The Fresh Prince wants the world to love him again, writes Fiona Sturges. But he’s going about it the wrong way, with the most tortured career resurrection in recent times
He’s a notorious prick. He deserves all the negative attention he gets. Him crashing out repeatedly recently has only solidified his publicly perceived image as an unstable, insecure, abusive, corny, try-hard, iamverybadass, cuckold that gives everyone the ick.
He should’ve quit while he was ahead before he made every movie role a version of himself and focused on building his childrens’ futures or doing something for the greater good with his fortune. But no, he can’t let anything go. He has to try and control everything. And the more that goes sideways the more unhinged he becomes. It would be sad if he wasn’t such a selfish ass.
There’s something ironic about him being able to act like a mature, stable adult on film back in the day but then doesn’t follow through to be genuine in the real day once he’s older
He’s been crap for years. He should fuck off and live in obscurity on the undeserved fortune he’s already accumulated.
He hasn’t done anything good since mib anyway
The real victim here is Jaden. Imagine your dad not handing you movie roles anymore because he fucked his own career. So unfair.
I loved the Left 4 Dead 2 mod that replaced the game graffiti with Jaden tweets
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
I think what the above commenter wants to say is that it’s not about greed but the attention. I think of HP Baxter from Scooter. Looong past his peak, but when you see his show live you see that he simply loves to be on stage with the crowd cheering and dancing. I don’t wanna defend attention whores in general, just explaining it a bit.
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 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.
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
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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
Oh my God. That was just…terrible.
I know. When I first saw the social media comments about it I thought they must be bring unfair. Then I saw the video…
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