Monday, November 09, 2015

Quote of the Day

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"I was disappointed, but the fans aren’t wrong. The fans want what they want to see and if they don’t get satisfaction, they let you know. I don’t know if I learned anything from [playing] Doom, apart from, perhaps, when I see something I don’t agree with, to voice that immediately. As an actor, you’re conscious that your career is at stake with each job, especially on these larger productions,” he said. “A film like that comes out, and I’m being sent maybe four scripts in a week, and those scripts go to zero when it doesn’t come out successful, so that actively affects my career."

I'll always give an actor or actress a pat on the back (or the body-part of their choosing, in Toby's case) when they're honest enough to admit something they made didn't work, and since everyone on Earth agrees that the Fantastic Four movie did not...
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... oh god I want those two hours back... anyway it's nice to hear at least one of the actors acknowledging that. Bless you, Toby Kebbell. I can't believe that anybody's holding the film against him specifically though - what is he, in like five minutes of it? I mean "Doctor Doom" is in more than five minutes of it but this movie's "Doctor Doom" is a shitty masked special effect that nobody should ever associate with Toby. We should associate Toby with that awesome episode of Black Mirror he was in where I first developed my crush on him though, that's what we should associate him with...


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