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6 Reasons To Feel Ambivalent About James Franco

This past month has provided a perfect sample of the man, the myth, the enigma, the bizarre riddle that is James Franco. We’ve been given Oz the Great and Powerful, which for many demonstrated the limits of Franco’s charm. The character of Oscar, aka Oz, is meant to be some sort of redeemable sleazebag, but Franco makes him pretty much all sleazebag, and this makes the witches’ shared infatuation with him more than slightly implausible. I can handle a fantasy land with munchkins and magic but the notion that Franco as Oz is remotely likeable was too much.

[h2]5) Sometimes he’s funny and playful[/h2]

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So there’s a couple stories for these last two points that are purely anecdotal, but that’s sort of all most of us have to go on in these situations, so let’s treat them with a grain of salt, shall we? It’s just for fun. I watched James Franco appear on The Colbert Report when he was promoting Oz the Great and Powerful. This was a fun interview. They bantered back and forth about Franco’s various projects, his many interests, and the tone was generally pleasant.

It came to a head when Franco challenged Colbert to a Lord of the Rings trivia contest, and Colbert, being possibly the world’s foremost expert on Tolkien trivia, mopped the floor with him. And it was all well taken and well received and fun for everyone involved! Franco seemed like a cool guy.

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