Why Mel Gibson hasn't been forgiven in Hollywood?!

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He hates gays, black people and Jews. He’s a total right wing Christian freak. The fact that it’s public knowledge doesn’t work in Hollywood.

As far as making excuses for him, someone telling his ex-girlfriend she hope she gets raped by a pack of wild n*ggers is definitely a mentality, not just a drunken rant, and not the first time he said / thought it.

You think he’s bad - you want to read about his dad who’s an absolute loon, who believes every single conspiracy going, even that half the Vatican’s priests are “queer”. Don’t be ridiculous! It’s at least 99%!

[quote] He is a brilliant filmmaker

Where is that 'brilliance' best seen in the mere five films he has made?

If the Jews in Hollywood want to forgive him and hire him, I don't really care. It's their right to hire people who hate them and think the Holocaust never happened.

But they shouldn't get mad at other people who are like that.

When you attack those in power, don't expect forgiveness.

He hasn't been forgiven because he has never shown one iota of contrition for the public to see. As far as anyone knows he still holds the same bigoted & hateful ideologies he's always held. A drunk only does what he would like to do but isn't brave enough to do when sober. So, his drunkenness provides him no cover as far as I'm concerned.

He was nominated for an Oscar. He's been forgiven. We've been through this a million times already.

Mel Gibson is no longer hot, so no 😠

R9 Maybe that's the real reason. Hahaaaaa

I thought he was being kept at arms length because he's obviously insane. Why would anyone risk working with him?

Why do all these old movie stars end up looking like Randy Quaid? Are they all nuts?

R12 I think their 80s drug of choice may have something to do with it

I think Mel is going for a Moses look these days.

He hasn't been forgiven? Could've fooled me. What the fuck are you babbling about, OP?

Well, if Robert Downey Pompous Ass says so

Mel Gibson was nominated for an Oscar in 2017. An Oscar nomination = forgiveness + "we love you".

I never forgave him for 'Braveheart'. The rest of his career after has been just so much shit on a shingle. Basic as fuck.

P..S: he's a dimwitted homophobic fundie, so nothing to see here.

It isn't just his unapologetic anti-Semitism. He beat his wife. He hit her while she held their baby, for god's sake! Denying the Holocaust took place is beyond Anti-Semitic. It's insane. Seriously. Who wants to work with such a man? He was too manic for me for a long time before he destroyed his career with that arrest and all after. And yes, he did it all to himself. I'm glad he's a nobody now.

I'm no fan but he did give us this gratuitous scene.

Such a shame as he was a cute leather bottom to that cigar daddy in Mad Max

After that awful torture porn Jesus flick, I was all done with Mel.

Sugar tits indeed.

Because its not that he made a mistake or two, he’s showed his ass in multiple occasions- it’s who he IS.

Meh, it's the same industry that knowingly allowed Harvey, Woody and Roman to work and have immense power, so who are they to judge Mel?

R24 Exactly

He's been pointedly and purposefully offensive to gay men ("See this?" he told an interviewer in the 80s, pointing to his ass, "This is for taking a shit! That's all!"), as well as to Jews and to women.

Downey is a terrible enabler. He's also friends with Will Smith.

I don’t know, it seems like he has been forgiven. He still gets work and I don’t see Hollywood piling on him. I also see defense of him in comment sections. I personally think he is a POS. It wasn’t just one drunken isolated incident with him either.

[quote] And yes, he did it all to himself. I'm glad he's a nobody now. Yeah, a nobody worth a half billion.

[quote] And yes, he did it all to himself. I'm glad he's a nobody now.

Yeah, a nobody worth a half billion. (Damn Dl formatting)

He should do a stream show. Someting aimed at fly overs (like yellow -something with Costner ) That could save his career. Go trumper approved.

Ummm Hollywood seems to have forgiven him as he still works. The public just hasn't for good reason. So Mel ain't headlining movies but he still gets roles. Hollywood is so hypocritical and phony, they support rapists and pedos like Polanski and Woody Allen and violent thugs like Mark Wahlberg and murderers like Matthew Broderick. They'll only "cancel" people they don't personally like or when the law gets involved and arrests that person. They'll be quick to condemn those sacrificial lambs while ignoring all the abuse that goes on behind closed doors.

Mel is worth about 475 million dollars. I was working with his ex-wife Robin divorce attorneys. The divorce proceedings lasted about an hour, shortest divorce meeting I ever attended. Robin walked out with 480 million dollars plus child support for the last child under 18 yrs old. The properties were split up, she was given over 50% of the assets of the sold properties. Plus, Mel bought her a new home in Australia. Talking with his divorce attorney with Robin standing there, Mel looks at me, says "Is this shorter than your divorce"? I said, "mine was 2 hrs, we were gossiping about 1 of our neighbors" Mel said " I asked my attorney who u were, she said "Financial wiz, scary smart, vindictive as hell" Mel was a nice, charming man at the hearing. At lunch, Robin asked which divorce was the worst I was involved in... told them Nicole's because Tom is nuts!!! Everybody laughed, including Mel.

