Matt Damon says "red state role" changed his perspective

Fuck him for even empathizing with these people.

"I really feel for the working class," said Damon before taking a private jet to one of his five mansions.

Truly in touch with the little people.

I agree, R1.

"They let me into their lives," so I guess that makes them less hateful and ignorant?

Yeah, I don't think so.

Amanda Know is a nasty trashy cunt whom the media whitewashed for a number of reasons including xenophobia. Her family is garbage too though considerably more wealthy than the characters in this film appear to be. This American depiction of her as a wide eyed waif harassed by mustache twirling Europeans is simply laughable. Anyway, good luck with your Oscar bait Matt.

Why won't they show him mansplaining (in the truest way I've ever seen) how to deal with racial diversity on film to his black producer, Effie. Even a pilled out Ben Affleck looked on in horror. It was on Project Green light. I've hated him ever since. You know he knew all about Harvey Weinstein and he's just a dipshit

I stopped watching Bradley Cooper movies for this same reason.

Both tried to glorify these Deplorable MAGATS.

Cooper did it with "American Sniper" and that murderous right-wing asshole Chris Kyle.

Now Matt Damon is trying to do it with Amanda Knox and her MAGAT father, in "Stillwater."

They can both go to hell. I'm cancelling the fuck out of BOTH of them!

Just say the lines, Matt, and don't try to think. Above all, please spare us your dull cliches and commonplace insights.

The king of liberal liberalism. Ricky Schroeder lent Matt his Costco protest outfit for the film.

[quote]Fuck him for even empathizing with these people.

Exactly. I was just saying in another thread the other day about how Dems really are Dim and we are the only party who always do this Kumbaya shit and always want to defend Rethugs even though Rethugs NEVER do anything to defend Democrats or to be reasonable. So sick of Dummy Dems/Dims that allow themselves to be doormats.

What do you expect from a piece of shit who said gay actors should stay in the closet and refused to back down from that stance?

I would have cancelled him but I never subscribed to him in the first place.

Matt Damon will be Clint Eastwood in 20 years.

White Male Heteros Know Best

R7 Don't forget to cancel Clint Eastwood too. He directed American Sniper.

R14 I think most of us canceled him decades ago.

Clint Eastwood was dead to me a long time ago, R14.

Funny you mention him, because I posted the chair photo at R12. lol

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R3 You could say the same about our former reality show president and most republicans. They are rich yet these yokels vote for them despite a long record of voting against their economic interests

Remember his slick comments about diversity (and this was years before “woke” was a thing)?

I expect nothing less from these privileged straight white men. And yes, they almost all become Republican trash as they get older and their popularity fades away.

I have so much in common with these people. After they clean my 9 bathrooms.

Let's cancel Abigail Breslin, while we're at it.

Fuck you, Little Miss Sunshine!!!

Never understood his appeal, he’s not attractive.

Those Bourne movies are so overrated and stupid.

[quote]Amanda Know is a nasty trashy cunt

I can't decide if she did it or not. But, she had no association with Rudy Guede, who was involved with the murder, so I'm not really sure she had anything to do with it. She was an oddball who ignored a bunch of red flags at the very least, though.

He's a white, heterosexual male. It's easy for him to get along with them, because despite their political differences, they still see a white, heterosexual male - aka a "real 'murican."

Go ask Dr. Faisal Khan, the acting St. Louis County Health Director about his experience with these same people.

Amanda didn’t do it but WHY does anybody have to figure out why these assholes are assholes? I don’t need to figure out deplorables. They’re awful people.

Ummm Matt is hot. He’s always been hot. If you don’t see the appeal that’s on you cuz you probably like hairy bears. No taste.

I spent some time around roughnecks in the late 80s and the fact is, contrary to popular opinion, their necks are silky smooth.

Matt is the definition of AWG

Abigail Breslin? Abigail Nasty!

Can someone who watched that Project Greenlight show explain that video? I understand the issue over making the only black woman in the movie a prostitute, but the rest makes mo sense.

