The last movie he is credited in is the 2016 animated movie "Bling." He's been in some other movies here and there in the 2010s like White House Down and the 2013 Steve Jobs movie, but he hasn't been in nearly as many prominent movies now as he was in the '80s and '90s. Is James Woods retired from making movies or is he blacklisted from Hollywood because of his political beliefs?
shareRetired
shareYeah, he's well into his 70s now, although I suppose he could find fitting roles if he wanted to. He's likely financially set and interested in other things.
shareJames Woods has been in the film industry for more than five decades. For a brief period of time in the 1980s and early to mid-1990s he was a somewhat in-demand actor. Unfortunately for Woods, he was unable to capitalize upon that popularity with the failure of the high-budget buddy comedy The Hard Way with a then-hot Michael J. Fox and other films and so his profile dropped. By the end of the 90s Woods had returned to the character roles where he started and that’s been the trajectory of his career since that time.share
James Woods knows what he needs to do to remain a relevant entertainer in his chosen industry. If he decides not to do that, then he can hardly complain when his decision results in his not being cast in roles. His representatives almost certainly have explained that to him in exhaustive detail, so his lack of change means that Woods simply doesn’t feel the need to change and so has not.
James Woods is 74 years old.
He was not going to remain a leading man due to his aging, coupled with his inability to draw in paying audiences. That’s not “canceling” questioner; that’s a series of personal decisions (Woods’) combined with a number of business decisions (the studios) that seem to be working against his career. Woods is free to change his portion of that equation at any time. If he doesn’t, then he can expect the same results to continue to occur.
He doesn't toe the leftist Hollywood line, so he's pretty much been cancelled.
shareBecause he's a right wing nutjob who would make everyone on the set uncomfortable.
Bruce Willis, Silvester Stallone, Arnold S. and Chris Pratt are all Republicans but they can still get roles.
They're also much bigger stars than James Woods ever was; that almost certainly has a lot more to do with why they still get big roles (and Pratt is not elderly, like the rest you named, so doesn't really belong on the same list). The entertainment industry is a business, and a proven abilty to put butts in theater seats counts for a lot. Proven mega-earners, even if politically conservative, will be given some leeway, even in the leftist groupthink that is today's Hollywood, and avoid the marginalization that less successful conservatives will get. James Woods, despite his acting talent, never attained that stratospheric level of stardom. But he happens to have one of the highest IQs in Hollywood. If someone that intelligent holds the opinions that he does, perhaps you ought to at least listen to what he says rather than dismiss it out of hand. You don't have to agree. But dismissing a person's arguments simply because of who he is, rather than on the merits (or lack thereof) is an ad hominem fallacy -- as a fallacy, a failure in reasoning.
shareHigh IQ? Lol. He's an stupid man's idea of a smart man
shareYeah, he has a high IQ. 184. That's actual genius level of intelligence, and unsurprisingly, he's a member of MENSA. He also scored 1579 on his SAT, got maximum 800 in the verbal test and just short of the max at math with a 779. He got into MIT on a scholarship, which, I daresay, you couldn't do if your life depended on it. These are matters of record -- at least as regards his SATs and scholarship, and being in MENSA. The IQ score he disclosed in an interview, but given the other indicators, which are documented, and absolutely denote high intelligence, I've no reason to doubt him.
He's not "an (sic) stupid man's idea of a smart man," he is straight up, a legitimately smart man, period. I hate to break it to you, but your opinions are not the laws of nature, and people who disagree with you about politics do not invariably do so because they are dumber than you are. Sadly, I find this sort of attitude extremely common among leftists. Have you ever stopped to think for even an instant about how incredibly arrogant that is. But if you want to cast aspersions at someone else's intelligence, you might want avoid writing things like "an stupid man's idea..." so you don't look like an idiot.
I look forward to TheArgentinian's reply.
You thought all that crap would leave me speechless? He sounds like James Wood himself tooting his own horn. Responding to his "haters" is not uncharacteristically of him, if you check his Twitter account (before the pussy locked it)
"People who boast about their IQ are losers." Stephen Hawking.
And (quite unsurprisingly) something else I've found extremely common among leftists: after making an assertion, when subsequently provided with documented evidence that proves that assertion objectively wrong, you don't even attempt to make a reasoned counterargument, or disprove the evidence. No, you (predictably) just move straight to personal insults. And yet you style yourselves the smart ones.
shareGot him again... he is as dead as the junkie Diego Maradona 😅
shareAnother tactic is to respond to the statement they want to respond to rather than the statement posited.
shareYou could have posted that Woods is smart and crazy. The two aren't exclusive. That would have been the smart move on your part.
That last sentence is sardonic; look it up.
LOL..... the resident triggered left wing low IQ nut job.
don't ever change Argentinean, we need the laughs
great stuff... but it's hopeless to try to reason with these clowns.
left wing fools are exactly what they claim their political opponents are= low IQ and racist to the bone.
notice how they also always make trivial stuff into a matter of sex and race.
He did his best work in Family Guy.
P.S. I can just hear him reading these comments to himself, and yelling, "not VHS! I was Betamax!" And his butler saying, "Yes, Mr. Woods."
Ask Zergnet. They’d explain why spread over a slideshow of 42 pages
shareThey cancelled Gina Carano over something innocuous because it shed a little light on what the establishment machine (including Hollywood) is doing. James Woods calls out the authoritarian left almost every day and at the top of his lungs. No way any of those commies are ever offering him a role again.
shareHow can it be innocuous and shedding light on "the establishment machine" at the same time?
shareinnocuous in that it wasn't inflammatory in the way they said it was. Notice you don't see an upswell of Jews angry about this. In fact, it is an Orthodox jew that gave her a job the day after Disney fired her. It is Disney and the Twitter schills claiming this. Why? Not for the reason they stated, so we have to look for something else.
shareHe ruined his image by shooting off his mouth with far-right extremist views ... for a very long time ... decades. I would purposefully avoid anything he is in. Plus, he is not the weird skinny kid he used to be, now he is a bloated old man who looks demented.
shareNothing about this comment makes a lick of sense.
You avoid movies or shows with people that you don't share beliefs with, LOL what? You sound like those dorky Christians who only watch "family" movies and listen to religious music.
And who gives a shit how much he weighs. What's that got to do with watching his movies or not?
Nothing at all. It's all about lock step.
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