03-19-2018, 10:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-19-2018, 10:33 PM by Donald McKinney.)
(03-19-2018, 10:08 PM)bruttenholm Wrote:(03-19-2018, 05:43 PM)Donald McKinney Wrote: Tchoh! If these people read Bob McCabe's Dreams and Nightmares, they'll know the true truth of what happened on The Brothers Grimm.Nobody reads those kind of books. I mean most people haven't even heard of Gilliam before that and here comes a mish mash of opinions with old photos of Gilliam and Weinstein laughing side by side resurfacing, what do you except ? Hell, even Asia Argento thought that Gilliam was defending Weinstein and was siding with him against Pecorini in the conflict they had on Grimm...
Gilliam has massive public explanations to make if he expects his film not to be dumped on 10 screens or just in vod (if it gets released at all)... When the producer of La La Land is rejoicing on twitter that we won't hear of you ever again, it means you're clearly a pariah.
And frankly as a fan who waited 20 years to see his Quixote I'm so angry at him... What was he thinking ? How could he imagine that dropping casually that actresses were trading sex with weinstein against work would be a relevant opinion in today's world ?? To be honest I'm devastated in front of his stupidness. I mean there's a time and a place, hasn't he any superego that would have prevented him of saying any hot take that floats in his mind ? I don't manage to realize how we got this far for everything to blow off on the finish line out of sheer stupidity.
Stupid or not, it had to be said, the whole #MeToo and #TimesUp thing has brought out a dark side in celebrities. It has done good, but if a new allegation comes out, EVERYONE HAS TO BELIEVE IT. Erm, are we not allowed to make our own minds up about it? Are we not allowed to have opinions anymore? Isn't that what freedom of speech is about? Look at Woody Allen, all the allegations about him have been regurgitated, even though Allen was found not guilty, but because of #MeToo, you'd think he was guilty. It's become a Black Mirror nightmare scenario come true.