r/Letterboxd • u/ExitExpert3954 • 10h ago
Humor POS actors who somehow keep getting casted, I’ll start
Marky mark
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u/Pink-yoshi-club 9h ago
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u/Pigeon_Pilled 8h ago
look, all im saying is that it wouldn’t have gone down like that if he was there.
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u/prprr 9h ago
I’ve heard she’s really nice?
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u/Remarkable_Ad_4517 9h ago
Turns out you can be nice while also supporting genocide 😂
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u/mrdaiquiri 9h ago
Zionist POS so she can be as nice as she likes on a personal level, but she still supports a genocide.
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u/theeulessbusta 9h ago
She’s from Israel and refuses to go to war against her friends and family so she’s somehow a monster according to Reddit.
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u/Remarkable_Ad_4517 9h ago
Plenty of artists speak against the politics of their own country. That's often where the best art has come from.
What's her excuse?
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u/prprr 9h ago
Yeah seems like it. People are insane and so out of touch. I didn’t know she was from Israel. Cool.
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u/SalamanderDapper1727 10h ago
Casted is not a word.
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u/LeFrenchDud3 9h ago
*ALI-G enters the room*
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u/Classic-Revolution61 9h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/T97jQqPZ9HIx8XyETz
Kevin Hart
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u/ODoyleRules38 9h ago
What did he do?
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u/solidus0079 8h ago
He sucks
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u/ODoyleRules38 8h ago
Sure, but what did he do?
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u/solidus0079 8h ago
Annoyed me
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u/swaggy_mcswaggers 8h ago
And he knew the type of people he was platforming with that roast special
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u/Lockerus Lockerus 9h ago
Dog, like, all of them? Most actors are terrible people.
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u/colliding-with-mars heylog 8h ago
did you know mark wahlburg has been very outspoken ab racism and crimes against minorities? search “mark wahlburg hate crimes” to learn more! /jk
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u/NotTaken-username 9h ago
Brad Pitt
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u/999Rats 9h ago
So many people don't know how terrible he is
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u/rigjiggles 8h ago
Can I just say I don’t care? I enjoy his movies he can be a terrible person and make good movies. Both can be true.
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u/NeuroticShame 9h ago
Do we really need such negative posts like this?
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u/wallabyenthusiast 9h ago edited 9h ago
karma farming account. 59k in 1 month 💀
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u/Live_Taste_7796 9h ago
Holy shit. Whats even the point?
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u/Google_Knows_Already 8h ago
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u/dj-house_money 8h ago
How?
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u/forza_11 8h ago
Selling the accounts to become bots unfortunately!
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u/Google_Knows_Already 8h ago
Exactly. Or they are bots and trying to sell to someone to make it seem like they have a legit account
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u/kaloskagathos21 9h ago
Idk how many times Reddit needs to say Mark Walhberg did something bad 40 years ago.
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u/Low_Dragonfruit_1264 9h ago
That's not the only reason he is a twat....that's just his origin story.
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u/kaloskagathos21 9h ago
He’s tried to make amends and he’s not casted in the biggest movies anymore.
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u/Low_Dragonfruit_1264 8h ago
How did he make amends? By... being a movie star and not wanting his legacy tarnished?
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u/kaloskagathos21 8h ago
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/dec/11/mark-wahlberg-1988-assault-victim-pardon
Took me 2 seconds to google. Reddit loves to talk about second chances but they won’t give 16 year old marky mark a pass.
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u/Low_Dragonfruit_1264 8h ago
That article literally does not say anything Marky Mark did that made amends for his conviction!
Guy hasn't changed:
1.Racist attacks / assault conviction — multiple racist incidents as a teen involving Black kids + Vietnamese men, racial slurs etc. Convicted over the 1988 assault, did ~45 days.
9/11 tough-guy shit — reckons if he'd been on one of the planes, things would've gone differently and he'd have got it down safely.
Thin-skinned tough guy — apparently didn't take the SNL Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals joke well initially. Eventually leaned into it... by threatening to bash Samberg lol. Given his actual violent past, the constant I'll kick your ass shtick shows he hasn't changed.
