Will Marky Mark get his 2nd Oscar nod for playing the father of a murdered gay teen in “Joe Bell”?

I thought he skipped sleep for bible study and prayer.

[quote]Maybe he has changed.

No, he hasn't.

Well, he's playing the father, who's presumably straight.

He's not playing a gay character.

He hasn't changed.

He's not playing a gay character, and the movie involves a murdered gay teen - something which he has to have zero empathy for to play a role. Maybe he even "likes" that story line.

It looks good

OW MY EYES!

OW DAMNIT OW!

His previous Oscar nomination was merely Supporting.

"We will never stop awarding straight people for doing gay stuff!" vows Hollywood.

He was good in Boogie Nights. He played hot and dumb.

How is that acting, R9?

R9, He was also good in "Fear".

Is this getting released? It tanked at Toronto Film Festival last year.

Used to be called Good Joe Bell.

Is this the movie he gained all the weight for?

Will he make the win all about himself, like he did with Joe Bells story?

Isn’t he a bottom for black trannies?

I finally watched The Departed recently and I thought he really overdid it - he was like a Southie PLAYING a Southie. If he'd just relaxed into it more it probably would've seemed less like he was acting all the time. I think he got the Oscar nom because he had the last shot in the film. The Departed was pretty impressive, Leo was great. It was like a really good B-side to Goodfellas.

R17 The original is much better, in everyway.

R17, r18 is correct. The original is called Infernal Affairs and is vastly superior.

Calvin pounded that fine ass in its prime.

I forgot he was nominated for an Oscar, what a joke the Academy is now.

The trailer gave away the entire movie.

Forget Mark, let's talk about Reid Miller who plays the son. He's 21 and looks pretty cute

The son is an annoying YASSSS KWEEN

^^^Those are the kind of gays we love

[quote]The son is an annoying YASSSS KWEEN

kewl if he's hawt

R25 he’s totes nawt

He took someone’s eye out with a meathook.

Until he gets spit roasted and barebacked by Adrien Brody & Christian Bale on film we’re not forgiving him.

Yes he assaulted a number of nonwhite people, including the Asian man that he blinded. Racist and rotten to the core, he is.

I will never care about or watch a single thing this racist piece of shit does. Hopefully karma catches up with him preferably with a crowbar.

OW MY FUCKING EYE

He's gotten ugly

I'll be pedantic and point out that Mark Wahlberg already earned his second Oscar nomination. It was for The Fighter as a producer, not as an actor.

And his performance in Infinite is bad enough that both nominations should be revoked.

Maybe?

[quote] finally watched The Departed recently and I thought he really overdid it - he was like a Southie PLAYING a Southie. I

And I walked out opening day saying he would be nominated. He stole the movie.

R7 that is usually the case when you give a strong supporting performance… he wasn’t the lead.

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Maudlin, hokey, and about as subtle as a sledgehammer. Hard pass.

Doesn’t change that he used to go around assaulting non whites r38 that wasn’t his only offense.

And I feel that man is lying for him. He reached out to him and suddenly the mans story changed.

He was phenomenal in The Departed. He stole every fucking scene.

He hasn’t given a great performance since.

R12 yes. Covid prevented it the first time. The trailer was released again 2 weeks ago. It’s coming out in a few weeks to limited release.

More on he didn't blind the guy. The guy is lieing sounds like what Trump supporters say about people who testify against Trump.

R43 lmaooooooo sure

Whether he blinded the man or not does not change the fact that he committed the crime. And it was not his only offense. He was arrested numerous times

Earlier thread:

He has a history of hate crimes. It wasn’t a one time thing.

He was young. People reform. And he's still has a hawt Catholic ass.

Gotta love the excuse “he was young”, as if that’s an excuse for racism.

I wasn’t racist and beating on minorities as a teen.

One of the comments:

[quote]I don't think I want to watch this movie. don't the directors know that homophobia is dead? It has been dead for over 10 years

Anyone who believes this is a fucking retard.

R50 a lot of DLers think homophobia doesn’t exist. It’s still prevalent. It’s just lowkey now because of the internet and fear of backlash.

