Pretty-boy actor Brad Pitt is lecturing the American people to stop being so closed-minded about the foreigners in their panic after the Paris attacks. Americans somehow think they’re an island of xenophopic egotists.
"Don't be so emotional," he cautioned. "Don't see the world from our own backyard. Understand everyone has self-interest and that we are now in a community. We are not an island and we don't always know best so let's check ourselves."
It's always rich when a movie star tells his audience to stop being so stuck on themselves. Pitt’s latest movie is called The Big Short, about short-selling hotshots who profited from the financial collapse in 2008.
"This entitlement that you can make money off the backs of others without being responsible to what it's doing to them or what it could do to them drives me crazy," he told the New York Daily News. "The fact that no one was held accountable after this mass failure drives me crazy so I wanted this story told. I'm really proud to be able to tell this story."
Speaking of being unaccountable when something collapses, Pitt’s newest flop By The Sea, written and directed by his wife Angelina Jolie, grossed only $320,000 in its first ten days to match a production budget of $10 million. As the Daily Mail put it, “one reviewer said its daily box office earnings did not match what Jolie and her family of six spend on lunch.”
The film is full of long looks at Jolie's body and face as she sulks around a hotel by the sea in France:
A review on the Roger Ebert film site said Jolie “had produced a film that is such a borderline unendurable exercise in vapid self-indulgence that it almost feels like an exceptionally straight-faced parody of empty-headed star vehicles.”
Then there was his flop in 2012:
Brad Pitt's Killing Them Softly suffered the kind of deadly hit at the box office this weekend that its protagonist might have admired. A wide opening from The Weinstein Co. yielded a paltry $7 million, barely enough for seventh place in a crowd of holdovers. It was one of the lowest-ever wide openings for Pitt, and could wind up as his second-lowest grosser in nearly 20 years.
If dismal attendance wasn't enough, the people who did come out to Killing wanted to whack it: The movie averaged a rock-bottom "F" CinemaScore.
