Mel Gibson's comments after being arrested for a DUI really changed this whole movie for me. Before, I thought it was a harmless enough comedy but now all I see is a alcoholic anti-Semite pretending to be cute. Christian Bale likes to keep his private life private because he says knowing too much about an actor detracts from what an actor is trying to do, become another person.
He is right.
I still like this movie, even though I now think Mel Gibson is a bigoted son of a bitch.
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He is/was still an excellent actor.
Bill Cosby is the devil incarnate these days, in the eyes of the public. Yet, in his heydey, he was doing things behind the scenes that today have come to put in a much different light. People loved the guy on the screen and now they don't.
If someone delivers a great performance or has you laughing your head off, it's a one-time thing. Appreciate it, and don't obliterate it in your memory. I've come to think this way because I LOVED Robert Redford when I was younger. I don't today - and no amount of 'good works' for the environment can change it. You deliver on the screen or you don't.
Mostly because people're too dumb to realize there's a difference between who's on screen and who's in life.
I'm the best there is at what I do, and that ain't pretty.
People say some stupid things especially when they have an alcohol problem. If it was just some guy youd wouldnt give to sh!its but its mel gibson so now hes a terrible person and all that. well i dont care, noones perfect and and hes been a good guy up till that point and hes still a good guy in my book.
"Good against remotes is one thing, good against the living, now thats something else."
kaiser_role: I agree with your comments in part. If I know enough about a celebrity, an actor or a musician, enough to find them personally offensive, then I can't put my personal opinion of them aside and just like their work. I find the knowledge of them having done/said something offensive or the knowledge of them having objectionable morals, as evinced by their public behaviour, to be something that's immediately brought to mind the minute I see them and so that's distracting. It's why I don't try to find out too much about people whose music or acting I admire and enjoy. However, if they are involved in very public scandal it's hard to ignore it.
I had heard that Mel Gibson was very religious and even invited members of the church to his Sunday dinner at his house but up until Mel's public incident, I had no idea that he had strong opinions against Jewish people. I was brought up Christian but do not find the need to blame Jews for anything. I find that attitude in supposedly religious poeple to be perplexing, yet it is pervasive in all religions to think that peope in other religions are "wrong" though I don't think they are (All roads lead to one source). How can you be "religious" and yet intolerant of other poeple's religious views at the same time or have a baseless prejudice based merely on someone's religious affiliation, skin color or sexual orientation?
I saw this movie before I have any negative opinion of Mel and thought he was funny in the film and a great actor. I just recently saw this film again on TV and he's still funny and a great actor but I admit that while watching the film, thought of that incident crossed my mind. Since that time of the public incident, I have not seen Mel in anything. I think maybe I'm hardly the only one who didn't forget he said that. I heard in Hollywood much of the higher positions in film companies are held by Jewish people so I'm guessing he didn't get hired for too many film roles based off having offended them. It's such a shame because I had thought he was one of the more talented actors around. He did a good job keeping his private life fairly private up until then and I didn't know at all that he had drinking problems and such. He always played good characters and came across seeming like such a nice guy. It's a shame one bad incident seems to have ruined his whole career.
is christian bale still right
shareIn retrospect, this post is pretty funny given the recent "events" of Christian Bale.
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I'll admit, after the arrest, I watched the scenes with Mel and Mark Feuerstein wondering if Mel hated acting like his buddy.
I still like Mel and the movie, but those thought can't help but come up now
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What happened with him?
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Mel's DUI arrest was nothing compared to the tapes of conversations with his ex-girlfriend. Mad Mel is a psycho.
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She was a cold, backstabbing whore. We don't know everything that transpired that lead to Mel's explosion toward her.
Every couple can get that worked up, say horrible things to attack each other. What I heard in those tapes was nothing new of any passionate relationship.
Plus, somehow, I feel like those tapes were reproduced from her end.
Not every couple. I've never had a man treat me that way. What happened there wasn't passion, it was rage based on a sense of entitlement. I'm not saying Mel is worthless because of it, but I will say in real life I'd give him a wide berth.
shareYeah, that wasn’t normal. I had a similar feeling about Alec Baldwin’s abusive phone message to his daughter. It can’t but affect the way you think about someone.
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