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Amilam · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 922

My first reaction was maybe now Fox News will stop fawning over Mel Gibson as an anti Hollywood hero. My second reaction was disgust that I'm arguing with Fox News in my head. I really need to cut back.
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WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11632 Location: Unknown Kaddath

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Lemontree · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 3298

I've known Russell Crowe was a real ponce, for quite a while now. But I hadn't heard much about Mel Gibson's behavior.. so this ones entirely new to me.

As for "Passion of the Christ" I seemed to miss all of the anti-sematic undertones as my brain was convulsing from all of the slowed down action. I swear that movie could've been 35 minutes long if he didn't film every other sequence in sloooooooow motion.

(Btw - to any brittish forum members, I apologize if I used the term "Ponce" incorrectly. =b )

kame · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 2565 Location: Alba Nuadh

I figure that being a drunken bigot/coward/pussy/sexist/and potential public pisser is worse than being a drunken bastard. In the end-run, I'd much rather watch movies involving Russell Crowe than Mel Gibson.
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Willem · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 6306 Location: wasteland style

But Russel Crowe is an Aussie. They constantly get drunk and punch people in the face.

Also, a better link (for me). It's the full episode: http://cartoons.peekvid.com/s1819/e16306/
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Marik · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 1234

mouse · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 16198 Location: under the bed

well, gibson is an aussie too.

i've been a little wary of him ever since i heard about his father, who is some sort of loonie fundamentalist catholic nut, who believes vatican two was totally bogus and mass should still be in latin (and that's the mild stuff). mel keeps saying he's not really a follower of his dad's, but then there was all that concern about the anti-semitic slant of 'passion', and there was also some weirds stuff about which groups he would allow to see it in prescreenings (jews apparently not allowed).

it sounds like one of those bits where you are sufficiently incapacitated that you say all those things that you really think deep inside, but normally have the sense to keep under wraps.
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Uncle Taylorbell · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 3191 Location: Northern England

It's terrible how all these conspiracy theorists think the Jews may have had a hand in Christ's Death.

The antisemitic bastards.

Kilgore · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 2831 Location: Portland, Or

Yeah. I think it would pretty much be impossible to tell the story of the Passion in any high profile public forum without someone claiming it was anti-semetic. I thought the Romans came off a lot worse in the movie than the Jews did.
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Sam · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 9088

Even if there wasn't a second of potentially anti-semetic casting or screenplay in Passion, you could probably see this coming a mile away, like with oh mebbe this

(Mel flatly denies that his father is a holocaust denier)

Teh Digital Dragon · Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:48 am Post subject:

It gives me odd satisfaction that Mel Gibson and Russel Crowe are arseholes, somehow it seems wrong to dislike them just for being shitty actors.
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