I've seen him in four or five movies and I thought he was solid in all of them.

Nobody's asking me to date the guy!

Just think, when he was Mr. Underpants every single person here would have crawled over broken glass to lick his peen. Oh how the mighty have fallen....

R51 : It doesn't exist if you work and live in the same super-liberal neighbourhood in a creative field surrounded by art/music related shit. That's it. Normal everyday environments are full of homophobes. If you live in a yaaaas qweeeen bubble where you think racism is somehow more prevalent than homophobia I guess /you just don't know any better because you've been spoiled/.

[quote]Just think, when he was Mr. Underpants every single person here would have crawled over broken glass to lick his peen. O

Ahhh I would have preferred him to make me a Walburger. Liked him in "Boogie Nights" but I have never been interested him sexually.

R38. The victim may have forgiven Marky Mark but we don't and he attacked other non whites as well.

In fact, the courts refused to allow this vile creature to get his record expunged, given the serious nature of his crimes. He fancied himself becoming a reserve officer of LAPD. Not going to happen with a felony record.

Put him and Officer Shaq in the same patrol car (and drive it into the ocean).

Was R24 the one who founded the gay son character repulsive? What an ugly, self-loathing fattard.

R42, I don't think it was delayed because of COVID. I just didn't gather any steam at Toronto and they realised that, without momentum, there was no Oscar campaign. That's all this film is - Oscar bait.

The son got good notices, the direction and screenplay are supposed to be terrible. And Wahlberg's involvement a total head scratcher.

The underpants thing was THIRTY (30) years ago. If you look the same today as you did 30 years ago, please post pics of yourself as I'd love to see them.

I thought it was less about looks and more about his criminal record becoming public.

[quote]The victim may have forgiven Marky Mark but we don't

You're silly.

You're super silly.

[quote] Maybe he has changed.

His career has changed. For the worse.

Mark Wahlberg is a great actor lowkey.

He can't act, for reals

R11 he's always good at playing creeps. And i always forget he did Rockstar with Jennifer Aniston. Pretty sure they have a threesome with a trans woman in too.

R34 sounds like Dylan should have played the lead in Infinite instead.

Watch The Happening and tell me that isn't one of the worst performances ever filled. Was high and got into a laughing fit watching him inside a movie theater. I could not stop laughing. He was dreadful. Ok in other things.

Filmed*

[quote]Watch The Happening and tell me that isn't one of the worst performances ever filled.

YOU be DeNiro with that script.

Gen Z has a new obsession and his name is Mark Wahlberg.

Disgusting.

He's a well known homophobe (and racist). And he's never changed.

Fuck him.

R68 that had nothing to do with him and everything to do with the script.

MONKEY MONK she get an Oscar nod for his REAL LIFE role in almost killing a Vietnamese man in Boston.

He's strictly from the GUTTER.

No. No he won’t.

No indication he is a homophobe.

Once you notice the extreme nostril flares, you won’t be able to notice anything else.

Some actors act with their eyes, others act with their mouth, but only Marky Mark acts with his very large and expressive nostrils.

He’s so overrated. Next.

R76 Do some research lazy troll. There are multiple incidents going back to the 90s, and then there was the way he advised one of the actors in Brokeback Mountain to not do the film (or ever play a gay character). It aligns perfectly with his blatantly racist past.

Maybe you R25, that's a firm no for most of us.

There should be some kind of student exchange for gay kids who live in areas like this where they get to spend the summer with a gay family in a progressive place.

(Though I don't know who would want to take their place for the summer.)

Boogie Nights was a great movie and he was perfectly cast.

Leave them in a field R81.

The movies looks ok. But I love the song playing under the trailer, The Joke by out lesbian Brandi Carlile. It gives me the chills.

R40

"Oh no, big misunderstanding - I've always been one-eyed. The Ferrari? I've always had that, too."

Oh how fabulous. Getting Marky Mark to take time from his busy pants-dropping schedule to plant trees. Josh, why don’t you just hire a gardener?

R11 I sat through "Fear" once, and that hour and a half felt like three. But he does play psycho very well. I wonder why...

