Let’s see Christian Bale do this!

by Liam Goodwin on April 15, 2009 · 71 comments

wolverine trailer 500x227 While promoting movies around the world actors usually have to do things that they probably wouldn’t do in the civilized world. What you see below doesn’t really make sense, but if X-Men Origins: Wolverine flops it won’t be because Hugh Jackman didn’t promote it hard enough.

Hugh on Spanish TV show El Hormiguero:

Jackman appears to be in the middle of a big worldwide tour promoting Wolverine, and you can keep up with him by following him on Twitter. 17 hours ago he was “Waking up at 5:00AM to do a run around Madrid..”

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whysoserious
It's refreshing to see such a talented actor be so wonderfully affable. In post-Thorton and Bale blowups it's good to see a celebrity not take himself so seriously.
whysoserious
It's refreshing to see such a talented actor be so wonderfully affable. In post-Thorton and Bale blowups it's good to see a celebrity not take himself so seriously.
appple
what connection with Bale?
even Cruise ,Pitt or Depp yet did idiot thing to promote their movie! i hope for him Wolverine is good!
@whysoserious:
and every actor in promo is affable (except Julia Roberts,Sean Penn and Ed Norton)

http://intensedebate.com/people/Filmonic Liam
I chose Bale because he was the only lead actor in a superhero movie I could think of at the time. I could have chosen Robert Downey Jr but I could see him doing it.

Ken J
I can see RDJ doing something like this as well, which is kind of scary…

appple
what connection with Bale?
even Cruise ,Pitt or Depp yet did idiot thing to promote their movie! i hope for him Wolverine is good!
@whysoserious:
and every actor in promo is affable (except Julia Roberts,Sean Penn and Ed Norton)

http://intensedebate.com/people/Filmonic Liam
I chose Bale because he was the only lead actor in a superhero movie I could think of at the time. I could have chosen Robert Downey Jr but I could see him doing it.

Ken J
I can see RDJ doing something like this as well, which is kind of scary…

Leigh
Bale didn't need to promote Dark Knight. It promoted itself just fine with out him or any of the other actors doing crazy stuff. If a movie is good it should be able to stand on its own.
Leigh
Bale didn't need to promote Dark Knight. It promoted itself just fine with out him or any of the other actors doing crazy stuff. If a movie is good it should be able to stand on its own.
Ken J
Christian Bale thinks too highly of himself to "waste" his time promoting his films to his fans. It's not like it's the fans that buy the tickets anyhow… right??
The guy is full of himself, this is clear by how he NEVER appears in any of the conventions while all of the other stars and the director shows up every time to promote Terminator, how he verbally assaults his mother to the point where police had to be called, and how he verbally assaults someone for doing something accidentally. No matter how dumb that guy's action was, it didn't warrant a 10 minute verbal assault.
Christian Bale is a good actor, but he really needs to get over himself and stop taking the fans for granted. One day the fans will get sick of his crap, but luckily for him right now he's still the freakin golden child. You will see this in all of the people about to flame me for pointing out an obvious fact.
Ken J
Christian Bale thinks too highly of himself to "waste" his time promoting his films to his fans. It's not like it's the fans that buy the tickets anyhow… right??
The guy is full of himself, this is clear by how he NEVER appears in any of the conventions while all of the other stars and the director shows up every time to promote Terminator, how he verbally assaults his mother to the point where police had to be called, and how he verbally assaults someone for doing something accidentally. No matter how dumb that guy's action was, it didn't warrant a 10 minute verbal assault.
Christian Bale is a good actor, but he really needs to get over himself and stop taking the fans for granted. One day the fans will get sick of his crap, but luckily for him right now he's still the freakin golden child. You will see this in all of the people about to flame me for pointing out an obvious fact.
Leigh
Or it could be that when all the conventions were going on he was promoting The Dark Knight or he was in the process of filming his other picture Public Enemies. That couln't possiably be a reason right? No you just think he's a jerk for not acting like a baffoon for your entertianment. As for the other things 1st off the rant in question was 4 min and 2nd get over yourself. You weren't there you don't know what happened in either of those situation, its old news he aploigized to everyone involved and to the world for his behavior. Has anyone in this world ever heard of forgive and forget?

Ken J
LMAO, my fanboy senses are tingling.
Nope, what I forgot to also add is that not only does he not show up to the conventions but we don't get any recorded messages, no speakerphone conversations, no nothing. You know when you watch an award show and the winner is busy somewhere, he'll have a video to play so people know he isn't just somewhere not caring about the award? Yah, never one of those and that would take, what, 10 seconds to record? Oh yah, I'm sure he doesn't have 10 seconds to spare.
Oh, and it was ONLY 4 minutes??? WOW, man, do yourself a huge favor, get out a stop watch and and do jumping jacks for 4 minutes, hold your breath for 4 minutes, cross your eyes for 4 minutes, heck, just sit there and watch the stop watch for 4 minutes.
You don't have to be there. Plenty of people have pissed me off, I've never ranted at them for 4 minutes, I've never had the police called on me due to my verbal assault. Oh, and he said sorry? Oh, I'm sure he doesn't have a reputation to protect, it's not like he apologized only after someone else brought the topic up or anything, oh yah, lol.

