Lathspell said:
I have no issues with someone not wanting to see a movie that has someone in it they can't stand. I can't stand Sean Penn, and will do whatever I can to not watch him in a movie.
ETA: I don't view Leguizamo as hateful as much as I view him as a complete idiot. Whatever comes out of his mouth is so imbecilic, I don't take it seriously.
And hey! As a half-Colombian, I get to have an opinion on his takes!
Me neither.
But Hardcore Greg didn't say he can't stand Robert Pattinson.
He made a judgment claim about his character, calling him "a horrible hateful person," which is just... baffling, considering Pattinson is known for being incredibly nice, approachable, and even kind of a goof. Like, I've never heard a single remotely negative story about him. I've also never once heard him express a political opinion of any kind. He's notoriously private and hardly, if ever, delves into that stuff. He's just... a great actor, a husband, a new dad, and that's basically it. Unless there's something I'm completely unaware of.
Regardless, if someone doesn't want to watch a movie because it features an actor they don't like, great. That's relatively common, and no skin off my back.
But HG has a habit of doing this. He comes across as an uber-moral purists whose posts are almost exclusively political or culture war in nature. In
The Invite thread - a movie that is not at all political, in any way, shape, or form - he demanded to know if Seth Rogen's character did any liberal ranting/preaching in the movie. He said that was the deciding factor as to whether he would see a universally praised comedy or not, and it got so weird that staff ended up deleting most of the conversation around it (the posts weirdly scolding Rogen for being childless still remain).
My point is, he uses this board to do nothing more than virtue signal, pearl-clutch about "degeneracy," etc. To the point where his Pattinson post is not just eye-rolling, but confusing as hell.
