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This makes me sad since my love for Bruce Willis borders on hero worship. I choose to ignore this article and go back and look at Rob Lowe some more.

Kevin Smith can’t keep his goddamn mouth shut.

I think I knew that already.

Sounds like Willis was paying Smith back for that horrible script. And I'm ok with that. I sat thru exactly 5 minutes of this movie before scrambling desperately for the remote.

Never trust a talking baby.

Damn...I love both Kevin Smith and Bruce Willis and detest Tracy Morgan's over-exposed, ultra-excessive ass.

So, I choose to believe that Kevin is actually color-blind, and MEANT to say Tracy was an ass and Bruce was awesome.

Moonlighting forever!

Divas have no place on a set. That includes shit-talking directors. Keep your mouth shut, play nice with the press, and take the blame for anything you could have fixed yourself. If I'm working with an actor/singer who isn't doing the right thing, it's my own damn fault for not directing him to sing the part right or not taking his concerns into consideration. If the actor still won't do the right thing, he should be replaced. Dumping on the performer is a cop out (ZING!).

You know, as a mere slip of a girl at 15, at my very first job, I learned that you don't talk shit about co-workers. Not like that.

Actually, come to think of it, I learned that much, MUCH earlier in the form of, "If you don't have something nice to say, then don't say anything." Which i realize is the absolute polar opposite of most people here, but look at it this way: I love Bruce Willis, and now I'm sad that he's a dick. I probably would never have met the man and found this out, and would've lived my life happily seeing his movies and thinking he was awesome, but my illusions have been shattered anyway. And it's because someone else had to talk shit. And, P.S., we can't all like everybody.

What a *whiner* that kid is.

Pajiba also says: Water = WET!

Wrong, wrong, wrong!

Water = Deliciously Moist

*sigh*

Kevin Smith, why do you feel like you also need to be a celebrity? Why can't you just have a private life outside of your movie making work like so many others in Hollywood? It's not like the papparizzi is chasing you around the Jersey shore trying to snap pictures of your privates (just threw up in my mouth a little). Seriously. Write your movies. Film your movies. Make us laugh. Those are things you're good at; everything else just makes you look like a tubby, insecure, know-it-all dick.

Considering Smith talks about how cool it was to work with Willis in Live Free or Die Hard on the last Evening with Kevin Smith DVD and told a story about Bruce calling him up and saying they needed to work together on something I can see him being bummed out if the experience was less than great. However, Bruce has a rep for taking charge of productions and badmouthing people on set he doesn't think are up to snuff. He's a 30 year veteran of Hollywood, most of those guys and gals have enormous egos.

What I don't get is what made Willis sign on for Cop Out in the first place. Was the script really that good because the previews (no, I won't watch it) make the movie look unfunny and horrible.

I don't give a shit if Bruce Willis is a dick or not. He's been in enough great movies and enough bad ones to know a bit about the direction it's heading during production. It's quite possible he saw this turning into a real pile of shit or maybe Smith wasn't what Bruce thought he was either. They both decided to work together and obviously came out the other end regretting it.

Also, if Smith wants to talk so much shit about the people he makes movies with then he needs to at least have the humility to admit that he's made a few shitty films. He thinks he's made only masterpieces and any bad criticism must be people not "getting it".

I like most of his stuff and I've been mostly on his side until recently. I think I'm done after this. Willis was a dick on set. Smith was just an unprofessional douche and is only capable of burning bridges apparently.

Smith is shooting himself in the foot here. If you are an A-list actor are you going to work with Smith when you know he's capable of doing a 30 city tour bad mouthing you?

I could give a fat wet rat's ass. Just entertain me. That's all you are: an entertainer. I don't care if you guys got along or if you booby-trapped each other's trailers with yellow cake (although that would make a good story, I admit). Just do your job -- like I have to do mine -- and entertain me. It's what I pay you for.

STFU and stop with the flaccid, fourth-grade-girl gossip (apologies to fourth graders).

Actually, come to think of it, I learned that much, MUCH earlier in the form of, "If you don't have something nice to say, then don't say anything."

Posted by: Anna von Beav at January 19, 2011 12:31 PM

Or as I learned it, "if you can't say something nice, say something really fucking mean".

That being said, after watching approximately 7 minutes of of Cop Out, I'm surprised Bruce didn't punch Kevin Smith in the fucking throat. Maybe the show got better; I wouldn't know. After the opening 'interrogation' scene I cut my losses and turned it off. I'm not a masochist, contrary to popular belief.

