Sucks for the movie, but maybe they can get Taika Watiti to direct it. I don’t have much sympathy for Gunn. “I did it when I was younger, I’ve grown past that.” It was fucking 7 years ago dude. You were in your 40s.
A Right Wing Blogger dug into his feed to find them and create a dust up. Obviously “payback” for Roseanne being fired for nutty racist tweets she did today and not 6 years ago.
They were shitty and offensive jokes, but that’s all they were. I hope Disney reconsiders. James Gunn’s discarded fingernail clippings have more talent than Roseanne. And he’s generally, shitty jokes to one side, a pretty decent guy. Has anyone other than a couple of notorious right wing trolls and their followers actually complained?
I guess this is reason 4,783,091 to never ever open a twitter account.
Payback or not, it was some seriously nasty shit, and it was hardly an isolated incident. He seems to like to “joke” about pedophilia a lot.
There was very little joke and a whole lot of horrifically nasty about the comments I read.
I’m a whole lot of shocked and unhappy about this. I liked the Guardians films more than any of the other MCU films, and have been looking forward to the 3rd. Yeah, here’s hoping that Taika Watiti takes over.
And yes, in the days when internet comments live forever, there is no forgiveness for past mistakes, misspeakings, drunken ramblings, or attempts to be shocking for the sake of being shocking.
Wait, what?
Again?
Is there a link? Because that strikes me as a FAR more entertaining story. F’rinstance, I didn’t know she had gotten herself another job.
The interesting things about Gunn is that the tweets were dug up and spread by the same asshole who perpetrated Gamergate.
Yeah, that’s the infuriating thing. If this had been brought to light by an in house investigation or some random person, I’d be much more sanguine, though still sad. But Disney looks pathetic dancing to Mike Cernovich’s tune.
Cernovich didn’t author the tweets, he just brought them to light. It’s something that happens to many celebs, regardless of politics. It’s a hatchet job, for sure, but it is nothing new. Big difference is that Gunn immediately took the high road, as opposed to Barr still making excuses. And maybe, just maybe, if enough people get shit-slapped for posting and saying and doing stupid shit in the age of pervasive recording and the internet never forgetting, people will eventually learn to stop doing stupid shit. And on that day, we will also discover that unicorns really exist.
Man, this sucks on multiple levels. I was never sure if I liked James Gunn all that much, but this is a mess that may ruin his big budget career forever. He’ll have to go back to indie horror permanently.
In most cases like this I would see it as overreaction, but though I haven’t read the tweets in question, I accept others’ assessment that they really were more than problematic. Fair enough, then.
So, am I now going to get in trouble for the dead baby jokes I told as a child? Sometimes jokes are funny precisely because they are over-the-top offensive.
Dumbest, most bullshit snap judgment in awhile. Gunn’s film immediately preceding Guardians, and which probably secured him his deal with Marvel to begin with, was Super, which notably has a scene played for comedy wherein a young Ellen Page rapes a middle-aged superhero wannabe played by Rainn Wilson. Who is so distraught afterward that he vomits.
Which isn’t even to mention PG Porn or Gunn’s early work with Troma. So the notion that he suddenly got fired for his tweets is bullshit.
That depends. Did you go on a social media site and tell them? If you did, you’re pretty much screwed and the fact you were a minor at the time won’t excuse you. Just ask Josh Hader.
I hate to repeat a cliche’ but on the internet, everything’s written in ink. That’s something has to be drilled into the head of every child before he or she goes on-line for the first time.
If there had been social media 40 years ago, who knows? But there’s a huge difference between hate-filled rants and jokes that are so over-the-top they are obviously meant to be shock humor. Lenny Bruce fought this battle 60 years ago. I call BS on someone being offended by specifically searching out jokes long buried, anyway. It’s like hanging out in an outhouse and complaining about the stench.
If those were meant to be jokes they were some of the least funny I’ve ever come across.
I read them. It seemed like he was ripping off Daniel Tosh.
Yeah, they read like a teenager wanting to make edgy comedy. Stuff like:
>“Eagle snatches kid” is what I call it when I get lucky.
Har har. Get it? Yeah.
Hardly the most offensive thing in the world. Probably too rich for the house of the Mouse, but nothing to get too scandalized over.
Not entirely, I must admit.
I agree. A lot of these jokes are really lame, but overall this really isn’t pinging my outrage meter. Doesn’t Seth MacFarlane make tasteless rape and pedophilia jokes all the time, and get paid handsomely for it?