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He's been crap for years. He should fuck off and live in obscurity on the undeserved fortune he's already accumulated.
The real victim here is Jaden. Imagine your dad not handing you movie roles anymore because he fucked his own career. So unfair.
he's rich. he never has to worry about anything in his life. he doesn't "need" a comeback.
so he has to do is chill and enjoy life. and he's still not happy????
He's an actor. He needs an an audience. He wants to be remembered positively, hopefully for a very long time.
he can retire. i still think of MIB and Fresh prince when I hear his name.
he already won. just don't fuck it up by being greedy
Fuck Will Smith. Be forgotten, dickhead.
Just retire, Stale Prince.
Why?
The guys a multi millionaire ... it doesn't matter if he had a come back or not, he's still a millionaire.
You have to be a moron to want more than that.
He probably likes being famous.
Hes still famous. Hes just risking his legacy.
His career was on the wane before he acted like an asshole at the Oscars. I loved him as a kid and still love some of his movies, but he was the upstart smartass. That doesn't work when you're 50+ and he doesn't have the range to be more than that.
He lost any semblance of cool with Pinkett's affair and the slap. He is desperate to get it back but that's not really going to be possible. Had he not slapped Rock he might have been able to lean into being a more sentimental figure at this stage but that too has passed.
I don't know. She didn't really have any bearing on his decline before that point. I assume those that knew about their celebrity life and her affair did, but that wasn't most people.
It's hard to know if the slap was out of character as we don't know him. However it was out of character for his image. And image is your brand.
He thinks he's still 20 years old in Miami in the 90s. He has no appreciation for the fact that he has changed and rap has changed. No one wants to hear a creepy old man singing about offering jetskis to get with girls at a club.
I think when he was rapping, it was always a watered down pop, gentle version anyway. That was fine, because it was fun. Music doesn't have to be meaningful. But as you say, there is no growth there.
He's tri d a few times to have growth in his acting, chasing the Oscar. However, his strength was the smart talking kid who thinks he knows better, but gets schooled by life only to learn a life lesson.
Fresh prince, MIB. They were awesome.
Ali, not so much.
Fuck that guy. Don't come back, you hear?
Back up! Back up!
Mind ya business y'all. Just mind ya business.
Do you think the shark gets tired of being jumped over?
Its forced and cringe worthy.
Name something he's done in the last 10 years that wasn't cringe worthy.
I can't name anything he has done in the past 10 years
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think I might be OOTL. Why does everyone here hate him? I know he slapped the comedian, but it didn't seem SO unprovoked, and AFAIK its the only thing. It's not great that he did that, but I wouldn't hang him for that
Unprovoked‽ Bro, dude is a known less than PC comedian they brought to HOST the ceremony. Idc if he said he fucked will Smith's wife, that's part of the act! Would say it's unprovoked if some nobody walked on stage and slapped Jeff Acuri? Will Smith's has suffered less than zero consequences as proven by this vanity tour.
Asking he go to jail for a month or two isn't calling for him to be hanged. It's calling for actual consequences from someone who performed an entirely unprovoked act of violence. Anybody not famous would probably spend close to a year in jail if they did that to any performer.
He's very dated and shows no self awareness about that. He was always bland, fun rap, which is fine, but it's not highly skilled. He also recently did a truly cringy music video where he's in his 50s and perving after 20 year old. He just don't seem to have moved forwards from the 90s
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