Jason Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 https://www.thedailybeast.com/mel-gibsons-new-police-brutality-movie-is-a-vile-racist-right-wing-fantasy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 This is me, not being shocked at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 I'm not surprised by Gibson continuing to be a piece of shit, but how in the fuck does something like this get the green light to be made? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurdyb1 Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 Hmmm, curious to see how this plays out in release here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 I’m starting to think he’s not even Scottish, that it’s all been an act! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputator Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 2 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: I'm not surprised by Gibson continuing to be a piece of shit, but how in the fuck does something like this get the green light to be made? Because we now live in a world where this is in some measure acceptable, and there's real money to be made from emboldened fringe groups that would proudly walk in broad daylight into a theater to see this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALIEN-gunner Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 This is Hollyweird where everything like SJW propaganda , Pro Pedo and racist views are acceptable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dre801 Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 What's next, "The Turner Diaries:The Movie?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 Hacksaw Ridge sucked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 I don't believe the movie could be right wing? Writer/director S. Craig Zahler did the excellent Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99. Am I missing something here? Is Zahler an alt-right racist now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 1 hour ago, Greatoneshere said: I don't believe the movie could be right wing? Writer/director S. Craig Zahler did the excellent Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99. Am I missing something here? Is Zahler an alt-right racist now? Yea, I feel like the author has a specific bone with Gibson, and I get how his past kinda makes him deserve it, but Zahler doesn't strike me that way. Maybe he is, I don't know. The article ends with this: Quote Defenders of Dragged will argue that its general sense of nihilism—or its ending—will justify such hate. They’ll be wrong. This is one ugly film. And at 158 minutes, with a script that shoehorns words like “assuage” and “lament” into its tough-guy banter, it’s a chore to get through. Maybe he was trying to make a point about police brutality and show the underbelly of American society, but either missed or the author missed it? I would like to read more impressions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 30 minutes ago, Wild said: Yea, I feel like the author has a specific bone with Gibson, and I get how his past kinda makes him deserve it, but Zahler doesn't strike me that way. Maybe he is, I don't know. The article ends with this: Maybe he was trying to make a point about police brutality and show the underbelly of American society, but either missed or the author missed it? I would like to read more impressions. I would as well, as based on his previous two movies this take is very surprising. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneticBlueprint Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 14 hours ago, johnny said: Hacksaw Ridge sucked Thank yooouuu. God that movie was overrated. 5/10 tops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneticBlueprint Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 4 hours ago, Greatoneshere said: I don't believe the movie could be right wing? Writer/director S. Craig Zahler did the excellent Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99. Am I missing something here? Is Zahler an alt-right racist now? 2 hours ago, Wild said: Yea, I feel like the author has a specific bone with Gibson, and I get how his past kinda makes him deserve it, but Zahler doesn't strike me that way. Maybe he is, I don't know. The article ends with this: Maybe he was trying to make a point about police brutality and show the underbelly of American society, but either missed or the author missed it? I would like to read more impressions. All the stuff mentioned in the article might be played for horrific or played for funny. Or anything in between. I don't think we can know without seeing the movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 Gran Torino was a movie I liked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 If it's actually as bad as described... fucking Christ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 6 minutes ago, Bacon said: Gran Torino was a movie I liked. What does that have to do with anything in this thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 3 hours ago, GeneticBlueprint said: All the stuff mentioned in the article might be played for horrific or played for funny. Or anything in between. I don't think we can know without seeing the movie. Right, thats what I am getting at. Need to see more takes on it. Other reviews describe it as his usual brutalness (and actually scaled back a bit). This is the only one I ca find that seems to think it's a "right wing fantasy" and that the main characters are somehow played for heroes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurdyb1 Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 3 hours ago, GeneticBlueprint said: Thank yooouuu. God that movie was overrated. 5/10 tops. Damn really? Awww I wanted to see it. I guess it's not on the top of the list to see now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 I liked Hacksaw Ridge. It was a well done WWII movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 Hacksaw Ridge is either super cliche or super earnest, depending on how you look at it. I thought it was a good but not great movie. Certainly not a 5/10. Certainly not as good as Mel Gibson's Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ, or Apocalypto (not even close to those) but still a competent, above average film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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