He’s an asshole who turned into an ugly troll!

He haaaates women. Besides the beatings, remember that torture birth scene in that Apocolypto movie

Why would anyone want forgiveness from the same people that gave Will Smith a standing ovation.

[quote]He hasn't been forgiven because he has never shown one iota of contrition for the public to see

Ding ding ding.

He's never demonsrtated any remorse, nor ever really apologized - has he even done the usual non-apology apology?

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Very Xi-Borisy.

I dont recall him ever apologizing. He really does hate any sort of minority

He's like a stereotypical white Australian, drunk and racist. Though he grew up in the States.

R33 Can you please share some Nicole/Tom story? Any example of how nuts Tom Cruise was during meeting with him?

I would work with him, again.

He wants all of the stench of racism and anti-semitism and homophobia and misogyny to magically disappear and he thinks “being forgiven” (by whom?? How??) is going to make that happen.

Nope. He did shitty things and has to live with the consequences. Life sucks that way, even for famous actors.

He was an absolute beauty in the '80s and was a good actor (Gallipoli, The Year of Living Dangerously) but he was always nuts and now deserves to the shunned. I still enjoy some of his early films though but then I also like early Roman Polanski too.

Lesbians.

Lesbians love Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster loves him.

you can't be racist against white people.

Aren't women just asking for it?

Like Anne Heche, he was a saint... he had a tragic life, it was the demon liquor talking. He's not to blame.

it was a conspiracy to "cruificy" him

how could anyone be upset him? He looks great.

you're just sick if you thought he should be held accountable

it was an invasion of Mel's privacy, how dare you invade his privacy:

He’s an ass that’s why. And I don’t mind that ass in Lethal Weapon

My grandmother was right: after 50, you get the face you deserve. He's living proof.

Are any of these recent movies anything but direct to streaming? I see mostly garbage.

I liked him in the first Lethal Weapon. "That's a real badge, I'm a real cop and this is a real fucking gun".

Mel very famously stuck his neck out professionally for RDJ so I’m not surprised that RDJ will defend him always and forever. Ok, fine, doesn’t mean I have to pay to watch Mel Fucking Gibson movies.

OF COURSE Mel salutes Trump. He didn’t wave or try to shake his hand, he salutes. Of course he did. Of course.

Why do old guys always grow those stupid cough-drop beards?

Does anyone on earth think they look good that way?

Really?

is there a legitimate reason why youtube doesn't have the dates visible on their videos? or is it just for misinformation purposes?

I literally wouldn’t go to a Mel Gibson movie if you paid me 10 grand. He’s beyond repulsive. But hey, those of you feeling sorry for a multi-millionaire who is still actively getting work in his chosen profession-you do you!. It’s a free country.

Let He Who is Without Sin Cast The First Stone.

^I’m an atheist. Fuck Mel Gibson

[quote] Fuck Mel Gibson

Can I watch you do it?

[quote]He hates gays, black people and Jews.

Then he'd fit right in here on DL, R2.

Abe hates Mel.

I want to know how Mel's latest movie 'Rothschild' is going.

No one is willing to respond to R4.

He isn’t pretty anymore.

I'm sure Mel was implicated in Jordan's demise.

Whoopi Goldberg gets shitted on for one ignorant statement which was taken out of context and one that many Americans actually agreed on (since Jews are white in The US). Treated like the worst person ever and suspended from a talk show. Nick Cannon also backlash for his antisemitic views and had to apologize though that was justified imo. But Mel has done worse and showed no remorse for his antisemitism and Jews like RDJ defend him? I'm so confused and I'm tired of people pretending Ashkenazi Jews in Hollywood don't have white privilege as this example shown by siding with a white gentile man who makes them money.

To R70, Does the movie have a "ROTHSCHILD DEATH RAY& NICKY HILTON GETTING KILLED"

I would pay to watch that movie, esp. the Death Ray!!!

r74

As much as I dislike his personal antics, I enjoy his films. He has the it factor. Always enjoyed his film as much like Bruce Willis. The macho sensitive action stars

* points at Mel Gibson's face* See that hole in his face? The one surrounded by hair? That hole is only good for shitting too.

Hutton Gibson, NYT article. catholic separatist (not that far off from those pushing for a revival of the new religious reich in the republican party now)

The rogue ex cop who no one can handle and no one understands.

BUT HE GETS THE JOB DONE, ONLY HE CAN STAND UP TO THE BADDEST OF THE BAD GUYS,

GODDAMN IT !!!

“I don’t play by the rules and I never will! But that’s not why you’re here. If you want me to catch him, I’m going to do it MY WAY or not at all!

To R80, Thank You for the South Park Mel Gibson episode, and that Mel is INSANE

Mel always groans when driving down Hope and 9th Streets, LA.

R58 I know that people can behave in an irrational manner when completely surrounded in a crowd.

