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Post by Doomsday on Jul 1, 2016 15:23:05 GMT -5
'From the acclaimed director' rather than 'From Mel Gibson.'
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Post by IanTheCool on Jul 1, 2016 16:19:52 GMT -5
I'm just glad he's directing again.
Now, lets bring on some vikings.
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Post by SnoBorderZero on Jul 1, 2016 17:06:00 GMT -5
'From the acclaimed director' rather than 'From Mel Gibson.' "From the guy who hates Jews!" I hope this is really good, Gibson is a strong director.
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Post by Deexan on Jul 1, 2016 20:04:26 GMT -5
From the human that brought you, 'Sugar Tits!'
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Post by thebtskink on Jul 1, 2016 20:52:56 GMT -5
If he didn't bring you sugar tits, someone would have eventually.
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Post by Justin on Jul 28, 2016 18:45:02 GMT -5
'From the acclaimed director' rather than 'From Mel Gibson.' But no one knows who that guy is.
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Post by Doomsday on Jul 28, 2016 22:53:46 GMT -5
It looks pretty by the numbers. At the same time it's probably a very safe project for Gibson to base his career relaunch. Middle America will probably go nuts for it.
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Post by IanTheCool on Aug 2, 2016 11:44:20 GMT -5
I think it looks quite interesting.
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Post by Neverending on Aug 2, 2016 17:18:37 GMT -5
I hope Mel Gibson wins an Oscar and it pisses people off.
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Post by FShuttari on Aug 4, 2016 22:53:00 GMT -5
I've never seen a badly directed Mel Gibson film.
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Post by Doomsday on Aug 5, 2016 1:19:04 GMT -5
I just caught this at a screening. It's very safe, very much geared toward the American Sniper crowd.
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Post by Neverending on Aug 5, 2016 2:52:37 GMT -5
I just caught this at a screening. It's very safe, very much geared toward the American Sniper crowd. Did you fall asleep next to Mel Gibson again?
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Post by Doomsday on Aug 5, 2016 11:04:35 GMT -5
No but he called my girlfriend sugartits.
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Post by Justin on Aug 5, 2016 11:08:04 GMT -5
Niiiice.
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Post by Doomsday on Aug 5, 2016 11:43:28 GMT -5
I won't post a review until we get closer to the release date but I will say this.
About halfway into the movie it dawned on me. I got what this movie was and why it was made. Mel Gibson has made some of the most controversial, memorable and perhaps experimental movies of the past twenty years. Nobody could have predicted what Passion of the Christ were to become and Apocalypto is a great, original masterwork in my opinion. For about the same length of time he has been a pariah in Hollywood and everything he has done or been in has carried that dark cloud above him. I think the one thing that motivated and inspired him to make Hacksaw Ridge was American Sniper. He saw that this very surface level movie was doing huge box office, getting great ratings and picking up Academy Award nominations because it struck with people in middle America. It connected with veterans, older people, and the conservative patriotic types. That's the audience that Gibson is going for with Hacksaw Ridge. It's a totally cliched, generic movie about a very Christian, very faith-oriented guy who is persecuted for his beliefs and winds up winning the Medal of Honor. He's thinking a movie like that should be a home run with everyone in those middle states and if that happens then he's back in the game. He has a very good approach and it may very well work out the way he's planning. This movie is the opposite of Passion and Apocalypto in that it's not meant to be in any way controversial or really that thought-provoking. It wants to sit alongside American Sniper in every way possible including box office ideally.
So if you liked American Sniper then this movie is up your alley. If you weren't too fond of it then you aren't missing anything.
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Post by Ramplate on Aug 5, 2016 14:47:43 GMT -5
Looks like they hired a lot of circus acrobats for the explosion scenes
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Post by sabin26 on Aug 13, 2016 11:28:47 GMT -5
Desmond Doss is really an amazing soldier, hero and American. One of three Medal of Honor recipients,and first one, that was a conscientious objector. Here is his MOH citation:
"He was a company aid man when the 1st Battalion assaulted a jagged escarpment 400 feet high. As our troops gained the summit, a heavy concentration of artillery, mortar and machinegun fire crashed into them, inflicting approximately 75 casualties and driving the others back. Pfc. Doss refused to seek cover and remained in the fire-swept area with the many stricken, carrying all 75 casualties one-by-one to the edge of the escarpment and there lowering them on a rope-supported litter down the face of a cliff to friendly hands. On May 2, he exposed himself to heavy rifle and mortar fire in rescuing a wounded man 200 yards forward of the lines on the same escarpment; and 2 days later he treated 4 men who had been cut down while assaulting a strongly defended cave, advancing through a shower of grenades to within eight yards of enemy forces in a cave's mouth, where he dressed his comrades' wounds before making 4 separate trips under fire to evacuate them to safety. On May 5, he unhesitatingly braved enemy shelling and small arms fire to assist an artillery officer. He applied bandages, moved his patient to a spot that offered protection from small arms fire and, while artillery and mortar shells fell close by, painstakingly administered plasma. Later that day, when an American was severely wounded by fire from a cave, Pfc. Doss crawled to him where he had fallen 25 feet from the enemy position, rendered aid, and carried him 100 yards to safety while continually exposed to enemy fire. On May 21, in a night attack on high ground near Shuri, he remained in exposed territory while the rest of his company took cover, fearlessly risking the chance that he would be mistaken for an infiltrating Japanese and giving aid to the injured until he was himself seriously wounded in the legs by the explosion of a grenade. Rather than call another aid man from cover, he cared for his own injuries and waited 5 hours before litter bearers reached him and started carrying him to cover. The trio was caught in an enemy tank attack and Pfc. Doss, seeing a more critically wounded man nearby, crawled off the litter; and directed the bearers to give their first attention to the other man. Awaiting the litter bearers' return, he was again struck, by a sniper bullet while being carried off the field by a comrade, this time suffering a compound fracture of one arm. With magnificent fortitude he bound a rifle stock to his shattered arm as a splint and then crawled 300 yards over rough terrain to the aid station. Through his outstanding bravery and unflinching determination in the face of desperately dangerous conditions Pfc. Doss saved the lives of many soldiers. His name became a symbol throughout the 77th Infantry Division for outstanding gallantry far above and beyond the call of duty."
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