Narrghhhh

[cleolinda]

I have a gigantic headache and have been away from my desk most of the day--which means, in turn, that I'm hellishly behind on things--so we'll only have a quick essential linkspam today. Because I have a feeling that if I don't post the Christian Bale thing, I'm going to be getting a lot of emails about it.

AUDIO: Christian Bale's Apocalyptic '

Comments

[genmaicha]

I'm going to bet that the Avatar recast is going to be seen as just a token effort...too little, too late.

[sirmatthew]

And they made the brown guy the bad guy. The good guys are still white. That should go over well. *eye-roll*

[genmaicha]

If the studio really thinks a token effort will win over the fanbase, they are severely severely out of touch.

[cmdr_zoom]

The key word being "token."

(also, OMG redhead Gwyneth Pepper om nom nom)

[katieupsidedown]

People are complaining all our actors are white when they should all be non-white! What should we do???

Umm... make the bad guy brown?

OMG GOOD PLAN!!!

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[aestas]

oh hey hivemind.

[katieupsidedown]

It's kind of like if they did a live action Aladdin with Miley Cyrus as Jasmine, Zac Efron as Aladdin, and Roshon Fegan as Jafar.

[dragovianknight]

Miley Cyrus as Jasmine? ::weeps bitter, bitter tears::

[aestas]

Re: The Last Airbender. I mean, he's still not anywhere near the right race for the character...but neither are any of the other main characters, so I guess he fits right in.

Only, I mean. He's a brown character playing the "villainous" character against the supergroup of white kids.

Just...throwing that out there.

[lovefromgirl]

...there is that. *facepalm*

[aestas]

Sigh. Oh M. Night. You're what Stephenie Meyer is to feminism.

[themadfish]

Well, at least he turns good later?

If they even get past the first movie since it's probably going to bomb.

[edda]

I recall that Bale also went off on a reporter on the set of Metroland, causing costar Emily Watson to give him the nickname "Tanty" (for the tantrum he threw).

I sort of wish she'd been there to rib him about this, too.

[msfledermaus]

Holy crap, I just listened to the ranting...if I was on that set and was the DP, I'd have crapped my pants. Twice.

[edda]

I would have cried. Then I would have GLUED MY FEET IN PLACE to make sure I didn't accidentally wander into a shot EVER AGAIN. Because that shit is traumatizing.

Plus I'm a bit disappointed in him. C'mon Senor Bale, no tacos until you apologize.

[havocs_roman]

... and instantly sued monsieur Bale, perhaps?

Honestly, I don't think I'd have done that (would have been fighting the panic attack to this very moment), but considering how litigation-happy people can be when faced with a rich celebrity, and the sheer insanity of Christian Bale's rage, this is one instance where I think the guy would have been justified in asking whatever the hell he wanted. Holy immaturity, Batman.

[sushixpack]

Woah, I hadn't heard about that Bale thing yet. That's just.. omfg O_O

Yes, I realize how much my icon doesn't match my comment. I don't have any fitting icons.. yet.

[himhilien]

Your icon is AWESOME.

[havocs_roman]

Seconding the icon love!

The Bale thing is *breaking* ONTD 2.0. This is the first time I've ever seen ONTD reproaching one of their fave hotties en masse. There's the odd "would still hit that" and "I can see where he's coming from", but the vast mjority is still going "Bale, please to be sitting down and shutting the goddamn hell up". It's the sanest I recall seeing ONTD, and this is coming from a Bale "fan".

[cleolinda]

Wow. Well, I guess it helps that he's going off on the guy for something like three minutes solid, right? I mean, there's "temper tantrum" and then there's... that.