Comments on: Joaquin Phoenix Fights Audience Member at Rap Concert…Are We Convinced Yet?

By: coffee fan

coffee fan — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:51:26 +0000

Joaquin is a weirdo, but at least he’s succeeding at two things: marketing himself and he’s entertaining people

By: HoopersX

HoopersX — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:23:24 +0000

All I can thing to say at this point is “Damn!! That was Krunk!!!”

Seriously, if it was Will Smith, Leonardo DiCaprio or someone relevant, on a larger scale that JP, this all might be interesting or fun. But JP is hardly a household name. He’s that bad guy from Gladiator. Nothing more. I’m guessing that most people just don’t care. If this scam is to work, they will have to go WAY over the top to get the results they are looking for.

Back when the whole Tony Clifton thing was happening, there wasn’t a giant 24/7 news/internet machine to dissect every little thing about it. But it’s a different world now. Short of a well faked suicide or murder I don’t see this thing ever reaching the level of the Tony Clifton capper.

By: murph

murph — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:05:41 +0000

i agree, henrik. It’d be funny still if Bale’s outburst turned out to be a hoax, but it wouldn’t be nearly as entertaining.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:27:47 +0000

I think Christian Bales outburst would lose alot of entertaiment for me if I knew it was fake. I would enjoy it on another level, but fake is all over the place, something real is cool once inawhile.

I agree with your point, but I’m glad there are some real freakouts left to enjoy on their level, to go with all the other stuff.

By: Christian

Christian — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:36:03 +0000

Jay, you just summed up why a lot of people think they’re above watching pro wrestling. Saying you can’t enjoy pro wrestling because it’s fake is just like saying you can’t enjoy The Sopranos because you know it’s all fake, yet funny enough I’ve never actually heard anyone say that about The Sopranos.

By: Bob The Slob

Bob The Slob — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:38:28 +0000

if I was a celebrity (never gonna happen) everything I say about my personal life would be a lie…and it would only be funny to me and my friends.

EXTREMELY WELL SAID JAY.

By: Derek

Derek — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:50:50 +0000

Seriously well said, it’s extremely frustrating.

I went to see Animal Collective when they played in L.A. in February. During openers Lucky Dragons, who I thought had a pretty interesting set, people were literally talking over them. This guy in front of me kept pulling out his iPhone, which was titled just right to shoot light right into my eyes in the darkness of the venue. I looked down once to see what the hell he was doing… he was texting a friend with: “OMG, this first band is CRAZY. They’re just like laying on the floor with weird electronic devices and drums and shit. You’re missing out.” He then went back to talking over their set. Gyah!

Also, according to the last.fm page, apparently people actually said “Why are they just sitting down? They need to stand up. This is L.A.”… haha.

By: chris

chris — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:34:18 +0000

It’s fake. Doesn’t mean it can’t be good.

By: rus in chicago

rus in chicago — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:28:51 +0000

Are you guys serious? You are comparing this age of complete individual freedom to broadcast your views over this medium called the internet to the time Kaufman and Welles pulled their tricks!? People had heart attacks and died the night of “War of The Worlds”! You don’t think the press beat him up and if technology like the internet existed at that time the public would have wrote, “Oh, you sure got my aged Grandma, you trickster, you.” Kaufman existed in a age of newspapers and talk shows and you know what? Lots of people still think he’s alive and going to come back! The blogos have not killed that idea. Movies, magic shows and practical jokes like Kaufman and Welles are all acts of deceiving the audience and making them suspend disbelief. Is the criticism on-line less about a generational attitude and more about just a bad idea performed badly on Joaquin’s part? Isn’t the criticism people are writing on their website just a vocalization of what a group of guys would be saying sitting around a room and watching a bad performance play out on the TV? I believe the web and the public just made the man behind a well done hustle a very rich man due to his good planning and performance – Borat.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:23:04 +0000

James Frey’s novel “A MILLION TINY LITTLE PIECES” is a great book and the fact that is fake takes absolutely nothing from it. So I agree with you Jay on the modern media world (Blogs, 24/7 News, Oprah!) can’t take a good ’supplement joke’ with the material anymore.

By: swarez

swarez — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:36:34 +0000

A better question is, “who gives a shit anymore?”

By: Jay C.

Jay C. — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:20:33 +0000

“So when someone does something weird, they donâ€™t say, â€œI wonder what thatâ€™s all aboutâ€, they say, â€œTell me the point or stop wasting my time.â€”

Exactly.