Just watched 12 Monkeys (1996), and it’s a little uncomfortable seeing Bruce Willis portray a character struggling mentally, know of his real-life problems with frontotemporal dementia. It’s not the time of year yet, but I’m wondering if my enjoyment of Die Hard will be reduced, since the hearing loss he suffered on that film may have been a contributing factor.
The Crow (1994) - on which Brandon Lee died, and Rust (upcoming) - on which Halyna Hutchins died - aren’t films I’d normally watch anyway, so I don’t know how the deaths would have affected my decision to watch them. Conversely, Kevin Spacey is in a lot of films I like, but it’s a bit queasy seeing his performances, with the suspicion that we all now know why he’s so good at portraying creeps.
So do you just try to enjoy a film as a film, or does real-life events ever stop you re-watching them?
Fuck absolutely everything about your assertion that the court of public opinion holds a single ounce of merit…
The court of public opinion at one point in time held that a human being with a measure of melanin beyond a certain amount was a piece of fucking property.
You’re also suggesting a news outlet has almost omnipotent power of judgement.
Fuck that. Fuck. that.
The court of public opinion is fickle, it’s easily manipulated, it’s standards are as fluid as anything can be. No…
It’s “innocent until proven guilty”, not “guilty because we think so”.
You’ve misinterpreted my statement. I think we’re largely in agreement.
I think the only place that we disagree is that the public opinion doesn’t matter. I think it can matter a lot, for better or wrose. You rightly point out that public opinion has been wrong a lot, and I don’t disagree with that or defend any time that it has been wrong.
My point was that courts should use innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Public opinion shouldn’t be held to the same standard though, but it should also only be deciding “do I like them” or “did they do something I don’t like”.