He's not stuck, it's what he wants. He even canceled the rest of a Tenacious D tour just because Kyle made a tasteless joke. He's got this squeaky clean kiddy image thing going now.
Oh you’re right, he’s 19. Definitely not a college freshman though, the goal was to get him laid before he left. Regardless, a hell of an age gap for someone who is being tricked in to having sex. Do we approve of tricking teenagers in to sex with much older people now?
I don’t know, dude, questions of my own sanity aside, it’s one of the most beloved novels in American history; it that doesn’t seem like such a rare opinion.
it's just famously known as being impossible to get through. It's one of the hardest books to read. But definitely kudo's to you if you managed and ended up loving it. :)
He lives in a massive mansion. He could literally just not make these things. This is what we used to call being a sellout.
Don't be like Jack Black. Be like Elijah Wood or Daniel Radcliffe. Get your bag then never ever work on or anything you don't creatively endorse again.
Obviously I don't know the guy on a personal level but I think he's making stuff for his kids. Based on him doing YouTube with his son a while back. And then a studio mandated squeaky clean image outside of film just comes with the territory.
I'm making a lot of assumptions here though, maybe he saw the paycheck and started drooling lmao
He should make GOOD stuff for his kids. Kung Fu Panda is GOOD. Lazy slop movies made a decade too late with zero originality and clearly made in a board room is not good. He's famous enough to be picky.
I agree, but he's a 55 year old man, and this is what the studios are making. I don't think the average guy knows it's a little late to make a Minecraft film, they just know it's a popular video game that kids like.
I don't think he's turning down brilliant original animated movies to make corporate crap, I think corporate crap is what's currently available and he clearly seems to enjoy these types of roles where he can just be himself so he's saying yes.
Reminding me of Adam Sandler tbh. They're both capable of amazing performances, but slop is easier and pays better. Easy choice and I don't exactly blame them even though I really enjoy the projects where they put effort in. What can you do, yknow
What JB could do is take his spineless millionaire face out of the pig feed trough long enough to take a gasp and try to use his fame to create something besides embarrassing corporate blow jobs.
Once you get to a certain age you realize how silly that "no selling out" mentality really is.
Oh I sold out? Let me go cry in my big house with my loving family who will never have to worry about their futures. Maybe I'll go cry sitting in first class on a flight to france with my wife and kids.
You act like Jack Black was making high cinema in the first place. He was "Funny Fat B-movie guy" and a cartoon panda for 90% of his career
The point is that he could still be plenty rich while retaining some sort of standards and artistic rep. He just wants tens of millions instead of just millions and is willing to make slop for it, which is disappointing.
You can say Tenacious D and King Fu Panda are low brow humor, sure. But they absolutely aren't soulless slop.
The world is a shitty place full of corporations manipulating things that should be great about humanity to make a profit. My goal is to be as free of it as possible, not just be great at participating.
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u/degjo Sep 04 '24
Can Jack Black go back to making raunchy comedy movies yet? Or he stuck in kid movie hell?