Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Charlie Sheen tour bombs in Detroit

Thomas Veil

Thomas Veil

macrumors 68030
Original poster
Feb 14, 2004
2,636
8,862
Much greener pastures
Oh, man. Looks like it was just as bad as we were afraid it might be.

Charlie Sheen's Detroit disaster: Boos, walk-outs for 'Torpedo of Truth'

First the U.S. automaker recession, and now this. Charlie Sheen unleashed his Violent Torpedo of Truth Tour on the Motor City on Saturday night to a crowd that started with an adoring standing ovation and concluded with booing and walk-outs. The padded and disjointed show was a hodgepodge of video clips and Sheen-isms that felt hastily assembled and misjudged the patience of even hardcore fans....

8:13 — The show is supposed to start at 8 p.m. A geeky comedian who is decisively not Charlie Sheen comes onstage and begins a set. There is some booing from the audience, followed by chanting: “Charlie! Charlie!” The booing gets louder....

8:30 – The comedian has been literally booed off the stage.

8:32 — That’s weird. The lights have come back up, and the audience is waiting again. Everyone is confused — it’s not clear why the show started and then stopped again. So far, this has the makings of a disaster, the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark of celebrity stage acts.

8:58 — Film clips are playing onscreen. Die Hard, Midnight Express, Taxi Driver, Animal House, Sheen’s own Platoon, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and (of course) Apocalypse Now. There’s no context, just the violent clips. One imagines it’s like being inside Sheen’s fever dream and the experience is taking on a Clockwork Orange quality.

9:00 — Two goddesses are now making out onstage. And finally, Charlie Sheen returns....

9:10 — Sheen’s promises are largely incomprehensible: “Freedom from monkey eyed…sweat-eating whores. Freedom from the dour and sour taste of malignant reproach… I’m a giant and leaky bag of mayhem.”...

9:15 — Nobody understands a word Sheen is saying. “”Is anybody else as confused by this s— as I am?” he finally asks. There are roars from the crowd. “I wrote every word!” Later, a cab driver tells me that it’s about this time that angry fans began walking out of the theatre....

9:20 — People start booing. Sheen yells, “I already got your money, dude!”...

9:35 — The show started late and has become a padded and disjointed mess. Sheen plays an old movie he says is called RPG but the audience gets frustrated and starts booing. Sheen stops the video and says, “Okay, so RPG was a bomb. Tonight is an experiment.”

9:40 — Sheen says he’s going to “Tell some stories about crack. I figured Detroit was a good place to tell some crack stories.” This comment, not surprisingly, does not go over well. “Show of hands who here has tried crack?” Very few people raise their hands. “I don’t do crack anymore, but this is a good f—ing night to do some crack.” The audience boos.

9:43 — Sheen tells the audience, “You paid your hard-earned money without knowing what this show was about.”...

10:03 — The show is now an unmitigated disaster. People are leaving early. Attendee Chris Acchione, who came all the way from Toronto for the show, says, “He’s making a fool of himself. Is there a bigger loser in the world? He’ll be [begging] Chuck Lorre for his job back by the end of the week.”
Click to expand...
Lest you think this is merely EW taking a dump on Charlie, TMZ and MSNBC are filing similar reports.

The idea that he is humiliating himself in front of people like this is really quite sad.
 
Well, there is a surprise, the fact that people will pay $75 not even knowing what they were going to see for 2 hours. I bet the other venues cancel and refund peoples money.
 
Attendee Chris Acchione, who came all the way from Toronto for the show, says, “He’s making a fool of himself. Is there a bigger loser in the world? He’ll be [begging] Chuck Lorre for his job back by the end of the week.”
Click to expand...

This guy comes all the way from Toronto to see that trainwreck, and he's calling Charlie Sheen a loser? Pot meet kettle.
 
I really like Charlie Sheen for some extremely strange reason. Even though I had never known about him until he got fired from his TV show. Am I strange? :rolleyes:
 
leekohler said:
Charlie is mess, and someone needs to do something about it before he becomes the next Chris Farley. I'm serious.
Click to expand...
At least Chris Farley was funny until the end. Not sure Sheen can even be saved at this point. At a certain point the brain just turns to moosh and I think that has happened to Charlie. He will never work in Hollywood again if this show keeps going.
 
MacNut said:
At least Chris Farley was funny until the end. Not sure Sheen can even be saved at this point. At a certain point the brain just turns to moosh and I think that has happened to Charlie. He will never work in Hollywood again if this show keeps going.
Click to expand...

No, Chris Farley wasn't funny until the end. You didn't know him. I was acquainted with him. He was quite the *******. He had serious problems.
 
Very sad but there is nobody else to blame but Charlie Sheen himself for this disaster. Well and the audience to some extent. If you spend $75 for something that will fail with a 90% chance then you shouldn't be surprised if it fails. I hope people can return their tickets for the future shows....

Edit:

just checked: he will be in Boston on April 12th and there are still plenty of tickets from $48 to $232 available.
 
Holy Cow man he's going to be playing in Everett WA

Tickets are priced at:
$49.50, $69.50, $89.50, $250, $575 (this price gets you a personal meet&greet w/signed photo and other junk)

Only idiots pay these prices to see a jerk.
 
leekohler said:
Charlie is mess, and someone needs to do something about it before he becomes the next Chris Farley. I'm serious.
Click to expand...

He's not a mess - not how you put it or many are thinking. he's completely done with the industry, the bull, the cheerleading & the insults - kiss-assing was long done by this guy.

I think this is ALL intentional by Sheen. The first quote says it all - yet he asks the audience if their confused by it. It was intended this way. In about 60/90days we won't hear ANYTHING about Charlie ... then some 3yrs down the road we will and it will be a "ho-hum" moment that'll blow us away with a star performance.

Artists do this all the time, but less subtle. To mind Joachim has done this recently. Self-destruction the only way to reach top is to reach rock-bottom.
 
Prom1 said:
Artists do this all the time, but less subtle. To mind Joachim has done this recently. Self-destruction the only way to reach top is to reach rock-bottom.
Click to expand...

you meant joaquin (phoenix)? yeah, it would not surprise me, if there is a tigerbloodumentary about all this in a year or two.
 
Hm i dunno, i saw some videos clips from the show on youtube and it didnt look THAT bad.
 
redAPPLE said:
you meant joaquin (phoenix)? yeah, it would not surprise me, if there is a tigerbloodumentary about all this in a year or two.
Click to expand...

The difference was, Joaqin Phoenix's "breakdown" was actually just him remaining in-character for a mockumentary. I don't think Sheen's self-immolation is a joke. At least not of the jocular and light-hearted kind.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back