollywood industry and how he was hired to write the script for the movie
Once my mother freaked out. I tried to calm her down. She just over sugered out. Big to do about nothing. I wasn't aware. Red lights, is what is for aging.
If they would of tightened up on this movie it would of helped it out. Should of have Fay hit mickey Rourke with something that could of caused that kind of damage. Also there is scene where mickey Rourke leaves a half a solider at a bar. No rummy leaves half a soldier. Still its a classic that was very well written
Loved the screenwriting, not the acting. MR over-acts the whole way through. Should've acted distant and slow, like a real drunk, like Matt Dillon in factotum. Look up the facts. Even Bukowski was a bit embarrassed by the performance.
@ losing2wwody in an interview bukowski said he loved mickey. wasn' t very fond of faye's acting, he said she was professional but nothing else. but he really dug mickey, as person too
@losing2woody Hank? What you knew the guy? I've read a shit load of Bukowski and I think Rourke hit the mark, basically. Anyone would fall short. Bukowski was Bukowski. And, though his poetry is at times elegant, the entire thing became an act. He became an entertainer. Go read some Rilke, Baudelaire, Neruda. Your comment really pisses me off. I think we could be friends!
“You actually worked last year?” “6 months in a toy factory, you have no idea how much grown men suffer for children.”
This was a brilliant film because Bukowski wrote the screenplay the way he writes prose...with directness, reality and his classic humor! RIP Buk!
My friends!!!!
I'm disgusted
I didn't know Bukowski wrote the screenplay. Thank you.
Mickey Rourke was one of the best actors ever. He should have won an academy award at some point. He was the best.
for the wrestler at least.
yeah he drew a lot of his inspiration for this character from snaggle puss
Don’t forget Frank Stallone 😂 I always laugh and think of norm Macdonald when I see Frank Stallone
@@JohnBrown-vn2qw
Exit, stage left e-ven
Perfect take
Don't forget Faye Dunaway's performance. Always liked her work but this role, for me, put her in a whole new category of artiste...
She's absolutely incredible in this. Was robbed of an Oscar nomination that year
She's played in some good ones, Milady from the Three Musketeers comes to mind. But I really love her in this!
Absolutely, they both shined in their roles, shameful their incredibly powerful acting in this was not given the respect from the Hollywood community that they most certainly deserved.
I agree
I lived the life of a barfly in the 80's. The movie is downtown L.A. and the whole scenario was my turf. I'm 70 now and it sparks so many memories.
did you get ur ass kicked everyday too? lol
You meet any lady's like this ?
@@Fernando-yx5li I lived like a Barfly, not in LA, and yes, I met a lady exaaaaactly like her lol
"Don't apologize. Just change your underwear!"
No! I'm Leon spinks! Classic. Absolutely hilarious.
When i drink i move in the GOOD direction. I am a french man who lives at Brest and i drink a lot of Bud beer. I watch this movie everyday, again and again. 😃
Yes it's very real my brother
Dear brave lion. When ya know what you like, repetition is a necessary vocation.
🇬🇧👍✌️🇫🇷
‘People? Yeah, I like people. I just feel better when they’re not around!’ - The Misanthropes Creed
"Where's the body? YOU??" Classic
So many unbelievably clever one liners! 😂
Coolest movie. Look i drink, when i drink i move in the wrong direction. . Dont we all. . . .
No...sometimes a thinker must drink and regress to be at home with the rest of the fools
Mickey Rourke was born to play this role, with deep immersion, genius & a hilarity with undercurrents of pathos. No one else could have pulled it off like he did. One for the ages!
Pinacle rourke, As an alcoholic and someone who grew up around multi alki's this movie is SPOT ON
I hadnt seen this movie since it came out in 87. I saw that it was going to be on tv a few years ago & i was waiting but i fell asleep. When i woke up, it was this scene, when the detective comes to the door & hes full of blood! Yikes. This movies sure scared me straight from drinking in the bars! "To all my 'friends'!" Ugh...
