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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: JC5123 on January 18, 2012, 03:55:26 PM
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The widow of a man on United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after being hijacked on 9/11, blasted actor Mark Wahlberg for saying he would have thwarted the terrorists on the plane had he been there.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/01/18/mark-wahlberg-said-would-have-defeated-11-terrorists-on-flight-3/#ixzz1jqidfAoq
I swear I can't even go see a movie anymore because I refuse to support these idiots.
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This is nothing new, but be prepared for it to continue to escalate. With the growing focus on the drama and extreme in "entertainment" I see more and more of this type of attitude in people.
Entertainment has become like drugs: Each new season brings more flash, more noise, and more drama. Just show me how something is done, how it happened, or how it is made. I don't need 75% of the dialog bleeped, I don't need the constant adrenaline rush, I don't need to watch everyone's testosterone high, and I don't need to see the deep disfunction and hate in every family and group.
Whalberg was hyping his movie and his persona for the betterment of his career. That is what actors do in interviews. However, our society has no personality of its own, so everyone thinks they need to act that way. Superman was a fictional character, and he wasn't based on you or your life. Sorry Markie, but if I want to see a bunch of macho one-liners I'll tune into Tom Cruise movie.
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Marky Mark can probably handle himself pretty well in Dorchester but other than that, he's just another big mouth actor with an agenda! He's scheduled to have a sit down with Whitey Bulger too I hear! There are a few families a bit upset about that one!
Was it Laura Ingraham that wrote "Shut up and Sing!".....kinda the same thing Marky!
Collect your overbloated paycheck and STFU!
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Couldn't agree more, it's the same as when the Dixie Chicks went and spouted off in England about how embarrassed they were about Bush.
People go to your shows to see you perform. We don't care about your politics. But I will say this, your politics and running your mouth is why your fan base has shrank to nothing.
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Couldn't agree more, it's the same as when the Dixie Chicks went and spouted off in England about how embarrassed they were about Bush.
People go to your shows to see you perform. We don't care about your politics. But I will say this, your politics and running your mouth is why your fan base has shrank to nothing.
And where are they now? ? ? ? ? ;D
IIRC, Markie is one of those upstanding class acts that has to have a court order in order to be allowed to handle the weapons in his movie, what with him being a felon and all. Loser!
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Real upstanding citizen! In Dorchester, this is normal...
By the age of 13, Wahlberg had developed an addiction to cocaine and other substances. At 15, he harassed a group of black school children on a field trip by throwing rocks and shouting racial epithets. When he was 16, Wahlberg approached a middle-aged Vietnamese man on the street and, using a large wooden stick, knocked him unconscious (while calling him "Vietnam f....k shit"). He also attacked another Vietnamese man, leaving him permanently blind in one eye, and attacked a security guard (again using racist language). For these crimes, Wahlberg was charged with attempted murder, pleaded guilty to assault, and was sentenced to two years in jail at Boston's Deer Island House of Correction, of which he served 45 days. In another incident, the 21-year-old Wahlberg fractured the jaw of a neighbor in an unprovoked attack.
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Hi;
There is slomething to say about the old studio system of the early 20th century. The big studio mogals had a handle on things and depending on the actors value to the industry - either you were handled or you were sent packing back to where ever you came from.
These actors and actress do have a right to express their ideas BUT as a potential role model for their audencies - they should think twice about spouting off. Does anyone remember Sandra Locke who starred with Clint Eastwood in several of his films. It was reported that she broke up his marrage of 20+ years and shortly after that Locke was never heard of again in hollywood. She was getting into producing films and then "out of here".
What actor/actress of today is too valuable to "fail" ? Even Tom Hanks walks a fine line in his support of candidates.
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Wheren't sales down for movies this year? Gee, I wonder why? ::)
As far as Marky Mark is conserned I haven't been a fan since he took a shot at an MTV awards show at Charlton Heston, back in '98 IIRC. Speaking out against gun violence when you make a living off of movies that portray nothing but gun violence is the Height of Hypocracy!
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Wheren't sales down for movies this year? Gee, I wonder why? ::)
As far as Marky Mark is conserned I haven't been a fan since he took a shot at an MTV awards show at Charlton Heston, back in '98 IIRC. Speaking out against gun violence when you make a living off of movies that portray nothing but gun violence is the Height of Hypocracy!
Just like Richard Donner, the director of the Lethal Weapon series, and his blatant anti-gun message in everyone of the films >:( The background shots of anti-gun posters, and the use of every bit of anti-gun jargon to vilify guns and gun owners >:(
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I'm not coming to MarkieMark's defense, but he did retract his comment by noting it was a stupid and insensitive thing to say. Stupid and insensitive sounds like a pretty good assessment. It's a shame he was so late in making it.
Why we give these Hollywood douche-bags (male or female) any credibility is beyond me. They make their livelihood by reciting words other people write.
My Grandma used to say about these sorts of people: "They don't have the sense God gave geese."
But then, she always was a generous sort!
Crusader
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Funny, I never heard the retraction. He should have retracted it at the next awards show during his acceptance speech if he wanted to make sure everyone heard him. But then again I don't think I watched much MTV or awards shows after that. Words are like bullets, once their out of your mouth you can't take them back.