Mark Wahlberg's atonement flick, 'Joe Bell'

Maybe you prefer a film about scat since you're always bumping scat threads

Mark is gross and a vile homophobe. His movies are shit.

Does one assume that Mark offered up his muscle boy hole to Calvin for the gig that put his half naked bod in front of all our eyes?

One does.

The poster is a spoiler. Hiking in the middle of a highway is a bad idea.

OP must be one of the fat bullies who tormented the gay son in real life.

Maybe, R1, you're a deranged paranoid fucktwit who is confusing me, OP, with someone else, since you, R1, are a shit-licking cunt yourself.

R5 is one of the fat bullies who shat on R1. R5 still jacks off to old Marky Mark videos...on VHS!

The case against Boreback Mountme grows stronger every day. What the hell were you thinking by not protesting the shit out of that movie?

I'd have watched it twice if Ricky Schroder were in Marky Mark's place.

OP types a bitter, resentful, fat, old cunt who stays on DL all hours to lash out at people who disagree with her. SAD life, innit?

R9's a trollina de troll, who has nothing but cunt juice oozing from its arachnid glands.

R9 stews in anger, still too stupid to start his own thread.

R9, still butthurt when no one invited him to any Pride parties.

R9, still unvaxxinated.

More eloquence from R9, a sad Flyoverville nobody trollina...and clearly a psychotic.

I just hate that young actor, totally miscast. He's not acting, he's oooh-SNAP-ing. You'd never reveal that to your macho dad with such flippancy.

Now we know everything and everyone repulse you, even your own face. Now take your paranoid schizo meds and get some rest. 20 hours nonstop on DL is too extreme, we know.

Now that we know you're a psychotic nutbag, R13, you can spiral off on your regular meth binge, hag. The only repulsive thing here is you.

Back to the film. They could have cast a son who at least slightly resembles a young Wahlberg. He could be an image and fitness-obsessed Insta-ho some of you adore.

Well, he could have done another Transformers movie and yet he chose to do this. So, this is a nice surprise.

He’d be better off sticking to popcorn movies.

Is Mark still hawt in this film? That beard says "no".

He has come full circle I guess. I may watch it.

hope this racist piece of shit dies

Isn't this the movie where he made it all about the father and the gay son was only secondary to that?

I love it when straight people get together to make a movie with gay themes.

Mr. Mark is bisexual, yes?

Luv the scene where daddy Marky Marky kicks his gay son's eye out.

The Vietnamese man has stated he was already blind.

This is stated in every thread on Mark Wahlberg but trolls pretend not to know it.

Was the Vietnamese man gay, too?

R17 well Infinite just came out.

Just a reminder; this was the first thread on this shit film.

I can't stand Marky Mark, but he's not a bad actor, and the movie actually looks worthwhile. Conflicted.

Mark Wahlberg may be the headliner in this poorly conceived melodrama, but it is 21-year-old Reid Miller who shines through as the real star. Based on a true story, which has been disappointedly adapted for the screen by Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana (Brokeback Mountain) this is a gay drama made specifically for straight eyes.

It is the story of Joe Bell, who failed to accept his gay teenage son Jadin. He cared much more about how Jadin’s sexuality would affect the family’s standing in the community than about the struggle that his son was dealing with on his own. When Jadin was severely bullied at school and the Principal claimed she could do nothing to help the situation, his father sat by on the sidelines. It wasn’t until a distraught Jadin took his own life, that his father started to finally react.

He suddenly selfishly claimed the moral high ground, refusing to accept that either Jadin’s mother (Connie Britton) or brother could possibly be grieving as much as him. As it had always been Jadin’s dream to move to NY, he decided to walk all the way there from their home in La Grande, Oregon, and talk to anyone and everyone en route about the tragic consequences of bullying.

Even though Jadin’s character is written as a cliched queer youth whose life centers around Lady Gaga (who else!) Miller’s performance is the real redeeming feature of the film. On the other hand, it is difficult to watch Wahlberg (also the Producer) in this role considering his own very public reputation for bullying. He is also known for turning down Ang Lee’s offer of a part in Brokeback Mountain because he claimed it was ‘too creepy”.

If Wahlberg considered this film a call for his own redemption, then sadly this rather heavy-handed and muddled annoying drama did not achieve its aim.

Just scour Tik-Tok for someone who looked like the asshole in his undie-dropping prime, and have him take every dick in the room.

#MarkforBestActor2021

#OscarforWahlberg

#MarkyMarkAcademyAward

#DelusionalR32

#StraightWorshipR32

This will be an Oscar bait fail. After this Wahlberg will probably shop around for some other potential Oscar bait movie where he plays a physically disabled person or a parent of disabled child.

Please, you bitches know if there were shots of him in his undies or his butt, you would be streaming this in a heartbeat.

You'd all let him fuck you if given the chance.

R35 is why there is antigay violence.

I think I would save this for watching on some lazy afternoon on cable, not paying money to go see in a theater.

So, the blond gay kid dies?

Groundbreaking.

He's an absolutely awful actor and an awful person. I don't buy Marky Mark is reformed or enlightened in anyway. He just got lucky that his brother Donnie was in a major boy band and Donnie pushed for Mark's "rap career" as a way to keep him out of jail. And that rap career beget the underwear modeling campaign and film roles.

John Schneider who is a Republican starred in a movie playing a parent who's son was a victim of a gay hate crime.

He is dreamy.

I'll give it a watch. Why not?

1989- Heathers- "I love my dead gay son."

2021- Joe Bell- "I love my dead gay son."

