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    Disney just severed ties with James Gunn over old and "offensive" tweets..

    https://deadline.com/2018/07/james-g...202430392/amp/

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    Feels like an over-reaction, or even misplaced aggression to me. Disney's a massive corporation; surely they and Marvel vetted Gunn before hiring him for GotG, and were aware of his history of working for and with Troma, the bad taste capital of the filmmaking world. And it's not like his GotG movies didn't have their moments of off-color humor. Though to be fair, I've not read every single Tweet Gunn ever wrote. Did he ever verbally/racially/sexually attack anyone personally, like Roseanne or Trump, or are they just angry because his humor was so un-PC?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lon of the Dead View Post
    are they just angry because his humor was so un-PC?
    From what I read, it was mostly un-pc. He made a couple jokes about rape and there were some 'having sex with kids' jokes. But he stated he obviously didn't act out on it and said he just has a really shitty sense of humor. Not sure how long ago these tweets are, but I'm assuming they are from a long ass time ago.

    I have a really sick and fucked up sense of humor, so it's hard for me to judge the guy because I know where he's coming from. But as you said, Disney should have seen all this.

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    When I first seen about this I thought it was maybe backlash from the Jared Leto and under 18 comments he made a couple of months ago, seems strange Disney firing him over tweets that he wrote years ago though.

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    It was 10 freakin years ago and he was joking! SMFH

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    Quote Originally Posted by DMHead777 View Post
    I have a really sick and fucked up sense of humor, so it's hard for me to judge the guy because I know where he's coming from. But as you said, Disney should have seen all this.
    So a man is talking about his love life and he says "When we have sex, my girlfriend likes to role play like shes 13. I tell her this is pointless becasue she'll be 13 next year".



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    Quote Originally Posted by El Ahrairah View Post
    So a man is talking about his love life and he says "When we have sex, my girlfriend likes to role play like shes 13. I tell her this is pointless becasue she'll be 13 next year".
    Was that one of the tweets? Because if so, that's a pretty painfully obvious joke.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DMHead777 View Post
    Was that one of the tweets? Because if so, that's a pretty painfully obvious joke.
    No, you just said you liked dark humor and that's one i recently heard. Thought it was pretty good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by El Ahrairah View Post
    No, you just said you liked dark humor and that's one i recently heard. Thought it was pretty good.
    Oh, you put it in quotes so I thought Gunn said it. I have an encyclopedia-like knowledge of the most inappropriate jokes in my head. My go to one to tell people is (this works better if you say it instead of typing, but)

    What's the best part about fucking 23 year olds? There's 20 of 'em. Or why did the little girl cry twice? Because I wiped my bloody dick on her teddy bear.

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    The first one's and oldie but a goodie, the second ones fucked up.

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    Things are just getting downright silly now. Let's fire people because their nose makes a strange whistling sound when they breathe
    which is offensive to some. Once again though it's social media causing problems that really don't exist. These Tweets are downright ancient. If you are famous and want a career but are active on social media sooner or later this will happen. It is a given

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    You may as well fire anyone who's ever told a dead baby joke. Bad taste humor isn't a crime, and it's not like Gunn used homophobic or racist language to personally attack individuals like, say, Roseanne did when she called a black woman an ape, or Trump when he referred to predominately black nations as "shithole" countries. Roseanne deserved to be fired for her shamelessly racist comments; Trump deserves every ounce of animosity he gets for his homophobic, xenophobic, classist and hypocritical politics. Gunn doesn't deserve to be fired for some bad taste jokes from ten years ago, jokes that were so over the top and in such obviously intentional bad taste that they couldn't have been taken seriously.

    And let's not forget that Disney signed Eddie Murphy to an exclusive contract, a comedian whose shtick notoriously consisted of exaggerated bad taste jokes and excessive raunchiness. So Disney has essentially fired James Gunn for the same kind of humor that they had no problem turning a blind eye on for Murphy.

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    Well, that's it then. After Infinity War: Part 2 is all said and done next year, that's it, that will be the pinnacle of superhero movies for me and I'll be hopping off the hype train. It's absurd Disney would pull this shit over silly Tweets from 10 years ago and since then James Gunn has changed and he's a wonderful man with a wacky sense of humor like myself and others.

    The Guardians of the Galaxy movies were the only movies I ever gave a shit about and had a big heart for Marvel over any of their other superhero stuff because it was about a unique band of misfits coming together as a family and being more Disney than Disney has ever accomplished in years all by the great talents of the writer/director James Gunn. Replacing Gunn all of a sudden is not going to work because you have to have someone who knows and loves the characters and the world that's created as much as Gunn has, he's paid his dues and has done nothing wrong. Disney hired Victor Salva to make "Powder" for them and still made money for them, but whatever.

    At least we have two solid James Gunn Marvel movies, it's a damn shame it had to go down like this, I'm sure he'll find work elsewhere and be given the reins to make whatever he wants because he knows exactly what he's doing and how he was doing it. As for Disney? Fuck'em and their corporate sensibilities and their plans to monopolize theaters for what will become short-term profits that will blow up in their faces, from the looks of things it's looking like they're going to start locking everything up and making fewer and fewer risks with any of their movies, especially when Solo took a huge nose-drive at the box office.

    Marvel had a good run for 11 years worth of movies even if there were some duds, but Stan Lee is old and he's already saying he just wants to die despite having success. I hope the poor guy has more peaceful times in his remaining years and to show how awesome he really was in the comic book world and inspiring so many to be creative in a world that's vastly losing too many artists to mainstream mediocrity.

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    I'm not saying I agree with the decision, but are any of you honestly that surprised?

    We're in a world where even jokes will get you in massive trouble. Hell, people have been arrested and charged with crimes for jokes.

    I may not agree with Disney's swift decision on this, but I can understand why they did it. We're living in a time where even many comedians won't defend jokes and people will bombard companies with complaints, threats of boycotts, and other bull shit over the smallest things.

    It sucks, but that's where we're at.

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    Wonder if he is still doing Suicide squad

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    I hope he still gets to do the next Suicide Squad

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    He's still doing the Suicide Squad sequel. He'll do GotG 3 after that.

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    This is great news indedee! Great to see James Gunn helming another Guardians movie and the next Suicide Squad.

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