toldailytopic: Are you less likely to enjoy a movie or watch it at all if one of it's

[PureX]

As a nation, we hate any kind of criticism, period, and certainly aren't good at doing it to ourselves. Maybe we should try listening, every once in a while. Just maybe.

What's the point of listening when you know you're always right?

 

[Nathon Detroit]

To enjoy a movie or TV show I need some of the characters to be good and likable. Therefore yes, I am less likely to like a movie or TV show when all the characters are skuzzballs.

 

[Buzzword]

To enjoy a movie or TV show I need some of the characters to be good and likable. Therefore yes, I am less likely to like a movie or TV show when all the characters are skuzzballs.

...you know anti-whatever actors and actresses can PLAY characters who are good and likeable, right?

Prime example, for the uber-conservatives:
Ellen DeGeneres in Finding Nemo.

 

[Lighthouse]

I see you have been spending more of you hard earned cash at the Nick M school of charm.

The point I am alluding to is when you hound, criticise and persecute descenting voices like many on the right here like to do. You make is very easy for people to all kinds of nasty things under the name of patriotism.

I don't know things like start a war on false premises that kills 1000's of american service personnel and hundreds of thousands of Arabs, to suit the policy of small number of oil companies?

Artists who spoke what many would now consider to be a insightful view of that 2nd Gulf war were very badly treated at that start by this patriotic flag waving hysteria.

Strong democracies need to be criticised from the left, the right and the centre. Any attempt to silence or limit this weakens the democracy, to my mind this how dare you criticise america pap does that.

:blabla:

P.S.
We're not a democracy. Also, we are neither attempting to silence or limit anyone from spouting off.

Philistine...and no, that isn't a flavor. :mmph:

:crackup:

...you know anti-whatever actors and actresses can PLAY characters who are good and likeable, right?

Prime example, for the uber-conservatives:
Ellen DeGeneres in Finding Nemo.

I just assumed that's what it was actually like insider her head.

 

[This Charming Manc]

Did you mean characters or actors ? This makes a big difference.

To enjoy a movie or TV show I need some of the characters to be good and likable. Therefore yes, I am less likely to like a movie or TV show when all the characters are skuzzballs.

 

[Granite]

What's the point of listening when you know you're always right?

Ahhhhhhhh. Got me there.

 

[aCultureWarrior]

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.

Gyllenhaal.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0350453/

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.

 

[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.

 

[PureX]

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.

 

[kmoney]

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?

Watching a movie is more fun.

 

[Rusha]

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.

 

[Granite]

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.

 

[Granite]

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.

Sure makes his abuse in the Naked Gun films seem satisfying though.:chuckle:

 

[Quincy]

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.

 

[Lighthouse]

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?

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.

 

[Tambora]

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.

 

[Cleekster]

nah.....i would never give a total stranger that kind of power over my life.