Leigh
I watched all the award shows this year and except for the Oscars, which was only attended by the director, the crew and Ledgers family, he was at every single one in support of the movie, his director and his fellow cast/crew members whether he was nominated for an award or not.
And at everyone of those awards shows I didn't see Michael Caine or Morgan Freeman in the audience who were also in the Dark Knight and Batman Begins, dose that make them jerks for not showing up for the fans. No it just means they had other things they had to do. OMG string them up for having a life outside of their freaking jobs which is to make movies, not parade around on stage and kiss the butts of every ticket buyer in the world.
Why do we have to have every actor trotted out into the public for our amusement. What else can they say about movie that they haven't already said to 50 other talk shows and magazine reporters. I don't want hear the same crap over and over again. It gets boring.
As for his rant yes it was extreme, I'm not saying it didn't go over board but it happened last year. No one was fired, no one quite and according to the director and several of his crew and cast mates that where there that day, after he calmed down he apologized to all those effected and they finished to shot. We never would have heard anything about this had not some low life scum sold the audio.
Yes he has a reputation to maintain, so does everyone when emotion are high and things get said and done that shouldn't have, duh. You would to if you went off a co-worker or family member whether in small scale or big. You don't want people thinking that's the only side to you. Why should he? I've never met you before and the only side your showing me and anyone else reading these comments is, sorry to say pretty bad and very rude. Dose that mean I should base your entire personality on just a few lines typed in a stupid comment page? I hope not. and then again you really could be this big a jerk and this self righteous. I'm sure there is more to you than this but we'll never really know, now will we?

Ken J
Leigh, seriously, were you born yesterday? I'm not talking about award shows, I was using that as an EXAMPLE of the RECORDED messages winners sometimes prepare if they are too BUSY to be there in person like you are claiming Bale to be for theise CONVENTIONS. I'm not saying he doesn't show up to award shows, I'm talking about the lack of any attempt to show anything to his fans who show up to these conventions or at any venue where promotion of his movies are taking place. Seriously, if I have to draw every little detail out with crayon like this the discussion will move very very slowly… So don't worry about it. You love Christian Bale and he can do no wrong, we get it. I've seen the old videos of the girls screaming for the Beetles, don't worry, I'm not surprised, it's not new…
Ken J
And my point about him having a reputation to maintain is not saying that it's "wrong" for him to want to maintain his reputation, my point is WHY he apologized. He didn't apologize because he really thought he did something wrong, he apologized because he knew it was perceived negatively and he wants to maintain his reputation. PLEASE TELL ME YOU UNDERSTAND! Geez….
And about nobody getting fired, that's not the point, my whole point is what kind of mentality a person must have to throw such a tantrum in the first place. It doesn't matter if it happened last week or 2 years ago, the fact that he did it, that's the evidence I'm putting on the table.

