Christian Bale’s Terminator Rant Is Easily The Best Thing Ever
Somewhere, right at this moment, we can absolutely guarantee that Alec Baldwin is breathing a sigh of relief.
Seriously, Alec should send Christian Bale a cookie basket. Because Christian Bale has made sure that Alec Baldwin’s insane ‘ignorant little pig’ rant at his daughter has been relegated to only second most brilliant recorded tantrum in history.
A recording of Christian Bale screaming at a Terminator Salvation DP has hit the internet and, if you do one thing today, you must hear it. It’s not just Christian Bale’s fury, you see – it’s the fact that he rants in about 13 different accents.
There’s a lot to like about Christian Bale – the fact that he’s not quite as good at acting as he thinks he is, the way he gave his Batman the most bewilderingly incoherent voice in cinema history, his, um, hair – but nothing even comes close to the way that Christian Bale promotes his films. When it comes to that, the man is a stone cold genius.
Upon the release of The Dark Knight, you’ll remember that Christian Bale got arrested on suspicion of assaulting his own clown mother in a hotel room. That’s dedication for you, and it worked – the film went on to become the second-biggest of all time. And it’s clearly a trick that Christian Bale wants to reproduce for his next movie Terminator Salvation.
What makes us so certain? Why, only a recording of Christian Bale going absolutely batshit at a director of photography on the Terminator Salvation set that’s just hit the internet. There are literally no words to tell you how amazing the tape is. It’s actually brilliant. We’re not overstating it one bit. Listening to Christian Bale going potty-mouthed berserk at a man who probably doesn’t even make a tenth of the money that he does is the best thing we’ve listened to all year.
Listen to Christian Bale’s incredible Terminator rant here
See? How incredible is that? We’ve found it so completely impossible to pick our favourite part of Christian Bale’s meltdown, so here’s a cluster of them for you. Oh, and by the way, you should take it as a given that the way Christian Bale’s voice lurches from LA drawl to gobby cockney to Nu Yawk screech to Welsh to borderline offensive comedy Pakistani during the rant is one of the best things about it. Because it is. Anyway, in no particular order:
“Do I walk fucking walk around the… NO! Do not shut me up, Bruce! Do I walk… No! NO!”
“Why the fuck are you walking right through? AH-DAH-DAH-DAH-DAH like this?”
“Do you want me to go and trash your lights? DO YOU WANT ME TO GO AND TRASH ‘EM?”
“You’re a nice guy. YOU’RE A NICE GUY! But that don’t fucking cut it.”
“I don’t need any fucking walking. He needs to stop walking. I AIN’T THE ONE WALKING!“
Genius. There’s, we’ve said. Christian Bale is actually a genius. Obviously he’s a gigantic self-important prick of the absolute worst kind and spending a second in his company must be like spending three eternities getting kicked in the jaw by an angry horse, but Christian Bale is a genius as well.
According to IMDb, Christian Bale’s next movie is the Michael Mann film Public Enemies. Lord alone knows how he’s going to promote that one, but we’d wager that it’ll involve a tank of petrol, a lighter, a box of puppies and some sort of tribal dancing.
He has a right to be upset as an actor; however losing your temper and threatening physical harm is unprofessional.
It’s okay due to the intensity of his “craft?” Well my “craft” is paramedic. I’d say it’s slighty more intense than acting. Do you think it would be okay for me to go off on some drunken jerk who just killed a family or cuss out a man who abused his wife? Do you know how long I would have a job if I did that? I’d say life-and-death situations are a little more intense than acting, so if us mere mortals can keep it together, then Man up Batman. I guess that’s why he only “acts” like a superhero.
CHRISTIAN BALE IS AN ACTING GENIUS. YOU HAVE TO LISTIN TO THE REMIX I DID TO HIS DARK OUTBUST.
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it’s pretty simple, why is he disrespecting Bale like that walking on the set? It’s like when you’re on the phone and someone keeps talking in the background you get upset because you are doing something here or if you’re in a classroom and people get up or talk teachers get upset because you are disrupting their class and interrupting them. Bale is such an awesome actor, give him a break! nobody is perfect!
