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Mel Gibsons Hacksaw Ridge Official Trailer

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Are both movies going up against the oscars 2017 or 2018 btw? Maybe we will have a SPR and TRL on our hands again.

One getting all the oscars and the other getting robbed something fierce.
 
ViewtifulJC said:
One think I like about Mel Gibson's movies to date, and going by the reviews Hacksaw Ridge is totally in his wheelhouse, is that he takes these old ass 1930s Hollywood cliches and plays them totally straight. Like he has these cliche characters who have like one personality trait, he's got comical tough loving drill sergeants who literally shout "We're not in Kansas anymore!" or love interest nurses who look up into the hero's eyes and live to cheer him on, and the hard father with the bible in one hand and the belt in the other, and all this shit you seen like a hundred times. And he's 100% irony-free about this stuff, so it gives it a throwback quality to the broad melodrama of old instead of just coming off cheesy as hell. And he combines that with ultraviolent, well-appointed big goddamn spectacle. Like almost hilariously giddy violence of dudes getting their legs blown off by cannonballs or faces ripped off by Jaguars, that's filmed with that same level of sincerity. Its not cynical or ugly like the Saw franchise or pop-kitsch ironic like a Tarantino movie. Mel Gibson believes in every frame of this shit, about individualism and personal freedom in a time of war, crafted to a super high level. If you don't believe me, watch Braveheart and then The Patriot back to back, see which movie works like gangbusters and which one is total shit despite so many surface similarities.

In his own way, I think he's similar to James Cameron in that regard. He has the ability to make audiences give into his quickly sketched characters and righteous themes, and marry them to top tier Hollywood spectacle. They've both been away from behind the camera for too long, I say.
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Straight up. His characters tend to be very idealized and basic but he makes it work well. I think he would have been a really successful director back when the old Hollywood epics were being made.

The comparison between Braveheart and Patriot is spot on. If he made the latter it would have been much more tolerable.
 
strafer said:
Are both movies going up against the oscars 2017 or 2018 btw? Maybe we will have a SPR and TRL on our hands again.

One getting all the oscars and the other getting robbed something fierce.
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Nah. Premiering now means that Hacksaw is at least going to get a qualifying run this year, if not a full release. Dunkirk absolutely won't get released until next summer, I believe. So this will be eligible for 2017, that for 2018.

Edit: Just checked and this is coming out November 4.
 
I've missed Mel Gibson as an actor and a director. He's a very troubled man with some awful views but Get The Gringo/How I Spent My Summer Vacation and Blood Father show how much of a charasmatic mother fucker he still is. Watching Blood Father just made me sad that he wasn't Mad Max in the new film. As amazing as Fury Road is and how much I like Tom Hardy, having Mel would have made it even more god tier.

Looking forward to Hacksaw Ridge, think my dad would enjoy that so might take him to the cinema to see it.
 
My most anticipated movie but i just checked this comes in January 2017 here in cinemas....

I can't wait that long D:
 
lightskintwin said:
Mel should make a movie about John Brown.
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Make and star. Look at the goddamn resemblance

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Erevador said:
The movie got a ten minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival.

A good sign.

Welcome back, Mel.
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I really hope this is a return to form. Films like Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto are sorely missed, with the latter still being one of the best movies of the 21st century. It's an expertly crafted yet simple film. But the more acceptance for films in foreign languages, the better.
 
I am amped for this movie. As someone who gets a lot of flack for being a proponent of nonviolence (for very similar reasons as the character in this movie), I am excited for a character like this to be highlighted.
 
TheOctodad said:
I am amped for this movie. As someone who gets a lot of flack for being a proponent of nonviolence (for very similar reasons as the character in this movie), I am excited for a character like this to be highlighted.
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The irony is that it being a mel gibson movie it's incredibly visceral with the violence in this apparently.
 
AlphaDump said:
For real.. I love Mel Gibson movies but damn does he look out of place. It kind of reminds me of skinny Chris Evans before he turns into Captain America.
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that looked like garbage, bizarre CGI going that route. also Desmond T. Doss looked like this:

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it's not that farfetched.
 
If this this movie gets
viewed
by a pack of
movie-goers
it'll deserve it.

Naw, but for real this looks like a Oscar drama from 1998. Not feeling the trailer. I'm sure Andrew Garfield is fine though.
 
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