Specter313
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I'll never understand the people who says Savages hurt Taylor's career too, but none says Savages and Kick ass hurt Aaron Taylor Jonhson.
Aaron was the other lead of Savages and the big lead of both Kick ass movies, yet none say "he had two flops".
Its the typical double moral with some actors of hollywood.
It's because John Carter and Battleship had more expected out of them for him than was expected for KA2 and Savages.
John Carter was a tale that's been around for awhile that had the Disney machine behind it. Disney films are expected to bring it, so when they don't, a lot more people notice and those people look for things to blame, and they tend to unfortunately fall on the stars, justified or not. With Battleship, it was marketed and even looked like it was to be the next Transformers type series, and when you have something that looks to be in the same vein of something that, which inexplicably at times, is a big success and it doesn't measure up, again, its failure gets noticed that much more.
Savages was a much smaller film on the grand scheme of things, and KA2 already had a successful movie beforehand, and even that wasn't the biggest thing ever, so people more were like, "Well, at least there was one decent one before.", and they moved on.
It's not so much a double standard, but the size of the failures behind the individual movies.