Any Directors/Actors You've Boycotted?

If so, who, and for what reason?

I have not -- if the work is great, I don't care how bad the person is, I'll support it. Talent is too rare for me to boycott anyone.

I don't think i could ever boycott a director either, but i would be lying to you if i said my views on Roman Polanksi's films were not somewhat tainted.

I will never pay to see a film with Sean Penn in it ever again. When you protest America on foreign soil and intentionally advocate anti-American views it's unforgivable. Jane Fonda for the same reason.

Currently, Meryl Streep is on my s**t list for her hate mongering. As is Joss Whedon for hate mongering AND his abuse of women.

I usually don't partake in boycotts and usually even if I dislike a certain celebrity as a person or disagree with their views I can still seperate them from their real-life persona and enjoy what they do as an entertainer. But one director who I refuse to support in any capacity is Victor Salva. The fact he's a free man and allowed to make films after his disgusting crime is beyond reprehensible. He belongs in a prison cell, not on a film set.

What exactly do you define as "anti-American views" and "hate-mongering" in this context?

In any case, Sean Penn's still abused women so it's easy enough to disregard his work.

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Same.

Not a director or actor but a writer: Steven Moffat, the outgoing showrunner of Doctor Who. During his time in control of the series I finally stopped watching for good, for reasons that are too involved and complicated to go into.

Are you coming back for Chibnall?

I'm not I'm afraid . I liked his story Dinosaurs on a Spaceship because it gave Matt Smith everything to play as the Doctor – and Smith delivered in spades.

I don't boycott anything in life. Maybe bad-industrial-television-food, but that's the only thing I can remind of.

What I do, and I think most people that enjoy a good film does, is trusting a given director to provide us something we are expecting, and from there we start to follow there work and almost blind-trust that what they do is worth wise. Some of us might overvalue a film based on that assumption.

-Joao

Boycott as in not watching anything they do because they are not great actors.. heck yes..

Ben Stiller is one of them

I like the idea of valuing talent first, Matt. It s a rare gift, to the artist & the audience. And it would have been MY loss if I boycotted actors like Shirley MacLaine who I found to be a pretentious, spoiled princess in television interviews, but I would have missed one of my favorite films, Steel Magnolias. And she did a fine job in that part too.


So I tend to overlook the supposed flaws of actors who annoy me or directors with opposing political views.But as Shadow said referring to Salva s heinous acts, I do draw the line somewhere and child abuse is the line. I think Woody Allen should be in jail, and since we found out what a smug letch he is, I ve never watched him again. No loss.

boycott
ˈbɔɪkɒt/
1.
withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.

By this definition I boycott crappy movies.

No, I don't boycott directors/actors because of their personal lives. That would be too SJW...which is soooo 2017 I boycott crappy movies too. Why watch a crappy movie when there's like a 100,000 good ones to see.

I wouldn't say boycott, but at this point, I'm somehow not exactly comfortable watching anything with the involvement of Kevin Spacey and Roman Polanski.

I have 'boycotted' a lot of directors in the sense that I will go out of my way to avoid watching their films: Ron Howard, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Joss Whedon, Jon Favreau, Quentin Tarantino (lost me at Django), etc.. there are a lot more actually.

From now on I boycott director @Swan, because he called me a goober.

I will stop boycotting his work once he made a film belonging to the Miniowave movement.

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

You are a goober.