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To want to strangle Martin Freeman...

122 replies

FleagleBingoDrooperSnork · 15/12/2017 10:53

(Or at least the character he plays) for mansplaining to the woman at the train station how she really shouldn’t watch movies on her phone, as it will use up all her data allowance. Git!

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theimportanceofbeinghappy · 15/12/2017 10:54

Really? Nothing else for you to get wound up about? Hmm

PinkyBlunder · 15/12/2017 10:57

Um.... but that’s the point of the advert...isn’t it?!

ZaZathecat · 15/12/2017 11:00

Yeah that's the point: the add shows how the woman is more in the know than her patronising partner.

BlazingPaddles · 15/12/2017 11:05

Everything about that man is annoying. His face is guaranteed to have me reaching for the remote control.

We all have actors who irritate us to distraction. Freeman does that to me.

Cannot.stand.him.

Sarahjconnor · 15/12/2017 11:27

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ArcheryAnnie · 15/12/2017 11:33

I realise I am overthinking a very boring, trivial ad, but I don't get why they used Martin Freeman. Is he playing a character, or is he playing Martin Freeman? Because if he is playing himself (which I assume he is) all I get from that ad is that he's moved on from his ex-partner awfully quick. Which isn't endearing at all.

DemonicEruption · 15/12/2017 11:35

Mansplaining? We gender the word explaining now? Confused

lolaflores · 15/12/2017 11:43

His constant state of ironical amusement at the world gives me the pip. It seems as if every expression and thought has been given thorough examination before being allowed out. He seems incapable of an honest, natural reaction to anything. That for a while is amusing but I find him now to be 2 dimensional, being nothing other than Martin Freeman wearing a different jumper.

Lilyhatesjaz · 15/12/2017 11:45

I thought he was playing his character from love actually

RoseWhiteTips · 15/12/2017 11:47

YABVU.

He is so sweet and would be so easy to fall in love with. The Office and the thing with Dawn were amazing. Sigh

LoveYouTimMinchin · 15/12/2017 11:47

ArcheryAnnie - are you actually being serious? I can't tell.

hollowtree · 15/12/2017 11:48

I love him!

RoseWhiteTips · 15/12/2017 11:50

DemonicEruption

Mansplaining? We gender the word explaining now? confused

Oh fgs. There does actually exist an expression called MANSPLAINING. Why? Because it encapsulates very successfully what some men do.

ARGH

RoseWhiteTips · 15/12/2017 11:52

PinkyBlunder

Um.... but that’s the point of the advert...isn’t it?!

Yep. Must have whooshed right over the OP’s head.

Poshindevon · 15/12/2017 11:53

Sarahjconnor absolutely agree!

makeourfuture · 15/12/2017 11:53

Ive hated him since he fronted the labour election campaign whilst taking part in a tax dodging scam.

I was not aware that Freeman had dodged taxes.

lolaflores · 15/12/2017 11:56

I am off to read up on the tax swindle. I have seen a montage of him during the Hobbit film repeatedly flicking the finger at the camera. Once is amusing but he just did it over and over again. Seemed like a bit of a pudding really

oliveinacampervan · 15/12/2017 11:58

YANBU. I hate that stupid advert. AND all the others that have a 'budding romance' with a couple who 'just met.' And I also hate the time lapse ones..... where you see a couple meeting, marrying, having kids, and then THEIR kids doing the same, and then THEIR kids doing the same.

And I also hate that stupid ad for a car (cannot remember which car!) that says 'time to grow up, start a family!' So patronising and condescending. Fuck off! Hmm

ArcheryAnnie · 15/12/2017 11:59

LoveYouTimMinchin yes? It's just odd to me. I like the characters Freeman plays, but here he seems to be playing himself. I don't find this slightly creepy mansplaining sad man persona endearing at all, and it's clearly meant to be endearing.

VladmirsPoutine · 15/12/2017 12:02

Mansplaining? We gender the word explaining now?

Oh FFS! Where the fuck have you been?

ThymeLord · 15/12/2017 12:05

Mmm, it annoys me too OP. Why she doesn't just tell him to do one is beyond me. I do love her lipstick though.

Really? Nothing else for you to get wound up about?

These kinds of comments really crack me up. 99% of the threads on here are absolute unimportant nonsense. Do you go around posting that crap on every single one, or just the lucky ones that catch your eye?!

kmc1111 · 15/12/2017 12:07

Ugh, Freeman's vile. Rape jokes, tax dodging, racism, and apparently he's a massive dick to anyone he deems below him on set.

I'd say he ruined Sherlock for me, but since the show ruined itself it's a bit redundant.

RoseWhiteTips · 15/12/2017 12:09

Fargo?
StartUp?

Check out his amazing and convincing American accents. One is a a Minnesota one.

You think you know him? Perhaps not.

ThunderboltsLightning · 15/12/2017 12:12

I am not sure why Martin Freeman is such an acclaimed actor. I really liked him in The Office but he just plays the same person in everything I watch (can't speak for The Hobbit)

Compare to someone like (off the top of my head) Hugh Laurie who can play the prince in Blackadder, House and that evil bloke in The Night Manager.

lolaflores · 15/12/2017 12:13

Rosewhitetips but even with a very good accent, he was still giving us Martin Freeman with an American Accent.

Its like a duvet set with the same pattern but a different colour combination. I admired his turn in Fargo and he did a good job with a great script whilst not really letting go of Martin Freeman.
Just an opinion which, like bum holes, everyone has.