Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

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Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 1:08pm

Gary Oldman was recently interviewed by Playboy and he defended Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin for their terrible behavior. He also criticized "political correctness". I think I just lost respect for him. It's a shame because he is a very fine actor, but Baldwin and Gibson are not great people to defend.


Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin, criticizes 'political correctness'

#2

Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 1:15pm

His presence in a movie is enough to make me not want to see it. I actually liked the most recent Planet of the Apes movie, but I'll be skipping the next one because a) I am over franchises; and 2) I just have a visceral negative response to Gary Oldman.

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#3

Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 1:39pm

Oldman's the real problem for me -- I think he's one of the greatest living actors, but his politics and statements like he's just released are just repulsive. I'll continue seeing his work, but I'm very grateful that I don't know him personally.

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#4

Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 1:49pm

I like that he conflates Gibson hurling abusive insults at a cop who was arresting him for drunk driving with not being able to "take a joke."

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#5

Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 1:50pm

the answer is on the last page of his interview, where he states he leans libertarian.

libertarians believe in freedom, including the freedom of the majority to make any minorities miserable.

#6

Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 3:07pm

I have less of a problem with his comments than I anticipated before I clicked the link. Given his libertarian leanings, I think his comments are more about hypocrisy than condoning anything.

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#7

Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 3:09pm

I thought they were pretty much complete nonsense.

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Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 3:35pm

^^^^^^
Agrees w Reg

#9

Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 3:48pm

I know he's had some, um, missteps...but is Alec Baldwin really now in the same league as Mel Gibson?

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Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 4:40pm

I mean, who hasn't gotten drunk and blamed all war on the Jews?

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#11

Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 4:45pm

Don't we need our posters on the right and left to come together and bemoan about the PC police?

#12

Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 4:54pm

I don't trust ANYBODY who uses the term "too PC" because it most often belies shallow thinking and an implied agreement on what the empty phrase means.

Also, libertarians are d-bags and a-holes and accessories.

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#13

Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 5:17pm

A racist defends two racists. Nothing to see here?

#14

Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 5:25pm

This thread would be interesting if there weren't so many damn Jews posting in it.

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Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 6:09pm

"This thread would be interesting if there weren't so many damn Jews posting in it"

Come over here and say that, Vonce.

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#16

Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 7:12pm

I love me some Gary Oldman. Specifically Fifth Element Gary Oldman.

#17

Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 7:31pm

I actually forgot about Alec Baldwin's f-- incident when I made my earlier post, not that anyone remotely cares.

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Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 9:43pm

Well apparently Gary hated himself in Fifth Element--and in basically anything else popular. "PLAYBOY: Really? You don’t like Sid & Nancy?

OLDMAN: I don’t like myself in the movie, no. Frankly, I didn’t want to make it in the first place. I was talked into it at the time. And now, if I flip through the channels and come upon it, it’s “F*CK! Sid & Nancy,” and off it goes. I don’t think I played Sid Vicious very well. I don’t like the way I look in Prick Up Your Ears. I wasn’t the right person to play Beethoven and turned it down half a dozen times.

PLAYBOY: The Dark Knight? Harry Potter?

OLDMAN: It was work.

PLAYBOY: Uh, The Fifth Element?

OLDMAN: Oh no. I can’t bear it. "

#19

Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 10:11pm

I agree with Oldman, he's ****e!!! But even he would have to acknowledge that he's a distant second in the all time greatest Lost in Space's Dr. Smiths.

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#20

Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 10:48pm

You would agree with him, CC!!!

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Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 10:56pm

You make me think of that one movie "Beaches"!

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#22

Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 11:04pm

Babs Hersh can do no wrong!

#23

Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 11:27pm

I'm so glad "CC" is finally catching on for FN. It has a nice ring of truth to it. Bless you all.

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Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/24/14 at 11:36pm

You have terrible powers of deductive reasoning. Redo your math and when your face is burning red with private humiliation over your ridiculously public stupidity, you'll know you've got it right.

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#25

Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin's behaviors.

Posted: 6/25/14 at 8:16am

CC is catching on like wildfire! It's the craze that's sweeping the nation! And we owe it all to someone that nobody can stand!