Listen the bottom line is no one is so professional, so courteous, so righteous that they can honestly waste their time judging a man they have never met, spent time with, or ever will meet. He shouldn’t have done what he did agreed, but it is in the past and I am sure like me he would want to take it back (hopefully). No one on this planet no matter what they do has the right to place themselves on a moral high horse, passing judgment on those u have heard or seen on a video/audio clip. Lets agree it could have been handled better and leave it at that.
It sure does suck when it comes back to bite you in the ass!!1 Bet King Bale didn’t realize this would hit the web did he?? Asshole! Grow up! Just because you make an insane amount of money for reciting words on camera doesn’t give you the right to treat people like cow shit!! He should never work on another movie, ever!! Truth be known, half the actors in Hollywood probably act the same way, but have never been recorded on tape. Oh well, eat your words now Bale!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Since this is an incomplete scenario, one cannot truly defend either sides integrity. Nor can we bash the DP as an idiot or Bale as a ‘tool’!
However, I am leaning on the side of Bale having a bit of a temper (something with which, I identify) and lashing out in a FIT(where the content could have been halved if his favorite and only expletive were removed)!
And although he was rudely abusive, he did not really overstep into the lines of violence!
I am not really horrified…
Aaaaand then he goes and beats up his mom because he is a “badass.” The unfortunate mental state of so many celebrities. They are great at their craft but psychologically unstable. Too bad the heads of the production companies dont tell celebrities to shove it when they have moments like this and put them in their place. Instead they continue to pay them millions to be nothing but low life unstable pricks who are good at one thing in life and that is acting. You take that away and they are left with nothing. They all get what they deserve eventually. I smell an overdose in the near future…
Why would the crew consist of a not very experienced DP? Doesn’t make sense to me. They wouldn’t let a “kid” onto a set like that to be the Director of Photography. So, that kindof ruins one of the previous arguments, that it was somehow all the inexperienced DP’s fault that wasn’t listening to directions.
I agree, the director, who is essentially in charge of the whole film, should really have said something and diffused the situation. After all, it’s not like there is a shortage of talented actors who could’ve taken the role and done so with more class.
Go Chris! I’m going to buy two copies of everything his name is on. I bet that idiot DP doesn’t screw up another scene for the rest of his life. If he learned his lesson the first time he ruined a scene, he wouldn’t have gotten the beach slapping he deserved. The DP is obviously a moron and should be taken out and sterilized so he can’t infect another generation with his stupidity.
Well, when it costs thousands to hundreds of thousands — maybe millions of dollars to shoot a scene, and some moron walks on set, not once but twice, I’d think more then Bale would be pissed off. Maybe I have too much common sense to be throwing in my opinion here, but yeah, he should’ve been canned on the spot. You make those mistakes in B-movies and 1970 flicks, not Christian Bale movies.
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What a douchenozzle. Someone should take this guy behind a shed and light his ass up.
Bale is an actor. Nothing more. If not able concentrate, it his problem. Decency first!
I always wanted to be Batman, well, on a logical and realistic level. That is, I want to be someone who contributes something to society… I don’t ever recall wanting to be Christian Bale. If someone interrupted a real rescue or a daring intervention during some criminal activity, then I would really be upset. Bale is a phony, an actor, so just do it again… and then put some duct tape over the mouth of that puppet all the other times. Since when are these Marque actors above everyone… it’s time some of them get terminated from the set.
Good day or Bad Day you do not treat others like that. My family usually steers clear of his movies because of the language; at least we now know it is not the writers who include the profanities in the script but rather the foul mouthed Bale [Baal}. Profanity and insult is the last resort of the uneducated mind.
Regardless of whether or not Bail’s rant was at the end or the beginning of whatever transpired, he has NO excuse for talking to an employee like he did. If he has a problem with someone, and lets say for arguments sake, he approached that person several times to no avail, then Bail should have walked away by himself until he was calm enough to address that person without resorting to threats of violence. I’ll tell you something; if anyone talked to me like that.. I would deck the sonofabitch..no job is worth that kind of abuse. Also.. hey DIRECTOR.. do your job.. control your actors.
