Posted on 10/14/2010 9:45:32 PM PDT by This Just In
eter Jackson vs. The Unions
Posted By Leigh Scott On October 12, 2010
So my good friends, the labor unions, have decided to pick a fight with Peter Jackson and his upcoming production of “The Hobbit.” Of course, they are not my good friends, I say that sarcastically. Unions in general are bad news these days. The idea of “protecting the worker” has somehow morphed like a T-1000 into huge, multi-billion dollar corporations that stifle economic growth while using illegal methods of coercion to blackmail money from employers. The fact that they are a de facto wing of the Democratic Party also compels me to deny their friend requests on Facebook.
The entertainment industry guilds are particularly pernicious. They have singlehandedly forced film production out of California, and now, ultimately, out of the country. Their bullying knows no bounds. They are quick with a nasty press release (as in the case of “The Hobbit”) but have no qualms about making threats to commit illegal actions to get what they want. One of Mr. Jackson’s studios burned to the ground shortly after the release of his retaliatory statements.
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I'm totally behind Kelsey Grammer, but I don't know what I can do to help him. I dropped cable years ago.
We have two old obsolete televisions with digital converter boxes and a bent roof-top antenna. I hardly watch TV at all anymore, and the wife mostly just watches her prime time dramas. We're internet folks these days.
Wow, yeah, Liam would have been PERFECT! I love his looks and his presence. He is attractive to me. Viggo leaves me cold.
Mortensen is a one dimensional actor, in my view. He always plays the brooding loner who usually kills people.
I suppose the same women who are attracted to Mortensen are, perhaps, the same who would be attracted to inmates (no offense to FReeper Viggo fans).
Neeson possesses a commanding presence as well as a commanding voice. The looks like a king. Mortensen looks like someone who tends bar at a biker pub.
I know that he's "one of us", but the non-stop sermonizing about the evils of television on every thread he posts to, is rubbing many of us raw.
He's preaching to the choir.
The only thing I do want to watch with her in it is Coming Home, and that’s because:
Jon Voight’s in it
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He won Best Actor (1978) for that role over Robert DeNiro in The Deer Hunter, which is the best film ever made IMO. I’d like to see Mr. Voight’s winning performance.
But that gutter rat is in it, so I won’t watch.
I bet Frankzie isn’t as bad as Pissant and the anti-Palin rants. :^)
You're 100% right on Peter Jackson. He's at the top of the director food chain, for sure.
Yeah, you'd think -- but in my circle, that's not the case at all. These are normal women, run the gamut from very conservative, very intelligent thinkers to Hollywood "industry" liberals. Very surprising to me.
One of my favorite Jon Voight films is Runaway Train.
That is a very good film! Haven’t seen it in ages - I’ll keep an eye out for it.
Well, I did qualify my statement by saying that "some" of the LOTR actors are now probably typecast in those roles.
It would appear, though, that it's not "some" - it's only Viggo. The rest of the cast seem to be moving on.
LOL!! [^) Smack dab on the money on both counts! I adore Liam Neeson's wonderful nose, the tall bridged whitey-northern-European honker. If I didn't even know who he was, if I saw him on the street, I'd be smitten by his wonderful looks. I'm a sucker for a manly man.
Damn, are you reading my mind or something? LOL
I almost posted that.
Well, this is a Free Republic, so Pissant and Frantzie can post to their hearts content. Whether their content provides other Freepers with the same is another story altogether. :^)
Good for Rhys-Davies.
Notice that John Rhys-Davies was in “I Claudius” too? (As was Bernard Hill aka King Theoden of Rohan)
Mortensen is some kind of poet, which means he passes for an intellectual in Hollywood. He always seems like he's about to cry in his movies. He was good in LOTR but The Road was absolute torture. He just seems like the kind of person you'd ask "Do you want a beer?" and he'd look off into the distance, start to talk, stop, finally mutter something about "In ancient Africa there was this tribe, gone now due to capitalism, and..." and you'd be like, "Dude, I just asked if you want a beer," and then he'd start crying, silently, while looking disappointed at you.
He replaced Stuart Townsend, who would have been even wussier.
Actually, Mortensen was highly acclaimed in a couple of David Cronenberg roles, while the hobbits mostly appeared in smaller parts. Blanchett and McKellan were long-established before LOTR. Andy Serkis is still doing the kind of stuff he was doing before LOTR.
Of all of them, Mortensen got the biggest boost, after Bloom, who is typecast in those kinds of roles. (His only major attempt at a non-swashbuckler/historical role was a huge bomb, Elizabethtown. Mortsensen wasn’t known by anyone before, now he’s at least getting the kinds of parts that earn actors some respect, if not much box office. Of all those who did the movies, if I were an actor I’d rather be in his position.
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