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Post by Ginger on Jan 18, 2012 23:01:32 GMT -4
There are 147 Hollywood actors who have claimed they were supposed to be on one of the planes but changed their plans or canceled at the last minute. Some of them are more believable than others.
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Post by twodollars on Jan 18, 2012 23:03:24 GMT -4
If an actor I respected made that moronic statement, I'd be pissed. But, Mark Wahlberg is a freaking moron. I'll admit to liking some of his movies. But in real life he's been trash-talking fellow actors (Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, George Clooney, etc.) and pretending he's a tough guy for years. I just can't take him seriously. I don't think Hollywood takes him too seriously either. Wasn't he the only one of the main actors in The Fighter not to get an Oscar Nod?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2012 23:25:01 GMT -4
If an actor I respected made that moronic statement, I'd be pissed. But, Mark Wahlberg is a freaking moron. I'll admit to liking some of his movies. But in real life he's been trash-talking fellow actors (Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, George Clooney, etc.) and pretending he's a tough guy for years. I just can't take him seriously. I don't think Hollywood takes him too seriously either. Wasn't he the only one of the main actors in The Fighter not to get an Oscar Nod? I think he's taken seriously in Hollywood. He didn't get an Oscar nod for The Fighter, but at the same time, he was the only actor to get an Oscar nod for The Departed (which was full of highly touted performances from massively acclaimed actors like Jack Nicholson, Leo Dicaprio, Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin, Ray Winstone and Martin Sheen). Stuff like that happens. Actors sometimes get nodded, and sometimes they don't. I don't think him not getting nominated for The Fighter was any indication of how Hollywood feels about him. Best Actor was a packed race that year, and he probably just missed out. But I actually think he got more respect in Hollywood off the back of The Fighter, simply because he was one of the producers, and esstentially got the film made. |
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Post by Wol on Jan 18, 2012 23:26:14 GMT -4
I don't think Hollywood takes him too seriously either. Unfortunately they do. "Contraband" just won the weekend (albeit against weak competition) and he can basically produce anything he effing wants at HBO after "Entourage" and "Boardwalk Empire." |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2012 23:29:35 GMT -4
I don't think Hollywood takes him too seriously either. Unfortunately they do. "Contraband" just won the weekend (albeit against weak competition) and he can basically produce anything he effing wants at HBO after "Entourage" and "Boardwalk Empire." I think twodollars meant that they don't take him seriously as a "serious actor", not as a box office force or a guy with industry clout. I think he got taken seriously as an actor the moment he got nodded for The Departed ahead of much more esteemed co-stars. But yeah, he's pretty well respected as a producer and box office draw as well. It's nuts that Walhberg is an Oscar nominated actor though, and Gary Oldman can't score one lousy nomination. |
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Post by Mutagen on Jan 18, 2012 23:34:36 GMT -4
Didn't someone just say that on the actor's studio that he was sorry about what happened with the assault stuff? Who cares if he said he's sorry to an actors' studio audience? The only people he should apologize to are the ones he assaulted (a man he knocked unconscious with a stick while calling a "Vietnam fucking shit" and another Vietnamese man who lost an eye when Wahlberg attacked him). ( Details - also mentions that Marky Mark was making remarks about "gooks" while being arrested for the second assault.) |
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Post by twodollars on Jan 18, 2012 23:35:28 GMT -4
Wow, I had forgotten he got an Oscar nod for The Departed. So, much for my theory that he isn't respected by Hollywood. I have to admit that he was my favorite part of Departed though.
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Post by Sunnyhorse on Jan 19, 2012 0:22:59 GMT -4
Everyone talks about what they'd have done on those planes? Well, sure -- most of us think how frightened we would've been and wondered whether we'd have had the courage to stand up to the hijackers. Announcing that things just wouldn't have gone down the way they did if he'd been there and that "there would have been blood on the floor of First Class" is just beyond the pale in terms of its tastelessness -- what the hell do you think happened on Flight 93, asshole, a knitting circle? -- and utterly laughable.
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Post by Hamatron on Jan 19, 2012 1:01:50 GMT -4
Really Marky Mark? You're just a little movie star, and 9/11 wasn't some action flick. The guns weren't made of rubber and there weren't any tape Xs on the floor, so how would you know how to hit your mark?
Seriously, Hollywood actors sound so stupid when they make statements like this about real world situations.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2012 1:03:27 GMT -4
It's not the best quote, but in context of what he's saying, he said that if he was there and his daughters were there, then he would basically do what he can to take back the plane.
He's a tool and not a saint, but I'm not going to knock him on everything that he says or does because of some things he has done. And yes, it does matter if he apologizes to the public, even if it's other actors for what he's done. And of course, he should make restitution for those he's hurt. I'm just not going to paint him in one light for everything he does and says since then.
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