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Basebf555 posted:Yea I do kind of feel bad for the guy because its not easy to make it as an actor, and even harder to maintain success for more than a few years, so I try to never begrudge any actor for the roles they chose to take. I always figured that I'd do the same thing if I lucked out and ended up as part of the cast of an ongoing franchise, just ride that thing into the ground. So on the one hand he is trying to do whats right for himself and his career, but at the same time he probably feels dead inside as an artist while shooting those movies and has to deal with rabid Edward fans pretty much for the rest of his life. I think his life, depending on what happens going forward with the Twilight franchise, could end up being a mirror to Shatners. Pattison seems focused on doing work he loves rather the AAA blockbusters. His next two movies are a Australian crime drama with Guy Pearce and a David Croenenberg film. It seems like he's pretty happy with his career path and the Twilight series is an outlier for him. I think he only did the first movie because he wanted a chance to work with Kristen Stewart, who was also a mostly indie drama actor before Twilight.
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Der Luftwaffle posted:I don't think his future is that dire, guy is talented and has had pretty steady non-Twilight work in decent films with even more in production. Save sympathy for Taylor Lautner who is forever typecast and has has all the acting range of a squinty potato. Honestly, I think the actor everyone should feel bad for when it comes to roles is Leonardo DiCaprio. I don't think he has lived through a movie yet. But on the plus side he is filthy loving rich.
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Dec 3, 2013 02:10
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I wore two left shoes to my high school graduation. I'm not exaggerating, I'm not saying it to be funny, I just owned two pairs of dress shoes that looked similar. I didn't notice till I was walking up to the community center. Tonight at our charity dinner where I work I called a disadvantaged young boy with long hair "little lady." Even worse, later when I saw the owner of the restaurant directing him towards the ladies room I just stared on instead of intervening and pointing him in the right way. Cause I'm terrible under pressure I guess, and also not under pressure. Just all around terrible.
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Der Luftwaffle posted:I don't think his future is that dire, guy is talented and has had pretty steady non-Twilight work in decent films with even more in production. Save sympathy for Taylor Lautner who is forever typecast and has has all the acting range of a squinty potato. I was going to be all "yeah who gives a poo poo, he's a nobody with more money than me" but then I hit a mental tangent into a question. How does merchandising and royalties work for people like Lautner, Stewart, and Pattinson? They've become the face of Twilight and their images are loving everywhere, on books and movie covers and merchandise. There's a Robert Pattinson shower curtain and team Jacob shirts. Do the actors get a piece of that action, or is that a part of their movie contract that Meyer gets to market their faces as the face of Twilight? Sorry for this random derail I'm just suddenly curious how merchandising with actors faces works. Like, does Daniel Rad-whatever get money for being the face of Harry Potter, or does that all go to JK Rowling?
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Dec 3, 2013 02:42
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Danica! posted:Honestly, I think the actor everyone should feel bad for when it comes to roles is Leonardo DiCaprio. Inception?
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Dec 3, 2013 02:46
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I'm pretty sure that's one of those things that gets hashed out by entertainment lawyers during the contract phase, so it's really dependent on how good the actor was at protecting their own interests and varies from situation-to-situation.
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Dec 3, 2013 02:48
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You know that jerk-rear end 'prank' where someone 'accidentally' smashes milk bottles on a supermarket floor? Karma knows... 
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Say Nothing posted:You know that jerk-rear end 'prank' where someone 'accidentally' smashes milk bottles on a supermarket floor? Didn't some jackhole break his fuckin' jaw doing that? Is it that jackhole?
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Dec 3, 2013 03:14
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Danica! posted:Honestly, I think the actor everyone should feel bad for when it comes to roles is Leonardo DiCaprio. Strangely enough his characters survived Basketball Diaries and What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
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Dec 3, 2013 03:22
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Dog with Roman candle The dog's name is "Useless," and he previously had a part in the series "Monarch of the Glen."
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Dec 3, 2013 03:30
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This video is making the rounds in the awkward, ugly and gross thread and deserves a spot here, too. It stars a "Sovereign Citizen" who acts like a complete jackass and tries to barge into a courtroom. He eventually gets what he deserves. "Leave the camera with your mother outside the courtroom and you can come in." 
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Dec 3, 2013 06:29
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Mizuti posted:This video is making the rounds in the awkward, ugly and gross thread and deserves a spot here, too. It stars a "Sovereign Citizen" who acts like a complete jackass and tries to barge into a courtroom. He eventually gets what he deserves. Dude pulls a taser out and dumbass here still doesn't backoff. God. drat.
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DoctorStrangelove posted:Dude pulls a taser out and dumbass here still doesn't backoff. God. drat. You just know that he thinks that being tasered means that he has the moral high ground.
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syscall girl posted:Strangely enough his characters survived Basketball Diaries and What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Thats right. He managed to survive the time he was a heroin addict, and a severely mentally challenged teen.
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Dec 3, 2013 06:49
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It's like Sean Bean. The man has made a good living off of being the dude you know is gonna eat it in any movie he's in. He's built a career of being excellent at death scenes.
