And if you argue, the terrorists win.

Shocking? Yes.
Surprising? Not really.

Rihanna better wake up before one day, she won’t wake up at all.
A shocking statement for me to say? Yes.
Surprising? Not so much.

in all fairness it still went on to be tom cruises highest grossing film of all time and speilbergs 5th or 6th highest so it still did well.

The DP has forgiven him, and that’s all that matters, because after all, it’s NONE OF OUR BUSINESS.

Hey Rob,

I feel like you’re asking me questions, then ignoring what I answer, and then just ask the question again.

You quoted:

““It’s about how just weeks later we’ve all forgotten about it when we wouldn’t have if it were a less popular celebrity.””

This again shows that the post is about US. Not passing judgement on Bale.

And yes… if this was a less POPULAR (not famous) person, we would be all over him and calling into question if we would see Terminator. Don’t believe me?

How about Tom Cruise? When he did his wild outburst on Oprah, the chat boards were filled with people openly questioning if they’d even bother going to see War Of The Worlds.

At that point his popularity had dropped due to the Scientology thing. So when the couch hopping insanity happened, because he wasn’t as “popular” anymore, people hammered him. Then War of the Worlds went on to make a ton less money than the studios originally projected.

Notice I’m not saying we the public were right or wrong to hammer Cruise so harshly… just observing that we DID.

So here comes along Christian Bale. He does something much worse than jumping happily up and down on a couch… and we all swept it under the rug… because he’s everyone’s favorite hero right now. He’s at the height of his popularity unlike Cruise was at the time.

Again, nowhere did I say we should or shouldn’t hammer Bale or that we should or shouldn’t feel one way or another about him…

My post was an observation about US. How we treated one mega star differently than another because one is popular right now and one wasn’t.

If you disagree with that, I totally respect that… but it is nonetheless my observation and opinion which I post here for you to debate.

I’m sorry did you not actually say “It’s about how just weeks later we’ve all forgotten about it when we wouldn’t have if it were a less popular celebrity.” Or did I just make that up too. So Ok you didn’t actually come out and say we should be outraged, However you feel we should all still give a crap after all this time has passed? Why? Before you go back to calling me naive again and tell more people they haven’t read your original post. Explain to me why we should still care? Then go on to explain why this is such a big deal when all he did was yell at someone for screwing up his scene.

I think I only responded to your original post once. Everything else I have said has been in response to your replies to other people.

Going back to someone Else’s post in a previous blog on here about this very topic. All jobs are different. Not everyone is excused from this type of behavior. In some environments things like this just don’t matter. For instance you wouldn’t blow up on someone if you worked in an office or in a court room as a lawyer. Some careers are more relaxed then other when it comes to peoples etiquette. Being an actor is one of them.

Hey Heath,

How can you say:

IGNORE your questions.. im still waitin for an answer to mine

When your post had no questions in it. I just looked at it again… yup… no questions in it.

And if you want to call:

“your article is well written and i see your point. but if this was a nobody, would you have taken the time to write this long article, WEEKS after the story is evan relevant?”

a question… then I did indeed “answer” it in my very next post when I directly said:

“Also, you clearly missed the point of the whole post. This “story” is not “weeks after being relevant”. The post is about how, just weeks later, everyone seems to have forgoten about it, and how, with Terminator coming up fast, it is effecting my enthusiasm for the movie.

Therefore, it’s very relevant right now.”

So if that was a question, then I did answer it. So what are you talking about? Or do you just not read?

And for the record, I was very careful NOT to call Rob naive, but rather I thought the position he was taking was naive, just as I was sure that he would find mine naive… which is all fair. There is a difference between commenting on a point of view and commenting on the person who holds it. If you don’t understand that… I’m not really sure how to help you.