I like how the paramedics tell the guy with the obvious head injury to "get some sleep, you'll feel better" lol
Just some drunk to them.
Yeah they are some f lousy medical people lol
"NO I'M LEON SPINKS!!!"
Utterly brilliant performance
Wow! He's fucking awesome in this movie! Glad I found out about this movie thanks to your vids. Thanks!
this movie is full of classic lines I was looking for a lottery ticket.. oh well..
Steve Benecke, thank you for uploading parts 1-6, can you upload the rest of the movie please? It's very good (and hard to find)
Yeah! What he said!
I looked on Amazon just now and there's some on there now pretty reasonable.
Thanks for the uploads, Steve.
It's a beautiful world we live in
who rolls into an apartment to a guy covered in blood and does not assume he's a serialkiller? Then the medics roll in and get mad for a "false" call. The guy is covered in blood hahaha
We need the rest of the movie my good man
An anti-hero if there ever was one
It is my favourite movie. I love it 😁😃
Yeah it is great
Very well said.
"get some sleep, you'll feel better" 😂
@3:20 : Henry Chinaski, meet Henry Spencer! (i.e. the one and only Jack Nance, star of "Eraserhead," R.I.P. ). :)
The sad part is that Nance was really living the role of Chinaski towards the end of his life, drowning in extreme alcoholism, mourning the death of his ex-porn star wife. :(
Yea Nance had pet rats too!eraserhead what a movie barfly also one of my favs
i love this movie. this is a movie that should be watched when you are about half shit-faced. . it cuts thru all the bull shit about life, and exposes all the human imperfections that i love. mickey is giving an oscar winning performance imho. no bull shit politics, no bull shit morality, just an honest film about people and all their imperfections. this movie should be shown in sociology class at a colege level. violence is for eddie, who has earned it, not for wanda, who must be pitied.
Makes me want to check into the Cecil and grab for the stars that I cannot reach
My favorite movie of all times
Wandaaaaaaa Babyyyyyyyyyyy
Why the fuck would he deliberately just stand there and allow her to beat him to a bloody pulp?! Just like when he "fought" Eddie. Just stood there allowed the guy to fuck him up.
He enjoys that part of life.
@@BrandoAD049 Great answer.
He had been beaten so much it didn't matter anymore. Also he was so permanently pickled he didn't feel much.
I would hate to see this movie in 4k. I just couldn’t
😂
this is like watching a train wreck, i wanna look away but i keep watching LOL
That " Oh well" is fabulous.
OUTSTANDING!!!
how's your head?...ah well. my head needs a beer...
When i drink, I move in the wrong direction
"Whenever I get together with a woman... something usually happens."
"Sometimes sooner, sometimes later"
"This time it happened pretty damn fast!"
@losing2woody Thanks for writing back. My first note was a bit reactionary because of my sentimental feeling for Rourke. Yeah, he may have been a bit over the top. Plus, which may make Bukowski happy, I had a few in me when I first wrote. Anyway, glad to see we like a few of the same poets. Also, though, in fairness, Bukowski hated most things! LOL!!!
When Marlon Brando and James Dean died they begged God to please let them come back as Mickey Rourke!!!😍😂
unoriginal macho energy lol
THE BEST!!!!!
This movie is hilarious !
Seems like Rourke was channeling jack kerouac for the character style of henry
It is actually based on the life of Charles Bukowski.
"...everything's fine..."
Where’s the rest of it?
"Why'd it have to be Eddie?!"
Not much 😂
Now that's a actor
Charles Bukowski was even better.
The ambulance guy looks like Earnest Borgnine, lol
And sounds like Rodney Dangerfield lol
I like how he gets right in his face like he's gonna fight him....such realistic drunk acting
Rodney D "no respect".
@@Surv1ve_Thrive Lol, this guys a nut!
My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I wanted a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
Sr Rodney Dangerfield
The paramedics were just a little rougher than I timber being in the 80’s, not too far off though.