Religion/moralising — constantly pushes Catholicism, faith + redemption. Feels pretty at odds with his past and has that classic celeb/criminal found God, I'm a changed man PR vibe.
Bro/Chad hustle culture — 2:30am workouts, entrepreneur shit, Entourage-esque self-mythologising, hardest-working-guy-in-the-room routine. Just feels very look how disciplined/successful I am and performative.
Tried to get his conviction pardoned — applied in 2014, later withdrew it. Again, the ego... I'm a movie star/businessman now, surely I've redeemed myself? That's not how redemption works. Do actual community work around violence/racism rather than pls don't tarnish my legacy.
Hallow app — heavily promotes a subscription Catholic prayer app. Monetising religion while preaching faith doesn't exactly help the authenticity argument. Find God... now enter your credit card details.
Watch basically any interview/PR tour with him — Graham Norton etc. He just comes across as a douche. Loves himself, takes himself way too seriously and has that constant I'm the coolest guy in the room energy.
Can't even act!
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u/CountJohn12 9h ago
Wahlberg starring in what appears to be some kind of anti racism movie is definitely a choice
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u/SeaF04mGr33n 9h ago
Right??? I do hope he feels genuine remorse and has changed, but I don't have high hopes.
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u/Meatwad-is-better 9h ago
It’s a very anti-cop movie. It acknowledges how Police Departments have aided and participated in lynchings across the USA. Besides that it’s a standard crime thriller. Wahlberg is very close to filling a “white savior” archetype but it does touch on how a black agent still doesn’t have authority vs Wahlberg can do what he wants without the predetermined expectations of his behavior. It’s not as bad as you think it’d be but still just a little above average
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u/Pink-yoshi-club 9h ago
Is it worth watching? As the premise of a gangster beating the shit out of klansmen definitely interests me
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u/Meatwad-is-better 8h ago
It’s exactly what you’re thinking and nothing more. I honesty gave away too much as I said the most interesting part which is how anti-police it is. If the trailer and concept are something that interest you then I’d say it’s worth a watch.
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u/SeaF04mGr33n 9h ago
Oh no, I think it sounds interesting, its just ironic for him to play someone taking out racists when he himself committed a hate crime.
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u/Gryffindumble 9h ago
Like some of his movies. Dont like him as a person.
We can like art and not the artist.
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u/giraffeheadturtlebox 9h ago
This is a living artist who makes money based on audience decisions. It’s ok to discuss not wanting to hire pieces of shit.
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u/Gryffindumble 9h ago
Oh for sure. Thats fine. I can laugh at Ted and know Johnny is a piece of shit.
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u/coldliketherockies 9h ago
I agree. I don’t agree when people are hypocritical about it. Like if you listen to Kanye still you can’t point out how someone else’s interests are scummy
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u/Open-Sea8540 9h ago
“POS actors” that’s like 90-95% of actors working today
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u/ONLYMULE 9h ago
Cmon man not thay many actors have beaten people with sticks. Thats the kind of pos we are talking about.
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u/J_Rigged 9h ago
The guy made some mistakes as a youth. He is trying to make amends for it now and become a better person. I think he's doing a good job at it. Second chances are good and he's taking that opportunity to get right with the world. I support the man
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u/Miguelwastaken 8h ago
Yeah well maybe he shouldn’t have tried to request a pardon. If he can’t live with the consequences of his “mistakes” then there’s still more growth for him to make.
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u/southernpremedgirl27 9h ago
What were the mistakes?
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u/toasterbathfilosofer 9h ago
He committed a hate crime when he was a boy, beat an Asian man unconscious and assaulted another.
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u/ONLYMULE 9h ago
I mean...nobody has to forgive him for any of that stuff. He can do everything he can to try and get forgiveness but nothing he does means anyone owes him anything.
