Hear me out. Next Gen “reboot” ala Strange new worlds where Affleck is an older Riker nearing the end of his command of the Titan.
You know what. I think Star Trek may be what he needs in life. The community and fambase coupled with a supporting cast he could have an extremely quiet and happy career.
Preach! I would love old Affleck as a Star Trek Starship Captain.
Ben, you should smile more. You look prettier when you smile.
And all this time, I thought it was JLo making him that unhappy. Maybe he just has resting sad face.
This is definitely a thing, and I am so tired of people asking me what’s wrong.
Every time we see him it’s like he’s ready to check himself into a mental hospital. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Just an observation.
Is…is he okay? Like genuinely?
I think he’s been going through some kind of divorce.
If true, that would explain the pictures. That is the face of “I can’t deal with ::waves arms at everything:: this, right now.”
Are the [broad group]s okay?
[broad group] has not been okay since [the thing] happened.
Who cares. He’s an over rated douchebag.
Right. As opposed to you, who is clearly a stellar example of empathy and humanity.
So I am supposed to care about a sex predator apologist?
Oh that dang empathy.
Yeah it’s much easier taking the internet’s word for something and just letting it define your entire personality than actually interacting with the real world, isn’t it?
Uh, in interviews he said he had no idea what was really going on. Then it came out that he did know what was going on and was even on Weinstein’s “red flag” list, for fear he would talk to reporters.
That is not internet rumor, that is easily confirmable public knowledge.
You clearly refuse to do any actual research and just want to believe what you want to believe.
*Edit: Your celebrity suck up is embarrassing.
I think you’re the one who needs to do some research, cause that’s not even close to reality. He said he knew Weinstein was sleezy, then 1 person said they went crying to Affleck after something happened with Weinstein, which resulted in people like YOU claiming this means Affleck knew he was raping people. Then that same person (Rose McGowan) clarified in an interview that she never meant to imply she told Affleck she was raped or anything like that, she said “It’s just more to illustrate the point of this continual thing of everybody knowing and everybody being part of it, unwittingly or proactively.” which Affleck flat out agreed with, the point being that hundreds if not thousands of people knew Weinstein was sketchy and weren’t collectively saying anything (until they were).
And to illustrate the point of this meme and why people think you’re an asshole this also bears mentioning: “Affleck has both anxiety and depression, and has taken antidepressants since age 26. He is a recovering alcoholic and follows a 12-step program. He said he used alcohol to alleviate a constant feeling of “discomfort” and remarked that it “took me a long time to fundamentally, deeply, without a hint of doubt, admit to myself that I am an alcoholic.” There is a history of addiction and mental illness in Affleck’s family.”
Lol, that is a LOT of mental gymnastics there.
Dude knew and he lied about knowing.
End of story.
Anxiety and depression doesn’t excuse shitty behavior, but whatever you need to feel better about gargling his nuts.
😂
To be clear, I don’t think anyone here is a celebrity suck up. They’re just empathetic humans seeing other humans struggle and wanting them to be OK or see how we can help. It’s the human condition, we shouldn’t discourage that.
Separately Ben Affleck may or may not be a shitty human being if what you said was true, but in the moment he still showed he was a depressed human, and other humans want to help. Not because they’re sycophants, but because they’re good people who want to help.
Your continued arguing in defense of Ben Afleck says differently.
“may or may not”
Jesus Fuckng Christ, you sound like a fucking Trumplican.
“There’s good people on both sides.”
Jeez must be hell dealing with paparazzi
It really has to do a number on the brain to be so justifiably paranoid at all times.
That pic of Jonah Hill comes to mind, where he’s just absolutely not having it when he thinks someone is running up and recording him, and then relaxes when he realizes it’s Dicaprio.
And then you realize that the moment was captured on camera, so he actually was being surveilled at that exact moment.
A lot of celebrities are just terrible humans, but surely at least part of that is from the influence of being surrounded and surveilled by equally terrible people at all times. Not an excuse, just a sad observation.
The video, for those wondering. You can hear the camera shutters going crazy the whole clip (gross)
Honestly, I kind of hate these memes for this reason, I emphasize deeply with his emotional state, which is why I know I would hate being photographed every time I feel like that. Just let the man just live his life.
I don’t get posts like this – his expression matches nearly every other 40+ white dude minding his own business that I’ve ever seen. These pics/posts have strong “you should smile more” energy
Exactly. Don’t judge me and my RBF.
Don’t take pics of random people minding their own business and post them on the internet without consent?
Yes exactly! The guy in the clouds one is always most puzzling to me. His expression is basically null but everyone reacts like it means something
This might be one of the few good things about widespread AI adoption -the value of real-life images and videos must be depreciating when anyone can just generate whatever images they want and most of the audience won’t know or care for the difference.
Or worse (for the paparazzi) - audiences will assume or become convinced that the real photos are AI generated anyway.
With GenAI maybe we can stop taking so many meaningless pictures and videos of people just living their goddamn lives, or people doing dangerous or stupid shit for clout…
Right? Maybe? … I hope?
emphasizeempathizeIt’s literally what you sign up for when you become a career actor, though.
I’m actually a very talented actor, but I never had any interest in pursuing it as a career for exactly this reason.
I’m actually a very talented actor, but I never had any interest in pursuing it as a career for exactly this reason
That’s crazy. I too am a temporarily embarrassed millionaire.
I’m a really good astronaut but I never went to space because I get motion sickness.
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Reminds me of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSvNhxKJJyU
I don’t know how to get emotional support
Not Dunkin’ apparently. He’s on the way back and looking no better. Maybe Starbies has what he needs?
I’m sure one day God will let me enter his paradise… I’m tired of living life
The only emotional support i have found is from myself. When friends/family say “don’t worry, buddy, it will get better” i recognize that they mean well but those sayings do nothing for me—in fact, they feel invalidating of my emotions.
Exactly! In contrast to that, if I experience “it getting better” it’s a totally different thing.
When a friend of mine needs help I try to be sensitive but it’s still possible that I’ll drop a “Don’t worry, buddy, it will get better” myself. It’ll be honest, though.
It’s blurry
He always looks like he knows he’s a piece of shit and feels bad about it.
What did he do?
Allegedly, he was aware of Harvey Weinstein’s abuse, at least according to Rose McGowan. And since a lot of people are reactionary as fuck, since she accused him of being aware, then they act and behave as if he was undoubtedly aware and complicit in it.
The things is, EVERYONE was aware. But he was so powerful, and literally controlled everyone’s future. What was he supposed to do?
I wasn’t /s
But seriously, it is far easier being on the outside, pointing and casting blame, but for us old enough to remember all the people who were blackballed, run out of the business, and even murdered for exposing sexual abuse, it is hard to tell.
And on top of that, there are cases where a third party has exposed the abuse, to which both the victim and perpetrator deny the accusations, and it just ends up terribly for the whistleblower.
Yet, back to the point, we’re on
redditlemmy, where nuance goes to die.
he was great in Mallrats!
Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms, yo.
Oh, a sailboat!
Somebody help! That boy is stuck in the escalator!
Fictional characters! Am I getting through to you at all?
doesn’t make him not an absolute bastard
Y’all are being way too harsh. I’m sure he has a really good reason for why he enabled and protected Harvey Weinstein’s rapery. Something so convincing that we’d all say, “you were absolutely right to help blow up the lives of fellow artists. You’re really not a piece of shit!”
Eta: Apparently, my sarcasm was too subtle. The fact that people aren’t catching onto that is incredibly depressing because that means this was a believably shitty take. I really thought the last sentence was a dead giveaway…
Humanity and satire are dead, killed by genuine ghouls who are totally cool supporting monsters.
There’s never a good reason to enable and protect rape.
I just realized that you’re probably being sarcastic, though.
I really thought that my sarcasm was obvious, especially with that last sentence… Apparently there are people out there who are more openly shitty than I realized.
There’s never a good reason to enable and protect rape.
Any standard set lower than this should be grounds to get throat-punched.
Yeah, there are absolutely people who honestly believe that exposing Weinstein was a bad thing. Humans suck.
Its just the internet and text, sarcasm doesnt translate; Poe’s law
Can’t believe people are down voting you.
Even Lemmy has tunnel vision on their celebrity idols.
Dude is a fucking douchebag and way overrated as an actor and director.
Who the fuck always casts themselves in their own movies and is NOT a d-bag.
Mel Brooks
Ok, you got me.
They weren’t starring roles at least. 😂
I don’t care. Their boos fuel me.
I resent rich people in general but I fucking hate this feckless buffoon especially. Professionally, he had a hand in ruining an iteration of Batman. Personally, he doesn’t understand the difference between race and religion when it comes to people who practice Islam and that’s both reductive and patronizing. Fuck Ben Affleck.
You know those signs that say “X Number of Days Since the Last Accident”, and then you go in and change the number accordingly? If you have one that says “X Number of Days Since I was a Childish Asshole for No Reason” you should go ahead and change it to “0”.
If you “hate” a random actor, then that’s kind of a you problem, and you should probably consider therapy, or at the very least, spend less time online.
He’s never done anything to harm you, he’s just lived his life. He may not be a perfect person but no one is.
I have known a good number of actors in my life. Some were TV show stuff and one I know for sure was in movies.
hating an actor is actually a big compliment. as big as love. not knowing who they are or knowing who they are and not caring is the biggest slight you can have for them.
Idk man. I share the same sentiment as the person you responded to. It’s not necessarily about what the actors want.
It’s about cultivating and maintaining the energy required to “hate” someone you’ll never meet and who will most likely never know your name…
Like… What is even the point? How would that be useful in a person’s day to day life. Just my 2 cents
I know what you mean, but I get the impression that you and OP are using hate with different levels of intensity and specificity.
This didn’t feel to me like the ‘oh I hate Joffrey and can’t not-see him when I see Jack Gleeson’ type of “hate”.
You hate a person you’ll never meet and who will likely never know your name??
Damn dude that kind of shit must take a lot of energy. Pop off tho
I’ve always been fascinated by people who hate celebrities. Again, the amount of energy it takes to actually HATE something. I reserve that kind of energy for well, things I need to hate lmao.
That being said I do remember the clip you’re talking about where he went off on a panel because somebody suggested Islam is oppressive to women. You’re spot on there
I reserve that energy for shit that actually matters. Hated is just a way to give power over yourself to your enemies.
Exactly, like the asshole who parks his car on the sidewalk in front of my flat. That guy can rot in hell
I heard he liked to screw women in a very uncomfortable place.
like the backseat of a volkswagen?
Or the front seat of a volkswagen?
Backseat of a Fiat