4:30 Joe the Fruit Guy from Seinfeld who banned Kramer!
"Get some sleep." Lol
LMAO this movie is crazy, he's like im.alriiiiight he looks bloody as hell and just drinking like wtfff, WHERES THE BODY LOLLLLL
It's love you got a problem.
WHO WROTE THIS DIRECTED PRODUCED .. LOL
Who hasnt had a bad Tuesday😊😊
Brilliant
One thing about movies where they drink alot they never show you when you get the shits all day booze isnt as romantic as you think but im recovering and do miss getting invisable sure is exspensive now
Incomplete - - the movie is 100 minutes, 1 hour,40.. but the 6 posts are under 1 hour total.. why do that !
maybe what we had was just Green Corn
-Fat Mike
I use to like him alot as an actor but after the 2016 election I never cared much for him as a human being
this is the most depressing movie ive ever seen, but it makes me feel like im a total winner compared to people that are like this lol
wheres the second half ? where part 7 onward ?
Paramedics-head injury?..get some sleep, you’ll feel better.
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@momwentcrazy you should read the book Hollywood about his experience with the Hollywood industry and how he was hired to write the script for the movie
This is how he got the face of a marionette.
Heyy....thats right... shoulda been a monk yeah.
Once my mother freaked out. I tried to calm her down. She just over sugered out. Big to do about nothing. I wasn't aware. Red lights, is what is for aging.
where is the rest of it? anybody can upload the rest?
She married the Singer from J Geils Rock Band
The true poet
Hey, Steve'o. where the F. is Barfly 7? Not cool man, not cool.
I agree
Don't be so cheap.
Go buy the DVD.
The Blu-Ray version is worth it.
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If they would of tightened up on this movie it would of helped it out. Should of have Fay hit mickey Rourke with something that could of caused that kind of damage. Also there is scene where mickey Rourke leaves a half a solider at a bar. No rummy leaves half a soldier. Still its a classic that was very well written
the ol' brick in the purse...or maybe bottle.
Thank you.
I THOUGHT THIS WAS ROURKE REALITY
what happened to the rest?
Where's part 7???
Loved the screenwriting, not the acting. MR over-acts the whole way through. Should've acted distant and slow, like a real drunk, like Matt Dillon in factotum. Look up the facts. Even Bukowski was a bit embarrassed by the performance.
@ losing2wwody in an interview bukowski said he loved mickey. wasn' t very fond of faye's acting, he said she was professional but nothing else. but he really dug mickey, as person too
I could def see them as friends! Mickey Rourke even tried his hand at poems for a bit and was brilliant as well!
Lol
@losing2woody Hank? What you knew the guy? I've read a shit load of Bukowski and I think Rourke hit the mark, basically. Anyone would fall short. Bukowski was Bukowski. And, though his poetry is at times elegant, the entire thing became an act. He became an entertainer. Go read some Rilke, Baudelaire, Neruda. Your comment really pisses me off. I think we could be friends!
@losing2woody Oh, yeah, did you see "The Wrestler"? Mickey is no knob!
My 2 favorite Mickey Rourke movies barfly and the Wrestler.
Don't forget "Bullet" he was great in that too
@@ronenmargolin5701 He was. That's a good movie, the entire cast was good. Didn't the guy who played Buffalo Bill play his older brother?
@@wasteland70 yep. And Adrian Brody plays his little brother too. Not to mention Tupac Shakur, Peter Dinklage and Donny Wahlberg among others
He is in House;?;?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oooooooooomps, I f' uck
where the fuck is the rest of it ?!
Buy the Blu Ray DVD... it is worth the 30 bucks as it has a bunch of special feature and an option to hear the director talking about every scene.
Not on Netflax
This movie was a bust
Then why make it......The Box Office. No one Cares.......It's the Kids.....look at them.!!! The Dance of Hollywood...... Bullshit.......😊😊😊😊. Nite
Where’s the rest of it??
Lol