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What's the deal with Brendan Fraser?

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Why is everyone treating him like a Make A Wish kid?
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He must be a really great whale
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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He never stopped acting, he just wasn't in high profile stuff. But he's been around the whole time
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God bless him.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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I decided to ignore the rest of your truly horrible post, you're welcome
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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That framed autograph is still the best thing he’s ever done
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Though Encino Man is due for a reappraisal
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I haven't seen The Mummy since it came out, but I remember it being ok. I struggle to think of any other movies with Brendan Fraser in them.
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Oh yeah, Encino Man. That movie was on comedy central constantly.
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JuanHamm wrote:Oh yeah, Encino Man. That movie was on comedy central constantly.
It was always either that one or PCU
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tragabigzanda wrote:Some agent stuck his finger up Fraser’s butt at a party and he sunk into a deep depression and didn’t act in anything for like a decade
Where in the thread title does it say "ITT: spread cruel misinformation about beloved icon Brendan Fraser"?
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I've never liked B. Fraser, even at the height of his fame. Just rubbed me incorrectly. I can see why some people were into his thang though; he has some charisma. Do you guys remember that movie with him and Ad. Sandler in which they took over a radio station with (fake?) guns to promote their music? that was on Comedy central alot 2. Airheads.
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Airheads. I saw that twice in the theater at the mall
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Bedazzled was my shit when I was a kid. I used to love that movie.
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Encino Man was big in my house because my sister was a nineties teen and thus into Pauly Shore. And then Blast from the Past was another movie that was oft-replayed in my house later on
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I have trouble picturing Brendan Fraser without him morphing into Jerry O'Connell, and vice versa
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