Comments on: Only one actor’s brilliance at acting would make me CURIOUS ENOUGH TO GO AND watch the movie because he is in it. https://habitablezone.com/2012/09/01/only-one-actor-that-will-make-me-watch-the-movie-because-he-is-in-it/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:41:18 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2012/09/01/only-one-actor-that-will-make-me-watch-the-movie-because-he-is-in-it/#comment-17974 bowser Mon, 03 Sep 2012 01:20:29 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=21233#comment-17974 How can a person reply to that without the reply belonging on "Flame"? How would one be able to explain that adults and self-actualized people choose whereas children and victims are made to do things? How would one try to explain that one's entire life has been predicated upon being misunderstood, overworked, and forced into their predicaments rather than having made choices along the way which led to their situation? How could one explain that our choice of words reveals our thinking, and not coincidentally. They can't, so this discussion has to end. But that "he made me" do it is always a fun one to watch. No small thing. How can a person reply to that without the reply belonging on “Flame”? How would one be able to explain that adults and self-actualized people choose whereas children and victims are made to do things? How would one try to explain that one’s entire life has been predicated upon being misunderstood, overworked, and forced into their predicaments rather than having made choices along the way which led to their situation? How could one explain that our choice of words reveals our thinking, and not coincidentally.

They can’t, so this discussion has to end. But that “he made me” do it is always a fun one to watch. No small thing.

]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2012/09/01/only-one-actor-that-will-make-me-watch-the-movie-because-he-is-in-it/#comment-17970 Jody Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:18:00 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=21233#comment-17970 Hah...coming from a Democrat I really am surprised you chose the word *choices*. Hah…coming from a Democrat I really am surprised you chose the word *choices*.

]]> By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2012/09/01/only-one-actor-that-will-make-me-watch-the-movie-because-he-is-in-it/#comment-17963 bowser Sun, 02 Sep 2012 21:06:48 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=21233#comment-17963 No one "makes" an adult go to a movie, eat a hamburger, go to bed. An adult chooses to do those things. Accepts responsibility. Life is so much simpler when viewed as choices rather than as being forced by hundreds of elements more powerful than I. Life is easier as an adult than a victim. I choose to stop at a red light, I don't want the consequences of running it. No one makes me stop. Semantic bullshit, you say. I'd reply that it's your choice to believe that, just accept the consequences. People are fun, and the language they use is a great hole into our psyches. No one “makes” an adult go to a movie, eat a hamburger, go to bed. An adult chooses to do those things. Accepts responsibility.

Life is so much simpler when viewed as choices rather than as being forced by hundreds of elements more powerful than I. Life is easier as an adult than a victim.

I choose to stop at a red light, I don’t want the consequences of running it. No one makes me stop.

Semantic bullshit, you say. I’d reply that it’s your choice to believe that, just accept the consequences.

People are fun, and the language they use is a great hole into our psyches.

]]> By: alcaray https://habitablezone.com/2012/09/01/only-one-actor-that-will-make-me-watch-the-movie-because-he-is-in-it/#comment-17947 alcaray Sun, 02 Sep 2012 02:53:16 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=21233#comment-17947 I thought of that too. I thought of that too.

]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2012/09/01/only-one-actor-that-will-make-me-watch-the-movie-because-he-is-in-it/#comment-17944 Jody Sun, 02 Sep 2012 02:34:24 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=21233#comment-17944 Ya wouldn't be pullin' me leg now would ya laddie? Ya wouldn’t be pullin’ me leg now would ya laddie?

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2012/09/01/only-one-actor-that-will-make-me-watch-the-movie-because-he-is-in-it/#comment-17940 ER Sun, 02 Sep 2012 01:30:21 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=21233#comment-17940 I've been looking forward to this one. <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b9/Abraham_Lincoln_-_Vampire_Hunter_Poster.jpg/220px-Abraham_Lincoln_-_Vampire_Hunter_Poster.jpg" alt="." /> I’ve been looking forward to this one.

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]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2012/09/01/only-one-actor-that-will-make-me-watch-the-movie-because-he-is-in-it/#comment-17936 Jody Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:49:37 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=21233#comment-17936 Well I wasn't going to ask anyway. Well I wasn’t going to ask anyway.

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2012/09/01/only-one-actor-that-will-make-me-watch-the-movie-because-he-is-in-it/#comment-17932 TB Sat, 01 Sep 2012 23:29:19 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=21233#comment-17932 <p>I actually have several actors that fall into that category.</p> No, I'm not going to list them. I actually have several actors that fall into that category.

No, I’m not going to list them.

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