I’ve acted on camera and it totally sucks to have someone distracting you while you’re doing a scene. It’s disrespectful to the whole production. Bale is putting everything he has into his performance. That’s the whole point of moviemaking and then you have some moron walking around and distracting him during the scene?? And it’s the DP to boot? I would be pissed too. If he was yelling at an innocent person or his child (like Alec Baldwin), I would think he’s a jerk. In this situation, I totally get it. I don’t condone his ranting approach, but I completely understand it.
I agree with the ones in support of Bale and of course, disagree with the perfectly innocent saints out there casting stones since they’ve never ever been angry at a single soul in their lives. HA! You fail to mention that he did reportedly apologize to the man later. But seriously, the man should know better than to walk on set with the camera rolling. His lighting should be set and ready to go BEFORE filming starts. I’d like to see the credentials of those of you who think you can diagnose anger issues. Are you experts? May I see your PhDs in psychology? You were not there so you don’t know what the circumstances were that built up to this. Everyone gets mad. Big deal. If he had “issues:, we would’ve surely heard about it long before LAST year when this happened. The only reason people are flapping their jaws about it now is because some low-brow just got paid to release the tape to embarrass. Is it really any of our business what happened? No. It’s not my business to judge . . . and no one else’s either. Get over it. By the way, there are only two accents present: an American one and his own Welsh. There are no other accents. What’s supposed to be so magnificently significant about that anyway?
Bale has no right to treat another human being like that. Sometimes I think the large paychecks that “actors” earn let them think they have a right to abuse people. If he was so upset he should have taken a time out and request that it not happen again. My opinion anyhow
this is far from genius. it’s not even funny. it does saound staged tho. Stuart why are you slobbin’ CB’s knob?
Pat, you weren’t there. For all you know, he did request the guy to not do it again, but did it anyway. Casting stones? You’ve never been upset in your life? Hardly doubt that.
Look at Alec Baldwin. He’s been “embarrassed” with a recording, too, which was no one’s business but his own and now he’s making commercials for HULU.com. Proves a point. Baldwin’s not out of work.
A year or even 6 months from now, who’s going to honestly care about what happened LAST July!?
I think I speak for every working stiff when I say this is one hysterical insecure little puss who likes to hit women and pick on the working class.This guy go’s on like a screaming banshee but does’nt convince me he’s tough..Keep it simple Christian.Talk to me like that and Id choke you till you Shit.thats how you do it punk simple and to the point.Oh and let me also say any time any where pussy.
My husband is a psychologist and he has many patients that were ordered by employers and/or court ordered to take anger management or see a psychiatric professional of some sort for less than what Bale did against another coworker just to “possibly” save their jobs. And this is after being sent home without pay or fired on the spot.
Look up class/social discrimination and Narcissistic personality disorder.
wah wah wah wah what a baby!!!! obviously has anger issues, look at his history. “you don’t know what it’s like working with actors!” or something like that, get over yourself. he wants the guy fired over something so trivial? again, get over yourself, really!
Apparently Bale is still stuck in his American Psycho roll!
I understand someone getting upset, but I cannot understand getting upset and talking to another human being that way. For all of you that think this is acceptable, the next time someone throws F Bombs at you maybe you should say I am sorry and thank you I desreve this. For me I will put my money where my mouth is, no money for this movie or anyother that Mr. Bale is in.
This clown needs to get over himself. He doesn’t impress me at all with his little tirades. Maybe he should try hitting a man instead of hitting women. Let’s see how tough he is then.
I’m sorry for the guy that made a mistake and apoligized for it since Mr. Bale will try to have him fired. Sorry to your family for trying to feed them and this will be acceptable to some. Until it happens to them.
