Comments on: Movie Review: Leatherheads

By: Blake

Blake — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:14:43 +0000

Clooney was also the director, so he gets a salary for producing, directing, and staring in the film, including any residuals. The film still sucks, though.

By: Blake

Blake — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:12:08 +0000

Clooney is a producer on the film and also tried to get a writing credit. He’ll make money even though for all sense and purposes the film has bombed.

By: Tanya

Tanya — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:53:05 +0000

I love John Krasinski! He’s cute, funny, and a sort of Jimmy Stewart. You’re right, Tanya!

I love Jim Halpert!

john krasinski rules

Haha! Thanks, y’all. :o)

By: offroadaz

offroadaz — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:14:35 +0000

my wife and I saw it Friday night, thought it was pretty good. B+

By: tx2654

tx2654 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:47:59 +0000

I dont spend my money on a movie or anything with Loony, err Clooney in it or involved in it.

By: Proudvet

Proudvet — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:04:52 +0000

To Doug and others that feel the same way…..I do not boycott these people because of their political views, I boycott them because they pontificate endlessly about their dislike of America and conservatives in particular. They use their status as celebrities to tell the world how much better they are than the rest of America because they CARE. They use their status to tell the world how BAD America is…a la dixie ditzies…especially how awful and horrible our president and our political system is.

I could really give a flying flip what their beliefs are as long as they keep their mouths shut. Robin Williams doesn’t agree with our policies but he doesn’t bad mouth America either! I WILL support him and those that give our country the honor and respect that it deserves! NOBODY in these modern times has EVER done as much for the betterment of this world as the American People! I’m not trying to toot my own horn, but we are the only ones in this whole wide world that gives a damn what happens to those who can’t help themselves!

By: miles

miles — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:22:51 +0000

Bitch all you want about spoiled airhead brat actors — and they are — but Hollywood is a uniquely successful American export industry. So successful that foreign box-office is now larger than domestic, which accounts for the less-than-patriotic bent of recent movies. Still, if it really did suddenly destroy itself and no longer exist we would be culturally diminished.

By: NNtrancer

NNtrancer — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:05:10 +0000

In the way of things, movie stars have always been more than just actors. They represented our fantasies on screen, as if we ourselves were playing the part. And for that, they were idolized and rewarded with a lifestyle beyond what most people can imagine. For an actor to be one thing on a screen and someone not worthy of respect in real life severs the identification people feel with their celebrities. Heroes on screen became heros off screen, like John Wayne. But lowlifes off screen don’t become heroes on screen. I don’t begrudge any actor expressing his or her views as we all do, but they have to realize it comes at a cost.

By: jgapinoy

jgapinoy — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:39:28 +0000

It’s fitting that Clooney’s effort bombed on the weekend of Chuck Heston’s death, since boy George found Heston’s Alzheimer’s Disease something to joke about.

By: jgapinoy

jgapinoy — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:19:57 +0000

Doug

If you’re passionate about your beliefs, it will show up in every area of life. I can’t sit back & enjoy watching someone who hates & opposes everything I believe in.

By: jgapinoy

jgapinoy — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:17:06 +0000

Aengus

Clooney won’t be immediately affected by whether we see the movie or not, but his next flick won’t pay him as much if this bombs.
BTW, Leatherheads is officially a bomb. Sacked for a 12-yd loss.

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:13:08 +0000

Sometimes a movie is just a movie,
Sometimes a banana is just a banana.
If I limited my movie choices by cutting out all movies starring actors with whom I disagree politically, soon I would have nothing to watch.
It goes further-I won’t denigrate the abilities of an actor simply because I dislike his politics. Clooney is a fine actor. Jodie Foster is great, too-should I boycott (girlcott?)
her movies simply because she’s not Conservative?

By: aengus

aengus — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:50:20 +0000

Thanks dustoffmom. I hadn’t considered that.

By: dustoffmom

dustoffmom — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:02:16 +0000

Actors work for salaries. Clooney has no doubt already been paid and so going to see it won’t give him any additional money. The studio will get more money yes but Clooney no.

aengus on April 6, 2008 at 1:55 PM

Not necessarily true. Each actor/film is different. Some opt for straight salary, many of the bigger moneymakers often take a smaller initial salary for a later cut of the receipts and residuals. Particularly DVD sales. Even if they don’t make another nickle, if the film makes money it could raise their asking price for the next one. Ergo….I have my ‘list’. :)

By: Techie

Techie — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:43:52 +0000

Actually, I thought Oh Brother Where Art Thou? was one of the best "Southern" movies released in recent memory. Awesome soundtrack to boot. (born and raised in Gainesville, GA) Unless you prefer that we're only portrayed as Mississippi Burning or In The Heat Of The Night or Rosewood or etc.

By: aengus

aengus — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:55:45 +0000

lowandslow on April 5, 2008 at 2:03 PM

Actors work for salaries. Clooney has no doubt already been paid and so going to see it won’t give him any additional money. The studio will get more money yes but Clooney no.

By: lowandslow

lowandslow — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:11:14 +0000

Well, it looks like it tanked. "Leatherheads" fumbles for # 3.

By: Hammertime

Hammertime — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:18:27 +0000

When some actor feels the need to tell us all what they think about everything political, they run the risk of alienating a good share of audience. I used to see movies with Clooney, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Ben Afleck et al, but once their political views annoyed me, I can’t enjoy watching them do their job.

By: jimmer

jimmer — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:17:57 +0000

the chickens are coming home to roost.

any film that employs a hate spewing, socialist star is suffering.

go back to apocalypse now, ruined forever by martin sheen.

By: Squid Shark

Squid Shark — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:57:19 +0000

Mr Clooney,
Are you or were you ever, a member of the Democratic Party

By: Krydor

Krydor — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:53:10 +0000

Someone needs to give me a list, a blacklist if you will, of unacceptable entertainers. That way, I can remain ideologically pure when I venture to the cinema. I certainly would not like to enjoy myself under false pretenses because the lead holds a different political view and I was not made aware of it.

By: Squid Shark

Squid Shark — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:49:27 +0000

doriangrey on April 6, 2008 at 10:18 AM

Ahh another mature argument….

Nothing like stopping to sexual jokes, gay jokes at that.

By: doriangrey

doriangrey — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:18:29 +0000

Hmm, George loony Cloony stars in a movie that is somehow appropriate for him… He is in a movie where he plays will balls… Other peoples balls… Hmmm imagine that Cloony likes to play with other men’s balls… Funny how movies sometime say the strangest things about those who star in them… As for seeing any piece of cr@p with Cloony in it… Not on your life…

By: Squid Shark

Squid Shark — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:06:59 +0000

George Clooney (among countless others) will never see a PENNY of my money nor will they suck up more than two seconds of my valuable time.

Throw the celebrities on the fire and raise Joe McCarthy from the dead.

Declare war on Hollywood. I did.

NickTx on April 5, 2008 at 3:36 PM

I look at it in a very capitalist perspective. Clooney provides a service which I enjoy, I will pay my money to see him and he is free to spend it as he sees fit. Just like I would not expect my boss to tell me what my politics should be.

By: DSkinner

DSkinner — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:34:41 +0000

I’ve stopped watching movies. My theory is, if they can’t support the troops, why should I support them?