22 Jump Street

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I was entertained. And all these homo/slashy comedy between him and Channing was fun, but it was just as funny (or even funnier) in Hot Fuzz. Maybe, my enjoyment was dampened by all the homophobic BS surrounding Jonah Hill. Full disclosure: I don't like Jonah Hill. I find his humor uncomfortably offensive and there's an undercurrent of creepy that I can't shake. Anyway, here's the thing that I can't let go of from his apology tour: Faggot is the worst thing he could think of to shout at a pap. Seriously? He thinks the worst thing to call a man is that you fuck other men.

Think about that.

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I have heard the movie was great but haven't seen it myself. I liked the first one.

But here's the thing, I thought his apology was genuine.

What I appreciated about his statement was that he completely took 100% responsibility for it. He expressed that it doesn't matter what you mean in your heart when you say something like that, the words that you use can have inherent hateful meanings on their own. Which is such a powerful and important message especially for some of the young men in his fanbase. He did say that he used the word in anger, but otherwise offered no excuse for using it and said that he doesn't even deserve forgiveness and wasn't asking for it. As far as celebrity "apologies" go, it's the only one that I've ever heard that didn't suck.

Most celebrities say and do terrible things, and then ask the public to feel sorry for them or they just blow everybody off. So the fact that he didn't do either of those things was refreshing and made it seem like understood how idiotic he was. Most celebrities are too egomaniacal to respond like grown-ups to any kind of situation like this.

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I'll give him that, it sounded sincere. More sincere that Alec Baldwin, for sure. I just wish it hadn't coincided with the opening of the movie, you know. It's very side-eye-worthy.