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Legitimate question: Why do so many people dislike George Clooney?


Besides of course, his participation in Batman & Robin!

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I LOVE CLOONEY...E.R. AND FROM DUSK TILL DAWN ARE CLASSIC!...HE WENT ON TO BE PRETTY BORING THOUGH.

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out of sight and from dusk till Dawn are Clooney at his best.

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100% AGREE.

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Maybe some people don’t like his Democratic politics.

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I think that George Clooney to some people, often times comes across as that smug, pretentious elitist liberal type who likes to tell people who they should be better people.

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Its not just that he has democratic political leanings, but that he feels the need to lecture half the people that pay to see his movies about their political leanings. As is the case with a lot of these holier than thou, do as i say not as i do pricks.

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It's because of the way he shakes his head when talking.

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oh yeah

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His head shakes is distracting.

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Does he still do that a lot? I thought it wasn't common today as it was back then. He was so bad about that in this movie

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Don't know if he still does, don't watch many of his films.

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If people want to try and like Clooney, then they should really consider watching Michael Clayton.

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he kinda sucks outside of Coen brothers films.

Or at least the movies he's in do

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It's because many of his characters were annoying, opinionated, and talked too much. The worst part I ever saw him play was this irresponsible moron in "One Fine Day." I can sort of tolerate him in this film, but he only can do so much as Batman. He doesn't have the charisma or deepness Val Kilmer did, but he at least has a few funny lines.

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He hasn't been in movies that I would like or just simply not interested.

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From Dusk Til Dawn and Three Kings are two of my favorite movies he ever did. Now I look at him as an out of touch liberal elitist.

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I'm not going to go into Mr. Clooney's politics right now but what really perpetuated me in relation to his approach to Batman is when he during the press junket for Batman & Robin practically dismissed the notion that Bruce Wayne has to be this tormented individual who was continually haunted by the murder of his parents. He said Bruce has virtually everything that most men want (wealth, all of the toys and gadgets that you could be, access to beautiful women, a permanent status in high society), why should he still be bummed that his parents are dead.

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He can do his take on Batman's character as he wished tho. It's just another take. Batman is a fictional character anyway. Well, in the end his version sucked. Just like Leto's take of the character Joker.

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Yes. That was Joel's decision to make a much more lighter personality in the Batman grieving arc. I think he was more focused on making style over substance even with the characters in this movie.

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