Jonah Hill apologies and nearly cries for calling paparazzo a faggot

[RXB]

While his apology was gay, people on here forget how sensitive most of America is to any little indiscretion against their little narrative. Anyone remember that Ender's Game movie that people were boycotting because Orson Scott Card was, and I quote from some protester, "The mayor of Jerktown." The whole uproar was over the fact that Card didn't believe in gay marriage. He didn't hate the gays or do anything malicious against them, he simply stated, in the past and long before the movie dropped, that gay marriage was not something that he could morally back.

In America things build up momentum and people tag along so that they don't have to miss out. If Joe Schulb is at dinner with his girlfriend, her friends, and their co-workers and everyone else starts talking about how they hate Jonah Hill and think that he's a homophobic monster, Jo Shulb isn't going to go see any more of Hill's movies out of fear that he'll be kicked out of his social circle.

I'm guessing that the average RFV guy isn't really in the whole Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill "These movies are about guys in their 30's who act like 12 year olds" demographic.* The dudes who these movies are geared towards tend to be the same folks who read Buzzfeed or think that they are smart for thumbing through a Time Magazine.

A man doesn't get offended by words. There's plenty of stuff I don't like, but that doesn't mean that I try and destroy it or damage the people who created it. If Nick Denton wants to write "Why straight men are disgusting losers" I'd simply avoid reading his sites, which I do anyway, I wouldn't try and launch a campaign to get Gawker destroyed. In reverse, when that Mozilla dude donated $1,000 to some proposition that was against gay marriage he was run out of town on a rail. Women and spineless losers have to get offended and try to tear things down with their mob mentality.

* Superbad and a few of the films get a free pass, but most of them are garbage.

 

[Vaun]

Anyone remember that Ender's Game movie that people were boycotting because Orson Scott Card was, and I quote from some protester, "The mayor of Jerktown." The whole uproar was over the fact that Card didn't believe in gay marriage. He didn't hate the gays or do anything malicious against them, he simply stated, in the past and long before the movie dropped, that gay marriage was not something that he could morally back.

That movie was actually very good and completely bombed. I was at Comic Con and saw organized protests over it. It had to affect the success of the movie.

I have been reading OSC since 1990, and it was the most anticipated movie in sci-fi for the last 20 years. It was like watching the Hindenburg blow up, being flown by one of your idols. Its a damn shame.

 

[AnonymousBosch]

With the exception of Danny Mcbridge, I never really cared for Hill and the new "funny man" crew of Franco, Rogan, Baruchel, Cera, and any of the other people that have appeared in Superbad, that super hero movie, and the like. Most of them are either fat or skinny fat.

The main problem I have with movies and television nowadays is that I'm asked to connect and empathise with unlikeable male leads that I can't possibly respect.

It's an endless parade of charisma-vacuums and man-boys. Men who lack any kind of balls, and if they do show any strength, it's the type of strength designed to appeal to children (superhero crap) or to appeal to the female audience (he's fighting for her).

 

[M3B]

You can't judge celebrities and famous people in the same way you'd judge one of us for reacting this way. Kdog has nailed it.

If you're in the media, you absolutely have to subscribe to their agendas in order to thrive in that business. His repercussions could be massive for trying to let it slide and coming on TV and sticking by his stance that calling someone a faggot for pissing him off is fine.

If I had to apologise at the investment bank I used to work at for calling someone a faggot for the sake of my career, I most likely would've done it. If I was in the spotlight like Jonah Hill is, I would've definitely apologised. There's a massive backlash millions of people over for someone in his position.

I suppose that's the price you pay by being in the spotlight. You must tow the line.

I get it and your right. But. Release a statement. Get your publicist lady to write some soft shit and release that. Don't grovel as a man on TV like a bitch.

I would of just release a statement and told people I'm not speaking on it anymore. Simple.

Very true.

 

[Culdesachero]

I have to say that Jonah comes out like a spineless little bitch here. He’s a comic for F--- sake! He makes a living out of using offensive language and put-downs. I think this kid is a two-faced, vacuous psychopath- an empty vessel. I saw his interview with Opera one time (my wife watches her) and I could tell he’s the kind of guy who can say the nicest things in front of you and sound as sincere as you could imagine right after cutting you up like a butcher behind your back. He has no soul which is why he belongs in Hollywood. None of his words mean a thing.

Having said that, why is the humiliating homosexual harassment like the kind that he was receiving that spurred the comment going to be called out? I read that the paparazzi had told him his shorts were ‘sexy’. Why should he have to put up with that? Doesn’t that sort of behaviour deserve the kind of response he made? I, for one, think it was appropriate under those circumstances.

 

[la_mode]

Whines more than Nancy Kerrigan.

 

[renotime]

I bet Jonah Hill has more stretch marks than the octomom.

 

[Roosh]

He's still flagellating about it...

 

[agentaika]

I wish I were famous just so I could go out, publicly call a paparazzo a "faggot", and not apologize. These guys need stop letting the obnoxious whines of a very small minority scare them. Or maybe the studio pressured him to grovel like this. But I don't think the "controversy" would have had much effect. Most people in the mainstream aren't bothered by the word "fag."

 

[iamdegaussed]

I really hope some day I have a big enough audience that when I offend a group of people and they tell me about it I can keep on offending them til they wow just wow themselves into an indignant coma.

I fucking hate this PC garbage.

 

[Kingsley Davis]

Joni should now apologize for been such a faggot.:dodgy:

 

[HawkWrites]

What he really should have said was "Twitter cut the message off. I was going to say 'faggot. I'm not sure if I want filtered or unfiltered' but 140 characters is only so much."

-Hawk