He hasn't changed. He has a recent number of flop films to his credit and he needs a hit. He's tired and self-serving. And that whispery whiny voice of his is a bone-killer. I will not be seeing this movie.

I’m already in tears watching the trailer…..I’m gonna be a mess but I love a good tearjerker.

Whod have thought the boy in his undies would grow up to be this.

I don't know, R90, but it would be worth it to track down the responsible parties and throw them into a volcano.

That Brandi Carlisle woman sucks! Most lesbians are not good singer/songwriters, except maybe Janis Ian.

I saw the movie and it was a lot better than the critics indicated.

Maybe Mark is atoning by taking this role; it is certainly a journey in more ways than one

R93. Haven't you learned that journey has been a cliche for 10 years ? And is this Marky Mark asshole, who has grown uglier with each passing day, really an Oscar winner? If so, it proves how the award has diminished. Now let me recount a sunny summer day in Times Square in the 90s when I noticed a commotion on the other side of Bway. I crossed the street and Mark was already clocking me, and reached out his hand to greet me with a hey buddy greeting. Couldn't have been more friendly, or open. Yet I still hate him.

I believe he’s an Oscar nominee, not yet a winner

I meant the character of Joe Bell was on a journey in more ways than one.

But it’s not a stretch to think that may apply to Mark as well

I say enough with this based on a true story crapola! Someone show enough imagination to create a whole script that is all invented and not trying to tell a real person's story!

This is out now.

He’s singularly unattractive .

No. He won't.

I had seen it before but for some reason I sat and watched "The Happening" again today and what a piece of shit. A genuinely bad movie.

R101, you are a glutton for punishment. Once was enough. I remember it as 2 hours of the wind in the trees.

[quote] Gotta love the excuse “he was young”, as if that’s an excuse for racism....I wasn’t racist and beating on minorities as a teen.

I took a class in college that focused almost exclusively on Whitey Bulger and the Boston underground. I'm from the South and the things we read and watched the poor white people of Boston, from that time, say was more racist than anything I'd ever heard. Racially motivated crimes, especially by teenagers, were rampant especially from the 1970s-90s...the time in which he grew up. Also, he was on cocaine by the time he was 13...so we aren't talking about a typical teenager.

I'm willing to accept that his hate crimes were a result of his upbringing...and that now he has risen above his raising. I hope for his sake that is true.

I know I know Mark W is a horse's ass. But I like him.

He doesn’t want to get canceled.

38% Tomatometer/78% Audience Score - I'm sure that's been rigged to soothe Marky's fragile ego

Yes, R106. Audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes are bought and paid for. Completely untrustworthy site. Avoid.

94% critics, 39% audience.

Yeah, TOTALLY bought and paid for.

R106, I saw it and it was much better than I was led to believe from the critics. It’s an audience pleaser

For undemanding audiences.

Isn’t that just about everyone?

OP, joe bell's son was "MURDERED????" Uh, I thought it was suicide.

I wonder if Mark took any cock when he was locked up in Boston’s Deer Island Prison

“He did hurt me, but my left eye was already gone. He was not responsible for that,” Trinh said. “He was young and reckless but I forgive him now. Everyone deserves another chance.”

“He paid for his crime when he went to prison. I am not saying that it did not hurt when he punched me in the face, but it was a long time ago.”

R11- ROLLERCOASTER FANGERBANG!

If I was a gay teen I would not want that douchebag as my father. Fuck Wahlberg.

Rubes. He probably paid off the Vietnamese victim, who took the offer because he needs to provide for his family. You think Endeavor doesn't do this all the time? Please.

R116- That movie ruined Wild Horses for me. The cover wasn't bad. Its just now everytime I hear it I think of Keef fangerbanging Mick Jagger on a rollercoaster.

He totally "donated" a few hundred thousand to that guy. Tax records show he recently bought a rather expensive home. Wonder where that down payment came from, hmmm?

Fear was so bad.

Even though i saw Fear first Wild Horses makes me think of Buffy instead.

[quote]He totally "donated" a few hundred thousand to that guy. Tax records show he recently bought a rather expensive home. Wonder where that down payment came from, hmmm?

Why don't you just call the guy and ask since you probably know his number. How creepy.