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TIL that James Cameron offered Matt Damon 10% of "Avatar," which would've earned the actor over $250 million.
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Now Matt Damon is broke and living under a bridge.
Fortune favors the bold?
drinks piss
Everyone’a ganna drinka ma pee…
recently fired Coca-Cola employee.
It's always worth remembering that both historically and in Shakespeare, every one who says "fortune favors the bold" is about to get a Masterclass in Fucking Around and Finding Out, inavariably to their dismay.
1500's hold my beer
SAS sweating
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
For every saying there's an opposite one.
Also "first kill all the lawyers" is not the punchline to shady 1980s divorce lawyers, but because they're the first ones who understand the laws, protections, rights, and when the government is about fuck over a significant number of people.
I read that fortune favors the bold is a mistranslation from fortune favors the audacious, which meant more about knowing when to break the rules, rather than being willing to take a risk
How is that different
Audacious
Seems pretty similar to me.
”My names Matt Foley, and I live in a VAN, DOWN BY THE RIVER”
Young man, I'm gonna twist off your head and spike it onto the floors of a nightmare you can't even imagine! I will dance with you inside the six-sided ring of fire, unless you move from this area, far and fast, NOW!
Hell, every guy's got his dream, am I right? Between you, me, and the wall here, I had a doozy myself last night. Get this: A corn-fed harvest mouse, a hooker, a nun, a Flemish peasant woman, whips, chains, whistles yo-yo's, a circus midget. My grandmother riding by on a bicycle givin' me the finger, and a duck! Now, I don't know... Are you crying? Oh my lord.
I started singing this in my head to the tune of YMCA.
Motivational speeeaaaker
It also favors the blue
Actually I think he bought a zoo
https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/p0q2ts/there_is_no_way_they_actually_bought_a_zoo/
After Avatar, Matt Damon swore he would never turn down another role from Cameron. So when Matt Damon heard who was directing We Bought a Zoo, he had to take on the role.
I love that you're joking, but this is basically how Bill Murray ended up doing Garfield: The Movie, because he heard it was written by Joel Cohen and he thought Joel was one of the Coen Brothers.
Damon: "Jimmy, baby, so happy to be working with you!"
Cameron Crowe: "...."
I heard he became a potato farmer
Pretty sure he joined a band and became their front man
I thought he joined an Asgardian theatre troope.
Mi scusi, mi scusi...
scotty doesnt know!
You're referring to the movie, The Martian where he needs to grow potatoes using the Martian dirt and his own feces for emergency purposes. I would remind you that it was an emergency situation and he is actually employed as a botanist in this situation. He wasn't actually a potato farmer.
All I can say is that we are constantly spending an awful lot of time and resources to save Matt Damon.
In fairness to him, that has always been his response. He's fine, he knows he's lucky and he's got more than enough to give his family a good life.
He's never said anything about being sad or whatever about it
Cameron: Do you want 10% of Avatar?
Damon: Matt Damon
Cameron: Damn you're a good negotiator. 20% then.
Damon: Matt Damon
Cameron: You're right. I could do better... When I'm going to make a better movie I'll let you know
Maaaattttttttt Daammmmooooonnnnnnn
I love the story of that joke. Matt Damon watched the movie and was baffled. He had no idea why they were treating him like that.
The truth is, when the puppets arrived, Trey Parker and Matt Stone thought the Matt Damon doll appeared to have "special needs". They started saying his name in a voice that they thought reflected that while holding the puppet.
They thought it was so funny, they replaced all of Matt Damon's lines in the movie with "Matt Damon" in that voice.
It had nothing to do with the actor. Just that his puppet arrived looking a little half-baked.
Worth pointing out that Matt Damon is good friends with them, and never had a problem with it. He thought it was funny and calls them geniuses, but yeah, he didn't understand it.
They also sent all the homeless to California (nya nya), "right by Matt's house".
Honestly it's some of the best PR he could have gotten. It's like a jingle that gets stuck in your head after hearing over and over that you also want to share with all your friends.
Funniest moments in movie history.
We're guaaaarrrdss
That dude is wicked smhart tho!
Queensboro?
He's jerkin off punks for 15 dollars a man
He told him in confidence!
That’s where we first met
How da ya likem apples
Damn he survived WW2 and Mars and still has to live under a bridge
he’s only worth 170 million.. poor kid deserves a break.. maybe we should all chip in and start a go fund me ?!
Damnit. I wish I read this earlier. I just donated my daily GoFundMe limit to Trump's legal defense fund.
Jimmy Kimmel has never been happier
Who?
Livin' in a van, down by the river
I saw him trying to bash rats with beer bottles just so he'd have a meal.
proceeds to hire Matt Damon lookalike as a form of petty revenge
Matt Cronjob.
He's really good with Linux.
I heard Matt Systemd is one hell of an actor, maybe they should have considered him!
Neeeveeeer! Matt SysV is so much better :-P
Matt Nightmon
Meth Damon
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aaaAAAaaaaHH
He is a master of karate and friendship for everyone
Cron tab -l
This is the funniest shit I've seen on the internet today
Todd from Breaking Bad
That's Meth Damon
Married to Kirsten Dunst. Nice family, saw them at a bar once.
Jesse Plemons stopped being Todd from BB to me after I saw I'm Thinking of Ending Things he is great in that movie. It's a Charlie Kaufman, so pretty bizarre.
Jesse Plemons steals every fuckin scene he is in. He's so good.
I agree. He was also brilliant in Black Mirror.
Saw 'Civil War'. His scene is really intense.
Fatt Damon
Apparently he lost the weight. Nonfat Damon?
Matt Nightman