At least Ben Affleck knows better than this.

He sticks to superhero roles, and shuts his mouth.

I hope that beard is only for the role. Shave it off Matt ASAP!

Just an Okie from Muskogee

When I saw the previews, I was kind of shocked that Damon stooped to this flag waiving/proud merican type picked on by those sneaky euros - wasn't Mark Wahlberg available? That's typically his schtick.

Yes, by all means Damon, mansplain to us about the thoughts & feelings of MAGA rednecks. We're dying to hear what you have to say (eyeroll)

Boston is the Oklahoma of the Northeast, so it makes sense that Matt Damon would have an affinity with them.

I'm not a fan of today's so-called conservatives and their mentality either, but I see Matt Damon's approach to see common ground and empathize with them as a positive not a negative. We need to stop this tribal view of left vs. right and us vs. them. Since Obama was elected president in 2008 Republicans and their pundits have purposely been sparking the differences between the social and political camps in order to divide and conquer. The fact that someone so incredibly unqualified for president as Trump won the election in 2016 was the result of hate, misinformation and tribalism. While the film Stillwater is just that, only a movie, we do need to find common ground and bring some unity back to America or else we will eventually spiral into civil war. And this nonsensical shit about cancelling an actor or entertainer because we don't agree with one of their roles or projects is ridiculous. Just don't see the fucking film then.

Your point is well taken R37, though I don't know that anyone was proposing "cancelling" Damon (whatever that means), but more making fun of him for being such a phony.

[quote]I'm not a fan of today's so-called conservatives and their mentality either, but I see Matt Damon's approach to see common ground and empathize with them as a positive not a negative.

See R10.

Amanda Knox is pretty fucked off by the misogynistic attitudes of Damon and McCarthy.

I can't stand Knox, but I love that she's slamming this movie and Damon.

Matt Damon is more phony than a three dollar bill. He has told the public many times how stupid he is about race and diversity. Hard to think he is a product of Harvard. He, like Tom Cruise, and Mark Wahlberg, aren’t men of culture and grace who really what open the minds of other. They male actors who are aging. Damon wants an Oscar, plain and simple. He has already started marketing for it.

And if he was ever hot that changed when his face could no longer register felt emotions and he opened his mouth.

R37, you have no clue what you're talking about.

And before you ask Democrats to bend over and spread it, go preach it to Republican Deplorable MAGATS first.

Then come back to us when THEY extend the Olive Branch.

Spoiler Alert: They NEVER WILL.

[quote]I'm not a fan of today's so-called conservatives and their mentality either, but I see Matt Damon's approach to see common ground and empathize with them as a positive not a negative. We need to stop this tribal view of left vs. right and us vs. them.

Yeah, good luck with that.

Aww, Amanda is teed off? I wonder if they will stay true to the person who inspired the story and include a scene of Abigail posing like Amanda did, with a machine gun statue while referring to herself as having " a Nazi within". Will the movie touch upon how Amanda/ Abigail fabricated a story about being slapped by cops, kept there for hours and denied an interpreter ? While in reality they spoke English to her , kept her there for a relatively short period and gave her chamomile tea. Probably not.

[quote]We need to stop this tribal view of left vs. right and us vs. them.

Except this isn't your typical right vs left. This is not about a dispute over paying for infrastructure; that's not where the lines are drawn. It's MTG using a political ad featuring herself carrying an assault rifle pointed at the heads of several of her colleagues - who all happen to be non-white, ethnic women.

It's about the dehumanization of certain groups which is the only reason someone as unqualified and downright putrid and stupid as Trump took over that major political party.

[quote]we do need to find common ground

If you're an American who happens to be black, Hispanic or Muslim, how do you find common ground with people who don't even accept you as one? I'm the one who earlier in this thread mentioned a Dr. Faisal Khan. I suggest you look him up and see what he was a subjected to a couple of days ago at a meeting in St. Louis over a mask mandate. The instincts of these people with whom you think you can find "common ground" on full display. A public servant looking out for the well-being of these people with whom we're to find "common ground" attacking him with racism and xenophobia, because that's how they "debate."

