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Kinda sad this is Amanda Bynes last movie


I adored her roles growing up but just kinda sad she retired so young from acting.She could have went a long way I think.She has always been unique with her comedy.Hope she comes back someday.

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Yeah good point, Emma Stone has really been busy since this movie,I really am surprised by how much Emma has improved since this film. Hope though sometime Amanda Bynes does return I mean she is still young and had so much more time to make new movies.

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Not sure where you're getting this information... I can't find anything anywhere that says she's retired from acting. From what I can tell she's just going through a rough spot and kind of an idiot (Jay-Z twitter thing) but I don't see why she wouldn't be acting in something soon. True it's been a while since she's done anything but I'm sure something will come up. She just really needs to get her life together before she becomes a Lohan.

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Her whole "twitter thing" included an off-the-cuff announcement of her retirement a couple years ago after she finished Easy A, then a retraction, then another retirement announcement, all of which got deleted like the Jay-Z thing. She hasn't done any acting-related work since promoting Easy A, & she moved away from Los Angeles allegedly to start a new clothing line in New York.
I still think this will all blow over if people let it, but in the meantime, that retirement information was actually out there.

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SHE GONE!

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It is sad! I used to love Amanda growing up. It's also sad what happened to her a couple years ago. Hopefully we'll get to see her in more movies in the future.

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Is there a movie that signified the real-life rise of one Hollywood career and simultaneous downfall of another?

https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-movie-that-signified-the-real-life-rise-of-one-Hollywood-career-and-simultaneous-downfall-of-another/answer/Peter-Wade-5

By 2008, at age 22, despite tremendous success, Bynes admitted her frustration during an interview. She was tired of being typecast in cute roles and wanted something more serious. In 2009, Bynes signed a deal with Screen Gems that would cast her in two films, both Easy A and Hall Pass. But her addictions were catching up to her.

After Easy A wrapped filming in California in the spring of 2010, Bynes traveled to Georgia to start filming Hall Pass. It was a great opportunity to work with big names like Owen Wilson, Christina Applegate, Jenna Fischer and Jason Sudeikis. Much to the dismay of her fellow cast, Bynes was frequently high on set, horribly unprofessional, and often forgot her lines. She oddly appeared paranoid and fearful at times, and even rumored as behaving like a diva despite acting with others who were far more famous. Neither the encouragement of the Farrelly brothers (directors), nor Owen Wilson (lead actor), could convince Bynes to regain control of herself.

In June, she was fired (or possibly quit of her own volition) and replaced, bringing a screeching halt to her final acting gig. In July, Bynes was only 24 when she announced a hiatus from Hollywood. To date, she has never returned. A few months later, Easy A was released in theaters on September 17, 2010, the final appearance of Amanda Bynes’ illustrious and fleeting career.


https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/bbg70p/movies_that_only_killed_one_career_while_the/

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Well done. You managed to crap on someone without putting yourself on the line.
No personal reflections, just stringing other sources together.
If this is what passes for thoughtful commentary, count me out.

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How is it "crapping on Amanda Bynes" when what was being said is pretty much factually accurate!? I suppose you didn't like the part about Amanda *allegedly* being frequently high, being horribly unprofessional, and often forgetting her lines. If that's not true, then why exactly was Amanda replaced on the film Hall Pass?

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What do you gain by wanting Ms. Bynes to suffer more? And it appears you are taking other sources, copy & paste, to make these ungenerous assertions.
I ran across this movie on cable a few years ago and sort of enjoyed it, which is why I was curious about this thread. I know nothing of Ms Bynes but I don't see much good coming from dwelling on her misfortunes, and when it's done without even inserting yourself in the convo, it just seems unkind and lazy.

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You make it sound as if Amanda Bynes herself is seriously personally going to read this and that will worsen her already fragile mental state. I mean, let's be real (and spare me the "I'm kicking a woman while she's down!" excuse)! And it's kind of hard to not dwell into her misfortunes when that's pretty much all that has been discussed about Amanda for the past decade. It would be like saying that we shouldn't list all of the horrible things that Lindsay Lohan has been involved with since she did Mean Girls, because it would ruin your personal enjoyment of that movie.

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https://www.looper.com/272817/the-hilarious-emma-stone-comedy-everyones-loving-on-netflix/

Emma Stone's performance in Easy A launched her from supporting player to leading lady

Unless you haven't been to the movies at all in the last few years, you're likely very familiar with the filmography of Stone. The actress has established herself as one of the leading talents of her generation with an Oscar (and two additional nominations), a Golden Globe, and multiple Screen Actor's Guild awards to her name. But everyone's superstar career has to start somewhere, and for Stone, that place was Easy A.

Before Easy A, Stone had played supporting parts in comedies like Superbad, House Bunny, and Zombieland. The film was her first major leading role, and according to critics reviews at the time, she nailed it.

In his review for The Wall Street Journal, Joe Morgenstern said the film, "catapults Emma Stone into a higher place reserved for American actors who can handle elevated language with casually dazzling aplomb." Meanwhile, Claudia Puig of USA Today lavished praise on Stone's breakthrough performance, writing, "With her first starring role, she proves she can carry a movie and render screenwriter Bert V. Royal's dialogue thoroughly believable."

The performance also garnered Stone multiple awards nominations, including one for a Golden Globe, and other accolades, such as a spot on Time's list of the top 10 movie performances of 2010.

Despite all the accolades it brought her, Stone has since admitted that she's never actually seen the movie. During a conversation between herself and actor Timothée Chalamet for Variety, Stone revealed, "I haven't seen it ... But I went to a friends and family screening to see it and I had to get up and walk out. Who wants to watch themselves for that long?"

Stone might not want to watch herself for very long, but Netflix viewers clearly do! Now, we'll have to see if that Easy A spinoff film ever materializes.


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Hollyweird can eat kids up and chew them out.

Too.bad

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They make enough money to be able to afford therapy.

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Therapy cannot change what some of these kids have seen or been through

And sometimes dredging up old memories of the abuse In therapy is worse.

Its definitely not worth the money.

Your taking about a very sinister and sick group over on hollyweird.

Want your kid to be a star?
Can you leave him at this party over night?
They want to teach them.about jesus juice.

Very very sick sick people

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You sound like you have been somehow personally afflicted.

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No on the other side.
I've met a few of the players.

I would not even call them human

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Life chews up and spits any cunt out. Regardless of cast or geographical location.

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I wouldn't say life does it.

I know many people who have never faced any type of adversity their enitre lives.

But in hollyweird you have people breaking the souls of children and adults.
Mostly through humiliating forms of sexual abuse.

You wanna play in Hollyweird , you got to pay

Price ain't worth ir

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yah it's crazy to think what she became today.. damn

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holly-w00d strikes again !

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She really had talent as a comedic actor. I loved her in She's The Man. Very fun movie.

I hope she is doing well.

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