Movies or shows I won't watch because of who is in them

[robjna]

As hollywood continues to beleive acting qualifies you as an expert on current affairs, I find myself not being able to patronize their movies. I once heard a quote that it used to be that fame brought celebrity, but now celebrity brings fame. here is my list of hollywood idiots who I cannot bring myself to watch in a movie or anymore. Lets add yours to the list:

Julia Roberts (top of my list, cannot stand the wench)

Richard Dreyfuss

Cammryn Mannhein

Rosie O Donut

Sharon Stone (not for political views, just a horrid actress)

Rob Reiner (anything he is involved in)

Tom Cruise (stero typical hollywood flake)

Nicole Kidman (see Above)

Bill Maher (enough said)

Help me expand my list

An obscure actress , upon recieving an award, stated that in days of yore, actors were considered rogues and vagabonds, and that we should still considered ourselves in that light. she was insightful beyond her years.

[GSWarrior]

There are no real "movie stars" anymore along the lines of Garbo, Audrey Hepburn, Patricia Neal, etc.....

[Corin Stormhands]

i doubt i will ever watch another Julia Roberts movie... she plays the same character over and over again

Not in Ocean's 11.

[Corin Stormhands]

I gotta get around to buyin' that DVD player or the DVD will be next-to-useless when it arrives!

We depend on my son's Playstation II right now. Although we have a dead VCR connected to a dying TV (it's not our only one), so when we replace them we'll go with the DVD.

[SoCar]

We applaud when conservative actors speak out because it is so rare and it takes guts for them to do so. Since the liberal actors seem to never shut up, if the rare conservatives do not speak out the only voices in Hollywood would be on the left.

If liberal voters are offended by Bo Derek or James Woods and want to boycot them I ceratainly understand that since I feel the same way on the other side. I'm sure Ms. Derek and Mr. Woods are smart enough to be aware of the risks.

[Kaslin]

So? I don't like guns either, but that doesn't mean I don't think you should not be allowed to own a gun. I don't play the Lottery or gamble, and I don't smoke, but that doesn't mean you can't

[dasein64]

That is essentially the gist of my thinking. This also applies to the news media. I had no idea of Julia Roberts politics until she dumped on Bush and then got the academy award for her nothing special acting in that liberal movie Erin B. (don't recall the spelling.) I believe there is a requirement that actors have to pay their dues in order to be rewarded with jobs and awards.

[Pagey]

I haven't paid money to go to a movie theater in about 7 years,this is how much I loathe Liberals.Everyone has to be a lefty and I won't intentionally patronize a Big-Mouthed Liberal Actor/ess in any way.(Ex:Remember how when 'W' was running for President, how many Liberals publicly claimed they could run and beat him???Well I stopped counting at 9 of them)If I'm missing out on some so called 'culture', then so be it.Besides, I have "real" work to accomplish, and Great Bluegrass Music to keep me calm.

[Richard Kimball]

Definitely add Carroll O'Connor,

There was an incredible change in Carroll O'Connor as he got older. Read an interview with him when All in the Family was big, and he was talking about how the drug laws were stupid, and how he would keep marijuana around the house if it were legal, just as he kept liquor around the house for his friends who drank. But as All in the Family progressed, Archie Bunker, while still uneducated, was brought out as a guy who dropped out of high school to support his family, and worked a job he hated at a loading dock so his kids could have a better life. I think these changes in the tone of the show represented a change in O'Connor. Later, when he was starring in "In the Heat of the Night", he watched Harold Rollins Jr. totally destroy himself with drugs and finally die of AIDS, and then his son killed himself with drugs. O'Connor became quite the drug crusader. In a later interview, he stated, I'm the star of the show, anything I want I'm supposed to get, but I can't even keep drugs off the set. The producers tell me the unions will go nuts if we start bugging the crews. Crew members supposedly were the ones who sneaked drugs to his son when he was on his downward spiral. Carroll O'Connor became Archie Bunker, but the real guy, who's out there all over the country, working his butt off, hoping for a better life for his kids, and wondering whatever happened to the values of this country.

[Bill Davis FR]

lets not forget paul newman and his wife joanne woodward and shirley maclaine

[weikel]

Of course Arny is anti gun since he is tough enough to kill people with his bare hands LOL.

[Sam Cree]

I agree with most of what you say in post #50.

It's true that most artists, no matter in what field, tend to be leftists. It's ironic, since leftist thought generally does not really allow what artists claim to value most, free (individual) expression. Leftist thought mandates that everyone must be working together for the good of the community; this really translates to for the good of the state.

Anyway, the end result is that the state ends up telling you how to write, what to make films about, what painting subjects are acceptable, etc. Sounds eerily familiar, actually.

Do these people (the art world) really want to be told by the state how to make their art or do they think they will be the ones doing the telling? Perhaps they do not care to see that free expression does not exist without individual freedom.

[x]

In theory, if someone is a good enough actor or actress, or even has enough "star quality," would you really be thinking about their politics as you watched them? Certainly, Jennifer Anniston isn't any sort of actress or real old-fashioned star, but I don't think about her stupid, offhand comments about Bush when her show is on. Same with Johnny Depp, who has made both stupid and wiser comments, and his movies. More likely it's something about an actor's or actress's personality that makes them hard to take on screen. So it is with the smugness of Alec Baldwin or Whoopie Goldberg. Or the obnoxious idiot quality of Woody Harrelson. Paul Newman may be, Carroll O'Connor may have been as far to the left, but not so high on the jerk scale. Generally, people like Baldwin, Goldberg, or Streisand, who wear their politics and sense of personal superiority on their sleeves do tend to score high on the jerk yardstick. Woody Allen is pretty much impossible for me to watch now. Not because of his politics, but because so much of his work brings the scandals he's been involved in.

[stevio]

So? I don't like guns either, but that doesn't mean I don't think you should not be allowed to own a gun.

Yea, but your not thinking about running for office on the (supposedly) pro-gun Republican ticket.

[philosofy123]

Unfortunately, very few American understand that. They simply view entertainment without noticing the hidden agenda, and the systematic social engineering plots.

[senorita]

Hollywood is full of actors who are paid to look nice and pretend they are someone else. They are not paid for their intelligence or they would be doing something else for a living.
So you will pretty much have to boycott every movie or tv show that airs if you are going to stick to your political ideals.
The only Hollywood person who really bugs me is Robin Williams. I just think he's creepy!

[DM1]

You must not forget these peaches

BEN AFFLECK (Ultra Liberal)
MATT DAMON (Ultra Liberal)
BARBARA STRIESAND (Ultra Liberal)
Ted Danson (Ultra Liberal)
and Pauly Shore (not sure if he is a liberal - just annoying lol ;)

[DM1]

Yes Nathan Lane is a liberal

[DM1]

is swayze a liberal?

[balrog666]

Those who won't see a movie because of who is in it are, in effect, surrendering a freedom. How nice not to have to fret over what movie to see or not to see. If it looks interesting, see it.

These people bring a lot of baggage to their films and it's there whether you choose to see it or not. And while it's not too difficult to deliberately overlook the obvious in such situations, it does require an effort and few films are worth such an effort.

[GSWarrior]

Let's say for the sake of discussion that I am an avid stamp collector....I've been collecting stamps my whole life and am passionate about it. Now let's suppose that Alec Baldwin stars in a movie about stamp collecting. I am faced with a choice of seeing the movie about a subject I am devoted to, or passing on it because Baldwin is in it.

I would choose to see it, in spite of Baldwin's presence.