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Shasta542:
--- Quote from: Mikaela on May 17, 2008, 08:34:33 pm ---I just noticed one of the major TV channels here is going to air "The Patriot" tomorrow night. Though I have sworn never to watch a Mel Gibson movie ever again, and I know that the nationalistic over-simplified good guy/bad guy plot of the story will probably drive me bonkers, I am sorely torn.
I bet I'll let principles be principles and will end up watching it. Apart from "Two Hands" it's the only one of Heath's films I haven't seen yet. (Of the ones that have premiered, that is.)
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Yeah. I try not to watch Jane Fonda ones. But mostly I try to separate the person from the movie character because a lot of the actors/actresses aren't the best of role models for anyone.
Penthesilea:
Good morning Heathens :)
At a charity event 2006. I like the sceptical-amused look.
Mikaela:
--- Quote from: Elle on May 18, 2008, 12:46:34 am ---Mikaela, why would you not see this movie? Do you have a way of recording it and just fast-forwarding it through Mel?
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Unfortunately, no. My old video recorder died some time back, and I'm not up to speed on DVD recording yet. So I'll have to watch all of it. If I'm not mistaken from all I've read, Heath isn't in the film all the way through, so maybe I can quit midway or something.
Why I wouldn't watch Mel? Passion of the Christ. Religious torture-porn is the absolute dregs of movie-making where I am concerned. He's not going to get my support in any way for doing that and apparently relishing it so thoroughly. His later actions and attitudes revealed while drunk make me stay away even more. Not that I would have touched "Apocalypto" with a 10-foot barge pole anyway, it contains just that kind of horrifically graphic sadism, cruelty and in-your-face-violence that I find sickening and exploitative and avoid like the very plague. So old Mel is very definitely not my man. (Incidentally, I suppose partly this is a national trait thing. The Norwegian Movie Rating Board was on to something of the same.... You had to be 18 years of age to get in to watch Apocalypto here. In contrast, the age limit for seeing Brokeback on your own was 11, and only 7 if accompagnied by an adult. And the reason given for that 11-year limit was the incidents of violence in the film!)
As for opining on the plot of The Patriot, I really should wait till I've seen it. Perhaps it's better than I think! :) But unlike "The Order" I fear this film has one of my triggers for getting really, truly annoyed at a film. You're likely in for my opinion when I've seen it!
Hmmm... how bad can it be? It's got young, handsome Heath. *sigh* Yep, I'm gonna watch it.
Ellemeno:
I agree with you about those things you said about Mel Gibson, but I won't let his existence deprive me of seeing Heath. :)
The other day my TiVo recorded The Brothers Grimm. Now I've already established for myself that I find a lot of that movie unpleasant and I really don't care for it. Nevertheless, I fast forwarded through it, and stopped and watched every time it seemed like Heath had a a moment in it. It's no way to watch a movie for the movie's sake, of course. It's how I've watched The Order and Monster's Ball too. One does what one must. ;)
optom3:
--- Quote from: Elle on May 18, 2008, 11:05:44 am ---I agree with you about those things you said about Mel Gibson, but I won't let his existence deprive me of seeing Heath. :)
The other day my TiVo recorded The Brothers Grimm. Now I've already established for myself that I find a lot of that movie unpleasant and I really don't care for it. Nevertheless, I fast forwarded through it, and stopped and watched every time it seemed like Heath had a a moment in it. It's no way to watch a movie for the movie's sake, of course. It's how I've watched The Order and Monster's Ball too. One does what one must. ;)
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You have just made my day.I fast forward to the Heath bits,so consequently have no idea what the actual movies are about.Plot what plot,haven't got a clue.For goodness sake I am a grown woman and am behaving like a teenager!!!!!
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