Earth to Bale, you are an actor and people have to walk around you to do their job. I won’t be seeing any of your movies – it just really puts me off when I find out these people are such self-absorbed, pathetic princesses. I am sure that if he was treated like that, he wouldn’t appreciate it. Does he kiss his mother with that mouth? I think they should have more of these tapes so the public could see exactly who in Hollywood is worth something and treats everyone like decent human beings and who is just a fake and fraud that smiles in front of cameras. I guess the PD wasn’t “up to his level” and didn’t deserve to be talked to like a person. I wouldn’t talk to my dogs like that, no matter how angry I got. Part of being an adult is having SELF-CONTROL! I really feel bad for any woman he dates. If this was a stunt for publicity, I hope it backfires miserably.
This actually made news?? OMG!! People grow a pair!! This was common, everyday talk in the Army!! People need to get their ass and head wired together correctly!! Its funny how people react when they are talked to like this, its like “how dare you talk to me like that!” Like they are some holier-than-though person.
Wow, thats all I have to say…..
..but honestly I can understand getting somewhat upset if you are acting out a scene and completely in character and feeling it and the some random dude just walks around on the set it’ll throw you off, he’s allowed to be upset but definitely not like that, unprofessional and disrespectful, he should have got fired right on the spot.
What an elitist Jerkoff. Probably related to democrat Blagoyavitch.
The one thing that stands out the most to me in this clip is that Bale states that this was the SECOND time that Shane had walked during the filming of a scene. After the first time Bale clearly did not get all pissed, but after the second time I can see why he would be PISSED. Every time they have to stop and restart a scene that is thousands of dollars spent.
I would like to point out to Garcia that a DP is not really the low level “working class” like let say the guy who cleans. He is a professional with professional pay who should know better than to walk around on set while a scene is being filmed. Hell the working class joe cleaning person is smart enough to know that.
With whats going on in the world i would think we have more important topics to concren ourselfs with than the insecure rantings of a childish actor
well said phill, but again don’t judge.
American Psycho LMAO!
Hummm…..People are going to HATE me for this. I wonder how many times the guy he was yelling at pranced around the set. I mean OBVIOUSLY to get that kind of reaction it had to be more than once. I just feel that Bale needs to apoligize for the rant but good god he is human. I cant say that I have never gone off on someone like that. I mean everyone has their breaking point. And really What do we know about the actual situation other than what we are being told in the media WHICH IS only the dramatic juicy nut case parts, right? And someone said that the director should have defussed the situation. TOTALLY agree. But oh well its entertaining anyway. I still think hes a wonmderful actor.
What a faggot, a good batman but fuck sake.. Somebody shoot this prick in the face please. a duh duh duh duh..
This is hilarious, he’s a RIOT! HAHA ;P
maybe bat guano needed to rev himself up for the scene he was working on so once started, continued flipping out. scene better be good if it makes the film’s cut. whole affair would be different if bale were a great actor. hell, even a good one.
moderation of what?
once again, why do I have to submit a new comment. there’s nothing obscene or slanderous about the original comment I sent.
Roid rage
I’ve seen it before
That was it? I’ve heard worse at church. Give the guy a break. He was obviously upset but not that bad. Anyone who thinks that was terrible anger has lead a great life!
He should have just kept his mouth closed and left the set if he was that upset.
What stuns me are the people writing “Oh sure, who hasn’t had a day like that?” Well, me, for one. I’ve had moments of frustration, yes, but I’ve taken them out on inanimate objects. Throw the car keys, kick the sofa, that sort of thing. I’ve never in my life cursed and yelled at another human. NEVER. I stopped dating a man because he got in my face and cursed at me with his complaint about something I had no control over – it was a sort of violence and I figured if he could be threatening verbally, then he could be threatening physically down the road. It makes me sad that there are so many people who can hear this and say “well, who hasn’t after all.” Verbal abuse is abuse.
Roid rage? Bale and A-Rod could hang out together fuckin walkin in fuckin scenes and fuckin shit.. fuckin rippin’ da fuckin lights down yo.
What a pompous ass. Leave the set if you get mad and do this un-professional shit in your trailer.
All you people here who CLAIM that you would never accept a tirade from anyone like that, well obviously you have never worked in a REAL job, because you have to take shit from bosses all the time.
Secondly, I think anyone who is being remotely honest with themselves can probably remember a time in their lives where they had a tirade.