Leigh
Sad
1st I understand you weren't talking about award shows. But guess what the fans watch those and go to those as well as the convention. And as I posted above, when all the conventions were going on he was promoting The Dark Knight or he was in the process of filming his other picture Public Enemies. Which is his job. I'm sorry they couldn't schedule Comicon around the DK promotional tour.
2nd yes I enjoy Bales work and no he CAN do wrong. He proved he was very much human and capable of making a horrible choice in behavior and now he's paying the price. But, unlike some celebs he's not going on every talk show trying to kiss ass and explain himself. Yes I understand the reputation saving thing. I understand that after hearing all this for week he came forward to a local California radio station, not a national talk show, a local station that he himself listens to and apologized. And then that was it. He moved on and went back to work.
3rd
your words: "Leigh, seriously, were you born yesterday?"
your words: "Seriously, if I have to draw every little detail out with crayon like this the discussion will move very very slowly…"
your words: "what kind of mentality a person must have to throw such a tantrum in the first place."
I guess it only takes an opinion opposite your own to get some peoples panties in bunch.
As I said SAD.
Please post yet again and continue to belittle my statements. It makes you seem all the more logical. Did you get your stop watch out because by my count this entire BS back and forth has now gone on for 7hrs. I'm sure if we were face to face you would have out done Bale by 6min bringing you up to 10 min worth of ranting. Good job.
my words: you really could be this big a jerk and this self righteous. I'm sure there is more to you than this but we'll never really know, now will we?
Ken J
Uh, if you actually understood, then that means you were intentionally trying to avoid the actual topic and start talking about award shows and what-not which was NEVER the topic at hand. Then I change my statement, nice "red herring" attempt. I wonder if you actually thinks that helps the argument. I'm talking about how he never goes to any of the things or bothers to give a recorded message etc. etc. for his upcoming movie Terminator, you're talking about award shows and promoting TDK which came out last May… Nice try deflecting to a completely unrelated topic there…
Leigh
Ken, sweetie. The original topic was lets see Bale do this. Which was in reference to Jackman dancing around on a talk show like a monkey. My original comment to this was Bale didn't need to because if a movie is good enough it should be able to stand on its on without its actors having to promote the crap out of it. Your comment was off topic in regards to his being a jerk and about the whole rant thing which had nothing to do with the topic that started all of this. You were the one who brought up his supposed lack of interest in his fans, not me. Try and keep up or do I need to draw it out for you with a crayon.
Ken J
Leigh, you act like you're married to the guy, why so defensive? First of all, as you can tell by my comment NOT being a reply to your comment about whether or not Bale "needs" to promote his movies or not, deductive reasoning should have told you that my comment is not related to yours, so thus you shouldn't respond to it with the misconception that I was making any sort of remark regarding whatever you were talking about. So really, bringing up your "original" comment into this "discussion" is yet another red herring since it's actually unrelated to what I've been talking about.
And I know you think you're all important, but your comment is NOT what "started all of this." The origintal article is. So whether or not you feel my comment is "off topic" in relation to your irrelevent remark, is, well, irrelevent. I'm replying to the original article, NOT you, so get over yourself, you didn't "start all of this" or whatever.
Ken J
You notice how if I would have replied to your statement, there's a little arrow and it indents it a little to show the tree of replies? Notice my original comment is at the same level as yours, meaning I wasn't replying to you. Oh yah, oops!! LMAO! So yah, you're right, I am the one that broght up the topic about how full of himself Bale is, not you, but it doesn't matter, since it's my comment. So until YOU choose to get on topic and stop referring back to your FIRST (not "original" since this didn't begin there) comment to this article, you might as well stop wasting everyone's time and go back to repying to your own comment.
And it would really help that you actually know what you're talking about before you try to be a smart ass, but nice try anyhow, sweetie.
:-D
Leigh
Why are you so hung up on my using Awards Shows as an Example of him showing up for his fans. You used as an example 1st so i went with that line of conversation.
No I not acting like I'm married to the guy. I'm just tired of all the self righteous BS thrown at any actor now a days. And yes Ken I know your original response wasn't directed at me, but I wanted to try and give a little insight into why he might not have been able to attend your precious Convention.
As for me being some sort of smart ass, take a quick look back at your comments posted toward me and see if you can find the real smart ass here. I'm not sure why your acting all butt hurt about opinion but the more you keep posting the bigger the hole you keep digging for yourself. What I'm trying to make you realize is your action and attitude are no better than his was when he lost control. You can LMAO all you want it doesn't help prove your point.
Ken J
3. You claim you "knew" all along my comment was not a response to yours, yet you keep claiming that I'm being "off topic" since it's not what YOU "originally" were talking about. Why the hell do I need to care what the hell you've said when I'm making a comment regarding the article, NOT your comment???
I'm not laughing to "win." I'm laughing because this is downright hilarious. That's what laughter usually means, haha, funny… I wonder what kind of irelevent information you're about to come back with in "response" to this… This should be amusing…
Leigh
Laugh all you want I'm very glad you find yourself so funny and I'm glad that my comments could somehow brighten your day. I still think the underlying rudeness and your contuined attempts at trying to sound superior just shows how little regard you have for others. You claim he's full of him self and yet time and time again he has shown he is anything but. On many of his movies he has asked to be put up in the same hotel as the crew not seperated in better accomodations. If you don't belive do a little research. He has also had serveral industry people come forward and make staements as to what a stand up guy he isand how out of character this whole mess was. But you have your opinion and thats clearly the only one you can see. I guess I'm a little bit more open minded and don't just base my opinions on gut reaction. I try to use this in my everyday life and maybe some day you will too.
Ken J
OR you are so blinded by your fanboy (not gender specific, just a general term, don't fret) love for Christian Bale that you will let him fool you with the outward gestures that are more-or-less planned most likely with his public image in mind, while ignoring things that show how people really are inside.
For me actions speak louder than words. He can say all he wants that he thinks he's no better or that he's equal, blah blah blah. Anyone can SAY anything. The fact is, your ACTIONS show more about how you really are than your words. And his actions against his own family and against a coworker says 10 times as much as his apparent desire to be in the same hotel or whatever…
Would you stay with your boyfriend if he hits you as long as he apologizes for it afterward? Don't be naive.
Leigh
Who did he hit? Not his mom or his sister. Because if actual violence had transpired between them I'm thinking he wouldn't have been allowed to wait an entire day to come into police custody to give his accounts of the verbal argument no matter how much BS he might be able ti sling. Action don't always speak volumes about a person there are many people in today's society that put on an outward appearance of charity and kindness and are really anything but. I mean what is the biggest statement that neighbors and friends give to police when someone they know chops up their loved ones. He/she was so nice such a quiet person, there was nothing in their manners or action that made us think they were capable of this. But anyway, I'm bored with all this and I'm especially bored with you. This was kind of fun and interesting but now that I look back not really. You have fun going on every site you can and bash all the people you've never met that feel have in some way have damaged their standing with you. I have a life i need to return to. Thanks for laughs. :)
Ken J
LOL, I'm acting butt hurt??? Hahaha, I've been laughing at you and your non-sensicle responses from the very beginning.
1. I brought up award shows only to point out the type of "absentee" videos I was saying he doesn't even attempt to do. You respond by saying he shows up to award show… Hello, irrelevent???
2. I talk about how he doesn't even attempt to show any kind of gratitude toward his fans for making him a big star, you respond by saying he's not promoting Terminator which comes out this May because he's busy promoting The Dark Knight which came out LAST May. Hello? Time travel???

