Michael Rooker is a badass!

In celebration of Michael Rooker making a totally unexpected guest appearance on the second episode of The Walking Dead, and delivering another great nutter performance, let's take a look at the Top 5 Michael Rooker performances and movies throughout his career:

5. Hal Tucker - Cliffhanger

You'd be pissed too if Stallone let your lady plummet to her death, and Rooker does a great job here of giving Stallone plenty of evils and being an all around bad ass while still being the good guy. 

4. Keith Michaels - Keys to Tulsa

Now we're getting a little crazy. How crazy? How about put some guns to the side of your head crazy. While it's not the greatest movie of all time, and Rooker doesn't have a huge role, this is the kind of off-kilter performance you expect from the great man. A little crazy, a little scary, the friend you like but you're always on your toes around coz you never know when he's gonna snap.

3. Svenning - Mallrats

Ahh who will ever forget the infamous chocolate covered pretzel. Rooker hams it up big time in Kevin Smith's  Mallrats with his insanity always at near boiling point. This is Rooker doing Rooker like Jack Nicholson does Jack Nicholson in..almost every single movie he ever does, but there's nothing wrong with that.

2. Frank Bailey - Mississippi Burning

Now we're onto totally scary Michael Rooker. This is a powerhouse and shit-scary performance from Rooker who uses his physical presence and booming voice to make Ed Norton in American History X look like a total pussy. A great movie and great work from Rooker.

1. Henry - Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Well there's no doubt this would be number 1 as this is simply one of the greatest movies of all time, let alone the best Rooker performance. This is brutal, chilling, unrelenting and unflinching. The kind of one-in-a-million performance which lives in infamy. This surpasses great films like Chopper and Man Bites Dog in their portrail of one mans insanity. If you have somehow missed this movie, see it now!

Hip-hop awesomeness

This is from the new Celph Titled album Nineteen Ninety Now, which I have yet to review but this is an awesome clip and a great beat too. Celph always brings it and R.A is mental as usual.

It's here! The Walking Dead Series Premiere

Finally!! I only heard about this series a couple of months ago but I've been eagerly anticipating it ever since. As a comic book fan, I am ashamed to admit that I've never actually read the series except for a couple of random issues. It's one of those series I heard about after quite a few issues had already come out, so I added it to my list of titles to read it TPB format. Alas, I've still yet to get around to it. Despite that I couldn't wait to see this series and it has not disappointed. 

In the feature-length series premiere we are introduced to a zombie infested world primarily through the eyes of a policeman Rick Grimes as he awakes in hospital from a gunshot wound sustained in the line of duty. As he comes to, he begins to see a world not as how he last remembered it and slowly the reality of the situation comes to light. Along the way we meet other survivors, a father and son team who are already quite familiar with the undead situation and have been surviving for quite some time. There is also an outpost of survivors including Rick's partner, who we first meet at the beginning of the situation. There's an interesting situation with these survivors which I won't spoil but it certainly adds a lot of weight and intrigue to the storyline. 

And this is where the first episode of this series really succeeds. There is a great amount of depth to the characters and quite a lot of emotion to their situations, and already the plot twists and turns are being layered and setup nicely. There's definitely some nice gore, and a great bleak look to the show, but it's the characters that this series looks to be all about the masterful way in which they are portrayed and given real depth is what will keep this show going. 

Let me know what you guys think. I cannot wait for the next episode!