Posts by briskhound2

cosmiclynx57 said:@briskhound2/">@@briskhound2 hey, can you just drop the final decision right here? then maybe give rustydrifter10 a heads up so we can get this penalty cleared out...

Sean Johnson40 said:The movie is bad. I won't call it trash, but it’s close. Schwarzenegger still acts mediocre and overly dramatic (that scene with his son!). It totally ruins the whole vibe because every time I see him, I can't stop thinking about his real life—how he talks about being married to one woman forever and being loyal to the core (even though we all know what kind of guy he really is, hitting on half of Hollywood and having kids on the side). The supporting cast is pathetic, almost funny (look at those background fighters), while he’s supposed to be tougher than all of them? He looks like a twig compared to the rest of the team. And a Navy SEAL getting taken out with almost zero resistance by those guys in Guatemala? Please.

All that beating and the pools of blood are just there to shock the audience. It reminds me of what Sydney Pollack said regarding Three Days of the Condor: "Film a lot of blood, add good music, and you've got a good movie." Arnie knows that trick well. Even if he didn't write the script, he definitely had influence over it; I bet if it wasn't his style, he wouldn't have even touched it. Basically, the lesson here is: when you don't have a coherent piece of work, just lean on violence and blood to fill the void. It feels like they followed a recipe: more blood equals better.

The peak of the cheesiness is that actress (who, let's be honest, probably shoved herself or let herself be shoved into that role in her private life just to snag a supporting part as the investigator). The absolute worst part was at the end of the film when Arnold told the director to zoom in on her backside and hold it in a close-up for a few seconds while she struts around like she's on a runway. She probably thinks she'll land a sponsor or something—this is her big break. Knowing how things go, Arnold's probably already used her up and tossed her aside...

4/10

The only two good movies I can remember from this year are Jack Strong and Kid Cannabis. Of course, both made next to nothing at the box office.

Rachel Fowler61 said:Brilliant??? Give me a break—I don't think I've ever seen someone with that much zero talent in my entire life... I mean, sure, she's gorgeous, but that's about it. If her fiancé wasn't Johnny Depp, there's no way she'd be landing any roles at all...

inabetterworld;50407569 said:

Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't hiding in plain sight...

Twenty-two years without a single scandal... honestly, at this point, he’s such a pro at burying his secrets that it’s more likely he’s just actually clean than anything else. You clearly aren't a huge fan of Warren Beatty... 🤣

I mean, he literally put that right there in his own bio—he’s basically out here flexing that number like it's some kind of trophy... 🤷

So, you know how Tarantino told his biographer that he actually had a role in Romanov's Dawn of the Dead? Well, just because he claims it doesn't exactly make it a fact...

It’s a solid marriage, really... I mean, it makes you wonder how someone as dysfunctional as Warren Beatty can actually pull off a decent marriage like that...

Unless you actually know the guy personally, you really don't have a clue just how dysfunctional he truly is. You're basically just operating on an assumption that he’s broken—but honestly, looking at the facts... the evidence pretty much proves you wrong...

You really think he’s just gonna walk around flaunting his diagnosis? Please... people guard stuff like that like it's some state secret—they hide it away like a snake hides its tail...
So, I was thinking about those times when you just know something is off—you can feel it in your bones—but instead of actually calling a doctor, you just sit there staring at the ceiling, trying to diagnose yourself based on some random symptoms... It’s such a classic move, honestly. You start noticing these little glitches in how your body is running, maybe a weird ache here or a sudden dip in energy there, and you just try to power through it. It's like trying to fix a glitchy laptop by just hitting the spacebar harder... you know what I mean? You stay in that loop of wondering if it's just stress or something more serious, all while avoiding that inevitable trip to the clinic... It's a strange kind of mental game we play with ourselves...

Actors act like they’re somehow ashamed of their diagnoses, which is just weird... Honestly, from everything I've read about him, I haven't seen anything negative at all. You're just projecting by acting like the guy is some kind of sick puppy... 🤷

It’s not really about being promiscuous or cheating on your partner—it’s just about the sheer numbers... honestly...
Man, his is just... wow. Truly next level... 🤣

According to him, anyway. I mean, I definitely didn't see a line of twelve thousand women out there all confirming that...

