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Old 07-31-2006, 08:41 PM
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Even better, you could ask them to move it for you since you made a mistake in location
naw, I don't run to the mods over stupid shit. You can though! I am not emotionally attached to the location of this thread.
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Old 07-31-2006, 08:44 PM
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I think Mel Gibson gets a bad rap. He was accused of anti-semitism on the Passion of the Christ by people who hadn't even seen the film. And then all the talk of anti-semitism went away after the film came out, because the attitude of 'Passion' is clearly not anti-semetic. The movie didn't twist anything. In fact, the movie was quite fair in seeing that the indifference that the Jews faced towards Jesus contributed to his demise. There is nothing anti-semetic about that. Had it been a Japanese story about how their actions against one of their own, I suppose some would be quick to call it anti-Japanese, when it fact it isn't.

As for Gibson's arrest; I don't know. If he doesn't like Jews, than that's wrong, but as far as his film career goes, he hasn't shown any anti-semitism whatsoever.

Mad Max was great, but that was clearly not his last great movie. Lethal Weapon is superbly entertaining, Braveheart is awesome, the Passion is exhilirating and sad and truthful, and Ransom is a pretty good Friday night kind of movie. Don't overlook The Year of Living Dangerously from 1982, or the Bounty, where he starred with Anthony Hopkins. Those are two of his best performances as an actor.
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Old 07-31-2006, 09:23 PM
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I think Mel Gibson gets a bad rap. He was accused of anti-semitism on the Passion of the Christ by people who hadn't even seen the film. And then all the talk of anti-semitism went away after the film came out, because the attitude of 'Passion' is clearly not anti-semetic. The movie didn't twist anything. In fact, the movie was quite fair in seeing that the indifference that the Jews faced towards Jesus contributed to his demise. There is nothing anti-semetic about that. Had it been a Japanese story about how their actions against one of their own, I suppose some would be quick to call it anti-Japanese, when it fact it isn't.

As for Gibson's arrest; I don't know. If he doesn't like Jews, than that's wrong, but as far as his film career goes, he hasn't shown any anti-semitism whatsoever.

Mad Max was great, but that was clearly not his last great movie. Lethal Weapon is superbly entertaining, Braveheart is awesome, the Passion is exhilirating and sad and truthful, and Ransom is a pretty good Friday night kind of movie. Don't overlook The Year of Living Dangerously from 1982, or the Bounty, where he starred with Anthony Hopkins. Those are two of his best performances as an actor.
His father was a holocaust denier and Mel has said that his father never lied to him. He kind of sidesteps the question when asked.
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Old 07-31-2006, 10:03 PM
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I hear he's adding a laugh track to Schindlers List.
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Old 07-31-2006, 10:08 PM
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I hear he's adding a laugh track to Schindlers List.
rotflmao!!
I wouldn't be surprised if he did....
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Old 07-31-2006, 10:39 PM
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Old 07-31-2006, 11:04 PM
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the Kid is handcuffed to a car that's about to explode]
Max: The chain in those handcuffs is high-tensile steel. It'd take you ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now, if you're lucky, you could hack through your ankle in five minutes. Go.
[the hacksaw is dropped next to The Kid, and Max limps off]
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Mad Max's way of dealing with juvenile delinquents.
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Old 07-31-2006, 11:37 PM
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Mad Max is a regal film-The skag and his floozie,theyre gonna die
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Old 08-01-2006, 05:04 AM
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Ya think he might not like the Jews?
He's a Christian and he thinks Jews killed Jesus. I don't think he hates them - hate is not a Christian value, is it? He just wants to present an objective view of history. He did so best when he was drunk - suddenly all the Truth came dripping out of him.

He also has a lot of experience with the Jewish controlled American film industry. So he knows what he's talking about.
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Old 08-01-2006, 02:24 PM
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Now that was a good movie.
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