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I’d heard so much about Bale’s rant the past several weeks but never got around to listening to it until now, right after marveling at his performance in the latest Terminator flick. A parking lot powwow after the film led to my social crew’s resolution to go home and watch said flip-out on youtube. I enjoyed it and it’s easy to see from the film’s intensity what happened. Bale isn’t the first actor or artist to go ape shit and, while it’s hard to believe, I’ve got more respect for him after hearing the incident and the apology on a local radio program. In fact, Bale spends about twice as much time and energy apologizing and contextualizing than he ever did “bullying.” In case anyone hasn’t heard that segment, here you go: Bale is so so sorry.

I was surprised to hear that a lot of people are staying away from this movie because of Bale’s melt down. Bale speaks to that in the apology. It’s a good film – about as good as T2 and probably the best action deal to hit theater’s this summer. At least better than Transformers, which I’m going to try to avoid.