Yeah, right... as if. 😂
Look, it’s not like he’s some kind of saint who isn't allowed to say "no"...
Look, at the end of the day, a guy has free will... he really does. These people were practically throwing themselves at him—offering him everything—and he took them up on it. He wasn't some victim caught off guard; he knew exactly what was happening and he went along with it, fully aware...

Aha. There you are. I’ve been waiting for you to show up... Look, a sick person is subject to the sickness, not their own free will. If someone is genuinely ill and can't control themselves—it's just like alcoholism. It's out of their hands. But if they did it by choice, fully aware of what was happening? Then they did it because they had the opportunity. Which is exactly what everyone else would do, honestly. Morality is, as I said before, a pretty hilarious concept...

Personality... that's really what we're here to talk about—diving into the actual characters of these Hollywood people...

From what I can tell, Warren Beatty seems like a decent enough guy—just a solid actor, not some total jerk, a straight 5 out of 10 in my book. That is, unless you count his own claim about picking up something like 12,000 women... though honestly, the personalities of people in Hollywood and their messy marriages is a whole other debate entirely.

there's no such thing as a bad profession, just bad artists.

I’ve been with 6,000 women. If I were a movie star, it would’ve been 12.☕

would you hang a painting on your wall if you knew the guy who painted it was a rapist who tortured a bunch of women?🤷

If he produced killer landscapes, then yeah, immediately—though I'm not much of a landscape guy myself. Does that mean you’d stop listening to Jerry Lee Lewis just because he was an incestuous creep who married his underage cousin?

What really gets under my skin is this one guy—someone whose behavior is just excessive, bordering on pathological, if you ask me... like he’s got a serious addiction or something. You look at the sheer number of women involved—we're talking 12,776 different partners here—and it speaks volumes. It’s honestly hard to take him seriously when he’s being held up as some kind of role model, someone who’s supposed to embody modesty or stability... especially when his whole life has been defined by giving in to every whim of the Hollywood elite...
And honestly, he’s being way too hard on him—it's excessive... maybe he isn't under investigation right now, but looking back at his track record, he definitely had his fair share of run-ins in the past... quite a bit, actually...

Honestly, it would’ve been pretty weird if they hadn't hit that 12,000 mark by now... 🤷

I feel like you don't quite grasp what the word promiscuity actually means...
When people talk about promiscuity, they aren't just talking about having a lot of sex—it’s more about that "indiscriminate" element, you know? It's that lack of a filter... just moving from one thing to the next without much thought or selectivity involved...

I mean, if someone with 12,000 partners isn't a total fraud... then I honestly don't know who is... 🤷
So, saying someone’s been living off nothing but Bennett for the last twenty years... honestly, it’s kind of like saying...
Just because someone hasn't touched a drop in ten years doesn't mean they aren't an alcoholic... addiction is addiction, plain and simple.
The thing is... addiction isn't really something you "cure" once and for all—it’s more about just keeping it on a leash. You've gotta manage it, day by day. And honestly? It's the exact same deal with being promiscuous... it's just another thing you have to keep under control...

So, what are you actually trying to say here—that she assaulted him?...🤷 Because honestly, that would be the only possible way to justify those numbers if he wasn't just being totally promiscuous...

In psychiatry, all the rooms look exactly the same.

...what does any of that even matter now? Some were chasing him, he was chasing some... the bottom line is he went along with it.
He probably had a whole bunch of women in that mix who were just getting false hope from him just so he could get them into bed. So, he’s not just promiscuous—he’s likely pretty manipulative too. That kind of thing isn't exactly rare with guys like him. Honestly, I'm more surprised he even ended up in this thread...

When I mentioned earlier that the guy had twelve thousand women, you replied saying that fact makes him your idol.

