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Movies are products, and like products I will boycott if a good (or bad) enough reason gets my attention. Conversely, if true repentance came to my attention...I would reconsider.
I liked October Sky but since Brokeback Mountain came out, I can’t watch anything with that Jake What’s-his-name in it.
Watching him play a lady’s man to me now would be like watching Bill Maher play an American bomber pilot...or Howard Stern playing a concerned parent of a Columbine victim...or Cecile Richards playing Tim Tebow’s mother.
Call me uncultured, but I had no desire to watch "Homo's on the Range" (How was it Granite?).
He did a pretty good job in "Zodiac", a true story that is still unsolved.
Some actors are just meant to play certain roles. While I didn't see the movie "Milk", I hear that Sean Penn did a great job of portraying homosexual pedophile Harvey Milk.
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Ya know, you could take this one step further. Now I don't really care if someone criticizes this country, but what about, say, a wife beater? Or a racist? Would you feel comfortable watching their work, as either a director or actor? Where do you draw the line? How hard a line do you really want to take? If we start holding Hollywood to a Mayberry RFD litmus test we'll wind up never watching movies at all.
Is it the work, or is it the artist, that we really care about? That's the big question.
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Is it the work, or is it the artist, that we really care about? That's the big question.
It's the condemnation. Look at it this way, which is more fun, watching the movie, or judging, condemning, and 'punishing' the morally inferior with our rejection?
There are movies that I would refuse to see on moral grounds, though. But probably not because of anything the actors or producers said. It would likely because the movie itself is promoting something that I don't want to support.
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June 22nd, 2012, 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by PureX
It's the condemnation. Look at it this way, which is more fun, watching the movie, or judging, condemning, and 'punishing' the morally inferior with our rejection?
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June 22nd, 2012, 09:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Granite
Ya know, you could take this one step further. Now I don't really care if someone criticizes this country, but what about, say, a wife beater? Or a racist? Would you feel comfortable watching their work, as either a director or actor? Where do you draw the line? How hard a line do you really want to take? If we start holding Hollywood to a Mayberry RFD litmus test we'll wind up never watching movies at all.
Is it the work, or is it the artist, that we really care about? That's the big question.
The reasons I normally refuse to see a movie because of an actor is one of two reasons:
I don't like the person's acting ... or ...
There is something in their history that causes me to dislike them ... such as OJ Simpson, Steven Seagal, Tom Cruise, etc.
I dislike them not for their religion or views but for their history of domestic violence and (in the case of Cruise) adultery.
It's the condemnation. Look at it this way, which is more fun, watching the movie, or judging, condemning, and 'punishing' the morally inferior with our rejection?
There are movies that I would refuse to see on moral grounds, though. But probably not because of anything the actors or producers said. It would likely because the movie itself is promoting something that I don't want to support.
Agreed; I have zero interest in torture porn, for example, Hostel and the like. I don't necessarily think the actors are lesser people for appearing (gotta pay the rent) but I don't think these films have any moral merit or artistic value whatsoever.
Theocrats are Social Darwinists.
Christianity has nothing applicable, appropriate, or worthwhile to offer the 21st century.
Ya know, you could take this one step further. Now I don't really care if someone criticizes this country, but what about, say, a wife beater? Or a racist? Would you feel comfortable watching their work, as either a director or actor? Where do you draw the line? How hard a line do you really want to take? If we start holding Hollywood to a Mayberry RFD litmus test we'll wind up never watching movies at all.
Is it the work, or is it the artist, that we really care about? That's the big question.
I think deep down I'd probably still like a piece of art if the artist was some type of criminal. I bet most people probably think Mozart was insane and maybe he was but I still enjoy his music.
Some actors are just meant to play certain roles. While I didn't see the movie "Milk", I hear that Sean Penn did a great job of portraying homosexual pedophile Harvey Milk.
Was he a pedophile, a hebephile or an ephebophile?
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Originally Posted by Rusha
The reasons I normally refuse to see a movie because of an actor is one of two reasons:
I don't like the person's acting ... or ...
There is something in their history that causes me to dislike them ... such as OJ Simpson, Steven Seagal, Tom Cruise, etc.
I dislike them not for their religion or views but for their history of domestic violence and (in the case of Cruise) adultery.
I know about OJ but I hadn't heard anything regarding the other two.
I don't think Seagal's that good of an actor, and the only thing I ever saw OJ in was the Naked Gun movies.
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Last edited by Lighthouse; June 23rd, 2012 at 03:20 AM.
toldailytopic: Are you less likely to enjoy a movie or watch it at all if one of it's main actors is known to have said negative things about America?
No.
Since they are acting in a character role, I have watched movies that have actors in which I hate their personal political views.
I watch movies for my own entertainment; not for support or non-support of any actor in it.
Every now and then there will be an exception. Such as, I couldn't stand to look or hear Madonna at one time because it made me barf to even think of her.
nah.....i would never give a total stranger that kind of power over my life.
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