The establishment left (which is overwhelmingly white) is constantly doing everything to coddle, enable and dismiss what the right has become and what they clearly stand for: bigotry, racism, supremacy.

That's the truth, R46. Why get cozy with fascists?

FUCK.

MATT.

DAMON.

FUCK.

BRADLEY.

COOPER.

I agree with the sentiment that it really is getting exhausting listening to people on the left telling us we have to understand assholes on the when the right can be as repugnant as they please and aren't expected to ever extend the olive branch.

assholes on the right*

Tired of the false equivalence of all opinions are worthy of validity and respect. Points of view and attitudes that reflect ignorance, bigotry or something that can be verified as untrue don’t get equal consideration. That is bullshit pushed by Fox, GOP and corporation’s because it gets people to believe that they can choose their own truth so people vote based on biased opinions rather than making an informed decision. It’s why we are in the mess we are w COVID.

But... but ... but.... BOTH SIDES!!!!

*corporations

The Right never wants to understand the Left. They say we look down on them, but they look down on us, too. They never try to see our side of things. I am also tired of being told WE don’t reach out enough to THEM.

We need to boycott this fucking right-wing CRAP movie!

R54, they look down on the left because the left refuses to embrace the idea that simply being white, should automatically make them superior. They think attempting to even the playing field or not demonize people based on race, sexuality, religion, etc is anti-white. They don't want true equality and that's what it comes down to.

LBJ said it: Give them someone to look down on.

so is Matt now an ignorant, racist, neofascist, embracing his inner toxic masculinity? or perhaps just an elegiac hillbilly?

He’s always talked too much. He doesn’t realize he’s not very interesting or bright. Shit your pie hole, Damon.

[quote] Shit your pie hole, Damon.

Eeeeuw.

I agree R46 this finding common ground passed us a long time ago. You have to play hardball with this asshats or they will stomp all over you. Damon is only saying this shit for the movie. If he isn't, than he's a fucking idiot as well.

I have relatives that are very nice people personally, but when it comes to sociopolitical issues, usually their opinions are defined by Fox “News” or whatever they hear or see that aligns with their personal opinion or bias. I can respect them personally, but I don’t have to respect their misinformed opinions. That’s where we are fucked, because ignorant people used to more or less acknowledge they didn’t know—or deferred to experts. Now everyone thinks they are an expert.

And remember, Damon is trying to sell the movie to the masses. That’s his prime motivation.

Humans may have the same or even a comparable range of feelings or emotions. However, opinions are shaped by life experience, education and formal logic. That is why not all opinions are equal. We know that expert opinions are needed in courts of law. Opinions are only equivalent in sensory matters--I love dogs, I hate ice cream, I believe in Catholicism--whose consequences are not going to inflict harm on another human being. And even that is not always true. Everyone knows someone whose restaurant or movie recommendations they would dismiss out of hand.

There are things about which reasonable people can differ, but people who are bigots or conspiracy freaks are by definition not reasonable. "All opinions are equal" is a refuge of fundamentalists and the uneducated.

Damon is pretty stupid if he thinks his access and his ability to communicate with these people is not a function of his being a straight, white, successful man who's done movies like the Bourne series.

[quote] I can respect them personally

But you don’t have to.

[quote]I have relatives that are very nice people personally, but when it comes to sociopolitical issues, usually their opinions are defined by Fox “News”

So, not really very nice people, then, if they parrot what they hear on hate-mongering Fox News.

[quote] So, not really very nice people

On both sides!

[quote] pilled out Ben Affleck looked on in horror

Until he had the Henry Louis Gates show scrub the episode exposing his family’s slave owning ancestors. Ben is just as odious.

Ben is just ad odious, for any number of reasons; I think the point is that Damon is a hypocritical cunt & a phony. I still maintain that starring in this movie is dropping to to Mark Wahlberg territory for Mr. Damon. He must need the $$ for some reason.

