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Related: About this forumI have such disdain for Mel Gibson. It's hard to enjoy his movies anymore
Anyone else have a similar issue? With other actors?
Hard for me to separate the bigoted asshole he is in real life from the performer.
He makes movies I like though. Just started watching Edge of Darkness - really good so far. But gosh its hard to think of him as the good guy.
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Aristus
(69,075 posts)I don't watch anything else he is in. "Braveheart" was once one of my favorite films. Now, between Gibson's non-stop dickshittery, and the spectacularly awful historical inaccuracies, it's pretty much unwatchable.
oregonjen
(3,517 posts)Cant stand him and the cult he belongs to.
erronis
(17,728 posts)I'm not much of a movie watcher anymore - sorta got out of that back in the 90's.
Sneederbunk
(15,653 posts)Woodwizard
(1,111 posts)But there are a few that just crossed the line too far. Gibson is one of them.
kelly1mm
(5,581 posts)a visual masterpiece .... too bad it is Nazi propaganda about the 1934 Nurenberg rallies. Before that was D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation was a GIANT leap forward technologically and visually ... too bad it celebrates the rise of the KKK in post civil war America.
BootinUp
(49,324 posts)have an interest in them (Gibson Movies) much anymore.
CharleyDog
(782 posts)with
Mel Gibson
Steven Segal
Kevin Spacey
Johnny Depp
Clint Eastwood
not too interested in these hackneyed cliches'
Tom Cruise
Kiera Knightly
Julia Roberts
Richard Gere
Sean Connery
Brad Pitt
Mostly I watch British dramas for their fresh faces, good acting, authentic feelings
JustAnotherGen
(34,350 posts)British Television. We get better stories and acting out of Shetland and Agatha Raisin than we do most Hollywood produced big budget films.
Clint Eastwood - I will still watch some of his camp Westerns. And Two Mules For Sister Sara remains in my top ten list.
CharleyDog
(782 posts)other favorites in the Brit police procedurals is The Unforgiven, The Bay, and Silent Witness. Black Work is good in the genre of "husbands who pretend they are dead"
Recently watched all the "Landscape Artists of the Year" so sad when it was over. Also the Simon Schama series is evocative.
Ocelot II
(122,890 posts)horse's ass. Maybe he always was that way, but at least it wasn't so obvious before he did the Jesus movie and started beating up his girlfriend. Gallipoli and The Year of Living Dangerously are a couple of my all-time favorite movies, and I don't think of them as involving THE Mel Gibson - just some good-looking young guy with the same name.
MLAA
(18,872 posts)Martin68
(24,938 posts)I can usually separate art from the person, though. John Wayne is one actor I just can't abide, but that has as much to do with his acting as his politics.
whathehell
(30,029 posts)the fact of his great, Oscar winning performance as the anti-Vietnam war vet, Luke, in "Coming Home". He was absolutely terrific in that role.
Martin68
(24,938 posts)mitch96
(14,948 posts)bif
(24,610 posts)I try to put my prejudices aside and just enjoy the movie for what it is.
whathehell
(30,029 posts)Not after hearing of his racism, antisemitism and the horrible way he reportedly treated the mother of his youngest child.