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Post by Ladybug on Apr 26, 2015 9:38:44 GMT -4
Isn't Downey Republican?
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Post by Mutagen on Apr 26, 2015 9:44:40 GMT -4
He was at a fundraiser for Obama a few years ago, so if he is, he doesn't seem too hardcore of one.
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plush
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Post by plush on Apr 26, 2015 10:01:02 GMT -4
I think he's a good actor, not briliant, but good but I've always thought there's a little too much arrogance underneath the charm to be completely sold on him.
I don't know if he meant to sound like an insensitive or worse, racist jackass. He had to know how it would sound right? I think he went for something witty but what came out of his mouth was terrible. Inarritu, whose first language is Spanish, managed to articulate his thoughts around the political philosophy of superhero movies, while attacking the Hollywood machine, so deep in maximizing profits that no one cares about the middle class of the movie population! It's an interesting reflection about the politics of our times as well if you think about it. I am not sure if the genre itself is cultural genocide, that seems like typical artist hyperbole, but at least his thoughts are interesting. RDJ comeback is idiotic. Of all the things he could have said, he made it about the fact that Inarritu knows what cultural genocide is. A guy who was more articulate in RDJ's own language than RDJ himself.
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Post by Freelance Exorcist on Apr 26, 2015 11:07:22 GMT -4
Ruffalo has been doing pretty well from what I've seen, maybe he should take over. And maybe let Cobie Smulders do some press. Except when he and Elizabeth Olsen were on Graham Norton. She described her character as being like a gypsy*, and when Norton told her that is considered a slur, Ruffalo started chanting the word over and over. Nice. *I don't know if Olsen was aware that the word was considered a slur in Europe so I'll give her a pass for now. Is it because they know that no matter what they say, the movie is going to make bank so they just don't bother self-censoring? Or are they actively trying to tank it so they can move on with their careers?
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Post by Coffeecakes on Apr 26, 2015 20:15:57 GMT -4
Olsen said Scarlet Witch is like one? She is supposed to be half Romani which is why some people on the net are pissed that the characters of Wanda and Pietro have been whitewashed.
It sounds like the stupid has been very strong this press junket.
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Post by Auroranorth on Apr 27, 2015 17:05:14 GMT -4
At this point I think they should be told to smile, shut up and wave to people. No more press since most of them can't behave.
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baileydash
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Post by baileydash on Apr 29, 2015 17:43:11 GMT -4
Fox News certainly thinks/hopes so. When everyone else was framing Downey's walk-out as a refusal to talk about his past drug abuse and prison stay because he didn't want to rehash painful memories, Greg Gutfield decided to frame it as Downey being picked on and outed as a Hollywood conservative. He may be, but the only political statements he's made, speak to his post-prison tough-on-crime views. He felt his drug addiction was in part caused by his father's tolerance and encouragement of drug use while he was growing up. Evidently his treament by some fellow prisoners, made him much less sympathetic to law-breakers. But Fox News, always looking for signs of conservative persecution by the "lamestream media" said he was being picked on because he was conservative. Yet as someone mentioned upthread, he suported Obama during the last election.
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Post by Hamatron on Apr 29, 2015 20:35:21 GMT -4
Yeah. Those old, rich, white Republicans are totally persecuted. It's unfortunate that there's soooo much diversity in Hollywood. Their perspective gets lost.
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Post by ladyboy on Apr 29, 2015 21:51:17 GMT -4
In fact, across all media. It's really a shame I can't see and hear more old rich white guys in positions of power.
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Post by Augustus on Apr 30, 2015 16:11:11 GMT -4
I totally defend his walking off during that particular interview, but IMO this uncalled for and unnecessary name-calling of the journalist just makes me want to tell him to sit down and shut up. You're sounding like a petulant child.
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