[quote] He must need the $$ for some reason.

Probably to support his 50 kids.

Matt's looking to add MAGA bucks to his millions, I guess. And we all know MAGAs can be easily conned to part with their money.

Children are a blessing and should not be blamed for Damon wanting an Oscar. The less talented Ben already has one or two. And he's discreetly back with Jennifer Lopez! They have 5 beautiful children between them and she is still fertile. Children solidify and consecrate love between a man and woman. This is one of many reasons why gay relationships never last longer than 5 years. Always another streetcar coming or new bathhouse to explore, right fellows?

Matt is still happily married to his beautiful wife, who comes from the lower classes herself. She was once a waitress. I doubt that they are greedy or in need of money. This film sounds controversial. Matt Damon doesn't shy away from giving it his all. He can both illuminate and win and Oscar. Like Leo and Ben and Sean Penn. Casey Affleck. Matt does look a bit older now. This is true. Fathers and mothers regularly sacrifice some vanity for their children. Gays buy their kids or cook em up in lab between eyebrow waxing. It's not the same. No extended family love and support = future problems. To say the least.

WTF did I just read?^

He looks like a male stripper dressed as Larry The Cable Guy in OP’s photo.

Lol is R70 for real?

What a weirdo.

[quote] He looks like a male stripper dressed as Larry The Cable Guy in OP’s photo.

Male stripper? How?

I can assure you I am not a weirdo R73. Are you in any position to be using that term? Spent your life on your knees - but you weren't praying.

Matt Damon believes in God and family and a United America. He's cute too.

Not that he is a male stripper - he just looks like someone fit and attractive masquerading as Larry The Cable Guy.

Great, the Falwells have arrived. So, who's the new poolboy?

Matt Damon played a poolboy in that lisping biography of Liberace! Matt looked so good in a speedo AND maintained his masculinity even while playing a gay gigolo! It's a cute movie. My husband was uncomfortable with them in bed and all the flouncing around in silly clothes. I said, It's Matt Damon, so we're in good hands. Aids was sad, but what Liberace did to that poor man was criminal.

He’s staring a film which is being advertised on primetime Fox News. He know sees things from the other side? No shit!

Damon relentlessly attacked Obama during his presidency. When Trump got into the White House? "Let's give him a chance".

Exactly, R80.

It's true that Matt Damon will turn into Clint Eastwood, Charlton Heston, or Steven Seagal in 10 or 15 years.

The last thing I saw him in was "Behind the Candelabra." would be perfectly happy not to see him in anything again.

If he had put on more weight he would have been Oscar* bait.

He's one of those guys who keeps having kids because they want a son. But they end-up with 5 girls.

His wife breeds like a rabbit!

Because she looks like one r85.

Rabbit-faces wife.

The correct phrase is "rabbit-faced wife," R87.

Sorry, Lucille. I’m made at the auto-correct not at you.

Sorry, Lucille. I’m mad at the auto-correct not at you.

[quote]He's one of those guys who keeps having kids because they want a son. But they end-up with 5 girls.

And they never admit it, but it's always so painfully obvious. Like when Kobe Bryant called himself a "girl-dad".

Oil rig platforms are very tight spaces to work usually. They must have scaled one up for the movie.

His comments are devoid of substance. What did you learn, Matt?

He's going to sympathize with the very people who make money off of killing the planet? Fuck this guy.

Exactly, R93. What could you learn? I'll "learn them" something: Obama is the reason they have affordable healthcare. Obama gave coal miners the opportunity to train for new jobs so that they're actually prepared to live in a world which is looking to renewable, cleaner forms of energy. The Dems aren't the ones attempting to give tax cuts to the wealthy employers who couldn't give less of shit about the safety of people who work on oil rigs.

The only thing you can learn from them is that they've convinced themselves they're the only "real Americans" and that they are the ones who pay taxes and everyone else has their hand out. They gravitated to Trump who doesn't pay taxes, has treated working people like shit, has no idea what it is like to struggle, is incredibly unpatriotic and looks down on his own supporters, solely because of his white supremacist horseshit.

