• @[email protected]
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    215 hours ago

    it’s weird how an outright genocide, surprisingly recognized as such by nearly the entire world as it is happening, would cause people to voluntarily reveal themselves to be just cartoonishly evil.

  • @[email protected]
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    12021 hours ago

    I heard about the wildfires yesterday, and thought: “ain’t it the rich people who have homes in that area?”

    :)

    :( to all the people who aren’t rich I’m sorry

      • @[email protected]
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        5019 hours ago

        All of the fires are :(

        While the palisades fire is showing a lot of very rich folks that their money doesn’t make them immune to fire, there are a lot of relatively regular people who were barely hanging on to their homes in a very expensive area who lost everything and could be financially ruined forever.

        Don’t get me wrong, vanishinlgy few of those in the palisades were poor before the fire. But a lot could be now if they were uninsured or if their insurance fucks them over.

        There’s a bunch of apartment buildings in the area that burned down too. Families who were protected by rent control lost their apartment and now where do they go?

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      Lots of actors whose work you appreciated lost their homes. I’m not defending rich people, but many of these folks actually earned it, not all inherited or squatted on wealth. Anthony Hopkins, Cary Elwes, John Goodman, Jeff Bridges, Billy Crystal among others lost homes. I’m sure a lot of amazing Hollywood memorabilia went up in flames too.

      E: Why the negativity? Just generic hating on rich people with no nuance? I draw the line at when people use their wealth, personally or politically, to put downward pressure on people’s wages, benefits, and quality of life, doubly so if they personally benefit from it like getting a bonus for layoffs. I don’t hate on someone winning at life as long as they aren’t keeping others down to win more. If you want to hate on wealth save it for the execs trying to use AI to put these people out of a job. People like Goodman walked the line to support their unions. Show a little flexibility before you throw more torches on the fire.

      • @[email protected]
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        1416 hours ago

        They all have enough to recover with ease, aside from a few lost artworks and memorabilia.

        • @[email protected]
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          1112 hours ago

          Except the things that cant be replaced with money.

          Your kids first shoes, wedding photos, family heirlooms, the funny thing about rich people is that they are still people.

  • @[email protected]
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    9020 hours ago

    That’s unfortunate, I liked Oppenheimer. Always sucks to find out someone involved was a total dickweasel.

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      3812 hours ago

      There’s just so many people that work on movies and finance them that there has got to be a 100℅ chance that every great movie has a dickweasle wedged in the process somewhere.

      • @[email protected]
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        39 hours ago

        You gotta separate the art from the artist. When one of my favorite bands got canceled because the lead singer was into the young ladies, I tried to remember there were four other dudes in the band, as well as presumably a lot of behind the scenes folks who assisted with touring and studio production. Same with movies. You can denounce people for being shitty, but at the same time recognize they were a part of something great.

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          Lol what does “young ladies” mean here? Like teenage adults or like girl kids. If you’re talking about a child abuser, describing him as a man who is “into the young ladies” is super dishonest and makes my skin crawl. If this musician is a child abuser, don’t sugar coat your language.

          Gross!

          • @[email protected]
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            To me a child is single digits. You’re right though, 15 year olds, whatever term encapsulates that age.

      • @[email protected]M
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        8322 hours ago

        Since becoming a father, I stopped using child as an insult. My child, still two, actually learns from his mistakes and feels bad when he does something wrong.

        • @[email protected]
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          1821 hours ago

          So, you had to wait until it impacted you to realize how unfair it was?

          Just giving you shit, but as a schoolmarm I can confirm that adults are much shittier than kids

          • @[email protected]
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            518 hours ago

            I think the idea is that kids often get away with being poorly behaved. But yeah I guess today, many adults do too…

            I think teenagers are the worst humans. If you were ever bullied you know what I mean. No filter on the awful things they say and not just on the Internet.

          • @[email protected]
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            720 hours ago

            I don’t know about the guy you’re responding to but I personally stopped expecting consistency from those kinds of people a long time ago. I’m 100% confident there is at least one white guy doing exactly what you described at this very moment.

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              110 hours ago

              I want to purge the (British) Saxons do I count? Mostly the oligarchs and aristocrats but im sure I can find some working class ones deserving of getting fed to the woodchiper.

    • @[email protected]
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      3821 hours ago

      Really? Even Family Guy has been making fun of his for his racist rants for like 20 years at this point. He’s like famously one of the biggest dipshits in Hollywood

      • @[email protected]
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        111 hours ago

        TBH I thought that was part of the joke about him replacing the dog who is racist because I guess some dogs just are.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      Oh he’s far worse than this, and has been for at least a decade. He lost his damned mind a while ago.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      619 hours ago

      Oppenheimer has been out for a long time. It is what James Woods is most known for. Boycotting will not have much effect anymore. Maybe his next work.

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        711 hours ago

        It is what James Woods is most known for.

        And Matt Damon is best known for Thor: Love and Thunder?

      • @[email protected]
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        3719 hours ago

        Oppenheimer has been out for a long time.

        If a bit over a year is a “long time” then I’m a lot older than you lol.

        It is what James Woods is most known for

        uh, whhhat? that is certainly not true. I’ve known of him for like 20 years as a (shitty) actor and had no clue he was involved with Oppenheimer whatsoever, despite seeing that movie in the theater. From IMBD:

        In some ways, the executive producer isn’t super involved anyhow. My understanding is that they just drum up money and try to persuade suits that a picture should be made. I’m sure he got paid 100 times his worth though…

        • @[email protected]OP
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          I doubt any of those movies are currently more known than Oppenheimer. The listed movies have James Woods participating as an actor. Whereas with Oppenheimer, James was bankrolling it. Executive producers can have more influence than producers. It depends whether they decide to be hands-on or only see the movie as an investment.

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            811 hours ago

            Oppenheimer may be well known, but I don’t know if anybody had any idea it was produced by James Woods. He’s not known for that movie by any stretch.

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            You can see right there in the IMDB screenshot they use the same language you did (“known for”). I think IMDB has their finger on the pulse of how people talk about entertainment. Many people in the movie industry are most known for things from years ago but still work frequently. Like would you say Christopher Lloyd is most known for whatever semi-popular thing from the last couple of years he had a role in, or Back to the Future?

            You are right that EP’s vary in involvement, but even if I had known he was EP in that film, I still would’ve had the same question I originally asked.

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              211 hours ago

              Anybody who thinks Christopher Loyd’s legacy is from The Mandelorian needs an iPadless TimeOut.

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            Nah Hercules is a classic!

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    I don’t know how much input he had into the movie, but the fact that it still included a rather large portion of Oppenheimer trying to prevent a nuclear arms race as well as being persecuted for his support for socialism and uprisings in other countries is quite ironic.

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      The title executive producer can basically mean anything. It could be a studio head who approved funding for the movie but isn’t involved in production at all. Or it’s given to someone who secured the script and pitched it to a studio and did the pre production. There is no exact definition of the title. Like Steve Jobs is an executive producer on Toy Story only because he bought Pixar and funded the movie. And nowadays you often see one of the actors with an executive producer title to boost the marketing.

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        as you said while there isn’t a strict definition executive producers usually provide or secure the funding independent of the production. ‘Regular’ producers are involved with the ins and outs of a movie. Though typically that is limited to how money is being spent and making sure the production vision can be executed with the budget on hand.