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It's hard to say how I feel about Jared Leto. On the one hand, he has these charges on him. On the other hand, he can't act, he's consistently the worst part of movies he's in, and he basically has nothing good about him.
The only genuinely positive thing I could maybe say about him is he did do a good job playing a tech oligarch pervert in Blade Runner 2049.
Though in retrospect seems like that didn't involve much acting.
His band had like 2 ok songs and he looked kinda hot in an emo way in the music video for The Kill. He was also the only one who actually understood that Italians are unserious people in House of Gucci
That's all the good things I have for him.
You're right, I've never been able to take an Italian I've met IRL seriously. I'm not sure why.
I've known loads, and I love many of them... But they take themselves and everything so seriously it wraps back around to being un serious.
Same with Kinski, it's just abusive creeps playing an exaggerated version of themselves. Depp is similar, in that the only guy he can play is the mask he puts on to appear as a harmless goofball.
That's true, but he's also known to be personally a nightmare to work with on set. And everything he's in bombs.
Don't forget his music sucks!
This is the problem: it doesn't suck, and pretending it does is only working to hide the problem.
Say what you will about Thirty Seconds to Mars, but they've sold a lot of albums and are very successful. You might not like their type of music, but a lot of people do and a lot of people like it.
Rooftops by Lostprophets was absolutely a banger (and I stand by this, even though I haven't listened to it since) and that guy was way worse.
People still listen to Chris Brown after he beat Rihanna to a pulp. Lots of women out there who would gladly take that beating for a night with him. And it doesn't help that he's a great singer. I'm not even really into R&B (though, 90s R&B was something else), but look, man can sing. I would very comfortably say he is a great singer, and I stand by that. Shitty person though.
It's easy to say their music sucks because they did a bad thing... but it doesn't... and people still support them.
Loads of other bands/musicians have done terrible things, and their fans are quick to forgive or overlook.
:ok: Something being popular doesn't mean it's good.
Also you should rethink that wording about women and Chris Brown, it sounds pretty gross to me.
even my 15 year old ass would have called you a loser for listening to 30 seconds to ass and would have encouraged you to listen to a real band like evanescence, deftones or minor threat
a lot of people liked hitler as well
It sucks and so do you
Fuckin yikes, dude. Check yourself.
a lot of people eat at mcdonalds every day. they get diarrhea from it and go right back to show their support.
is mcdonalds that good? or do marketing and promotion tie-in campaigns create hegemonic consumption patterns?
What the heck?
Get yourself checked man. You need help
It was pretty cool when his face was pummeled in Fight Club
Agreed, his best performance was getting the shit kicked out of him.
I kind of enjoyed when Christian Bale killed him with an axe in African Psycho, personally
Apparently, Christian Bale constantly acted like Patrick Bateman even off set. And they didn't tell Leto he was about to be killed with an axe in that scene, so his reaction would be genuine. It's great to know that, for a few seconds, Jared Leto thought Christian Bale was about to kill him with an axe.
I’m curious how they didn’t tell him. Wouldn’t that be in the script?
Did they assume correctly that he didn’t read it?