Of course not, but you aren't going to put him on a list of model citizens. Or are you?
Or because he filmed a few decent movies, we're supposed to just ignore the fact that he's a sex offender? 😕

casualbadger92 said:Don't go judging others based on your own standards. No, really, nobody should... ☕

they're a whole different story.
we're talking about that old player Warren Beatty right now.
just because he's been riding shotgun with Annette Bening for twenty years doesn't suddenly turn him into some kind of saint.
or better yet, a candidate for this topic—like he’s some paragon of stability and composure, especially when you consider those 12,775 women... 🤷
once a player, always a player.
I wouldn't go talking about any "settling down" here. Maybe he just can't get it up anymore. Maybe Viagra stopped doing the trick. 🤷 Or maybe he picked up something nasty and decided to lay low. 🤷
Who knows... all we have is his history. And that speaks for itself. ☕

I don't get why you're trying to link those two things—acting talent and being a total slut. Like one affects the other, or like you have to be a degenerate to be a great actor. 🤷
I mean, look at Daniel Day-Lewis.

Maybe over in the sex addiction ward at the psych ward. ☕

honestly, there's nothing left in the tank once you've burned through it all 🤷

but he isn't exactly alone in this. having a different woman every night—or multiple women in a single day—says quite a lot about someone's mental instability and deep-seated personal complexes. maybe he should've spent a little more time working on himself instead...

so you're telling me a guy who basically just used his looks and fame to satisfy his basic urges with as many women as flies on a porch is actually someone you'd look up to?
🤷

casualbadger92 said:Look, that’s all well and good, but it doesn't change the reality of what he was doing—he was basically a high-end gigolo back then, just taking every single opportunity that came his way...

I mean, who knows... maybe they’ve just got an open marriage going on... 🤷
People who live that fast-paced, casual lifestyle... they don't exactly find it easy to just flip a switch and walk away from it all... it's hardwired into them at this point...

If you're asking me... the total opposite of Warren Beatty would be... 🤣

So, basically... he had like 12,775 different partners before finally settling things down with just one—his wife, Annette Bening. 😂

casualbadger92 said:I mean, let's be real—before he finally settled down, Warren Beatty pretty much had half of Hollywood on speed dial... ☕

I honestly thought this thread was supposed to be about those "regular" actors—you know, the ones who didn't end up groveling to the Hollywood big shots...
Is anyone actually reading the intro?... 🤷

Sean Johnson40 said:Come on, briskhound2, stop embarrassing yourself. You quote me like you're somehow clearing your name, but then you just end up stumbling around in the dark.

You and this movie are basically the same thing to me as a NASCAR race. If I actually sat down to analyze all your nonsense, I'd be typing for half an hour.

You and movies... honestly, it's just like me and car racing. If I actually sat down to analyze all your nonsense, it’d probably take me half an hour of typing just to get through it...

Karen Cook7 said:The main issue is the whole premise—Pompeii (turns out people aren't big fans of tragic romances). It’s kind of ridiculous to try and pull off a love story set in that tiny window between a guy becoming a gladiator and everything blowing up—love at first sight followed by sudden death within a day or two, maybe a week tops. The opening sequence showing how the lead ends up a gladiator is pretty pointless. And that whole subplot where the general is obsessed with the lead actress? Totally forced. The entire plot is just one cliché after another without any actual logic...

Sean Johnson40 urbanjackal13 said:Please, don't tell me you actually like this garbage... You're starting to sound like the director's lawyer.
Sometimes I catch myself wondering... when I'm reading through your comments—and those from other self-proclaimed "experts" around here—if everyone is just losing their sense of taste and standards altogether...

Predictable acting, a totally cliché script where you pretty much know the ending before the opening credits even finish rolling—just the same dumb plot we've seen a hundred times before. Honestly, everything was just so predictable and incredibly boring... It’s one of those loud, overproduced movies that seems to think the audience is brain-dead, assuming we'll all just fall into a trance because of some flashy costumes and mediocre CGI disasters. In reality, it was so tedious I couldn't even make it past the first 15 minutes. I ended up fast-forwarding through the rest just to preserve my own mental health... Thank God I didn't go to the theater for this one; I definitely wouldn't be regretting wasting money on a ticket.

Richard Wilson4 said:Think about Chicago or Jerry Maguire. I can't recall if Ya, Ya, and Me was a massive smash, but overall, from 2001 to 2004, she was absolutely killing it. I don't see why she wouldn't be in the women's category.

After 2006, it’s game over. She just doesn't get those kinds of roles anymore.

Richard Wilson4 said:Look, let's be real. Josh was that teen heartthrob who just never quite leveled up to a Leo DiCaprio or a Brad Pitt, whereas she was basically the definition of an A-lister for years.