Really the most watchable thing about Tropic Thunder.
Posted on 04/26/2015 4:19:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The press tour for the upcoming sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron is grabbing a lot of attention ahead of the film’s North American release, just not the good kind of attention.
The latest public relations flub came Friday in the form of what some have deemed a racist statement made by leading man Robert Downey Jr.
After storming out of an interview earlier this week with Britain’s Channel 4 News, the legendary actor sat down to again discuss the film, where he made a remark about Oscar-winning Birdman director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu.
The Mexican director has been critical of superhero films in the past, even telling Deadline last October he considers them “cultural genocide.”
“The way they apply violence to it, it’s absolutely right-wing,” he told the entertainment industry news outlet. “If you observe the mentality of most of those films, it’s really about people who are rich, who have power, who will do the good, who will kill the bad. Philosophically, I just don’t like them.”
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There does seem to be a plan at play here.
Hollywood conservatives have been getting kind of uppity lately and someone has decided that they need to be brought down a notch.
“Look, I respect the heck out of him, and I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like ‘cultural genocide’ just speaks to how bright he is.”
When we forget God this is what we devolve to.
Super heroes are, of course, a parable of the divine. They aren’t doing heroic things just because they are rich or have power, but because it is fundamentally right.
But neither is a snide remark a worthy comeback to a lefty take on the sociology of superheros. I hate to see it when the right slides down to the left’s level. It is like it has forgotten why it is.
It’s snide, it’s ironic, it’s a put-down ... or is it? Typical Downey.
Guess he forgot his sarcasm tag.
To me what is funny is that “Birdman” is about a guy who had starred as “Birdman”, some superhero character. (Ha, ha, I was going to say “fictional superhero” but then I realized that was sort of redundant.) But I don’t know if the director’s negative feelings about that kind of movie feature in the film.
I honestly think he’s overthinking things. He should probably go out and buy that new album “Beating the Champ” I think it is called by a group called The Mountain Goats. It is all about Professional Wrestling and a lot of it, maybe all of it, about Mexican wrestlers who, as we know, are really over the top. One of the songs is really great, but people in general seem to like it. Heck, Downey should listen to it too. And all the complainers. Maybe it would cheer them up.
Tempest in a cesspool.
I like Downey and don’t blame him a bit for walking out of the interview the other day.
He was there to talk about the movie and the interviewer turned it to political views and then suggested that he may be using drugs again. He was a hell of a lot kinder than I would have been with the interviewer.
He went "Full Retard."
Since when is Mexican a race?
He’s quickly becoming one of my favorite actors....The guy was about as deep in the abyss as it gets, and he made it out.
Mexican, slut, whore, Oriental, Negro, homosexual, lesbian, bimbo, airhead, Arab, Redskin...deal with it, lefties. The cultural genocide is being committed by the Stalinist thought police. Grow a pair and stop apologizing for every utterance, people!
Why should we care what some arrogant socialist from messyco thinks?
Yeah...no mention of the leftist haters who like to associate conservatives with violence.
Where’s THAT apology? (I know...it’ll never happen.)
I like him, too. It’s the kind of thing he would say, though.
He’s one of my favorites, too...and I don’t watch many movies, or care for many actors. Loved him in The Judge.
About the last ten years, I think. “Spanish-speaking” is the same as “Mexican” (don’t tell people from Spain, Puerto Rico, Colombia, etc.) and “Mexican” is the same as “illegal alien,” and “illegal alien” is a race.
When the victim card is played?
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