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[QUOTE=Ascended;3160755]You'll notice that no one is talking about the stuff he did on the GoT set to put his co-stars at ease, either.
Apparently during the sex scenes he filmed with.....crap, the chick who plays Daenaris (spelling?) she was really uncomfortable with the whole thing (understandable) so Mamoa came out wearing a sock on his.....method acting. Made everyone laugh and made filming the scenes easier for all involved.
He seems like a good guy. Who gives a damn if he made a bad joke?[/QUOTE]
Don't leave out the best part of the story, man! The sock wasn't just any old sock. It was all fluffy.....and PINK! :)
Yeah, Momoa is clearly a guy who prefers to make women laugh and set them at ease. He made a very stupid faux pas and unlike Affleck, he apologized for his mistake immediately.
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Jason used his instagram to apologize for that joke. AGAIN.
[url]https://www.instagram.com/p/BaKqDCfnARp/[/url]
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[QUOTE=Agent Z;3160231]If people can get over Thor almost murdering Steve and Tony in the first Avengers movie I think Batman will get some slack especially since unlike Thor he had the excuse of being manipulated[/QUOTE]
Thor didn't try and murder anybody.
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[QUOTE=Flash Gordon;3160810]Thor didn't try and murder anybody.[/QUOTE]
He swung his mountain-splitting hammer at a man whom he had no reason at all to believe should be able to survive it. He knew he was on Midgard. He knows how strong (or not-strong) humans are. He knows how not-strong our metals tend to be. He had no reason in the world to think Cap could possibly survive that hit.
He also fired a lightning bolt at Stark. Same thing. He had no reason at all to believe that Stark would be able to withstand that attack. The fact that Stark is enough of a genius to develop a suit that can actually EAT lightning strikes is irrelevant. Thor didn't know that at the time.
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[QUOTE=FIFTY-TWO (52);3160663]He's a great Batman and better Bruce Wayne, so I say leave him be.[/QUOTE]
I rewatched the ACCOUNTANT (loved it) and oh man Ben Affleck could be so fantastic in a solo Batman film. I don't get the criticisms about his age, Bruce Wayne would be a guy in his 40s- at least in my mind.
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[QUOTE=Krypto's Fleas;3158029]Their connection to Weinstein is famously linked to Good Will Hunting. Weinstein helped launch them both, and they were both very close with him.[/QUOTE]
I meant what has the actions of his best bud got to do with him? This is slightly ridiculous actually.
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[QUOTE=Vanguard-01;3160817]He swung his mountain-splitting hammer at a man whom he had no reason at all to believe should be able to survive it. He knew he was on Midgard. He knows how strong (or not-strong) humans are. He knows how not-strong our metals tend to be. He had no reason in the world to think Cap could possibly survive that hit.
He also fired a lightning bolt at Stark. Same thing. He had no reason at all to believe that Stark would be able to withstand that attack. The fact that Stark is enough of a genius to develop a suit that can actually EAT lightning strikes is irrelevant. Thor didn't know that at the time.[/QUOTE]
Eh, he wasn't trying to murder them. It was a battle. Cap and Stark don't look like your casual civilians out for lunch on a Tuesday.
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[QUOTE=Vanguard-01;3160808]Don't leave out the best part of the story, man! The sock wasn't just any old sock. It was all fluffy.....and PINK! :)
Yeah, Momoa is clearly a guy who prefers to make women laugh and set them at ease. He made a very stupid faux pas and unlike Affleck, he apologized for his mistake immediately.[/QUOTE]
My gods, I forgot about the pink part!!
Dude, Mamoa is amazing. :)
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[QUOTE=Flash Gordon;3160829]Eh, he wasn't trying to murder them. It was a battle. Cap and Stark don't look like your casual civilians out for lunch on a Tuesday.[/QUOTE]
Like to point out Tony flew in and knocked Thor an Asgardian across the forest first and Captain America hit Thor in the head with his shield first both men proved they could handle a fight with an Asgardian before he threw a punch. Oh and they captured Loki.