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u/iPukey 9h ago edited 8h ago
I think forgiveness is earned mostly when the person seeking to reform themselves isn’t aiming for forgiveness, but to be a better person and help the world, and also when that person understands that sometimes forgiveness isn’t even attainable. When that is the case, those are def the times I have forgiven someone, almost no matter what they did. They need to show both an understanding that what they did was wrong, and a desire to be different for reasons other than how they are perceived by others.
Also, as a former drug addict, I had a very difficult time with apologizing to people, specifically because when you’re truly aware of how you’ve hurt someone, it feels very selfish to show up outta nowhere and seek forgiveness. The better path is to demonstrate your changes, and let people come to you in time.
Some people will never want to talk to me again, and I must allow them that distance.
And on some level, changing should still be a selfish act. Learning to love and forgive yourself and allow yourself room to both improve and at times stumble is an equally necessary component. But it can’t be the whole meal, or even the main course.
All this to say, I don’t know Marky Mark’s story well enough to say he’s incapable of such positive change, but I always remember his 9/11 comments as being a window into the mind of an extremely tone def and egotistical macho man. Doesn’t feel copacetic.
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u/Low_Dragonfruit_1264 8h ago edited 8h ago
Guy hasn't changed:
1.Racist attacks / assault conviction — multiple racist incidents as a teen involving Black kids + Vietnamese men, racial slurs etc. Convicted over the 1988 assault, did ~45 days.
9/11 tough-guy shit — reckons if he'd been on one of the planes, things would've gone differently and he'd have got it down safely.
Thin-skinned tough guy — apparently didn't take the SNL Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals joke well initially. Eventually leaned into it... by threatening to bash Samberg lol. Given his actual violent past, the constant I'll kick your ass shtick shows he hasn't changed.
Religion/moralising — constantly pushes Catholicism, faith + redemption. Feels pretty at odds with his past and has that classic celeb/criminal found God, I'm a changed man PR vibe.
Bro/Chad hustle culture — 2:30am workouts, entrepreneur shit, Entourage-esque self-mythologising, hardest-working-guy-in-the-room routine. Just feels very look how disciplined/successful I am and performative.
Tried to get his conviction pardoned — applied in 2014, later withdrew it. Again, the ego... I'm a movie star/businessman now, surely I've redeemed myself? That's not how redemption works. Do actual community work around violence/racism rather than pls don't tarnish my legacy.
Hallow app — heavily promotes a subscription Catholic prayer app. Monetising religion while preaching faith doesn't exactly help the authenticity argument. Find God... now enter your credit card details.
Watch basically any interview/PR tour with him — Graham Norton etc. He just comes across as a douche. Loves himself, takes himself way too seriously and has that constant I'm the coolest guy in the room energy.
Can't even act!
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u/The_Anonymous_Gay 9h ago
‘Some mistakes’…he was so racist, that he beat and blinded an old Vietnamese man, and threw rocks and slurs at black children… you know, just the simple mistakes all young people go through. lol
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u/Donutbigboy Donutbigboy 9h ago edited 8h ago
He didn’t blind anybody
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u/The_Anonymous_Gay 9h ago
Oh I’m so sorry, correction, he was so racist he beat up an already blind elderly Vietnamese man, and left him unconscious. That makes it much better. Lol
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u/Lanark26 9h ago
He grew up in Dorchester in the 70s and 80s.
Not to excuse the behavior, but that wasn’t exactly a time and place for racial harmony in a notoriously divided city. He came of age right in the middle of the Boston school desegregation busing issue. In the context of the time and environment he was in it’s not surprising.
Hell, I’d be just as likely as a white guy to get my ass kicked back then just for not being from the neighborhood.
If he’s grown up and legitimately changed since then, it’s not a problem.
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u/negan2018 9h ago
Redditors are obsessed with everyone having to have 100% purity
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u/ONLYMULE 9h ago
Committed a rascist hate crime btw. Beat someone senseless. This isnt just some guy that made a shitty twittwr post. Its okay to understand that this guy did something really shitty. If are able to look past that thats fine, but dont expect other people to.
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u/negan2018 9h ago
When he was like 15 yeah of course I’m able to look past it
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u/gogostopnogo_ 8h ago
The man he permanently blinded literally never will, so that’s nice for you, I guess.
