Orlando Bloom is Deus Ex Machina

I have to agree, it really amazes me that the same old loonie Orlando
“fans” who keep peddling the line that he is some “has been” actor….when he was just named the 6th most bankable actor in the world…..lol…….it’s like their living in an alternative universe and beyond weird that they can’t seem to grasp he has elected to take time off and not because producers and directors don’t want to work with him!!!!

uhmmmm, because he was working

Ooops, I meant #302. Sorry, 298.
Let’s see…filming POTC through January 2007, then the play through September, so he’s only been off for a little over a year. With two new roles in the works, he would have been working sooner if there weren’t delays in filming. None of those delays his fault, BTW. Except for this past year he has worked non-stop for over nine years, earning many millions of dollars. What does he have to do in your eyes to be considered a success????

I kept wondering why the photo of Orlando and Miranda from People with the Diesel story looked like I had seen it before.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20250372,00.html

Then I went back to check old JJ threads and found this:
http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/09/10/orlando-bloom-scott-free/#comments

So, the sighting could have been called in with old pictures from last September used. Thought I’d mention it. Being seen at a store doesn’t automatically = purchasing something. A called in sighting isn’t proof, and when old pictures are used as ‘proof’ it looks a bit shady. IMO.

It’s Sir Ian McKellen. Moron.

See, that word is easy to spell. Even for tiny brains. Good job.

Don’t you just love it when people start talking to themselves?

What is sadder?
Fans continuing to support him?
Or hateful losers who think that it is their duty to change the minds of these fans by continually posting on old threads that they would have had to search for to find?
I think that I will stick with the positive people, and let the haterz flail away.

He is just a very very lucky has been. He was in some of the top money making films, as a supporting actor, those films were huge box office hits, so his name is listed as a top moneymaker, but the reality is that he did make or carry any of the films that made the money. LOTR was an ensemble piece, and Johnny Depp made POTC. Every other fim he has made as the lead has been panned by the critics. Yes, I know about the old shippers that go on and on about the Director’s cut of KOH, but reality is the majority of the film world sees it as less than a stellar performance. Elizabethtown was horrible,and Haven didn’t even open in many cities in the US. He is lucky in the sense that he appears to have more money making power than he really does, but industry isn’t stupid they can see it. Yes he has worked with big names, and I think most that worked with him liked him, but liking someone and putting butt’s in seats are two very different things. He just doesn’t put the butt’s in the seats, and now he is looking old, chubby, wrinkly and out of shape. Becoming a star maybe be partly luck, but if you don’t have the ability it won’t take you far, as is the case with Orlando. He got lucky after school, got talked about was offered films by directors, that realistically today wouldn’t touch him with a ten foot pole. They may love to see him at a party, but not in their movies. There have been a number of movies made this last year that he would have been the right age and type to play, good movies, but it appears as though no one was offering them to him.

I see why people.com would use old pics and attach them to a really boring story that anyone could have made up in 5 minutes. In the end, that magazine is about celebrities and they have to write something even when they are clearly run out of interesting news.
The denver post columnist doesn’t focus on writing about celebrities, he writes mainly about local news, so he can cope with not talking about them. And then there’s the coincidence of Orlando looking for winter sports equipment and being overheard saying “I want this one, babe” (wanker, LOL) pointing at a certain snowboard and then reading a sighting of them in Aspen by a columnist that most likely has never talked about him in his life before. Unlike people.com.

” That may include taking smaller parts in films with actors who care deeply about their craft.”

Did you not read #314’s post?
He has, and is taking smaller parts to hone his craft. He was offered the lead in In Celebration, but chose to take the smaller part because he, himself thought that he wasn’t ready.
And he has received much critical praise. You just seem to want to ignore that fact.
“Delusional” goes both ways. If either side ignores facts, they are deluding themselves.
You are as delusional as some of the worst fangirls.

Mia……what a load of BS……Orlando Bloom is one of the most successful actors in the world and any actor would kill to have achieved what he has…….jealous much over his relationship with Miranda Kerr…..get over it!!!!!!

Fair enough, but I think it’s different to be critical with him to ignore any merit he might have achieved. I would definately say that his career has gone through better moments, but to bury it before its time is not fair.
There are many abominable actors that still work and I don’t think he’s abominable.
Realistically, I don’t think it’s possible that he wasn’t offered any role after the confusingly successful POTC3, so I do think that he wanted to have a break and do some theatre acting, and maybe escape from all the hysteria around him, but I’ll give you that disappearing from movie business for so long is not an intelligent option, as people forget names easily.
I hope that his rumoured future projects go ahead, we´ll have to wait and see.
But you’ll have to admit that saying that nobody cares about him or that his work with very competent professionals is irrelevant is just not true.
Which are the reputable sources that had used him as the anti-example? I hope you are not talking about that Lainey loser that even other blogs mocked for having a suspicious sudden drastic change from love to hate towards him…
And that he gets compared to the young new Brit actors, sometimes in a positive way and sometimes in a negative way is not as bad as it seems. Quoting POTC: “You are the worst pirate I’ve ever heard of” - “But you HAVE heard of me”…

Ah, I see, you are one who cannot be reasoned with. As far as In Celebration goes, from the interviews I read from that time, he did want the older brother’s part, but was convinced by the director, to take the younger brothers role. She said he didn’t look old enough for the older brother, and since it was his first theatre role in the West End, he should start with something smaller. Then he was quoted as agreeing with the director’s assessement. I still watch his career ocassionally, but I have to tell you to from the people I talk to and interact with, who do not follow his career most of the general pubic considerer him done. He has had a succsefull career if you consider only the financial side of things, but he has not earned the respect from his peers for his acting ablitiy. They like him because he is easy to work with, seems to be a nice guy, and is professional in his approach to the work, but the ability to turn in a world shaking performance, not so much. But for some reason I am sure that it will not matter what I say, nor how objectivatly I say it, you will just hear what you want to. In fact from your style of writing, I would have a pretty good guess who you are. So, this is probably a worthless effort, but I had a couple of minutes and I thought why not.

@323
As far as the general public goes, I don’t think he is considered that good. If mainstream entertainment publications are using his career choices and path as a cautionanary tale to other young actors, then I would say that in general they feel like he missed the boat, and I actually read that quote in an interview done with Robert Pattinson, and not from a gossip blog. As far as saying that is “not true” that is stating a fact, and not a perspective, I try to be careful to say that this is what I think, not what I know. I do agree he wanted a break, I do agree that actors who are far worse than he are working, the question is are they working because they will take any offers they get, just to work and get some cash. We see that he will do commercials in Japan for some big dollars. But I think the reason he is not working is because he isn’t being offered really good roles, from the type of directors he was used to working in the past. The two or three projects he has been mentioned with, seem to stalled. Maybe they will get off the ground, maybe not, but from where I am settting, he just doesn’t have the power to make it happen that he may have had a few years ago.
Sorry for the long post, but I do like to think about what I say, instead of just shooting back with some generic insult, and no pov to back it up with.