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Mizuti posted:This video is making the rounds in the awkward, ugly and gross thread and deserves a spot here, too. It stars a "Sovereign Citizen" who acts like a complete jackass and tries to barge into a courtroom. He eventually gets what he deserves. I love his smug chuckle around 1:30. "Oh man, I totally showed him with my interpretation of law. What's he going to do? Use his FASCIST DICTATOR FALSE 'RULES' against me? Good luck."
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pentyne posted:Pattison seems focused on doing work he loves rather the AAA blockbusters. His next two movies are a Australian crime drama with Guy Pearce and a David Croenenberg film. It seems like he's pretty happy with his career path and the Twilight series is an outlier for him. I think he only did the first movie because he wanted a chance to work with Kristen Stewart, who was also a mostly indie drama actor before Twilight. He signed on to Twilight originally to make a quick buck. It was a small movie that paid fairly well, and while it was in the contract that he'd have to do the whole series, neither him or his agent thought the first movie would be successful enough for those other movies to happen. Then they did, and he had no way out, so he just hosed around for the entire rest of the movies. Kristen Stewart was into the movies at first, but soured on them as the series went on. The only member of the central cast that actually liked the whole thing was Taylor Lautner, because he basically got paid to walk around shirtless for five movies.
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Danica! posted:Honestly, I think the actor everyone should feel bad for when it comes to roles is Leonardo DiCaprio. Catch me if you can. And Sean Bean (gently caress you Sean. It's either Seen Bean or Shawn Bawn. You can't have the best of both worlds.) survived one or two movies as well. I used to hate Leonardo, but his recent roles have changed that. Especially Django. It was refreshing to see him as a villain.
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 It's the small things that amuse, like a model forgetting how to walk.
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Has there ever been a situation like Pattinson before where an actor is actively making GBS threads on the movies he's making as he's making them? I know of more than one who bagged the movies they worked in years afterwards, but cannot think of one case where an actor went around in interviews saying how lovely and creepy the movie he had just worked on was. I know he gets credit for speaking his mind, but it still seems incredibly unprofessional for someone to be insulting the people who paid him something like $40 million to stand around looking like a foot dipped in glitter.
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Cleretic posted:He signed on to Twilight originally to make a quick buck. It was a small movie that paid fairly well, and while it was in the contract that he'd have to do the whole series, neither him or his agent thought the first movie would be successful enough for those other movies to happen. Then they did, and he had no way out, so he just hosed around for the entire rest of the movies. I don't know why they would've assumed that, since people were already going bugshit over the books by the time the movie was cast. The books were ridiculously popular and aimed at exactly the demographic that would go further bugshit over a movie adaptation. I'm now enjoying my schadenfreude over Robert Pattinson actually being really embarrassed about his career choices, he's just trying to act all cool about it now.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Has there ever been a situation like Pattinson before where an actor is actively making GBS threads on the movies he's making as he's making them? Orson Welles described his role in the Transformers movie as "playing a toy" in a movie about toys who "do horrible things to each other", and said that “I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I’m destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.”
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Say Nothing posted:
I highly doubt she forgot how to walk. Look at those shoes. Take a close look at them. Those are probably nigh impossible to properly walk in. Shoes like that are a faceplant waiting to happen.
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Gann Jerrod posted:Orson Welles described his role in the Transformers movie as "playing a toy" in a movie about toys who "do horrible things to each other", and said that “I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I’m destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.” The idea of someone like Orson Welles voicing a Transformer is pure schadenfreude in itself though. How the mighty have fallen etcetera.
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ZeroCount posted:The idea of someone like Orson Welles voicing a Transformer is pure schadenfreude in itself though. How the mighty have fallen etcetera. gently caress you. OW took the job to earn the money to try to sort out the rights to The Other Side Of The Wind
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kizudarake posted:gently caress you. OW took the job to earn the money to try to sort out the rights to The Other Side Of The Wind Yeah, Welles gave up lucrative life of a filthy fuckn' rich radio personality with a pedigree to make movies no studio executive wanted to support, got actively sabotaged, and at times avoided being homeless only thanks to Peter Bogdanovich's charity. He also had to star in all manner of schlock to get even the bare minimum required to duct-tape together his ongoing productions. There's some schadenfreude in that if you will, but I think it's one of the most depressing stories of show business.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Has there ever been a situation like Pattinson before where an actor is actively making GBS threads on the movies he's making as he's making them? There's always Michael Caine's opinion of the Jaws sequel he was in. http://ifrymineinbutter.com/2010/06/14/i-have-seen-the-house-that-jaws-built-and-it-is-terrific-the-quotable-michael-caine/ Edited to add -- the link goes to a short article with a number of quotes from Caine as he acknowledges that he's been a bit of a lucky bastard across his career as well as comments on taking roles in goofy films. Ms Boods has a new favorite as of 12:04 on Dec 3, 2013 |
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kizudarake posted:gently caress you. OW took the job to earn the money to try to sort out the rights to The Other Side Of The Wind Yeah and? I've got nothing against him. It's still funny.
