OlderFri, 15 May 2009 at 8:57 am
Gerard Butler: Charged With Misdemeanor Battery
- Gerard Butler is in a little bit of trouble
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- Hilarie Burton talks about her leaving One Tree Hill
- Suri Cruise looks pretty excited
- Vanessa Williams has been aging very well
- Lindsay Lohan’s dad will track down her intruder
- Seanna Mitchell is a bikini model and GoGo dancer
- Megan Fox is not the hottest woman in the world
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Thanks Hangglider :-) I’ve enjoyed my long time observation of GB - good entertainment for the most part. There are some great films out there you might want to find - a campy treatment of the Beowulf saga filmed entirely in Iceland - he’s a fab Beowulf….takes your breath away. But though Attila was kind of standard TV movie stuff - he was crazy beautiful as that Hun - yikes.
I’m holding out for Citizen because I feel the role will be a meaty one for him and he can chew away at the scenery…what’s not to like there LOL
But the one that’s fraught with portent for his career is this Aniston collaboration - please Gerry, say it isn’t so. I think for an actor, that might be like ‘filing for bankruptcy’ You get to live, but you damage your career for 7 - 10 years :-)
Hey, Amen, I have the Beowulf movie and have seen Attila. My problem with Attila is that it has so many historical inaccuracies it is laughablle. Someone wrote a review without even mentioning the name of the program saying (and you could almost feel the boredom), “Now we have Fabio as Attila the Hun galloping over the steppes of Asia and taking off his clothes at every opportunity.:.
Attila was short, fat and ugly, and Asian, (there are pictures of him) looked nothing like GB just for starters.
To me LAC sounds like an episode of CSI or something, not original. I liked the idea of J Aniston’s movie about the prison women musicians, a real historic event, but it will probably end up (groan) like Rachel Green in Jail. Butler will probably try to do a Texas accent and do it badly.. I don;t want to see it. Where did the that terrific Scottish actor go?
Hey , how about giving the slander a break? Your disappointment and anger is showing. Interviews don’t mean anything. A lot of times articles are twisted around by the writer for their own selfish purposes-for shock value. Or video interviews are edited on purpose to be entertaining. It sounds like you believe in everything you read and you shouldn’t because a lot of times they’re just a bunch of lies. Question, do you really hate GB that much, or is this what you call pure entertainment? I was just curious to know, not being sarcastic. I’m guessing that you’re disappointed bewildered fans who have been let down one too many times. Maybe the answer is don’t have him on a huge pedestal. Let him be a flawed human and if you don’t like him then don’t watch his movies or read articles about him or watch interviews. That’s just my opinion.
#53: Or maybe he could stop telling the public that he’s a “puppy dog” and a “nice guy.” Maybe fans should stop believing in a fantasy and he should stop feeding it to keep them buying tickets.
Colin Farrell didn’t pretend to be the boy next door and no one was shocked by his party days and womanizing. Gerry always said he wasn’t the horndog the press made him out to be, which was a lie. He said he was in love with acting and it’s pretty clear he’s in love with the lifestyle it provides him more than acting. Now that he’s better known it’s a lot harder to keep up the facade.
His fans were too gullible in believing him, but he also deceived them with the guy next door act. Maybe the public doesn’t realize it, but when it comes to women he currently has one of the worst reputations in Hollywood. That took some doing considering what the competition is for that position. Apparently he’s been on more models than Chanel.
Here’s more proof that G doesn’t care how he’s perceived or maybe he thinks this behavior is o.k. for a man in his mid-30s. His immaturity has been hiding in plain site for a long time, well before 300. I guess his PR team has done a good job, as well as his crazy fans, in diverting attention away from this guy to the more agreeable Gerry most fans want to believe in.
A picture says more than words. Can’t misinterpret this one ~
http://celtic-hearts.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=225&pos=0
# 55- Well, that’s our boy!
I’ll say it one more time (won’t be the last time I’m sure).
SOMEONE SAVE THIS FOOL FROM HIMSELF!
Maybe you and his other fans should stop believing all the BS he is saying and take off the rose-colored glasses. What constantly amazes me is how is fans are very quick at saying “I only believe what he says himself” when it’s stuff that fits their fantasy image of him, but as soon as he says something not so favorable it had to be twisted around or edited by mean-spirited journalists… Yeah right…. Dream on…
@meggie:
The picture in reference here is not Gerry in his private life but a scene from the “Trailer for the Remake of Gore Vidal’s Caligula”, in which Gerry played Prefect Cassius Chaerea. The picture is from one of the orgy scenes in the trailer. It was made in 2005 and is only a 5 minute film. Just to clear this up about this particular picture. It’s from a film clip, not from Gerry’s real life.
I haven’t been here in a while. I’m amazed that the same people keep posting these lengthy comments. Where do you get the time?
Must have been an easy role to play. No acting required. LOL
#60
yeah, he got plenty of practice making his “home movies”.
Hangglider - come on now - were you looking at that ATTILA man candy movie for historic content?? Not moi - I just watched GB ride and rant around in his costumes - thought he was gorgeous…did he have a speaking part…oh…gee, can’t remember LOL
We have different expectations on the Aniston thing - for me it is sounds a lot like “augering in” career wise.
The career thing is following just like his life - vexing and paradoxical. He says he loves women but devalues them with his actions. He says he’s an ACTOR but projects say “celebrity boy.” Color me officially disenthralled.