Gary Sinise is in this too? I feel like they are both in on the joke. "Let's do a fag movie and try and get Oscars."

The son would have gotten more dick than he could handle wearing that scarf to hillbilly school like that.

R44 I thought the same thing when I saw Gary SInise in the trailer. I think Wahlberg probably did this for Oscar buzz, but the critics have panned it and I see it flopping at the box office.

I think some actors search around for certain based on a true story scripts in hopes of it being an Oscar buzz/bait movie. I suspected that Jake Gyllenhaal only did that Boston bombing survivor movie for Oscar buzz and same with Steve Carrell and Welcome to Marwen.

[quote]The Vietnamese man has stated he was already blind.

He has also stated he was already Vietnamese. What difference does it make?

R47 Being Vietnamese is a disability?

Wahlberg is from Poland and the Catholic Church.

This is Wahlberg seeking re-entry into the Catholic Church.

Well, he's not seeking re-entry into Poland with this pro-LGBT+ crapfest.

"Hey, dog. How's it goin'?"

Like the casting of Mel Gibson as a corrupt, racist cop in S. Craig Zahler’s “Dragged Across Concrete,” the choice to have Mark Wahlberg play Bell reflects the actor’s real experience. While he first became famous in 1991 for sub-Vanilla Ice rapping as the leader of Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch, he spent his teenage years committing hate crimes against Black and Asian people.

When he was 16, he beat a Vietnamese immigrant, Johnny Trinh, so badly that he believed he had blinded him in one eye, although Trinh has forgiven Wahlberg and says that his eye damage was sustained years before during the Vietnam War.

In many ways, the new film 'Joe Bell' is Hollywood do-goodism at its worst. We're to view homophobia through the angst of a guilt-ridden parent in a shallow lopsided perspective that winds up becoming an elongated PSA.

Why does he keep getting hired? He is such an awful actor. Is he considered hot and quality stuff in the USA?

Why does he keep getting hired? He gives good box-office.

He gives good box-office.

He represents the Common American Male.

And the sophisticated Seth McFarlane chose him because he wanted good box-office.

Like John Wayne he's predicable and you know what you're getting when you pay to see his movies.

He's the McDonalds of actors.

Look, Wahlberg's young life may have been filled with terrible antics and ideologies, but it's entirely possible he's changed since he's matured. That doesn't mean he's perfect by any means, but to continually assume he's the same person he was when he was a teenager is ridiculous.

People do change. I've seen it too many times to know it's true.

[quote]People do change.

Yes, they become worse.

And you automatically assume Wahlberg has become worse? Based on what? If you have bona fide information to support your claim, state it. Otherwise, don't make silly assumptions.

How about the fact he’s a known homophobic new Catholic who stomped on an Asian man blinding him in one eye? This guy would put his kids in “conversion therapy” in a heartbeat if they ever exhibited their own sexual feelings. He’s a piece of Boston shit. His brother is funny, decent to everyone he works with and does not judge anyone. I’ve been lucky to be around both. FUCK off marky mark short ugly asshole.

R61 you have not the slightest idea what you're talking about. So you really do need to shut it. Yes, he attacked the Asian man MANY YEARS AGO IN HIS YOUTH. He DID NOT blind the man in one eye. The Asian man himself has confirmed multiple times he was already blind in that eye from long before his encounter with Wahlberg.

Don't pretend you know what he would do with any of his kids if they told him they were gay. You know NOTHING. You're just another reactionary queen who projects what he wants to be true as if it is. And that makes you look foolish.

Wahlberg may indeed still be homophobic. I don't know, and you certainly don't know. If he is he's certainly keeping it well hidden. If he was still a virulent homophobe, as you claim, I would find it unlikely he'd be interested in taking on the role of the loving father of a bullied gay son.

[quote] I would find it unlikely he'd be interested in taking on the role of the loving father of a bullied gay son.

This is the only reason he did this movie.

R62 = Mark Wahlberg, or is a homophobic straight bootlicker who excuses and defends homophobia to score brownie points from straight homophobic scum.

R64 = deranged lunatic with obvious psychological issues and anger management issues, and who needs mental health treatment STAT.

R65 why, because I told the truth? FUCK YOU SCUM.

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- But woof, that ending. What an absolute dogsh*t of an ending. I don’t feel too bad about spoiling the final minutes here because it’s based on a true story that you can easily look up on Wikipedia. Joe Bell walks for six months, and after a conversation with a police officer (Gary Sinise) who picks him up and brings him back to the station for a meal, Joe returns to his tent and finally accepts his son for who he is. Or at least, that’s what the movie wants us to believe. Did he? Who knows? No one can actually ask Joe Bell what he was thinking that night because the movie abruptly ends after Joe is run over by an 18-wheeler and killed!

To be clear, Joe Bell is a film about a man who walks across the country to raise awareness about bullying who is run over and killed halfway to his destination.

The film is not bad, but not that good, either. It has its moments, but with better editing and a stronger lead, it could have been better. Wahlberg has two acting settings—intense mugging and excited 12 year old. He’s better in this role than previous ones, but not by much. Sad because I really wanted to say I was really impressed.

Clooney-sempai, notice me!!!!💓💓💓

When straight people get together to make a gay themed movie it's always about getting awards and accolades. They don't give shits about us outside of using our lives to get themselves a pat on the back. Fuck them.

Does Jadin at least get any sex in this movie?

R71 He gets to make out with one of the jocks.

How much of these people's lives were fictionalized by McMurty and his hag?

So I guess that kid Reid Miller who plays Jadin Bell really is straight.

the trailer made me cry