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ZeroCount posted:The idea of someone like Orson Welles voicing a Transformer is pure schadenfreude in itself though. How the mighty have fallen etcetera. Speaking of which, this will be Sean Connery's last role: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNIvXInb6h8 Fair enough, he's in it to promote Scottish cinema, but really?
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Say Nothing posted:
I like how the only crowd reaction is one person slightly lifting their leg a bit.
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Models falling, you say?   (I think that might be the designer actually)
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Stargate posted:Speaking of which, this will be Sean Connery's last role: Oh man, was he giving his lines from his death bed? That last line of his in the trailer 2:10 in is so pitiful and weak sounding. 
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Bill Cosby told people not to see Leonard Part 6
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Cross posting this from the Serie A thread because it's the perfect example of a good thing gone wrong. Juventus had the Curva Nord (where the Ultra fans sit and cheer) closed due to territorial chants and discrimination against another team. It's something that they've really been cracking down on recently. Football Italia posted:As it stands, those two sections of the ground – behind each goal – will be closed to supporters as a punishment for territorial discrimination chants aimed at the city of Naples during the 3-0 win over Napoli. So the Ultra area was filled with kids. 12,000 of them all under 12. While in practice, this would be a great idea. But reality proved to be much weirder. Sky Sports posted:
The insults were repeatedly shouting "Merda" (poo poo) at the other team's Keeper every time he took a free kick.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Has there ever been a situation like Pattinson before where an actor is actively making GBS threads on the movies he's making as he's making them? Shia Le douche said this about the new Idiana Jones movie http://www.uproxx.com/gammasquad/20...ng-indy-4-crap/ Shia LaBeouf posted:I feel like I dropped the ball on the legacy that people loved and cherished. You get to monkey-swinging and things like that and you can blame it on the writer and you can blame it on Steven Spielberg. But the actor’s job is to make it come alive and make it work, and I couldn’t do it. So that’s my fault. Simple In return, Harrison Ford said "I think he was a loving idiot" After a little talking to by Spielberg, LeDouche changed his mind. Shia LaBeouf posted:He told me there’s a time to be a human being and have an opinion, and there’s a time to sell cars. It brought me freedom, but it also killed my spirits because this was a dude I looked up to like a sensei Sensei . Its like he actively wants to be hated more. Gann Jerrod posted:Orson Welles described his role in the Transformers movie as "playing a toy" in a movie about toys who "do horrible things to each other", and said that “I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I’m destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.” Orson Welles cold detachment from Unicron really worked. He spoke the lines with out any empathy or emotion, like the character himself.
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ZeroCount posted:The idea of someone like Orson Welles voicing a Transformer is pure schadenfreude in itself though. How the mighty have fallen etcetera. Eh, Transformers was right up his alley, in the radio days he did tons of schlocky radio serial roles where he had no idea what the plot was.
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Shnag posted:Shia Le douche said this about the new Idiana Jones movie To be fair, he blamed himself in that first quote (and Indy 4 was crap anyway, so its not like he was wrong) and its gotta be pretty soul-crushing for a young actor to have one of the most famous directors in Hollywood come up to you and say "Sometimes, you just do it for the money." Though considering the Beef made his name in the Transformers films and Spielberg is best known for pulpy adventure films, perhaps he should have moderated his expectations a bit more.
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Shnag posted:Shia Le douche  (Don't know why "sluts" is censored.)   More here: http://comicsalliance.com/shia-lebeouf-comic-book/ quote:It sort of reads like a children’s book, in that almost nearly ever page has but one illustration and a line or two of accompanying text. LaBeouf isn’t big on panels. Or backgrounds, for that matter. Each page gives only the most basic illusion of the setting, with characters surrounded by a ubiquitous pink haze that seems to indicate everything that happens, even the indoor scenes, is occurring at sunset. Oh and http://geek-news.mtv.com/2012/04/14/shia-labeouf-c2e2-comics/ Shia posted:Yeah, it’s jokes too! It’s not a poem to say, “Hey I used to poo poo on myself until I was twelve years old.” That isn’t a poem! But sandwiched between a bunch of other poems, that actually have meaning, and do have gravitas, and come from somewhere deep in my feelings - my psyche. I’m friends with a guy named Ross Richie at BOOM! Comics, who encouraged me to fanatically switch it up. Comics sometimes are fun when they’re like classical music. The fun thing about classical music is, sometimes you don’t know where you stand, or where the sound is going next. It keeps you interested. If you change topics like a classic song, your book will reflect that same kind of fun. Maybe he's pulling a Joaquin Phoenix. The Aphasian has a new favorite as of 16:32 on Dec 3, 2013 |
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Crocuta posted:Eh, Transformers was right up his alley, in the radio days he did tons of schlocky radio serial roles where he had no idea what the plot was. He really got deep into a frozen peas commercial, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V14PfDDwxlE Which Animaniacs did a great riff on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlXEC8kcbqc (And so did the Critic:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH1PJTY9AVA
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Didn't some jackhole break his fuckin' jaw doing that? Is it that jackhole? Yes. 
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