@Swansong: I can bang out 10 lines in about 3 minutes. From reading the lengthy comments, as you call them, I doubt there’s more than 5 minutes devoted to a post. Perhaps it’s not the length of the posts, but the moderate and well reasoned commentary that you question.
Cheers tho. ;-)
@ amen. I was going to say something similar to your comment to swansong. Some of us write very fast. Also read fast. Then again, going through the comments on these sites isn’t exactly like reading, say, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”
And yes, I did watch “Attila” out of historical interest. I was a history student, am still a history buff, usually see any movie or TV program that purports to be about historical events and people, whether it’s accurate or not, just to see what they do with the material, and sometimes learn more. These projects always prompt historians to write reviews about their accuracy or lack of it.
When “Attila” came out I was taking some courses in Asian history so it was a must see. GB must have made less of an impression on me than he did on you, though, because when “300″ came out I didn’t realize he was Attila until I read a thumbnail bio of him in “300″ publicity. I said, “Ohhhh, yeah! I remember that guy.”
Well, this qualifies as a long post, too long, but I thought your comments deserved an explanation. Cheers.
Swansong is a devoted Gerry loon. Everyone knows that. Just ignore her. If Gerry sawed a baby in two and ate it, she’d blame the infant. Some of those whackadoodle GALS think he reads these sites and they don’t want to upset him because they’re praying they have a chance with him. Sorry if that thought made you barf.
Faux Swansong is much more fun. Where’s she hiding?
That photo is from a role he was playing, not real life. In his real life, his tongue would probably be elsewhere on all those women. He’s allegedlly done more “kitty licking” than a cat with a new litter.
Forgot to add that his tongue must look like bubble wrap by now.
why the hell would anyone be in a 5 minute movie? oh yeah, there’s orgy scenes in it.
didn’t want to miss being in that cinematic masterpiece, huh ger?
@hangglider:
Never was one to look to the pop culture for historically accurate treatment. You must have gotten something out of TROY and ALEXANDER too then - I mean besides a few laughs. Couple of films I particularly liked for good history content; Gandhi, Killing Fields, A Man For All Seasons. I have been wishing for a remake of AMFAS and thought a strong, tortured, Catholic Scot could play that kind of role…I know - dream on.
Cheers :-)
@amen
I don’t look for historically accurate treatment, I just go to see the films and figure out for fun how accurate they are. I missed “Troy” until I saw part of it on TV recently. In “300″ I feel reasonably sure the Persian army didn’t have monsters on the payroll , and “Attila” was so riddled with historical inaccuracies and made-up mystical crap it was absurd. Actors work with the material they get, unless they get enough power to call the shots and make great, honest movies, which is what we wanted and expected from GB, isn’t it? And anyone who says we had no right to expect that is fudging around making excuses. We have a right to expect greatness from people who seem to offer it. If they don”t deliver, we have a right to be disappointed.
You have it right about the films you mention. Also “The Right Stuff” was pretty good I think. Also, “Tora! Tora! Tora!,” the U.S. Japan collaboration about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. When former enemies can collaborate and face their common guilt that’s strong stuff. Perhaps one of the greatest last movie lines of all times is Admiral Yamamoto, surrounded by people celebrating their great victory over the U.S., looking troubled and saying something like, “I fear we have just awakened a sleeping tiger.”
Another historical note, the aviator who led the attack on Pearl Harbor later became an American citizen and a Christian minister and lived in Oregon for the rest of his life. History is endlessly fascinating. True stories to me are much more fascinating than Batman.
#55 that photo may be from a movie but it’s a pretty good example of the way GB has behaved in some clubs and parties in LA.
@hangglider:
OK HG I’ll bite: “…the world may construe by it’s wits, this Court must construe by the llllaaaaawwwwwwww…” (as only Sir Paul Schofield could say “law” :-) ) I remember your quote by Adm. Yamamoto but in the “pear Harbor” film of Affleck et all…cute little romp thru WWII :-)
I recently enjoyed an interesting historic double header. I saw THE READER on a Friday and VALKYRIE the next day. While non-reader says “what could I do, the dead are still dead…” our boy Klaus and his noble crew of saboteurs saw evil and risked all to confront it. I give Tom C. full credit for taking on this important historic event. Did you see it?
@amen. No, sorry, I missed those movies, and haven’t visited this site in awhile, obviously. Guess those two go on the list for DVD rentals! BTW, my quote by Yamamoto might be wrong. As I look at it, I think he said “giant” not “tiger.” I think Tora! Tora! Tora! is a much better film than Pearl Harbor. Also historically accurate. Have you seen it? There is a great, unforgettable, funny scene in which an American woman pilot in a small plane suddenly finds herself surrounded by the attacking Japanese bombers. True incident too. WEll, I’d better hang up and glide off.
@amen. Sorry. correction. Yamamoto was quoted in TTT! as saying, “I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping GIANT and fill him with a terrible resolve.” I understand the second part of the sentence after GIANT was dropped in PH, and that Yamamoto may never have actually SAID this aloud or on that occasion anyway. There is some evidence that he wrote it to someone in a letter, but it seems the people involved with the film never actually saw the letter and so it’s anecdotal. So much for historical accuracy. I stand humbled. Hell, it’s small potatoes compared with men who turn into bats, talking, flying cars and Persian soldiers riding elephants and rhinocereses into Thermopylae. It’s a damn good quote anyway, and at least based on SOMETHING. :) If the Admiral didn’t say it aloud, he should have! Screenwriters need SOME dramatic license to condense events and move the story forward so I don’t quarrel with it, just feel sorry to say I told ya wrong. I hang again and glide away.
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