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"Why I hate... John Travolta (Shiznit)"

[URL]http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/[/URL]

Is there anyone out there who actually likes watching this guy in a movie? I've never met anyone who's said "yeah, I'm a big John Travolta fan." It's because they don't exist. Yet he's continued to be allowed to make movies and gets paid in the range of $20 million per crappy flick.

And what's more, he thinks owning and flying your own plane is cool, when it's not. It just screams "I'm a big fat numpty who can afford a plane and I have a runway in my back garden and I enjoy reading aeronautical magazines off set".

As you are probably gonna reply to Chris's comment, are you a Dogs or Pulp Fiction man??

Edit: And lay off John Travolta...Paul Ross fair enuff... But John Travolta was great in Pulp Fiction, good in Face Off and great in Get Shorty. Okay, he is no Morgan Freeman but he is still a relatively good actor with some good films under his belt.

It's called "why I hate ... "
Which doesn't rule out things other than his acting, such as his personality, which is probably reason enough for the hate.

Chr1s wrote:
> "He's got a podgy face, he was in Pulp Fiction but he's got a
> podgy face and he flies a plane but he's got a podgy face."

To be honest, from what I've read, that's all the site is - a series of articles stating "why I like/dislike X and Y" - more of a personal blog than a review site.

Chr1s wrote:
> *sighs*
>
> Seeing as most of the negative stuff in there is centred around his
> appearance, I chose to take it with a handful of salt.

Did you read the rest of the article? Or, more specifically the line that said "But hey, I’m not so shallow as to just rip into the guy’s unfortunate physical defects – let’s go through his back catalogue and tear the guy a new a-hole." Christ, it's half written in jest - like FFF said, it's an article called Why I Hate..., what did you expect?

Wow, that article was so ill-informed, I really should do more research on John Travolta's face.

Yeah ... he wasn't born like that, you know, he was defending 20 orphens from an axe-murderer with his hands tied behind his back.

I don't really think you can lay into a guy for enjoying flying planes. By your logic I could say I hate you because:

[you] think [writing about films] is cool, when it's not. It just screams "I'm a big fat numpty who can afford a [computer] and I have a [keyboard] in my [house] and I enjoy reading [film] magazines [on the dunny]".

I don't have a problem with John Travolta and I don't see why you could "hate" him because he's been in a couple of stinky films and looks like a rubber glove stretched around a square apple. Otherwise you'd have to hate about 50% of actors, ever. And maybe you do.

Maybe all the G-force from flying his big planes made his face stay like that. Big and flat. It looks like if you punched him in the cheek, it'd leave a fist mark there for ages like plasticine, until he re-pummelled himself back to 'normal'.

But hey, let's lay off the guy's physical side. The multi millionaire pilot with his own 5 aircraft shouldn't have to be subjected to this...
*snigger*

If you had millions of dollars and enjoyed flying planes wouldn't you do the same as him...? You're just attacking him because he has a hobby you don't share.

gerrid wrote:
> I don't really think you can lay into a guy for enjoying flying
> planes. By your logic I could say I hate you because:
>
> [you] think [writing about films] is cool, when it's not. It just
> screams "I'm a big fat numpty who can afford a [computer] and I
> have a [keyboard] in my [house] and I enjoy reading [film] magazines
> [on the dunny]".

And that would have the same amount of logic as mine. I never said I was right, I just said.

I've met a few people who are into their planes before. They have pictures of airports as their desktop wallpapers and read magazines about wingflaps and drag. You know Travolta is like this.

gerrid wrote:
> You're just attacking him because he has a
> hobby you don't share.

Precisely! See, this guy understands!