Comments on: Matt Damon Refuses to Act in Violent Movies

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uberVU - social comments — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:03:12 +0000

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By: Patrick Of Atlantis

Patrick Of Atlantis — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:35:57 +0000

If Damon refuses to act in violent movies, that kind of limits his roles to chick flicks and Christmas movies, I guess. I was hoping to see Jason Bourne again, in a movie where he goes up against those three bounty hunters I saw on TV. Those bounty hunters were so big they had to duck and turn sideways to go through a door. I would love to have seen Bourne try to kung fu them.

By: Beige

Beige — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:44:19 +0000

@AAW: Yeah, and this was the same commentary (I think it was for “The Bourne Supremacy”, the second in the trilogy) in which he raved about how happy and smiling the people in Goa, India were when he was filming there. Because they’re so happy to be poor, you see. And to be graced by the presence of movie stars who might throw them some money. GAAAHHH.

Yeah, MC Mom, that’s a good point. I don’t steer clear of movies just b/c they’re violent. Violence is, unfortunately, a part of the world we live in. What’s hypocritical is talking about how bad it is while staging a bunch more of it and getting paid great flipping wodges of cash to do so.

By: MC Mom

MC Mom — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:21:28 +0000

It’s too bad Matt Damon (and Hollywood) are such hypocrites about violence, but aren’t we all?

I mean, look at Congress and everyone loudly decrying violence in Hollywood movies, but what was the top-grossing film of the year? Transformers.

Why can’t we all just admit that violence in entertainment is, well, entertaining? I loved the Bourne movies, especially the second one, even though my doppelganger homegirl Franke bought it right at the beginning.

By: Minnow

Minnow — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:10:04 +0000

Remember Jannah, in Hollywood it’s all about the talk rather than the walk.

Perhaps because most can’t do both at the same time.

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By: Jannah

Jannah — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:52:05 +0000

Wow, what a tool. I mean, even more of a tool that I already thought he was.

It’s funny (funny-weird, not funny-haha) how a decade or so ago, Hollywood was all about denying that violence in movies caused kids to choreograph events like Columbine and other violent-image-inspired shootings. Now maybe they are seeing what concerned people have known all along. Except of course, it’s all lip-service as stated in this article.

By: Elle

Elle — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:48:23 +0000

“Damon refuses to act in violent movies”

This is news? Wasn’t much ‘acting’ involved in any of his movies in my opinion.

By: Angry Army Wife

Angry Army Wife — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:49:37 +0000

Beige – I never knew he said that. How does one make it more “Democrat?” By starring Matt Damon instead of Kelsey Grammer?

By: Beige

Beige — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:43:51 +0000

@sal m: Yeah, and Damon remarked on some commentary I saw that he loved how the Bourne movies “took a Republican series of books and turned them into Democrat movies”. Whatever the #@$% THAT means.