The End Of The Movie Star
The End Of The Movie Star
The 2022 Oscars debacle really got me to thinking, is this the age of the movie star, and the cult of celebrity ending? Yes, and I’ll explain how and why it happened.
â The finest people Iâve ever met were in pubsâ Absolutely touching.
I tend to find the finest people in moshpits
@Candid Eggplant Fast forward fifty years and these are the exact same types that laughed after Will Smith assaulted someone on national TV, robots.
It’s the place I’ve had the realist conversation. Booze lowers inhibitions.
I love how we still have people like Keanu and Kurt Russell, but we never hear about them because they donât feel the need to shout it to the whole world.
@Tyler Smith that’s what’s driving a new type of public celebrity. Jordan Peterson comes to mind. He’s one many interesting people to the forefront when a few decades ago no one would know about people like him.
@Sup 1st of All not all of his movies are bad. That’s just your opinion and you’re entitled to it. Second of all. He’s not woke and has a reputation for being one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.
@Akimbo Madman I have seen people saying Keanu is the type of actor who only acts well in one specific role: stoic wooden character
@Sup Preach brother. Keanu stars in John Wick and redditors puts a blind eye on his other horrendous movies (i even saw people defending him in garbage like Siberia because wholesome keanu chungus), yet shits Robert Pattinson who did an amazing job in Good Time, Tenet, High Life, Batman, etc. because he stars in Twilight. Although to be fair redditors count movies that aren’t MCU to be automatically shit tier so can’t blame them for it.
Sylvester Stallone and while he was alive, Robin Williams BIGTIME
That final shot in the auditorium of hundreds of “court jesters” doing a standing ovation to one of their own really put the whole thing into perspective for me. Good edit.
Like Jim Carrey said, it was disgusting.
Look at the woman in the black suit at 9:22. Look how her eyes wander, thinking I’m I doing the right thing? Not many people standing up around me. Did I stand up too soon? Should I be stood up? I’m I just following a crowd that’s smaller than what I expected. Should I, or should I not, put more or less effort into my applause? Sheep. The lot of them.
https://youtu.be/6q9b-7-PW8k
Finally it’s here.
Equate this to the friends cast, the most relatable character is Joey, he is dumb and simple, but sincere, and honest, in the entire run of friends, there was no arc for Joey, no where to grow, he stayed a loveable, relatable dumbass. No disrespect to Matt Leblanc, who I think is an intelligent person, but with humility. This is examples in his personal appearances and in his work after friends, he’s has show his lack of hubris. Either the casting director nailed it before the show was so successful, casting Leblanc as he was the embodiment of Joey, or more likely, as a young, growing man Leblanc saw and understood Joey’s core traits where what made him likeable, not the actor, and leaned into that, which feed the same pasts of his own personality.
I think a great example, especially in Hollywood, as a lesson learnt vs a lesson taught….
that show panders to womanists only by the end, it is nigh unwatchable for the majority of the run. Same thing happened to The Big Bang Theory, networks love to play bait n switch on the male audience. Then expect you to stick around, that doesn’t happen with network bait n switch shows. I walk, you changed the unspoken contract.
@pyropulse Okay, captain…EVERYBODY admires somebody and movie roles fill everybody’s fantasies, even yours.
@cattysplat Which mean he was exactly what he was at he beginning but people changed and he in essence don’t. He was outdate, and it is ironic that it is the real conclusion of us all. We all will become outdate, someday you will wake up and don’t know why things changed and why things don’t work anymore.
“As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like itâs our own opinion.”
-Janeane Garofalo puppet, “Team America: World Police”
even Trey and Matt are getting more woke đ
That is the only movie I can think of that I would consider to be perfect.
@Haywood Yablomi God damn it. I only hear “Matt Damon” in my head nowđ. I have to find something to distract me. Where is the tentacle porn.đ
I’m like 90% sure Bella Thorne said something like this last year. đ¤Ł
Lmaoooooo true
The first song to play on MTV was called âVideo killed the radio starâ. Social Media has done it again, the mysterious movie star has become extinct.
That song by The Buggles was a big UK hit in 1979. Great pick to be the first video ever shown on MTV two years later.
The real question is, what’s going to kill the social media stars?
@Is That How You Talk To Your Mother? Let’s hope so, SM stars are a gazillion times worse than movie celebs…. the Kardashians.
I rest my case.
Except it was a false prediction, as MTV itself has completely Killed videos
@Maxie Karn but the movie industry makes billions of dollars thru online streams via platforms like Netflix, hbo, Hulu, disney+. The internet just made them even richer.
Keanu gave $50k to our soup kitchen for the homeless and didn’t ask for a single damned thing in return. He even helped to unload the trucks. He’s just a guy who wanted to help and so he did.
@John Sim Franchise was already ruined with the 3rd movie. Just saying.
Heâs continuing the grind
Johnny Depp also helped entertain bedridden children in hospitals without turning it into a big spectacle.
based
Kurt calling himself a jester is a disservice. The man is the king of the jesters. Man has been in every kind of movie under the sun and is still doing good work, all while staying humble. Heâs probably my favorite actor for that reason
Walt Disney’s last words were, “Kurt Russell”. The man got a bit wrong in his life but he was spot on in the last few moments
Love his work. From spots on Gilligan’s Island and The Fugitive as a kid, to the early 70’s Disney movies as a teenager, to his great adult rolls of the 80’s, 90’s and beyond. Great actor, and yes, a king among jesters.
I might agree with you, though in reality he knows exactly what he, and the rest of Hollyweird are. And, I can do no less than commend him for that.
That moment when millions (myself included) realize that some “drunk” Scottish guy’s voice carries more weight and resonance than some of the most “storied” and “trusted” institutions who’s job is to deal in the “truth”. Never stop being awesome random Scottish guy, never.
He basically just rants about diversity politics in hollywood and weak writing, comparing him to the news is about as silly as him comparing his youtube channel of movie reviews, as entertaining as they are, to the best actors in the world making Oscar movies.
Jesus, settle down fanboy
Like I told a coworker the other day, the only good thing about movies sucking now is that itâs material for critical drinker to make fun of