While I don't doubt the voracity of Kevin Smith's claims,
Posted by: Forbiddendonut at January 19, 2011 12:11 PM
Or his appetite. Zing!

First of all, everybody bitches about coworkers. True, when Hollywood people bitch publicly, that's different from behind-the-scenes bitching, but I guarantee you, if Bruce Willis was a giant dick during filming and held up production in any way, other people besides Kevin Smith were bitching about it, just to each other, not on TV. Kevin Smith is probably the only person who could bitch about it publicly and still be able to keep his job. I'm guessing if Joe the lighting guy went public with complaints about Bruce Willis, he might find it difficult to get hired on any other Bruce Willis movie, at least.

Second, if you act like a dick, expect someone to gripe about it, and they might gripe about it publicly and embarrass you. The solution to this conundrum is to NOT act like a colossal dick and make everybody else's job harder.

Kevin Smith does gripe a lot, but at least he's pretty entertaining when he does it. I can listen to bitching if someone makes the effort to do it with style.

Also, Smith is in no way a dick for speaking honestly. I love how candid he is, and I don't think anyone should be looked down on for telling things the way they see them. I wish more people would do it, rather than play the political game, which is sadly a necessity for most. Good for Smith for being free of that.

I very much enjoyed klingonfree's take on the situation.

Rant to your spouse about your co-workers while making dinner. It's what the simple folk do.

"Rant to your spouse about your co-workers while making dinner. It's what the simple folk do."

I'm as simple as they come. Of course I do this. I just don't send out a damned press release about it.

Oh, come on - not one comment about the brilliance that is Marc Maron's WTF? I love that podcast and Marc manages to get the best out of his subjects. As to Smith, I'm not a fan of his movies but I respect anybody who will take the risk of calling an A-lister out on his or her nonsense.

"You know, as a mere slip of a girl at 15, at my very first job, I learned that you don't talk shit about co-workers. Not like that."

Oh, come ON. Some people deserve to be complained about. Their reigns of terror will never end if nobody says anything about it.

My umbrage is ecru klingonfree

I would like to know what Carla Gugino's breasts think of all this.

(Puts ear to screen)

Well, the breasts have it. Kevin Smith is a pussy. And Bruce Willis is a prick. You two, go fuck each other.

So we have an entitled fatman bitching about an entitled bald 50 year old who shouldn't be making action movies anymore.

Where's the fucking story here?

Bruce Willis is awesome. And I will ignore any number of facts that say otherwise.

Pookie: "Steve, you really think that Smith don’t play the political game? Oh please, if anything he don’t play it because he’s been exposed as a hack director and not because he‘s above playing games. Believe you me, if he could play the game he would. Last time I checked he has calling up the hotels near Cannes to book a room so he would have a place to suck the cock of any studio head that would give him the time of day."

I meant more the fact that he won't say nothing but good things simply because it's the thing to do. You hear the same exact "everyone was a joy to work with" spiel on every press tour, but Smith is content to make cool little flicks that turn a small profit, so he doesn't have to tow that line.

Samantha is also 100% correct. Marc Maron's WTF Podcast is fucking awesome.

On the podcast, Maron also brings up the Southwest business. That's one thing I still disagree with Smith on. He's convinced that they picked on him because some staff member didn't like him, but his own story makes it clear that's bullshit. Smith bought two seats, they only had one, so they (incorrectly) assumed that a fat motherfucker was just saying "no no, I'm fine in one seat". And who the fuck wouldn't assume that when a pretty damn big guy buys two seats because "he likes the room and doesn't like sitting next to people". Big guy buys two seats, I assume he needs them. Big guy gets one seat and assures me he doesn't need to second one, I assume he doesn't want to be embarrassed and admit he needs two. Granted, Southwest still should have shut up once he WAS seated comfortably, but out of the entire issue, the only thing I can't stand is Smith's belief that one guy just wanted to fuck with him that day.

I'm with you D.P.. #TEAM KEVIN SMITH

Bruce Willis is obviously a dick. What great movies has he done that everyone's talking about? I liked him in Pulp Fiction and .... what else did he do? Surely you're not talking about Die Hard?

'Kevin Smith can’t keep his goddamn mouth shut'

Though he does sometimes plug it with a doughnut.

Ba-dum-tshh.

Fuck you, I'm hungover.

Also,

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'I would like to know what Carla Gugino's breasts think of all this.

(Puts ear to screen)

Well, the breasts have it. Kevin Smith is a pussy. And Bruce Willis is a prick. You two, go fuck each other.

Posted by: L.O.V.E. at January 19, 2011 5:18 PM'

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Agreed. The breasts have spoken.