Leigh
Or it could be that when all the conventions were going on he was promoting The Dark Knight or he was in the process of filming his other picture Public Enemies. That couln't possiably be a reason right? No you just think he's a jerk for not acting like a baffoon for your entertianment. As for the other things 1st off the rant in question was 4 min and 2nd get over yourself. You weren't there you don't know what happened in either of those situation, its old news he aploigized to everyone involved and to the world for his behavior. Has anyone in this world ever heard of forgive and forget?

Ken J
LMAO, my fanboy senses are tingling.
Nope, what I forgot to also add is that not only does he not show up to the conventions but we don't get any recorded messages, no speakerphone conversations, no nothing. You know when you watch an award show and the winner is busy somewhere, he'll have a video to play so people know he isn't just somewhere not caring about the award? Yah, never one of those and that would take, what, 10 seconds to record? Oh yah, I'm sure he doesn't have 10 seconds to spare.
Oh, and it was ONLY 4 minutes??? WOW, man, do yourself a huge favor, get out a stop watch and and do jumping jacks for 4 minutes, hold your breath for 4 minutes, cross your eyes for 4 minutes, heck, just sit there and watch the stop watch for 4 minutes.
You don't have to be there. Plenty of people have pissed me off, I've never ranted at them for 4 minutes, I've never had the police called on me due to my verbal assault. Oh, and he said sorry? Oh, I'm sure he doesn't have a reputation to protect, it's not like he apologized only after someone else brought the topic up or anything, oh yah, lol.

Leigh
I watched all the award shows this year and except for the Oscars, which was only attended by the director, the crew and Ledgers family, he was at every single one in support of the movie, his director and his fellow cast/crew members whether he was nominated for an award or not.
And at everyone of those awards shows I didn't see Michael Caine or Morgan Freeman in the audience who were also in the Dark Knight and Batman Begins, dose that make them jerks for not showing up for the fans. No it just means they had other things they had to do. OMG string them up for having a life outside of their freaking jobs which is to make movies, not parade around on stage and kiss the butts of every ticket buyer in the world.
Why do we have to have every actor trotted out into the public for our amusement. What else can they say about movie that they haven't already said to 50 other talk shows and magazine reporters. I don't want hear the same crap over and over again. It gets boring.
As for his rant yes it was extreme, I'm not saying it didn't go over board but it happened last year. No one was fired, no one quite and according to the director and several of his crew and cast mates that where there that day, after he calmed down he apologized to all those effected and they finished to shot. We never would have heard anything about this had not some low life scum sold the audio.
Yes he has a reputation to maintain, so does everyone when emotion are high and things get said and done that shouldn't have, duh. You would to if you went off a co-worker or family member whether in small scale or big. You don't want people thinking that's the only side to you. Why should he? I've never met you before and the only side your showing me and anyone else reading these comments is, sorry to say pretty bad and very rude. Dose that mean I should base your entire personality on just a few lines typed in a stupid comment page? I hope not. and then again you really could be this big a jerk and this self righteous. I'm sure there is more to you than this but we'll never really know, now will we?

