Robert Downey Jr is the Junkie that Lives Downstairs
Whenever I think of Robert Downey Jr I think of a line from movie Baseketball
“He’s 8 years old and smells like Robert Downey Jr”
That’s right, as far as I can recall Robert Downey Jr is a washed up drunken hack. Taking a quick look at his career on imdb.com I notice that he got off to a great start in the 80’s and slowly was becoming an unstoppable force, and just when his stardom was on a major rise, it was promptly was kicked in the junk and fell to the floor like a moldy bag of tangerines.
Of course now it seems that he is on the rise again. With the latest success of Iron Man and Tropic Thunder and the upcoming heart-wrenching , make you cry and feel uplifted film The Soloist is Robert Downey Jr. on a comeback?
I seriously hope not.
When I think of comebacks I am always brought back to 1994 when John Travolta played Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction. That was a deserved comeback. Johnny T is a respectable hardworking actor. Travolta deserved a comeback, Downey did not.
Even though I have a soft spot for the 1989 film “Chances Are,” I firmly believe that if Robert Downey Jr continues his journey to the top, or even one day gets an Oscar, this will signal the end of days.
Downey is a drunken junkie. Not a great actor.
Why should we take the time to praise our junkies? Maybe it’s time that I go to the apartment below mine and congratulate the junkie that lives there on creating successful meth lab. Maybe I should walk up to him and say: “Wow, I hear people banging on your window looking for drugs all night. Your more successful than a 7-11, keep up the good work!”
Robert Downey Jr is just like the guy who lives below me. A junkie. Let’s start treating him like a junkie. Don’t let him make a comeback.
Do your part and don’t go see any Robert Downey Jr movies, don’t rent any of his old movies, and if he ever wins an Oscar, throw a huge fit ( I know I will). Please help spread the news about the plague that is Robert Downey Jr and Stumble or Digg this post.
Conversation point: Do you agree that Downey is a piece of composted watermelon rinds, or has he done anything good for this world. Lets hear what the Downey lovers have to say…
Sep 23rd, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Such anger! Life’s too short
Sep 24th, 2008 at 1:51 am
@Keyser Soze: Dude, I am full of love, just any of the peeps here that know me. It’s just that smug look his face makes me want to grab him by his loose jowls and stretch his face out and give him a swift head butt.
…twice
Sep 24th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
I have to disagree with you. Robert Downey Jr has performed well in movies such as Chaplin, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, or Iron Man. If you’re going to hate him for being a junkie, you might as well burn all your albums, movies, books, art, and anything else made by “creative people” because a fair amount of drug use went into the making of most of it.
Sep 25th, 2008 at 4:16 am
@Ken: Thank you for naming some movies. I agree that a lot of drug use goes into the creative process. What makes me angry and makes we want to rip on RDJ is that celebs such as RDJ have a blatant disregard for the laws that most of us have to govern ourselves by. In 1998 RDJ was freed from prison to work on a movie. Would you be allowed out of prison so you could go to work?
I just hate looking a his smiley face mug shot that says: I’ll be out tomorrow.
Fuck him. Twice
Dec 30th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Hehehe, thats funny. Ah Ranting its awesome.
I like Robert in a couple of movies.
Yes The Whites Mr Downey has lived a life of excess and lived some what out of the bounds of law, but he has brought his career back from so much bad publicity.
The thing that seperates him from other actors and your down stairs neighbor is that he got caught. As you might suspect other actors drink and do drugs and other nefarious things but haven’t got caught.
So maybe Robert jr. has had a bad run with drugs and other things, but if his latest career moves speak to his other activities maybe he has laid off the drugs and gotten strait, if so all the power to him.