Oldman gate

  It seems whenever I decide to just casually surf the twitter sphere I come across people getting really angry about something. Last time it was David Goyer, this week it's (surprisingly) Gary Oldman. For those of you born yesterday Gary Oldman is Commissioner Gordon (Batman), Sirius Black,(Harry Potter) and  Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg (fifth element.) He's a fan favorite among fan boys and girls as well as critics. Although after this he might not be a fan favorite anything.


  To get the fully story here is a link to a website below:
http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2014/06/gary-oldman-blasts-political-correctness-defends-mel-gibson-and/


 Basically Gary Oldman defends Mel Gibbson's anti-Semitism, slams political correctness, and calls two of his most beloved movie franchises (Dark Knight and Harry Potter) "work." Oldman recently apologized on Jimmy Kimmel and is basically doing an apology tour along with the Fox PR department because 'Dawn of the planet of the apes' is coming out in a few weeks. Although that doesn't seem to have done much to make the public forgive him and everyone is still pretty ticked off at him.


  I think people forget, myself included, that the actors we think are nice people with laid-back funny personalities are in actuality very real people and some of those very real people are very real assholes.That doesn't mean every actor is like that however, the rock is a real person with that real of a personality which is why he is basically a franchise savior. Yet it hurts because we've been down this road before- everyone liked Alec Baldwin until he got drunk and ranted, everyone liked Mel Gibbson until we found out he was an unhinged anti-Semite and we all loved Gary Oldman until he turned out to be a dick.


 It's sad that our favorite actors turn out to be ass-hats and Gary Oldman will probably end up like Alec Baldwin and Mel Gibbson were he kind of goes away for a bit, tries to make a come back, maybe (Baldwin) or maybe not (Gibbson) makes a successful comeback. I don't think I will forget this the next time I go see a Gary Oldman movie and I think a lot of people will think twice as well.