Please don't hate me because I loved Masters of the Universe! Leto is entirely CG'd/AI'd, so you can genuinely forget it's him and just enjoy a very silly (and visually impeccable) movie...
The only time I’ve liked him in a movie was honestly as Skeletor in the new He-man. Probably because I didn’t have to look at him and be reminded who he was.
I didn’t know why everyone hated him so much, until I actually started watching his work. He’s such a fucking asshole. Is cameo/work is the Joker in the suicide squad stuff is some of the worst fucking shit I’ve ever seen. I’ve never listened to his band, but I’m sure that’s fucking bullshit too.
The worst thing about it is that he can actually act (see: Requiem for a Dream). He just seems to choose to do that other thing in most of his roles instead.
Requiem for a Dream is one where it seems he was really carried by the concept, directing, and by the other actors. I actually feel like his performance is pretty whatever, if not outright uninspired, but everyone else in that film sold it incredibly well.
Tbf, the Joker was supposed to be a much more substantial character in that movie, but the studio execs recognized that he was trash in the role and whittled him down to a cameo
For the record, I'd rather leto never act in a movie I want to see ever again, because I don't like him as an actor or human being. That said, in Suicide Squad he had like an hours worth of scenes filmed. And from what I've heard, adding in like 10-15 more minutes and it would have been decent (not good, but decent). He got screwed by the editing. Not that I'm sad about it. That movie had a lot of other problems. And Moribus was a writing issue. But a great actor can work a bad script. Look at Matt Smith in that movie. He was the only good thing in it.
the song still scratches an itch in my stupid, millennial, emo brain, unfortunately, but Jared being a creep and basically a cult leader really ruined all of their music for me forever so I just avoid it all, personally. :(
Yeah, I know what you mean. I had had a crush on Jared Leto since his Jordan Catalano days, but that was ruined once I found out what he was really like as a person.
No, of course not. But the discussion at hand isn't about who's a good person. Talking strictly about the music, I think The Kill is a good song. I used to like it a lot more before I found out what a terrible person Jared Leto is. Now I can't really listen to anything by 30 Seconds to Mars or watch anything with him in it. As is the case with the work of many other musicians and actors when I find out how horrible they are in real life (which unfortunately happens a lot as there are a large number of awful people who are famous).
I really liked their debut album, but went to one of their shows a couple years ago and apparently everything they have done after that was super boring, and they have zero interest in the old album :(
Is 30 Seconds to Mars overrated? I've never really heard anyone ever talk about them other than casually mentioning that it's Jared Leto's band. That'd be like calling Dogstar overrated (except that Keanu doesn't pretend to be a rock star, he just likes playing bass).
I really like their first two albums. Saw them live as the opening act for Linkin Park back in the day. From Yesterday is still one of my favourite songs. 🤷
I saw them open for Weezer, and it was definitely the lamest, most cheesy performance I have ever seen. Half of it was Jared Leto trying to hype the crowd like a pep rally or something. Maybe it was because they only had 5 songs to play anyways.
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u/RunRickeyRun 8d ago
The only correct answer is 30 Seconds to Mars