You all can carry on bashing Matt, but I’d like to point out how fat Abigail Breslin was in her mercifully brief interview.

[quote]His comments are devoid of substance. What did you learn, Matt?

That if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.

[quote]There’s so much more common ground than we think.

Yes except they hate anything that isn't white, straight and Christian.

Damon’s tone-deaf comments over the past few years has compromised his credibility among liberal audiences; so now he’s pandering to the right. An actor is only concerned with an audience, ANY audience. He’s so full of shit💩. I will never watch his films again. He’s useless.

R84 I recall when a former coworker of mine who had 4 girls convinced his wife to try for one more ( knew he wanted a son). She ended up agreeing and they wound up having twin girls. Now he has six girls, no boys.

When will you finally shut up, Matt.

Is there a reason they're now called roughneck instead of rednecks? I'm tired of people like Damon trying to mythologize these assholes into some kind of heroes. They don't work harder than liberals, they aren't more moral, they aren't better. In fact, they are complete and total racist assholes, and if you live amongst them you know that.

[quote] Is there a reason they're now called roughneck instead of rednecks?

Roughnecks refer SPECIFICALLY to people (mostly men) who work on oil rigs. I remember the term being used in "Brokeback Mountain," when Alma Jr. was telling Ennis that she was getting married to a guy who works on the oil rigs, and Ennis said "He's a roughneck?"

REDnecks are something different.

The general idea is that they're unsophisticated, blue collar country people.

[quote]Cooper did it with "American Sniper" and that murderous right-wing asshole Chris Kyle.

I never saw the movie for this very reason and the fact is that if Hollywood were being truthful, they'd portray him as he really was: A racist killer who went to call kill "sandniggers" in their own country. I esp. love the portrayal of the dutiful wife. Did the real-life one ever actually give money to vet orgs the way she promised or did she just keep it all like the greedy bitch she really is?

went to GO*

[quote] I remember the term being used in "Brokeback Mountain," when Alma Jr. was telling Ennis that she was getting married to a guy who works on the oil rigs, and Ennis said "He's a roughneck?"

Roughneck? Rough Nasty!

All of the roughnecks in Canada are absolute trash. I'd assume the same is true in the US.

Here's an example of what roughnecks do for work, R103.

It doesn't look like fun.

But I'm guessing they make a lot of money.

Plus it's hard, dirty work.

Don't put them down. One day, they're gonna train at NASA for like 5 mins and then save us from a meteor headed to destroy earth.

I guess they should have finished high school then, R110. They're mostly overpaid grunts who vote conservatively, and are raging homophobes and racists. They make a living by destroying the environment and refuse to believe in climate change and alternative green energy.

These MAGA "Roughneck" people are troglodytes. There is no sympathizing with them or excusing their despicable behavior. Fuck Matt Damon for trying to make them sympathetic.

"Damon admits he took on the part to connect with Americans who have vastly different viewpoints." lmfao

Take a seat, Matt.

The only safe subjects are dogs and cats, and maybe gardening. We're wired differently. They want us to cease to exist and we just wish they'd leave us alone.

r104 Thank you! That explains why a bumper sticker I see at a local 7-11 on a huge truck says Rough, Red and Proud.

I could never figure out if the guy was talking about his dick or what.

Yeah—acting like this film was some cinematic mission of goodwill and brotherhood is disingenuous.

[quote] The things that bind us are so much greater than the things that divide us and I really feel that in a profound way every time.

Well, yeah. If you look at something like Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, it's easy to see how we're all pretty similar in the large base sections. It's when you get to the Esteem level that things start to change. Then, they get really different when you reach Self-Actualization.

Maybe we've got too much time on our hands for self-actualization now... lol!

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R119, are you also R41?

R119 i dont believe that she's really upset. She seems to relish the spotlight. Last I heard of her she was posing with Lorena Bobbitt while grinning from ear to ear. She's a nut job.