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[QUOTE=Flash Gordon;3160829]Eh, he wasn't trying to murder them. It was a battle. Cap and Stark don't look like your casual civilians out for lunch on a Tuesday.[/QUOTE]
They also don't, from Thor's experience, look like the kind of guys who can survive his very best offensive weapons. Don't forget that Thor has fairly extensive experience with the people of Midgard. He has NEVER seen them field ANYTHING that could reasonably threaten an Asgardian. He had no reason to think they could survive what he was throwing their way.
Now, I will admit that this argument still doesn't actually help Batman in BvS because even if you accept that Thor DID try to kill Cap and Stark in that fight, that's not the same thing as what Batman did. If Thor HAD killed Stark and Cap, it would've been a heat-of-battle kind of thing. Murder Two, at worst. Batman? That was First-Degree, fully pre-meditated murder he was planning to do against Superman. He spent a lot of time studying him, learning what could hurt him, and then he concocted elaborate traps and weapons designed specifically to exploit his weaknesses and give him the best possible chance at rendering Superman helpless. Heck, even when he had Superman beaten and helpless, he even couldn't resist dragging him around by his leg, throwing him around the room, and then cutting his face just to prove he could. As helpless as Superman was by that point, that pretty much qualified as torturing him before finishing him off.
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[img]https://i.imgur.com/Qvw8ey2.png[/img]
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[QUOTE=Jokerz79;3160766]Well yeah they're a month away from release of course it's too late to recast for Justice League. No matter how much they could potentially lose of this it would never be as much as scrapping the whole movie. Momoa made a bad stupid joke and he apologized then and I disagree about joking about rape simply because I believe anything can be joked about it's context. We make jokes all the time of Killers, Rapist, and Molesters getting raped in prison it gets a laugh because of context of the person being a scumbag getting their comeuppance.[/QUOTE]
We? Who the heck is we? If you think it is right to make light of a topic such as rape, then it is no wonder why SOME people think it is ok, and not a huge deal, to violate another person's right in the most despicable way. Attitudes like that empowered people like Ben Affleck and Harvey Weinstein. It is far from just a bad stupid joke; IT IS NEVER ok to joke about raping another woman (or even a man). If one can trivialize such a thing, then it indicates that one is capable of performing the same deeds to an innocent unsuspecting person as well. And to humour your point, the women in Momoa's context, were not (portrayed as) rapists killers and molesters.
In my opinion, a joke like that has no place in society, and as an educated person, I have zero privilege or ignorance to ever see the topic of rape as a joke.
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[QUOTE=SiegePerilous02;3160697]Mamoa's comment was stupid, but given the context of who his character was, it's not a big deal. Especially as it's just a joke (albeit one in poor taste, but I'm not gonna pretend I don't have a crude sense of humor when I'm with my buddies either).
The Affleck stuff is entirely due to his connection to Weinstein and not keeping his mouth shut on Twitter about it, revealing some hypocrisy on his part. The fact that JL is around the corner is a really unfortunate coincidence because the universe just doesn't seem to want this damn thing to be released with no problems, but it is what it is.
Mamoa getting dragged into things is a bit suspect though, I agree.
I forgot about this, and he's over at Marvel.
[B]I think that might actually be worse than what Affleck has been accused of[/B] (thus far).[/QUOTE]
You [I]think[/I]? Are you actually having a hard time figuring out whether beating up a woman is better or worse than touching a breast?
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[QUOTE=Reservoir Dog;3160858][img]https://i.imgur.com/Qvw8ey2.png[/img][/QUOTE]
Pretty cool! I wonder who the fish people are.
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[QUOTE=Clark_Kent;3160905]You [I]think[/I]? Are you actually having a hard time figuring out whether beating up a woman is better or worse than touching a breast?[/QUOTE]
Ugh, yeah that sentence of mine really sucks. Could have been worded way better. Darknight Detective responded correctly, that easily trumps any of this stuff with Affleck.
But the alleged groping shouldn't be dismissed either just because there are people doing worse things, like Brolin or Weinstein. Especially as such behavior can be an indicator that he may be capable of going even further, though we thankfully haven't gotten any stories like that yet.