Mel, get over it - your snuff film really wasn't that good!!!

[LynneSin]

http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2005-03-08/#film1

Mel Gibson Calls Oscars "Ludicrous"


Mel Gibson has denounced the Oscar ceremonies as "a celebration of mediocrity" and accused academy members of treating his The Passion of the Christ as a political football. "My film is not right-wing or political, but they made it so," he told an interviewer on the Catholic cable channel EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network). Gibson, who won an Oscar for his direction of Braveheart in 1995, remarked: "The whole notion of these awards ceremonies is ludicrous. ... It's really a marketing exercise." He said he decided not to promote the film for Oscar consideration because he realized that doing so would be futile. "I knew exactly what was going to happen. I didn't try to market the film. People are spending 15 or 20 million dollars to market their films. That's a lot of money for a little gold statue."

[liberal N proud]

1. Is that why they have just released a "Re-Cut" version?

$$$$$$

[DenverDem]

2. gibson is a pathetic, sociopathological loser.

You marginalized yourself, church boy.

[forgethell]

15. Somehow,

I don't think the word "loser" really applies to somebody worth umpteen zillion dollars after making a film everybody and their little sister thought was a bad idea.

I'm sure MG is crying all the way to the bank. Just wish I could lose at something that badly.

[DenverDem]

19. So mel is a rich sociopathological loser.

He's still a loser.

[forgethell]

21. I should lose so badly. n/t

[Bouncy Ball]

3. What kind of grapes are you eating there, Mel?

Mel: "Sour ones."

[sniffa]

4. shame on you, Lynn

he made that fiLm for your sins.

[LynneSin]

5. Well your sin is you can't spell my fricking first name right

Snifa!

[sniffa]

8. i speLL it fine

Lynne. see?

[BurtWorm]

9. He must have thought the silent e went at the beginning of "esin"

:hi:

[Melodybe]

6. I actually agree with Mel on this one, he might be crazy as a loon

but Mel is a decent guy. He doesn't support the war and Mike Moore is a friend of his so lay off.

[realisticphish]

7. I had given mel a pass

he seemed to just release his film, however it was, and let it alone. now i fully understand his bullshit. piss off, mel

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. Memo to Mel:

[ronnykmarshall]

16. Buwwwaaaaa!

I have to use that !

[fertilizeonarbusto]

11. Pfffft

Mel, I KNEW the Oscars were ludicrous when you got two in one night years ago.

[northzax]

12. what awards did you expect?

best foreign language film?
best adapted screenplay? (can you see that speech? "uh, I'd like to thank the authors of this story, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. I'd also like to thank Jesus for being such an inspiration to me, and I'd especially like to thank God, for sending his only child down to be slaughtered by the romans, which served as the inspiration for this script. also, I don't want to forget my agent, my lawyer, by banker and my girlfriend, I love you honey!"

[LynzM]

13. Oh geez

"The whole notion of these awards ceremonies is ludicrous. ... It's really a marketing exercise."

If you feel it's so ludicrous, then WHY do you CARE? I'm just sayin'.

[beyurslf]

14. Will we be "treated" to this movie every year at Easter now?

I just saw the preview for the release of the "re-cut" version.

[ghostsofgiants]

17. I consider The Passion of the Christ to be quite a clever film...

I mean how else could you get such a brutal gore flick past the censors and right wing nutjobs and use the controversy of the brutality to stir up buzz? Change the setting and the main character, keep the brutality, and there is no fucking way the censors and funementalist freaks would allow such a movie to be released.

I just see it as a ludicrous yet clever way for Mel to line his pockets.

[ET Awful]

18. You're right Mel, it wasn't right wing or political . . . . it just sucked

:evilgrin:

[Dave Reynolds]

20. When was the last time

a gore-fest made the Oscar hot list?

Historical or not, that was flat out bloodier than any number of slasher flicks.