BLASTED
Mel Gibson? An insane rant? No, couldn’t be. I’m sure it must have not been bigoted in any way.
Uhhhhh… well this is embarrassing. He didn’t do an ‘‘insane’’ rant. He did a BONKERS rant. Uncle Baby Billy can clear up the difference if you need more info.
(plays William Wallace)
(endorses authoritarian candidate)
At the very least the man is skilled at pretending to be someone he’s not. That’s about all he’s got going for him.
The funny bit is that everyone already knew he was a far right extremist politically and religiously, it’s just HOW he expresses himself that’s blowing up in his face.
Braveheart strokes the same freedom boner that The Patriot does.
The worst Mel. Mel Brooks infinitely superior.
Mel Blanc too.
racist-ass Melly Gibsins
This guy is a racist piece of shit. Always has been.
Old racist votes for old racist.
More at 9.
Mel should do the right maga thing. As a immigrant he should self deport himself.
We don’t want him back now. You’ve ruined him.
It was not us, baby, he was born this way.
Don’t blame us for your road warrior.
You mean the same guy who said he hopes his (then) partner gets “raped by a pack of n****rs” isn’t voting for Kamala? I’m shocked I tell you.
He’s been unhinged for years, we should have cancelled him decades ago and let Mel succumb to his own alcoholism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paV0yADFXBY
Sorry for all I could find was horrible quality
U did good
Ok Im watching it over and over again and I can’t make out when Key says “yes. He is the most racist [blank] in the world”?
“…most racist man in the world,” I believe he says.
Yes Mel Gibson is still bonkers.
We don’t have the celebrity thing you have in the US here, so I only see bits and pieces of this, but his (and several others, really) spiralling into insanity has been quite bizarre to witness. First into extreme bizarro religion and then (predictably) into far right politics.
As is often the case, the rejection just entrenches his beliefs.
I wish I knew how people started falling into that kind of mental trap. I’m not sure he was always like that (or maybe he was, I don’t know the guy).
Until producers stop giving him money and actors refuse to work with him he’ll continue spreading hate, the guy has been an obvious bigot and moron his entire life
“I separate people and their art” people are the fuckin’ worst and huge part of the problem, too, since they don’t do a damn thing to incentivise those losers to stop what they’re doing, either.
When I learned that “Sweet Home Alabama” was in bitter response to Neil Young’s “Southern Man” I just stopped listening to it. There is so much music in the world, I’ve been fine without Lynyrd Skynyrd. I also don’t think I’ve ever seen a Mel Gibson movie and I seem to be ok.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I would say that “Sweet Home Alabama” is very different. It was not written bitterly and it was written by a bunch of Neil Young fans (and Neil himself loved the song). The point of “Sweet Home Alabama” was to show that there were people who grew up in the South who weren’t racist, who acknowledged and decried the racist history of the South, but who also felt resentment at being lumped in with the racists, past and present. Being both proud of being from the South and ashamed of being from the South at the same time even has its own term, coined AFAIK by the band The Drive-By Truckers: “the duality of the Southern Thing.”
There are plenty of artists and musicians that should just be written off, but I don’t think Skynyrd is among them. They were actually relatively progressive for their background and were trying to paint a fairly sophisticated and balanced story; it’s not their fault that their fanbase evolved into a bunch of racist assholes who preempted the song for their own causes, especially since the heart and soul of the band died in a plane crash in 1977. But that’s just my two cents as a huge music fan who grew up listening to Skynyrd in the 90’s.
Maybe Lynyrd Skynyrd shouldn’t have constantly used the Confederate Battle Flag and other Confederate imagery if they didn’t want to be lumped in with the racists.
Just a thought.
They heard “Southern Man” and went so hard “not all southerners” that they even included the line directly telling Neil to fuck off. One of their black back-up singers went on to cover “Southern Man” as a little bit of a personal win for her. Lynyrd Skynyrd could have done a million things that weren’t that in response but instead they wrote that little piece of whiny-baby bullshit. They did it all on their own, without their base needing to misinterpret anything. Fuck ‘em, I got loads of fantastic music to listen to without giving that one any of my time.
People have literally died for their rights and we’re so damned soft we can’t even just consume different yet equally good, or better, media and that’s fuckin’ weak. Sometimes we aren’t given much choice but it’s not like we’re hurting for high-quality music, TV, and literature. It’s so fucking easy.
They also can’t really claim they weren’t the same, when they constantly used Confederate imagery to sell shit.
Eh, Mad Max, Road Warrior, and Beyond Thunderdome are classics. Lethal Weapon was good.
He was even decent in the John Wick flashback “The Continental”.
Beyond Thunderdome is a bit shit to be honest, but I wouldnt say Mel Gibson can’t act or hasn’t been in good films. I just don’t want to have to stare at his racist fucking face.
I haven’t seen ‘em and I’m doing perfectly ok. And guess what, I didn’t know he was involved and now I’m gunna not watch ‘em even harder. It’s just that easy.
So you’ve never seen a Weinstein production? I fucking doubt it.
Not on purpose. Keep up, dumbass.
Congratulations, you haven’t watched some movies. Truly a saint
Man, really hurt that I’m ok to just not watch some fuckin’ movies, eh?
I’ve never watched those movies either, you’re just a weirdo for thinking it’s a brag
Did he blame the Jews again?
I think that’s just implicit now
No, but I’m shocked he didn’t, he’d probably get a standing ovation from the right and be among the elite right aside the my pillow guy and Elon.
Well now I definitely don’t feel bad about torrenting Braveheart
time to take another long hiatus from work, mel.
Nonsense, he will get steady work alongside Kevin Sorbo!
Pretty sure even Mel Gibson has more pride than that. You only go full Sorbo when you done fucked up real fucken bad.
The Passion of the Anti-Christ
I tried finding a gif of Mel in a straight jacket from Lethal Weapon, but I’ll settle for this one:
