Do You Think Less Of Actor Christian Bale After Hearing His Curse-Filled Tirade?

[Liberal_in_LA]

Do You Think Less Of Actor Christian Bale After Hearing His Curse-Filled Tirade?

http://cbs2.com/ (way over on the right side)

63% say 'Yes'

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. I have heard people throwing wobblers...

That makes that sound like Bale was reciting Lewis Caroll. He wasn't even in the same universe as Steve Marriott on an average day.

BFD, all in all.

[Hanse]

2. I think more of him, actually.

I don't think he's much of an actor.

curse-filled tirades are a good thing.

[burythehatchet]

3. UNfortunately he is an actor who played a role that seared into my brain and

I have never been able to see him as anything else other than a psycho. Specifically, pointing to himself in a mirror while he's slapping his doodads

[madeline_con]

9. The book was way better.

[natrat]

31. what a flick

Patrick Bateman: Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums. Christy, take off your robe. Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument. Sabrina, remove your dress. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship, the sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Sabrina, why don't you, uh, dance a little. Take the lyrics to Land of Confusion. In this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority. In Too Deep is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affirmative as anything I've heard in rock. Christy, get down on your knees so Sabrina can see your asshole. Phil Collins' solo career seems to be more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way. Especially songs like In the Air Tonight and Against All Odds. Sabrina, don't just stare at it, eat it. But I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group, than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist. This is Sussudio, a great, great song, a personal favorite.

[shadowknows69]

60. And Huey Lewis and the News is now and forever a horrifying listen for me

Actually I disliked them intensely before "American Psycho" but now they make me feel like chopping someone up.

[Malikshah]

4. Nope. He's human. And the full context of the tirade is not there.

The public, however, is judgmental. It makes people feel better about their own failings.

Unfortunately, that is human nature.

The hypocrisy is galling, but needs to be called out for what it is.

[Starry Messenger]

5. No.

[AyanEva]

6. I did but not anymore, no.

He addressed it on some radio station and I'm giving him another chance because he admitted to acting like a jerk, apologized for it, said that he deserved all of the mocking, and said he and the lighting dude cleared the air the same day it happened and actually worked with each other just last month. His explanation actually made perfect sense for why things went down the way they did.

Apparently all is well, which makes me happy because I love Christian Bale and was a bit disgusted by his little rant, although the dance mix that was made out of it is hysterical. He owned up to his mistake and made amends and I respect that.

[madeline_con]

7. What did the director of photography actually do before the tirade?

[Ikonoklast]

57. He was walking around on the set.

Was supposedly going to adjust lighting, too.

Not what you'd want going on while you're trying to shoot a scene.

I would venture a guess and say this wasn't the first time something like this happened to Bale while he was working and got distracted by Hurlbut, and it was building up from there.

[1]

8. heh. how could anyone think less of actor christian bale than they already did before this?

as a matter of fact, thinking of christian bale as an actor is already too high of praise...

[Blue_In_AK]

10. He was just blowing off steam

in sort of a spoiled brat way.

[flvegan]

11. I could actually care less.

Me = not giving a shit.

[vanderBeth]

12. I had already heard about problems with his mother and sister

This didn't help

[Hannah Bell]

13. I think: "Why is this on the 'news'"? Same with the octuplet lady.

Who cares? It has no national significance. It's tabloid fodder.

[Lorien]

14. I don't know anything about the tirade, but I think less of the media

for making an issue out of some kind of meaningless nonsense that has to do with a celebrity.

[emilyg]

15. The tirade was pretty disgusting.

He has since apologized.

[Jack_DeLeon]

16. Nope, he is just an actor...

The only relationship I have with him is that I sometimes pay for tickets to the movies he are in so that I may be entertained.

However his shenanigans has given us this piece of entertainment for free.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTihsJQHt48

[natrat]

34. patrick bateman

Patrick Bateman: Did you know that Whitney Houston's debut LP, called simply Whitney Houston had 4 number one singles on it? Did you know that, Christie?
Elizabeth: You actually listen to Whitney Houston? You own a Whitney Houston CD? More than one?
Patrick Bateman: It's hard to choose a favorite among so many great tracks, but "The Greatest Love of All" is one of the best, most powerful songs ever written about self-preservation, dignity. Its universal message crosses all boundaries and instills one with the hope that it's not too late to better ourselves. Since, Elizabeth, it's impossible in this world we live in to empathize with others, we can always empathize with ourselves. It's an important message, crucial really. And it's beautifully stated on the album.

[MrPerson]

52. Dood will always be Patrick Bateman to me.

[Confusious]

17. I did until I heard

The guy he was going off on was a total dickwad. Treated everyone like pieces of shit.

now I think more of HIM!

[lunatica]

18. No

Someone who said he worked on the set claimed everyone hated the guy.

[Joe the Liberal]

19. I don't care............

It's not going to stop me from seeing the new Terminator movie.

[ecstatic]

20. He didn't act any different than the guy from Hell's Kitchen

:shrug:

[MrSlayer]

21. No. He was right.

Ron Howard was on the Stern show thursday and explained it from Bale's perspective, it made perfect sense.

[Drunken Girlfriend]

22. Re:Christian Bale

Yes,I sorta do think less of Christian Bale.

I understand that people lose their cool sometimes,
but there is no excuse to verbally abuse someone/threaten them,
especially a co-worker.

And this tirade of Christian Bale's went on for quite a few minutes apparently,and only part of the tape was leaked.

Christian Bale should just be lucky to have a career,as it's only been the last couple of yrs that he has been able to resurrect it.


Just because you are a celebrity,doesn't mean you should be able
to be abusive with people.

[orleans]

23. who is he? n/t

[Raine]

24. I never thought about him before

and I'm continuing with that.

[SoCalDem]

25. Didn't know who he was before..still don't care

Just another belligerent twenty-something cele-brat:)

[panzerfaust]

33. Yep. As mostly avoid MSM, no idea who he is ...

... or what he was whining and cursing about.

Nor do I care in the slightest.

The underlying belief though - that those who are famous or in positions of power are somehow different from the rest of us hoi polloi - is a childish and destructive one. That is why expecting our politicians to be god-like (or, at least, saintly) we wind up with so many devils.

People are people. Everyone sits on the pot with diarrhea sometime, but that does not define them as a person. It is possible to be a good senator (or other actor) and an impossible spouse, parent, or child.

This guy is apparently a movie actor. Considered as an actor, his actions off-screen are irrelevant to his ability. As a person I expect that he is fairly screwed up: I think that anyone who would spend his or her life pretending to be other people - rather than actually doing something with their own life - is likely to be.

[silverojo]

26. Hell, no!

Some stupid @#$%ing ***holes deserve to be verbally bitchslapped upside the head. It's not like Bale punched somebody, for cryin' out loud.

I'm not a fan--I've never seen any of his movies--but cursing is hardly the greatest sin in the world.

Give the guy a @#$%ing break.

[David__77]

27. I don't know. I've always liked him.

I don't know enough. I instinctively do not like the whole thing of using one's power to idly threaten someone with termination. But maybe there's something that would mitigate that which I don't know about.

[Dorian Gray]

28. I think less of him

Losing it is one thing. But losing it for 4 + minutes? Get over yourself! Your self-indulgent rage isn't all that important, Bale!

[1Hippiechick]

29. who cares? Only movie I remember him in was American Psycho, and he was a REAL whackjob in that.n/t

[sendero]

30. I would have to be one helluva hypocrite..

... to do that .

[newfie11]

32. Yes

There is no reason to treat another person like that. The guy made a mistake and this idiot goes off on a tirade that equals Mt Vesuvius blowing up.

[book_worm]

35. I never thought of him much before this and doubt I'll think much of him now after this event.

he's just another egotistical actor.

[cherish44]

36. I can't stand tantrums

It's bad enough when toddlers throw them but when a grown man does it's just beyond ridiculous. My kids have learned that tantrums don't get them what they want.

[kstewart33]

37. He's a jerk.

Anyone who would scream at someone like that publicly and humiliate them publicly is a class A jerk.

Artistic temper? Nonsense. ---hole is a better fit.

[deadcenter]

38. i think

he needs a thesaurus and a dictionary (to look up the word 'professional'), other than that, i could not care less.

[lonestarnot]

39. How can one think less of someone they never thought about in the first instance?

:shrug:

[Political Heretic]

40. I really couldn't fucking give two shits about it - we've got a few bigger problems to worry about

[.... callchet ....]

41. Zero minus zero

NO

[elizfeelinggreat]

42. I don't know who he is but he sounds like a bully

from what I heard on the clip that Keith played last night (granted it was mixed up with Billo stuff and pretty funny but still the guy was being a bully, just like Billo).

I really dislike bullies.

[Earth_First]

43. To be perfectly honest...I don't know who this person is. n/t

[ncteechur]

44. I've actually never thought of him at all. After this, he is just a spoiled dickhead.

And a B-grade actor.

[Baikonour]

45. I think less of people who actually think this is "news" and worth debating over.

WHO CARES.

[closeupready]

46. Just listened to it. What an overpaid crybaby. Naomi Campbell, you've met your match.

n/t

[LWolf]

47. No.

I don't know who christian bale is, other than that he's probably an actor. I don't know what he said, other than that it was "profanity."

Since I don't know anything about him to begin with, and am not really interested, and I don't know what speech atrocities he committed, I can't think less of him for it.

[Jack_DeLeon]

48. Frankly Bill O'Reilly deserved it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbz6-7c_7Hk

lol

[xenussister]

49. I'm surprised that so many people don't ever watch movies

I'm saddened by the people who think less of Bale, especially since he's apologized up one side and down the other. He even said "I acted like a punk." Now, who says that? Did Bush ever apologize for one single thing he did? Bale was never physically abusive, he was going through a rocky divorce from a woman he adored, and a family flareup with his estranged mother and sister, and he'd lost his good friend Heath Ledger just a few months before. The DP walked into Bale's line of sight in the middle of filming an intense scene, and it wasn't the first time he'd done that. He'd been warned about it before. None of that excuses Bale. He acted like a punk, was totally in the wrong, but he apologized immediately, and now, months later, he's apologized again. Give him a break. He's not a self-destructive alcoholic junkie or party boy, he's just an intense actor going through a bad time and was a momentary dumbass.

I'm even more surprised that so many have never even heard of Bale. I'm a huge movie buff, see at least 150 in the theater every year, so I suppose I'm more tuned in, but he's been in some big movies. His first role was the lead in Spielberg's Empire of the Sun at age 12. He's grown up in the business and has been in numerous small indie films, like Velvet Goldmine, American Psycho and Rescue Dawn, but he's also the new Batman, in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. And now he's the new John Connor in a reboot of the Terminator series.

He's a really good actor, seriously. People who say he's not probably haven't seen much of what he's done.

I'd still like to know who leaked the tape, so many months after it was made. I do love that remix by RevoLution. I hope Bale's heard it.

[Tutonic]

50. No. We don't know what was said or done prior to his tirade.

We learned form the election that soundbites (i.e., bitter from guns, god, etc.) often are misleading.

[NYC Liberal]

51. He has already said he was wrong and that it was inexcusable.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29056200/

[MrPerson]

53. Hurlburt has a better business card than Bale, too.

[DS1]

54. No. I think less of incompetent shits who do the same thing over and over again

even after being told not to.

[MrPerson]

55. I'd answer but I have to return a videotape.

[Mike 03]

56. It certainly doesn't make me like him more

but everybody has horrible days.

I'm more interested in why a DP was moving a light during a take?

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

58. Never thought much of him in the 1st place, but he does deserve an ass whooping.

[Maestro]

59. He seems to have handled his little tirade well

poking fun at himself and saying that he deserves any and all poor comments directed at him. He said he and the guy have moved on and settled it.

[Richd506]

61. Yes

He sounded too much like America the past eight years. It brought back bad memories...

[FedUpWithIt All]

62. No. n/t

[JVS]

63. Don't give a fuck

[Liberal Veteran]

64. He's pretty so I forgive him.