They're both film-makers who've taken big chances and absorbed mucho criticism. Why wouldn't they recognize a kindred spirit? There's more to life than politics and religion.
I've been saying from the beginning not to put too much faith in Mel politically.
This is just Hollywood talk I think. Meaningless, for the press.
Mel should have stated it in a more Pattonesque fashion: "Moore, you magnificant b*stard...I saw your film!"
Just as Bush asked Clinton to the WH to help out in the the tusnami relief effort, Mel and Moore have the same kind of commonality.
Filmaking is an exclusive club, as is the presidency of the USA.
They don't have to like each other, but they have things in common.
Moore is a practicing Catholic, so The Passion of The Christ would be meaningful to him.
Maybe it's just that they both get that these are movies.
The Passion vs. Fahrenheit DOES NOT define red state vs. blue state America. The fact is, there are plenty of blue-staters who are Christian and plenty of red staters (I'd know, I live in one) went to see Fahrenheit.
Mel's pr people better have him issue a statement clarifying his position or he's going to lose some fans.
Ah, it's not that bad.
What did the press really expect Mel to say about Moore's film?
"God, that piece of XXXX movie was the biggest steaming pile I have seen in a long time"
It just isn't going to happen...especially back stage at an awards show.
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The audiences for The Passion and Farenheit 9/11 are only "mutually exclusive" if one confuses Christianity with support for Bush and the Republican Party, when in fact from a traditional perspective they have little to do with each other. (Today's GOP has little to do with conservatism either.) The situation of Iraqi Christians has deteriorated drastically since the war; Catholic and Orthodox Iraqis are now the targets of Islamic fundamentalists who were held in check by Saddam but now lash out at those whose faith they identify with the American invaders.
I dare anyone to read this article Christians flee genocide as fear sweeps Iraq and continue to defend this manifestly unjust war.
Michael Moore may be terribly wrong about abortion and virtually everything else, but even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Well, other than the fact they come from mutually exclusive planets, . . .
No surprise, seeing how Gibson's company almost funded F 911 in the first place.
Red winner, blue winner.
One for Jesusland and one for the blue states.
**"I thought it was a powerful piece of filmmaking," Moore told AP Radio Sunday. "I'm a practicing Catholic, and you know I think Mel and I may be from different wings of the Catholic Church**
Moore is a Catholic????????????????
News to me.
Good grief. Mel Gibson praising the anti Christ! I have seen it all now.
there's a difference between saying "I liked it" and "I believed it". Go easy on Mel. Moore is indeed a talented propagandist. "Columbine" was an effective bundle of lies which tried to convince us that guns and a culture of violence in America caused the student massacre (even going so far as to blame a local nuke missile plant), when the real reason for the massacre--the perps both were on a dangerous drug combo of Prozac and Ritalin--was completely ignored. However, just as Riefenshtal successfully showed us only Hitler's "good" side and not the horrific consequences of his power, so Moore managed to convince many Americans that guns are the enemy.
This was the most interesting part of it. *LOL*
Not sure why folks are going bonkers over what Gibson said. He's entitled to his own opinion.
Does anybody know if "Team America" won the award they were nominated for.