Preaching to the Post-Apocalypse Lovers

[commonpeople]

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[desayuno_ingles]

it would also be nice if Mel Gibson wasn't such an asshole in real life; I hate feeling guilty for watching his films.

Same here. I felt a sense of victory when I managed to procure a pirated version of Apocalypto for $1. It was like, I didn't even want to support him enough by renting it through Netflix. I really dug it, btw. Especially the scenes of the citizens in the Mayan city.

[commonpeople]

I thought the trailer for Apocalypto was awesome. I'm waiting for it to premiere on TV so I can see it. Other than that, he ain't getting my saved pennies.

[desayuno_ingles]

Yeah, know whatcha mean.

[sallypointzero]

Yes, too much information killed Gibson for me unhappily. I did enjoy the first Max film too.
Braveheart was bad enough but when he pounded his Nobility Through Suffering ethos to death (again) in The Passions of Christ I choked on it.

[commonpeople]

What kind after Braveheart was horrifying! The Patriot, The Passion of Christ... ugh!

[sallypointzero]

He thinks like a priggish schoolboy who also happens to excel at sport

[steer]

The Mad Max trilogy is strangely allegorical and prophetic

It foresaw a day when Mel Gibson would have bad hair and drive about swearing and upsetting people?

[commonpeople]

Something like that. ;-)

[pixxers]

I remember watching Mad Max when I was a kid and during one (very inconsequential) scene, this big leather daddy got off his bike and I noticed that he had a pretty, girly little blonde boy riding with him instead of a girl. And I was filled with glee and joy.

[commonpeople]

Most Gibson films have these very problematic queer characters. The first Mad Max has a supremo police officer who is a total gayer, and one of the male victims of the biker gangs appears to be raped by them (he runs naked across the field with a VERY red ass). Then you've got the evil gayers from the second film... the evil gayers in Braveheart... jeez, I wonder what Gibson is trying to say!?!

[redcountess]

He didn't direct or produce the Mad Max films though, they were made by George Miller, the same man who made "Happy Feet"!

Australia has always taken the piss out of gay characters (even to an extent with "Priscilla"), but at least we didn't portray them as limp wristed as the British did in films like the Carry On series.

[commonpeople]

I tried watching a Carry On film once and had to turn it off after the first few minutes. Just don't get the appeal (and am very surprised that Morrissey likes them so much!)

[amanda_mary]

And it would also be nice if Mel Gibson wasn't such an asshole in real life; I hate feeling guilty for watching his films.

Yep, yep. I really want to see The Year of Living Dangerously, because I'm getting into Peter Weir a bit and have never witnessed the infamous "Linda Hunt plays a Chinese man" performance. But I find it hard to look at him without picturing the phrase, "Jews are resopnsible for all the wars in the world," playing about his lips. Ugh.

Death Proof is a lot of fun, by the way.

[commonpeople]

I don't care what people say about Tarantino, or how many obscure films he plunders, I still enjoy his films! It makes me sad that they decided to split the Grindhouse movies here in the UK and not show the trailers. :-(

[amanda_mary]

That's just not right! I hope that you're able to have the complete experience at some point (on DVD, at the very least), because it's highgly enjoyable. I don't know if either of the films are as successful independent of one another ... .

[commonpeople]

Not only have they split the films, but they have been re-edited (stuff was added so they can be better stand-alones). I don't know who are these Marketing people but they suck.