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Blursed order

u/FreshNoobAcc — 4 hours ago

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Not really a hobby but I’ve been pretty into scaling buildings recently

u/jjjjjjjjjjjjjaaa — 5 hours ago

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The Fighter (2010)

I watched this tonight with my son.

This is the story of the real life boxer, Mickey Ward, and his relationship with his dysfunctional family as he tries to make something of his life.

It has a stellar cast with Christian Bale as the drug addict brother, Mark Wahlberg as Mickey and the beautiful Amy Adams as Mickey’s girlfriend.

The story is really about how Mickey’s family is holding him back, through their blind focus on his brother who was a semi successful boxer in the past. Charlene (played by Adams) is his girlfriend and helps to instil confidence in Mickey so he can break away from his family until they sort out their problems.

Ultimately, his brother gets clean and his family and girlfriend all help Mickey in his road to the WBU Welterweight title.

I did notice this is a “Weinstein film” so I explained a bit of that history to my son who’s 15.

I thought the performances in this film were excellent with Bale excellent as the waster of a brother. Bale won an Oscar as did Melissa Leo who did a great job of playing the narcissistic mother.

u/Tammer_Stern — 7 hours ago

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Are celebrities broke now?

I don't know if this is a trend or just some confirmation bias, but it seems like a lot of quite major celebrities are doing ads that seem, frankly, beneath them. A few examples:

- Arnold Schwarzenegger with Lidl's (!) power tools
- Jude Law with both uber eats and Legora (an AI law thing)
-Dua lipa doing Nespresso (I know George Clooney did/does these but he is middle aged man who has a vaguely James Bond vibe, but Dua Lipa is supposed to be pop culture and a bit cool?)
- Chris Hemsworth doing a 'visit Abu Dhabi',

I'm sure I've seen others.

Celebs have always done advertising, but I used to think they had a reputation to protect and had to be a bit selective. (Am I being naive?) But these days it seems like everyone puts their name to anything.

Is there a wider trend that's going on? Are celebrities actually struggling like the rest of us?

Edit to add: I understand that celebrities are not broke in the way that you or I are. My question is about why they don't seem to be very discerning with the ads that the choose to do

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u/2istheoddestprime — 17 hours ago

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