Ok fine. One man's opinion. Big whoop.
As mu niece would say, "Gibson is so pre-9/11."
I don't know but I'm invoking the name of St. Micheal here.
Mel, just shut your mouth, and let us enjoy looking at you --- no beard or looking like a flake please.
Hollywood will never take him back. One of the tabloids reported that at the recent wedding of Mel's daughter, no Hollywood celebrity accepted an invitation to attend.
Don't think that this new movie will make much money.
Isolationists believe the only wars that are justified are defensive ones. This meshes fully with his two movies, "The Patriot" and "Braveheart". If it turns out he does make Bodicca, then it would be further proof of his philosophy.
Wars are treated as loathsome, foreign entanglements to be avoided at all costs ('I have seen the price of war' speech in PAtriot) but the soldiers are given all due respect (excellent portrayal of HAl Moore and US troops in We Were Soldiers).
Even on this site, some FReepers advises pulling out instead of losing AMerican boys over some "Muslims". Some have adopted the isolationist tac advocatedby Buchanan. Why should Gibson's comments be any less surprising?
Go to hell Mel.
But then Clint wanted an Oscar. So he made UNFORGIVEN and he made it an appology for all those Dirty Harry flicks and he made the apology very public. Bingo! He got his Oscar. Then another. Then he became Mayor of a very leftist town. Carmel is full of rich guilty white folks who define the term liberalism. They feel guilty for being rich and white.
So here comes Mel. Mel the BRAVE (heart). Mel the LETHAL (weapon). Mel the WARRIOR (road) and Mel the PASSION. The Hollywood leftists have always villified him. Especially for the Passion. Now he's jumping on the new Liberal Bandwagon about Iraq. I wonder if they know that he used to be (maybe still is) a member of the (gasp!) John Birch Society?
Mel wants to follow up his successful "Once We Were Soldiers" with a new movie, "Once We Were Traitors".