Ken J
Leigh, seriously, were you born yesterday? I'm not talking about award shows, I was using that as an EXAMPLE of the RECORDED messages winners sometimes prepare if they are too BUSY to be there in person like you are claiming Bale to be for theise CONVENTIONS. I'm not saying he doesn't show up to award shows, I'm talking about the lack of any attempt to show anything to his fans who show up to these conventions or at any venue where promotion of his movies are taking place. Seriously, if I have to draw every little detail out with crayon like this the discussion will move very very slowly… So don't worry about it. You love Christian Bale and he can do no wrong, we get it. I've seen the old videos of the girls screaming for the Beetles, don't worry, I'm not surprised, it's not new…
Ken J
And my point about him having a reputation to maintain is not saying that it's "wrong" for him to want to maintain his reputation, my point is WHY he apologized. He didn't apologize because he really thought he did something wrong, he apologized because he knew it was perceived negatively and he wants to maintain his reputation. PLEASE TELL ME YOU UNDERSTAND! Geez….
And about nobody getting fired, that's not the point, my whole point is what kind of mentality a person must have to throw such a tantrum in the first place. It doesn't matter if it happened last week or 2 years ago, the fact that he did it, that's the evidence I'm putting on the table.

Leigh
Sad
1st I understand you weren't talking about award shows. But guess what the fans watch those and go to those as well as the convention. And as I posted above, when all the conventions were going on he was promoting The Dark Knight or he was in the process of filming his other picture Public Enemies. Which is his job. I'm sorry they couldn't schedule Comicon around the DK promotional tour.
2nd yes I enjoy Bales work and no he CAN do wrong. He proved he was very much human and capable of making a horrible choice in behavior and now he's paying the price. But, unlike some celebs he's not going on every talk show trying to kiss ass and explain himself. Yes I understand the reputation saving thing. I understand that after hearing all this for week he came forward to a local California radio station, not a national talk show, a local station that he himself listens to and apologized. And then that was it. He moved on and went back to work.
3rd
your words: "Leigh, seriously, were you born yesterday?"
your words: "Seriously, if I have to draw every little detail out with crayon like this the discussion will move very very slowly…"
your words: "what kind of mentality a person must have to throw such a tantrum in the first place."
I guess it only takes an opinion opposite your own to get some peoples panties in bunch.
As I said SAD.
Please post yet again and continue to belittle my statements. It makes you seem all the more logical. Did you get your stop watch out because by my count this entire BS back and forth has now gone on for 7hrs. I'm sure if we were face to face you would have out done Bale by 6min bringing you up to 10 min worth of ranting. Good job.
my words: you really could be this big a jerk and this self righteous. I'm sure there is more to you than this but we'll never really know, now will we?
Ken J
Uh, if you actually understood, then that means you were intentionally trying to avoid the actual topic and start talking about award shows and what-not which was NEVER the topic at hand. Then I change my statement, nice "red herring" attempt. I wonder if you actually thinks that helps the argument. I'm talking about how he never goes to any of the things or bothers to give a recorded message etc. etc. for his upcoming movie Terminator, you're talking about award shows and promoting TDK which came out last May… Nice try deflecting to a completely unrelated topic there…
Leigh
Ken, sweetie. The original topic was lets see Bale do this. Which was in reference to Jackman dancing around on a talk show like a monkey. My original comment to this was Bale didn't need to because if a movie is good enough it should be able to stand on its on without its actors having to promote the crap out of it. Your comment was off topic in regards to his being a jerk and about the whole rant thing which had nothing to do with the topic that started all of this. You were the one who brought up his supposed lack of interest in his fans, not me. Try and keep up or do I need to draw it out for you with a crayon.
Ken J
Leigh, you act like you're married to the guy, why so defensive? First of all, as you can tell by my comment NOT being a reply to your comment about whether or not Bale "needs" to promote his movies or not, deductive reasoning should have told you that my comment is not related to yours, so thus you shouldn't respond to it with the misconception that I was making any sort of remark regarding whatever you were talking about. So really, bringing up your "original" comment into this "discussion" is yet another red herring since it's actually unrelated to what I've been talking about.
And I know you think you're all important, but your comment is NOT what "started all of this." The origintal article is. So whether or not you feel my comment is "off topic" in relation to your irrelevent remark, is, well, irrelevent. I'm replying to the original article, NOT you, so get over yourself, you didn't "start all of this" or whatever.
Ken J