That sheer mass of flesh pressing on the individual can easily create a heightened emotionalism which is akin to hysteria.

The Hollywood anti-Semitism thing is interesting to ponder, because I've always found it fascinating that the old-system major studios were largely run by Jewish men, and the biggest (MGM) overseen by Mayer in Hollywood and Schenck at the East Coast offices painted this picture from especially the late 1930s of worshipping everything Gentile in their films, characters, Christmas holiday scenes, "Andy Hardy" corny family movie-series, and so on, as if Judaism almost didn't exist.

Let bygones be bygones.

You have to accept that great movie makers are going to be quirky.

I forgive you, Mel!

^ Is that a topless woman?

If anyone deserves to be completely, permanently cancelled, it's Mel Gibson. He should be jailed for hate speech and inciting hatred, and be stripped of every single accolade he's been given.

R93 They were very insecure, and understandably so in a very bigoted time and mostly avoiding Jewish themes was a response to this.

Because, OP, here’s a guy who had it ALL.

Hollywood let him in and gave him EVERYTHING, including a stellar career, and all of the money he could hope to earn, and he basically turned around and shit on every single person who was a part of that process, in even the most minute of ways.

Being a brilliant filmmaker, a popular and handsome actor who can carry a film means zilch, when you cannot appreciate that the people whom you rail against were the ones who carried you on their shoulders, in order to make you exceptional.

Hollywood is and always has been, a town that operates, as a team sport.

If you made it to the very top, it’s because hundreds of people helped you get there, and as we all know, you don’t bite the hands who fed you, and treated you with care, and then turn around and dehumanize them, just because despite all of your success, you’re still a homophobic bigot , anti semite, racist, misogynistic drunk.

My sister forced me to watch a movie last Christmas, “Daddy’s Home 2”, where he was meant to be Mark Wahlberg’s dad (if I recall right). Fairly shit movie, and Gibson has a genuinely horrible, off putting vibe about him now—he radiates psychopath vibes (and I’m pretty sure it’s not intentional).

Fuck off, R93.

What is it with these asshole racists, homophobes, and their inability to groom themselves, hence they eventually sport these nauseating, long, scraggly beards, like Gibson does @ R9’s link?

It’s a thematic look, for so many of them.

As soon as I see a guy with one of those hideous beards, I know to stay the fuck away from them.

There’s a guy I work with that sports one, and he’s one of the angriest assholes I’ve ever had the displeasure of working with.

He goes from zero to 100, the second he perceives people not doing things EXACTLY how he believes things should be done.

He’s absolutely AWFUL, and shitty AF at his job. I still cannot figure out why he’s still employed.

[quote] He should be jailed for hate speech and inciting hatred, and be stripped of every single accolade he's been given,

He should be stripped of every article of clothing. His hands should be bound behind his back and weighted to the ground.

He can then be spat upon from the crowd gathered on the steps at 3663 Wilshire Blvd.

All is forgiven if you’re making hundreds of millions for your bosses.

r102 among the plebs, in some jurisdictions,it would be enough to warrant a welfare/mental health check because of the decrease in hygiene expectations. . which is why neckbeard / legbeard is considered an insult.

it's an unpc thing to say these days but poor hygiene is a sign of poor mental health.

but such beards are famous with conspiracy theorists...

for women, it's harder to get into specifics, save perhaps "crazy eyes" which people can more easily id but it runs an entire aesthetic that comes off a bit more uncanny valley, everything is just a bit askew and it's off putting, that mystical cross between crazy bag lady and more heroin than chic.

R105, I’m asking this genuinely:

Do you live in Russia or China.

In America, we find the poorly groomed unattractive, but we don’t conduct welfare checks in various “jurisdictions”, just because people look hideous.

In the United States, there are MANY men who look like total shit, and are worth MILLIONS.

See the man this thread is based on, obviously.

Forgiveness can be possible - see John Gallliano's rehabilitation following his conviction for making drunken anti-semitic slurs to some women in a Paris bar. But he expressed remorse and has not repeated the condemned behaviour.

He's an anti-Semite.

[quote] He's an anti-Semite.

I'm an anti-Russian.

R107 his views were also not reflected in his work. I’m all about “separating the art from the artist” but Mel’s homophobic and anti-Semitic views were all over his work, and even worse Hollywood was complicit in giving him a platform to spew all his toxic shit for decades because he was making them $$$. So finally the sugar tits incident happened and everyone was like ENOUGH - and rightly so.

I know we hate Susan Sarandon on here (and I basically do too) but I’ll give her credit for calling Mel out on being a piece of shit when he was still on top and no one else was talking. But everyone in the industry knew what he was really like.

R110 anti-Semitic views were all over his work,

He directed 5 movies; which ones are you talking about?

Really - did he use fabric printed with swastikas in his latest designs?

No, R112, it's not on Google.

So therefore he didn't.

Once again, Mel, I forgive you.

R113, R110 was directed at me (R107). We were talking about fashion designer John Galliano.

R112