Mel Gibson's 'Hacksaw Ridge' trailer

Mel Gibson first directorial film in 10 years looks Oscar worthy!

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It looks good....I don't like the pussy boy from Facebook......

 

Peter Parker?

 

Nice to see him back on the horse.

Not a big fan of the cast though, and that roundhouse kick to the grenade really threw me for a loop. ::

 

We Were Soliders set in a different campaign and with a different ´morality tale´.

 

Basically.

 

Why?
It´s just a WWII movie. :scratcher:

 

Dude. Its basically the same team: Mel Gibson, Randall Wallace, Bruce Davey. ::

´Hey guys, lets do another movie just like We Were Soldiers, but to confuse people, CGI it to fuck, swap some moviemaking positions around, use the Good Ole´ USA in wartime as the underlying patriotic backdrop and seamlessly introduce some morality aspect to it to try and catch the Awards´ opcorn:

 

You might be onto somthing, Antz.

 

Anyways, its clearly not going to in the vein of Das Boot, Apocalypse Now, Paths Of Glory, Full Metal Jacket, Come And See, The Thin Red Line, etc...but I´ll definately go and watch it!

 

The visual style seems very similar to me. That sort of over the top visceral violence, grenade kicking, these guys are supermen, and the like. Peter Berg also employed a similar style in "Lone Survivor".

They did it in "The Patriot" to. Turns already high stakes situations into cartoons. Rubs me a bit the wrong way.

I really, really wanted to like "We Were Soldiers" as my dad was part of that same unit in Vietnam (though 2-3 years later), but I had a hard time buying into that storytelling and visual style.

 

I think the filming went low profile due the Mel Gibson 'pariah' condition: the media would have been trashing the film and its cast to sabotage anything Gibson do so that its bad press hurt Gibson. He will never be forgiven for his drunk comments.

 

Thank you.
Someone gets it.



opcorn:

 

The penny´s dropped then? :bears:

 

Those Venetians love a good grenade kicking. :bears:

 

:: :scratcher:

 

Yeah, as predicted, this is a by-the-numbers war movie with the Mel Gibbbon morality-tale tacked onto it.

During the Full Metal Jacket first-half, Garfield does his usually pouty, weak-ass, worried-look throughout, Vince Vaughn is a little bit funny as Warren Oates´ Sgt Hulka / R Lee Emery´s Gunnert Sgt Hartman....later at Okinawa Is., hundreds of Japs scream ´Banzai!!!´ and ruthlessy cut down the Yanks with machine guns and then outrage American audiences everywhere by bayonetting the survivors....Garfield saves a load of guys, gets some award and thats it.

6/10, see ya.



( I stopped short of standing and applauding, btw)

 

Fuck Dork Mocus!

This is a great film! Best movie of 2016. Very deserving of all its Academy awards nominations, including Best Picture (I know is not going to win because (A) Mel Gibson's blacklisted factor (b) it is about a Christian patriotic young man (c) everybody is swallowing the cum of 'La La Land' a valentine card to LA so this film has zero chances). Powerful drama with gripping realistic portray of World War II battle scenes. Very moving scenes near the end. Gibson's best directorial film since 'Braveheart'. 9/10

 

Wait, what site was that you checked his resume on?

 

panchy,

Did you like 'The passion of the Christ"?

 

I have mixed feelings about it as while it is a well directed and acted film, it deviates way too much from the Scriptures and has a lot Catholic tradition through out the whole thing. Plus the title should have been 'the Beating of the Christ' as, gee, do we need to watch two hours of an innocent man getting tortured and beaten to a pulp? The resurrection part lasted like 10 seconds at the end. There is no reward in watching this film! It is a good movie with zero replay value.

 

I have to agree this was easily the best film of that year. Funny thing was, I didn’t quite realize how good it was the first time I saw it. On the second viewing I realized it is a great film in nearly every aspect and it has great replay value as it got sucked in on a third viewing when Insaw it on. Panchy gives out 9/10’s like their candy but for this film I agree that it is not hyperbole. 9/10.

 

Mostarda and Nobleart at the movies:

 

Best movie made that year my ass!

Hell or High Water was the best movie made in 2016.