You notice how if I would have replied to your statement, there's a little arrow and it indents it a little to show the tree of replies? Notice my original comment is at the same level as yours, meaning I wasn't replying to you. Oh yah, oops!! LMAO! So yah, you're right, I am the one that broght up the topic about how full of himself Bale is, not you, but it doesn't matter, since it's my comment. So until YOU choose to get on topic and stop referring back to your FIRST (not "original" since this didn't begin there) comment to this article, you might as well stop wasting everyone's time and go back to repying to your own comment.
And it would really help that you actually know what you're talking about before you try to be a smart ass, but nice try anyhow, sweetie.
:-D
Leigh
Why are you so hung up on my using Awards Shows as an Example of him showing up for his fans. You used as an example 1st so i went with that line of conversation.
No I not acting like I'm married to the guy. I'm just tired of all the self righteous BS thrown at any actor now a days. And yes Ken I know your original response wasn't directed at me, but I wanted to try and give a little insight into why he might not have been able to attend your precious Convention.
As for me being some sort of smart ass, take a quick look back at your comments posted toward me and see if you can find the real smart ass here. I'm not sure why your acting all butt hurt about opinion but the more you keep posting the bigger the hole you keep digging for yourself. What I'm trying to make you realize is your action and attitude are no better than his was when he lost control. You can LMAO all you want it doesn't help prove your point.
Ken J
LOL, I'm acting butt hurt??? Hahaha, I've been laughing at you and your non-sensicle responses from the very beginning.
1. I brought up award shows only to point out the type of "absentee" videos I was saying he doesn't even attempt to do. You respond by saying he shows up to award show… Hello, irrelevent???
2. I talk about how he doesn't even attempt to show any kind of gratitude toward his fans for making him a big star, you respond by saying he's not promoting Terminator which comes out this May because he's busy promoting The Dark Knight which came out LAST May. Hello? Time travel???
Ken J
3. You claim you "knew" all along my comment was not a response to yours, yet you keep claiming that I'm being "off topic" since it's not what YOU "originally" were talking about. Why the hell do I need to care what the hell you've said when I'm making a comment regarding the article, NOT your comment???
I'm not laughing to "win." I'm laughing because this is downright hilarious. That's what laughter usually means, haha, funny… I wonder what kind of irelevent information you're about to come back with in "response" to this… This should be amusing…
Leigh
Laugh all you want I'm very glad you find yourself so funny and I'm glad that my comments could somehow brighten your day. I still think the underlying rudeness and your contuined attempts at trying to sound superior just shows how little regard you have for others. You claim he's full of him self and yet time and time again he has shown he is anything but. On many of his movies he has asked to be put up in the same hotel as the crew not seperated in better accomodations. If you don't belive do a little research. He has also had serveral industry people come forward and make staements as to what a stand up guy he isand how out of character this whole mess was. But you have your opinion and thats clearly the only one you can see. I guess I'm a little bit more open minded and don't just base my opinions on gut reaction. I try to use this in my everyday life and maybe some day you will too.
Ken J
OR you are so blinded by your fanboy (not gender specific, just a general term, don't fret) love for Christian Bale that you will let him fool you with the outward gestures that are more-or-less planned most likely with his public image in mind, while ignoring things that show how people really are inside.
For me actions speak louder than words. He can say all he wants that he thinks he's no better or that he's equal, blah blah blah. Anyone can SAY anything. The fact is, your ACTIONS show more about how you really are than your words. And his actions against his own family and against a coworker says 10 times as much as his apparent desire to be in the same hotel or whatever…
Would you stay with your boyfriend if he hits you as long as he apologizes for it afterward? Don't be naive.
Leigh
Who did he hit? Not his mom or his sister. Because if actual violence had transpired between them I'm thinking he wouldn't have been allowed to wait an entire day to come into police custody to give his accounts of the verbal argument no matter how much BS he might be able ti sling. Action don't always speak volumes about a person there are many people in today's society that put on an outward appearance of charity and kindness and are really anything but. I mean what is the biggest statement that neighbors and friends give to police when someone they know chops up their loved ones. He/she was so nice such a quiet person, there was nothing in their manners or action that made us think they were capable of this. But anyway, I'm bored with all this and I'm especially bored with you. This was kind of fun and interesting but now that I look back not really. You have fun going on every site you can and bash all the people you've never met that feel have in some way have damaged their standing with you. I have a life i need to return to. Thanks for laughs. :)