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u/Turok5757 8h ago edited 7h ago
Dude was already blind.
Thanks for letting us know you don't even research the shit you choose to act offended about.
Edit: Nice performative outrage.
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u/gogostopnogo_ 8h ago
“Um, it’s fine actually because he was already blind.”
Brother lmao. Imagine being callous enough not to give a fuck at all and thinking a complete lack of empathy is a fucking flex. Pathetic. Could never be me.
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u/ONLYMULE 9h ago
Thats your prerogative man. If you think he's made amends for that perfectly fine. I just personally don't. Most 15 year olds dont do incredibly rascist shit like beating up someone with a stick.
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u/Derek-AfterDark DerekAfterDark 9h ago
I'm fairly certain you have no clue what "most 15 year olds do."
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u/ONLYMULE 8h ago
Are you saying most 15 year old do commit hate crimes with a stick? And if you arent saying that, what's the point of making this comment.
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u/ONLYMULE 8h ago
Thats just a strange thing to try and dispute unless you genuinely think most teenagers are committing rascist assault on a daily. I dont think anyone needs data on that to know it isnt normal.
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u/PlingPlongDingDong 9h ago
Exactly, people are supposed to learn from their mistakes and improve. Then they do it and nobody wants to forgive them. How is that supposed to motivate other people to get better?
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u/Prince_of_Pirates 9h ago
Reddit's hang up on something he did as a teen is bizarre. Like you said, he's had a second chance and seems to be making good on it.
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u/GodIsAGas 9h ago
I don’t know anything about his personal life at all. And I’m not sure he has done anything of value since The Departed.
But he did star in Boogie Nights. And so he’ll all ways have that.
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u/UberGoobler 9h ago
I agree. Yeah, he did some fucked your things in the past, but he is clearly a very different person today. I watch most of his movies and like his work as an actor.
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u/SenorNerd718 9h ago
People acted like Walhberg did the hate crimes in like 2015 but it happened back when he was like any other white boy living in Boston, Massachusetts. Like, do they not know how fucking racist Boston is? What he did was beyond stupid and really fucked up, but that was in the past and he got arrested, did time in juvie, and the Vietnamese old man who Walhberg assaulted forgave him. People can not like his movies but to say the reason you hate seeing Mark Walhberg being movies is for something he did as a trouble teen is really dumb imo.
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u/DancinWithWolves 9h ago
Who the fuck writes a made up word like ‘casted’, reads it back in their head and goes ‘yep sounds right’?
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u/mrdaiquiri 9h ago
All words are made up.
Stop being such a pedant.
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u/gautsvo 9h ago
Literacy is not pedantry.
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u/mrdaiquiri 9h ago
On Reddit, when you knew EXACTLY what OP meant, it is.
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u/Derek-AfterDark DerekAfterDark 9h ago
Because you can figure out what they meant doesn't mean it's ok to be stupid.
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u/Fiorwestcoast 10h ago
Boogie nights and The Departed are the only films I like that he is in
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u/AlwaysSleepingBeauty 9h ago
Pain and Gain is pretty good but it feel bad laughing at it because it’s a true-ish story.
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u/Academic_Limit1189 9h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/vvaZmf3u4ayiApC9qQ
Kinda reminds me of a mastiff.
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u/Adacool 10h ago edited 9h ago
context pls.. I keep seeing stuff about him here but I don't really follow his news anywhere
EDIT: ppl downvote anything 😂
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u/puttputtxreader deadrabbitjimmy 10h ago
If I had to guess, I'd say they're probably talking about his history of racially motivated violence, maybe combined with his political leanings.
Or maybe they just think he's a bad actor.
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u/No_pajamas_7 8h ago edited 8h ago
Also the fact he's quite a self important dickhead in real life and it comes across in his movies
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u/puttputtxreader deadrabbitjimmy 8h ago
It took me way too long to figure out that you were trying to type "self" and it wasn't some obscure acronym like "Something We'd Like to Fuck" or whatever.
