I enjoyed his previous book, Palo Alto.

I grew up there myself, and his fictionalized tales of being a kid there ring true to me.

He was awesome in Pineapple Express.

slayer199: I don't think that's fair. He was damn good in 127 hours.

All kinds of this.

Wait, wait. This fictionalized account of Franco's experience as an actor and student, does it include the time an ex-professor of his alleged that he was fired because he flunked Franco after Franco only attended one class?

slayer199: I don't think that's fair. He was damn good in 127 hours.

Damn straight. 127 was most deservedly nominated for best picture and he carried that movie like a fully loaded frame pack across the vast and unforgiving canyonlands.

Klippoklondike: Why the dislike for James Franco? He's a pretty good actor and seems like a really laid back guy.

I remember fark used to be gobbling all over him about 8 months back. I think he must have hit that "in the news cycle more then twice a month, so we now hate him" threshold.

Klippoklondike: Why the dislike for James Franco? He's a pretty good actor and seems like a really laid back guy.

It's fun to hate people who, although famous, are normal people.

MrEricSir: I enjoyed his previous book, Palo Alto.

Me too, thought it was pretty engaging.

Welcome to Fark, we hate everyone

Klippoklondike: Why the dislike for James Franco? He's a pretty good actor and seems like a really laid back guy.

So this is his stint at being Bruce Campbell?

/haven't read "If Chins Could Kill"
//enjoyed "Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way", though

Reviewer gives it a D and get fired... later says he was just being nice and it should have been an F.

/can't understand why everyone is on this guy's jock.
//ok actor
///self important person

mjno7: Klippoklondike: Why the dislike for James Franco? He's a pretty good actor and seems like a really laid back guy.

I never knew anything about him until I heard him being interviewed on Fresh Air. During that interview, he came across as stupid and vain and just trying way too hard to show how cool and laid back he was. So I perceived him as stupid, vain, and trying too hard.

His Oscar gig was testament to my perception.

I literally was thinking this morning that it's been a long time since we've heard anything about him (so much so that I couldn't even remember his name).

This book thing will maybe confirm that we'll be hearing less and less in the coming months.

Giant Clown Shoe: Reviewer gives it a D and get fired... later says he was just being nice and it should have been an F.

/can't understand why everyone is on this guy's jock.
//ok actor
///self important person

I've never seen him do anything that makes me think "wow, that guy is really self-important".

The only self-importance I see is coming from the Farker's in this thread.

/Projection is the enemy of the interweb dweller.

Malkovich? Malkovich!

Malkovch, Mlakovich.

His writing, at least the stuff I read, blows. His academic work of the last few years is sprinkled with over-entitled, douchebag behavior. The idea of his first novel being about himself is enormously self-indulgent.

And you think we on fark are trolling?

/You'd better flush out your head, Eshman.

I liked him in 'Heavenly Kid'. farker hasn't aged a day.

Not getting the Franco hate. Thought he did a good job in Howl and seemed like a nice enough guy in terveiws.