July 8, 2010

Episode 146: M Night Sham Man: The Last Average Filmmaker


THOOM! reviews the motion picture The Last Airbender (2010, Paramount)

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8 comments:

XantesFire said...

Ok seriously, I don't care about Larry King and haven't watched him since the 80's but give him a break. Sure the world knows about his wife suicide attempts. But if his wife is having mental problems do you think him airing them out on his show will help her?

So they are celebrities, why do you say you don't care and then justify getting into their business?

Most of us probably have to deal with the public during work, don't we all deserve our privacy when we're not. Why not celebrities? Larry King- job- Radio/tv interviewer. Larry King- marriage- who gives a fuck. Larry King- Retirement- So long.

Lohan deserve time and I justify this because her crime is a matter of public record and discourse. They shouldn't have played around with her. What was one of her excuse, she's doing a movie? Fuck you, Joe got work on monday, he did a crime, he's doing the time.

They give monitoring bracelets to non celebrities.

Ref Green Hornet-What's so hard to believe about someone redefining themselves after a loved one has died? If they decided to become more religious or a cop, would that be more believable?

What's that? What's that? Waiting til she grows a little older?

Your friend has a bad taste in her mouth- eat less meat, more fruits.

The idea behind Avatar is so great that you can see it lurking behind that crappy movie. Watch the cartoons and you'll feel bad for supporting the crap.

Thoom said...

But if his wife is having mental problems do you think him airing them out on his show will help her

It's not gonna help her. She's depressed and everyone knows about her situation. But if he doesn't want to insult his viewers he should He has celebrities on his show when scandal happens in their lives. Now that scandal happens in his life he's gonna ignore it, then talk to the audience as if we don't see the elephants in the room? "My wife and I have more time to attend our son's Little League games." Phfft.

It's the equivalent to you finding out I that I just had my legs amputated and I not only neglect to mention it, but I am still talking to you about racing you down the slopes during the ski trip that we planned for the weekend.

And you are right I don't care, and it shouldn't be my business. But when Tiger Woods is on every billboard and commercial or Larry King news fills up my favorite talk show or pops up on my favorite website, it is now MY business. So I have a right to speak against "the value of celebrity." Their opinion or life happenings should not be news and a product shouldn't sell because a celebrity's face is associated with the product. As long as that goes on, I have a right to talk shit about these people.

What's so hard to believe about someone redefining themselves after a loved one has died?

It's not hard to believe that it would happen. It just makes that character an asshole.

T Mafia said...

Just a quick note to say that Pedobear is a hero and role model to be admired by all.

XantesFire said...

But him babbling about his wife's personal business all over the airwaves isn't likely to help. Not everyone likes that, do they? If she's having mental problems it may do more harm. And he's not really obligated to say anymore, especially because he's leaving.

Ski trip, not really. It's more like if you had drunk sex with K, everyone read it on another forum and I waited for you to say something. You have the option of saying something or not. And if I brought it up, you could call it quits.

No, you didn't get it. Being on billboards and endorsing is his job. Having sex with whoever, unless it's his own endorsed line of porn, is his private life. And I never understood why anyone would care about a celebrities values, unless they were out right criminal.

So you mean they are an asshole before or after? Like say a guy who did drugs, cleaned himself up after his girlfriend overdosed, even went to schools to do anti-drug talks, got married, had kids and he took care of all that, is he an asshole, or just human?

Why did they give it to Sham?

Thoom said...

Ski trip, not really. It's more like if you had drunk sex with K, everyone read it on another forum and I waited for you to say something. You have the option of saying something or not. And if I brought it up, you could call it quits.

The Ski Trip was an apt comparison, but you are avoiding answering the question and deflecting, like Larry King. But let's take the gay sex scenario were to happen, that would take place in a world that I was a gay man, in which case I would've been out since the early 90s so it would have been no big deal. But let's go with your hypothetical. Gossip on a forum wouldn't merit serious discussion. Larry King's tribulations were confirmed by legitimate news sources.

But if everyone were talking about it, I would address it on the show. And I wouldn't "call it quits".

him babbling about his wife's personal business all over the airwaves isn't likely to help. If she's having mental problems it may do more harm.

The news was out there anyway. The fact that he avoided it made it wierd. And I didn't say he should divulge his wife's hospital records. Either "I have other things going on I have to take care of". That addresses the issue without saying anything about it. Or "I'm ready to step down", that's cool. That avoids but it isn't lying. But saying "my wife and I have to do the idyllic family thing together" when he is on the verge of divorce is insulting to his audience, weird and makes him look like an automaton who is in complete denial.

XantesFire said...

You're not happy because you didn't get the sleaze.

Lets level it up, a)say you do a talk show, b)had a personal scandal, c)it was reported on the news, d)avoided talking about it. Let's level it down, a)say you have a blog, b)say you slept with K, c)It was reported on a forum, just because it's in a forum doesn't mean it's not real, d)you avoid talking about it. Getting your legs amputated wouldn't be a scandal, and if you still want to race down the slopes, I'll race you, you reality-denying gimp.

Again you miss the point, if your wife was suffering from mental distress, do you think it would help her if you talked about it on your show? For all you know she asked him not to reveal too much of what's going on.

Seriously, look at yourself, you do care and you want the sleaze.

And how is "...to do the idyllic family thing...", not acceptable? He's saying he has to take care of other things, mainly his family. He's saying he is stepping down. It's only insulting to the part of his audience who wants the sleaze.

THOOM said...

Again you miss the point, if your wife was suffering from mental distress, do you think it would help her if you talked about it on your show?

Learn to read. I wrote that it wasn't about that imo. I complained that he was talking down to his audience because he was painting one picture without addressing the polar opposite that people saw in the media.

And what sleaze? The news was already out there. I didn't care about his words on his alleged affairs or his wife's suicide attempt.

It was that fact that he said "my wife and i need to take the kid to little league." Larry, when you say that happy family shit, when the last we heard was (confirmed) suicide attempts and affairs, then you leave the decades long show looking like a douche. Just say "I quit" instead of, "I have to go to a little league game".

He's quitting his job for his kid's baseball games? He went to work the day his wife attempted suicide like nothing happened.

XantesFire said...

I did read and I did acknowledge that's what you think Larry should have done, explained himself, told details of his personal life to his audience, that you want the down and dirty, in other words-you want the sleaze. And I said that if he wants to he can keep his private life private, as much as possible.

Yeah, I have also already acknowledged that most of what happened has already been reported on by the news, but it doesn't mean he has to acknowledge it or talk about his private life. There is nothing about his job that he has to reveal his private life.

You do care, if you didn't you would have left it at ball game. But you want him to either explain himself or to just say I quit. And that would probably leave the appearance of bad days ahead for him.

But he leaves with a family orientated message that may indicate that's atleast one of the things he has to do to fix his marriage.

And maybe going to work right after his wife has attempted suicide is one of the things he has to work on.