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05 December 2006
Apocalypto Now if I had been going to see this movie, this post may have changed my mind. **SPOILERS**
Mel's not just an anti-semite; he's a full-on asshole. Don't spend a dime.
Okey dokey then. I don't really need more reasons to dislike Mel Gibson, so I will happily stay away.
Although, for some reason, I just love Braveheart. I can't help it. It's like a mental illness.
The ultimate message is that the (Cross-bearing) Spaniards showed up and got rid of the bloodthirsty, horrible Maya. Clearly, Mel approves.
I KNEW from the first billboard I saw that this would be the message of that movie. The crap this ass has been up to lately really pisses me off, as I LIKED a lot of his early stuff (Lethal Weapon, Mad Max), but now I can't bring myself to watch them without the bile rising in my throat.
I'm not going to bother seeing it-- but the father of someone who belonged to the stable where I used to ride wrote The Road to Ubar; that society collapsed because they ran out of water (yes, yes, this is a pancake/non sequitur response).
Helena Bonham Carter, who appeared alongside him in Hamlet, said of him: "He has a very basic sense of humor. It's a bit lavatorial and not very sophisticated." [45] While filming Conspiracy Theory, he played several pranks on co-star Julia Roberts, one of which included gift wrapping a dead rat.[46] He also disgusted co-star and friend [47] Jodie Foster by licking the dirt off a wagon wheel on the set of Maverick.
I don't really have a comment, but I just thought everyone should know this about him.
That's not as bad as it could have been given the source.
Part of me kept expecting to find out that the bad guys in the movie were Jews. Not analogs of Jews or people who could be understood to be symbols of Jews, but actual modern Hasidim with sidelocks and comically large hook-noses, out to capture little babies to grind up into matzo flour.
But then a solid Latin-speaking Pope would drive in, merge vehicles to form Mecha-Mary, and crush the filthy Jews with his Ionic Rosary Blaster.
jon - that pic you linked to is Catherine McCormack. This is Sophie Marceau. A good friend of mine who is Scots through and through said that actually Gibson did an admirable job in Braveheart, and that it wasn't even as remotely bolloxed-up as she thought it'd be.
I admit to a love of Braveheart as well and yes, I'm mostly Scots-Irish.
Braveheart was fairly well done as long as you don't worry about historical accuracy. Wikipedia has decent articles on both the movie and William Wallace.
Yeah, no kidding. Apocalpyto looks totally politically incorrect.
So I'm saving my $11 to go see Rocky Balboa. A 60 year old white man brutally beating a 20 year old black man - as Stallone said on Monday Night Football this week, "This is a movie for *our* generation!"
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