TVs Frink said:
Never seen (or even heard of) The DG thing (movie? show?) even though I've read the book many times.
I don't boycott all media by someone I think is a terrible person (I still watch Ghostbusters and Ferris Bueller despite Jeffrey Jones) but it's nonsense to claim you can't create something artistic unless you're messed up in the head.
It's a show on Netflix. I definitely recommend it if you've read the book. It felt like Elijah Wood had fallen straight out of Wilfred, into this. But otherwise it's pretty great!
And yeah, I was being a bit facetious. Mental illness isn't a pre-requisite for talent, however it is often supplemental to it. There's a reason most of the great comedians have/had depression.
This doesn't just apply to art, either. Newton was a freaking weirdo, the Roosevelts had depression, Euler went blind from staring at the sun and the United States owes its existence to a babbling lunatic that shat blue.
Obviously the ideal to strive towards is both having talent AND mental stability.
wilhelm scream said:
And to think that Max Landis wants to remake An American Werewolf in London for no good reason.
Having no good reason didn't stop him making any of his other movies!
*sigh* He needs to get back into the world of making high-quality YouTube shitposts.
EDIT: Wasn't this thread about Star Wars?