Morgan
Ken, you know nothing about Hollywood. Countless actors have lost it much worse than Bale, but the only difference is they have not been recorded. You must have been born yesterday. Frank Sinatra had legendary meltdowns on set. Jack Nicholson makes Bale look like a boy scout. Jesus, grow up.
And who the hell cares if Bale doesn't go to some damn convention? Why are you so hurt over it? He has always been very uncomfortable crowds ever since he was a child actor. Unlike the extroverted Hugh Jackman, Bale is an extreme introvert who feels very uncomfortable with the press and crowds. Get over it. Also, the reason why Jackman is all over the place pimping Wolverine is he knows it's a big pile of turd. We've all seen the leaked version and it sucked monkey balls. He needs people to see it badly on opening weekend before the lousy word of mouth spreads. Terminator Salvation will blow Wolverine out of the water.

Ken J
And I would think they are full of themselves as well. What, you don't think I hold all celebrities to the same standard? I'm not picking on Christian Bale, he is full of himself like 98% of celebrities are. The ones that are not are a VERY small minority.
chris1
Speak for yourself, Morgan! No, not EVERYONE has seen Wolverine and not EVERYONE thinks it's crap. Plus, Wolverine comes out on May 1st and Terminator on July, so there is no competition between these movies, idiot. Hugh Jackman is by far a most popular and crowd pleasing actor than that jerk Christian Bale. Jackman is original, down to earth and he loves being with his fans (ComicCon 2008…)Oh, and if Bale is sooo uncomfortable with press and crowds, why did he chose to be a Hollywood actor in the first place?

Ken J
Yep, you said it chris. He's a good actor, and I'll watch his films, but I'm paying to watch his on-screen performance, not for his off-screen idiocy, so my opinion of his off-screen personality hasn't changed, but I'm objective enough to see a good actor when I see him. I'm the biggest James Cameron fanatic, I love just about all of his movies, but that guy is a prick to work with and even he has come forward and admitted it, lol. But still looking forward to Avatar, woot. Hollywood breeds these cocky self-loving pricks, it's just a byproduct. If only they all can be like Bruce Willis and Hugh Jackman, but the world isn't perfect, so oh well.

Morgan
Ken, you know nothing about Hollywood. Countless actors have lost it much worse than Bale, but the only difference is they have not been recorded. You must have been born yesterday. Frank Sinatra had legendary meltdowns on set. Jack Nicholson makes Bale look like a boy scout. Jesus, grow up.
And who the hell cares if Bale doesn't go to some damn convention? Why are you so hurt over it? He has always been very uncomfortable crowds ever since he was a child actor. Unlike the extroverted Hugh Jackman, Bale is an extreme introvert who feels very uncomfortable with the press and crowds. Get over it. Also, the reason why Jackman is all over the place pimping Wolverine is he knows it's a big pile of turd. We've all seen the leaked version and it sucked monkey balls. He needs people to see it badly on opening weekend before the lousy word of mouth spreads. Terminator Salvation will blow Wolverine out of the water.

Ken J
And I would think they are full of themselves as well. What, you don't think I hold all celebrities to the same standard? I'm not picking on Christian Bale, he is full of himself like 98% of celebrities are. The ones that are not are a VERY small minority.
chris1
Speak for yourself, Morgan! No, not EVERYONE has seen Wolverine and not EVERYONE thinks it's crap. Plus, Wolverine comes out on May 1st and Terminator on July, so there is no competition between these movies, idiot. Hugh Jackman is by far a most popular and crowd pleasing actor than that jerk Christian Bale. Jackman is original, down to earth and he loves being with his fans (ComicCon 2008…)Oh, and if Bale is sooo uncomfortable with press and crowds, why did he chose to be a Hollywood actor in the first place?

Ken J
Yep, you said it chris. He's a good actor, and I'll watch his films, but I'm paying to watch his on-screen performance, not for his off-screen idiocy, so my opinion of his off-screen personality hasn't changed, but I'm objective enough to see a good actor when I see him. I'm the biggest James Cameron fanatic, I love just about all of his movies, but that guy is a prick to work with and even he has come forward and admitted it, lol. But still looking forward to Avatar, woot. Hollywood breeds these cocky self-loving pricks, it's just a byproduct. If only they all can be like Bruce Willis and Hugh Jackman, but the world isn't perfect, so oh well.

Ken J
Wow, thinks, my grammar is atrocious… Just pretend I'm from Jersey, it'll make it all right.
Ken J
Wow, thinks, my grammar is atrocious… Just pretend I'm from Jersey, it'll make it all right.
Ken J
BTW, no we "all" haven't illegally downloaded the leaked version. Yes a lot of you have, but not all of us. Personally I thought it looked cheesy without needing to see the illegally leaked version. I was going to wait and watch it as a rental anyhow, so I don't need to illegally download an unfinished version of the film. Crappy or not, he's willing to make a complete fool of himself, which means he doesn't have a highly inflated ego. Good for him.
Ken J
BTW, no we "all" haven't illegally downloaded the leaked version. Yes a lot of you have, but not all of us. Personally I thought it looked cheesy without needing to see the illegally leaked version. I was going to wait and watch it as a rental anyhow, so I don't need to illegally download an unfinished version of the film. Crappy or not, he's willing to make a complete fool of himself, which means he doesn't have a highly inflated ego. Good for him.
Leigh
Just an FYI Terminator comes out May 21, Bales other movie Public Enemies comes out in July. firstshowing.com has a wonderful site that has all the movie release dates for 2009 and 2010, if you ever wanted to know. Just trying to help.
Leigh
Just an FYI Terminator comes out May 21, Bales other movie Public Enemies comes out in July. firstshowing.com has a wonderful site that has all the movie release dates for 2009 and 2010, if you ever wanted to know. Just trying to help.
Leigh
Not every actor got into this business to be in public eye and have their personal lives on display for all to see. That's just a nasty side effect that they have to live with. Jackman handles the press wonderfully, Bale doesn't he has always said so. Why is trying to have a life outside your job such a bad thing? Edward Norton hates the press and keeps a very low profile. Granted he was at one of the comicon convention but he he also wasn't in the middle of promoting another movie at the time the convention was going on. Along with Jackman, (who also did not have another movie to promote at the time) Bale is one of the hardest working actors out there right now. And sometimes you just can't do everything everyone wants you to, you have to pick and choose. If McG had wanted Bale to record a message to the fans I'm sure he would have, he has in the past for other things (award shows, online interviews over seas talk shows). Once the rest of the conventions came around the audio of his rant had gone out and he was just keeping a low profile so he wouldn't have to rehash it over and over again. Once he starts going out to promote Terminator in a few weeks he'll have to do just that. Because every talk show host, every reporter is going to make that their 1st question. They already have, he just did an interview with Empire magazine this month and that's the 1st thing they asked him. He's there to promote the movie not himself as an actor in the movie, the movie as a whole. And he won't need to do silly stuff to get it noticed. That I find refreshing.