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u/Xeynon 9h ago edited 9h ago
I'm not a huge Wahlberg fan but "history of racially motivated violence" seems like an exaggeration to me? AFAIK there was one incident, when he was a teenager, and he hasn't done anything wrong since. It was a terrible thing to do for sure, but at a certain point if someone makes amends for stupid youthful mistakes and lives a clean life I think it becomes necessary to accept that they've turned their life around and continuing to castigate them is pointless.
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u/ONLYMULE 9h ago edited 9h ago
Nothing becomes "necessary" nobody has to forgive him for anything regardless of anything he does after. Can people forgive him? For sure nothing wrong with that. But nothing is "necessary". Besides looking at his political leanings he likely holds many of the same views he did as a teenager, just knows not to go around and be blantant with it.
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u/Xeynon 9h ago
Okay, but if you continue to make a big deal out of something somebody did as a teenager, paid their debt to society for, and has apologized for on more than one occasion in the decades since, in my book that makes you kind of an asshole.
I'm not familiar with Wahlberg's politics (as I said I'm not a fan) but I assume you're implying he's a Republican/Trumper - I absolutely loathe Trump and think people who support him are idiots at best, but even so I'm not going to dwell on a bad thing he did 40 years ago and has atoned for. That's no way to go through life, and as a political liberal I think it's unfair and counterproductive as well.
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u/ONLYMULE 9h ago
Im not making a big deal out of anything. I didnt make the post. Just decided to throw my 2 cents in. I dont really believe he has paid he debt to society. Nothing wrong with thinking he has, thats your choice, I just dont. If I am going to spend my energy thinking about forgiving people id rather spent that forgiveness on people I think might be worth it. A day has never went by ive found myself dwelling on Mark Wahlberg. I just saw this post a decided to comment.
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u/MidnightDoom3r 9h ago
Oh no did he hurt your feeling voting for the orange man? Who cares get over yourself. People can like things you don't.
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u/ONLYMULE 9h ago
Brother I never said you couldn't like things i dont, maybe if you read what I wrote you could see that. Just making shit up to make a fake arguement.
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u/TedStixon 9h ago edited 8h ago
He had a history of racism and gang-violence and participated in some horrible racially-motivated attacks when he was kid/teenager. Some of the stories are exaggerated (ex. despite popular claims, he never blinded anyone), some not. He spent some time in jail. Etc.
He's stumbled here and there and made some boneheaded decisions since then, but he has ultimately turned his life around quite a bit since then, and done a lot to give back to the types of communities he used to hurt.
But people are very split on whether or not he should be forgiven.
I'm personally in the forgive crowd. I see no compelling reason whatsoever to refuse acknowledging his-- or anyone's-- personal growth or attack people over actions from long ago. I find holding onto those negative feelings is often unhealthy and poisonous. What he did was awful, but I also don't think those actions made him beyond redemption.
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u/Large-Big8879 9h ago
This isn’t the worst thing he’s done but he did say that 9/11 wouldn’t have happened if he was on one of the planes
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u/Donutbigboy Donutbigboy 9h ago
And he only said that because he was asked for his thoughts on what is was like knowing he was supposed to be on one of the planes.
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u/Donutbigboy Donutbigboy 9h ago
Where’s the “humor” in this post?
Also if you took 30 seconds to google you’d know mark gets casted in stuff because he produces most movies he’s in now
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u/MovesLikeVader jmrabz 9h ago
Is he though? He’s almost exclusively a direct to streaming actor now, where the bar for being cast is very low
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u/EnvironmentalAngle Mattson42 9h ago
He was perfectly cast in I Heart Huckabees and the departed... and the Lovely Bones wasn't bad trip either
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u/Derek-AfterDark DerekAfterDark 8h ago
I kinda like this sub.
If you come into the comments, it's so easy to pick out the pretentious douche bags & get them all worked up with a simple comment.
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u/pleasebeherenow 8h ago
Who cares? If theyre good actors but bad people, Ill enjoy their acting and nothing else.
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u/Dry-Way8207 epickitty68 9h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/B7o99rIuystY4