James Gunn... *****

Minusorange · 21 Jul 2018 at 17:07

So he's been fired by Disney from Guardians 3 for tweets he made years ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44906019

Normally I'd think this is just over reacting snow flakes with an axe to grind to make some faux outrage

But looking at this vid, his tweets aren't exactly edgy or provocative, they're just awkward weird and in no way humorous

Maybe I'm wrong but I don't really see where you'd find the humour in most of what he's tweeted ?

So maybe in this instance Disney is justified in their distancing themselves from him and RIP to his career now

Minusorange · 21 Jul 2018 at 17:25

StriderX said:
He said the word rape in a "joke" on the internet, that's enough in its own right for Disney to poop him out.

Did you even bother watching the vid ? His tweets go beyond a rape joke

Moothead2 said:
It's 100% weird and creepy but it looks like he's distanced himself from those kinds of jokes over the years. Imagine if everyone was judged based on the edgy **** they said as a teenager for example. Judge them based on who they are now rather than what they said 10 years ago.

I disagree, change over time is merely becoming aware of your negative personality traits and trying to minimise their impact on others, you still have those traits you're just more restrained in them being public

Jokester said:
though there is a bit of a disturbing paedo thread through a lot of it.

That's what I was getting, borderline for sure, if it's some kind of joke it's certainly creepy funny rather than funny haha

Minusorange · 21 Jul 2018 at 18:26

Gerard said:
Disney were already aware of the tweets before they hired him. He apologized for them a few years back, now they've resurfaced and this firing seems more like a kneejerk reaction.

This I wasn't aware of, seems poor form on Disney really if they were happy to have him despite this for 2 Guardians films, I wonder if they didn't like the direction he was taking Guardians 3 and this is just an excuse to get rid of him ?

Minusorange · 21 Jul 2018 at 19:49

MooMoo444 said:
he made a few crude jokes on twitter. What is the world coming to.

Go read his tweets, they go beyond being crude jokes

I've got a dark sense of humour (or at least I thought I did) and I just don't see anything remotely funny about retweeting a guy talking about ******* little boys, or tweeting about making a film where a tree gives a child a blowjob, or a remake of footloose where instead of dancing it's got a kid masturbating

There's nothing provocative, edgy or funny about any of that but there's a hell of a lot of pedo in it

Tweets a decade ago when he was in his 40's, maybe he should be cut some slack if he was a kid but he was a full grown adult

Minusorange · 21 Jul 2018 at 23:52

krooton said:
South Park and Cyanide & Happiness have dabbled in that area too

They're actually funny though and do it with context so most viewers understand it's sarcastic and dark humour

Retweeting someone about ******* little boys with zero context or reason why is just ******* weird

Minusorange · 22 Jul 2018 at 00:00

Dis86 said:
Or he was just incredibly naive as to how Twitter works.

I'm not sure how you can be so naive for how Twitter works over the course of 3 years :confused:

Minusorange · 22 Jul 2018 at 00:10

Dis86 said:
Never underestimate human stupidity or ignorance.

Normally I'd agree but the dude in question is responsible for 2 amazing Guardians movies so we're not talking your average Joe here