Ken J
It's funny you bring up Edward Norton, because from what I hear, he's pretty full of himself and is a jerk as well, despite his soft-spoken outward appearance. Tim Robbins is another one. He plays these roles like he's some "good guy." But then you hear the clip of him threatening to kill someone and their family. Oh yah, peace not war, really! lol Hollywood is full of hypocrites and cry babies. There is only a few celebrities that are not completely like this. Bruce Willis comes to mind, I remember when he was promoting Live Free or Die Hard, he actually signed on to Ain't it Cool News and was chatting with people about what they want to see and what they were expecting etc. Nobody believed it was him until he uploaded a video of himself saying hello to them, lol.

Leigh
Not every actor got into this business to be in public eye and have their personal lives on display for all to see. That's just a nasty side effect that they have to live with. Jackman handles the press wonderfully, Bale doesn't he has always said so. Why is trying to have a life outside your job such a bad thing? Edward Norton hates the press and keeps a very low profile. Granted he was at one of the comicon convention but he he also wasn't in the middle of promoting another movie at the time the convention was going on. Along with Jackman, (who also did not have another movie to promote at the time) Bale is one of the hardest working actors out there right now. And sometimes you just can't do everything everyone wants you to, you have to pick and choose. If McG had wanted Bale to record a message to the fans I'm sure he would have, he has in the past for other things (award shows, online interviews over seas talk shows). Once the rest of the conventions came around the audio of his rant had gone out and he was just keeping a low profile so he wouldn't have to rehash it over and over again. Once he starts going out to promote Terminator in a few weeks he'll have to do just that. Because every talk show host, every reporter is going to make that their 1st question. They already have, he just did an interview with Empire magazine this month and that's the 1st thing they asked him. He's there to promote the movie not himself as an actor in the movie, the movie as a whole. And he won't need to do silly stuff to get it noticed. That I find refreshing.

Ken J
It's funny you bring up Edward Norton, because from what I hear, he's pretty full of himself and is a jerk as well, despite his soft-spoken outward appearance. Tim Robbins is another one. He plays these roles like he's some "good guy." But then you hear the clip of him threatening to kill someone and their family. Oh yah, peace not war, really! lol Hollywood is full of hypocrites and cry babies. There is only a few celebrities that are not completely like this. Bruce Willis comes to mind, I remember when he was promoting Live Free or Die Hard, he actually signed on to Ain't it Cool News and was chatting with people about what they want to see and what they were expecting etc. Nobody believed it was him until he uploaded a video of himself saying hello to them, lol.

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ForumHater
WOW – Who gives a fuck what these actors do in the spare time – I salute them for giving us good quality entertainment and for the work they do on the screen.

Leigh
For the most part I agree with your comment completely. It just makes me sad that there is so much anger towards a man who, once you boil it down, just had a bad day.

WTH
I get what you've been saying all along. Some are just to thick headed to understand.

ForumHater
WOW – Who gives a fuck what these actors do in the spare time – I salute them for giving us good quality entertainment and for the work they do on the screen.

Leigh
For the most part I agree with your comment completely. It just makes me sad that there is so much anger towards a man who, once you boil it down, just had a bad day.

WTH
I get what you've been saying all along. Some are just to thick headed to understand.

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In another film with deception and play both sides, Christian Bale was amazing in The Prestige. You never know until the end of this film, it is a good guy that I can not even imagine how difficult it is to do. He stole the show at Hugh Jackman.