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In light of the recent leak of the tapes, has anyone heard them? I heard some of them today and, regardless of how you may feel about them, they are very damaging. His agency had dropped him and nobody seems to want to touch him. Nobody can deny what a high-impact star Mel has been. I'm curious, does anybody think he can save his career? Does anybody think he has gone over the edge and needs help? Just curious what you all think.

I do think the man needs help; all of this started when he ditched his wife, his family, and his faith.  Some serious rehab and reconciliation are in order - then, maybe, he can return to film.  Right now, he's just a lost soul.  As a long time admirer of his work, I feel pretty sorry for him.

I don't think his career is over. If nobody wants to touch him here he can go to Australia like where he started (what Hopper did when he couldn't work in the US)  :bouncegiggle:

I'll say yes, and frankly I won't miss him.  Thanks for MAD MAX, Mel.

I hope so. It probably isnt though. We are very forgiving of movie "stars". After his drunk anti Semitic rant his career went on. Here he is just degrading his girlfriend....*sarcasm*    :lookingup: 

I will never be able to look at him the same way. You dont get his views overnight or due to any kind of illness. He has always been this way and the world finally got to hear it. Sucks to be him.

He will go on Oprah, then cry on television, say he's sorry and the world will forgive him.

Thats because the world is full of idiots.  :teddyr:

MEL is a turd. 

He was raised by a hateful bigot.  For most of his career he managed to keep whatever venom is poisoning him on the inside.  I have loved many of his films - GALLIPOLI, MAD MAX, the whole LETHAL WEAPON series, THE PATRIOT, WE WERE SOLDIERS, even his most recent one, the cop revenge flick I reviewed last week whose title escapes me because it's late and I am exhausted.  I may be the only person on this board who truly liked the whacky M. Night Shamalayn alien flick he was in!  And THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST was, for me, the most intensely emotional movie experience of my entire life.

   I do think Mel Gibson is a tremendously talented actor.  I wish he could exorcise his personal demons.  But I don't want him back on the screen until he gets himself straightened out. As hateful as his rants have been, I don't have it in my heart to hate him.  He's given me far too many good movie memories over the years.

Find healing, Mel!

why do people care so much about his personal life? If the guy is a creep he's a creep. I wouldn't let that get in the way of actually liking his movies. His personal business is his personal business and really people have better things to worry about than Mel.  It's amazing how much this crap is on television repeatedly meanwhile the Gulf is drenched in oil, the US economy sucks, and soldiers are dying daily  :bluesad:

Mel Gibson is clearly a hate-filled individual. The man has an alcohol problem, but alcohol does not create an entirely new persona. Alcohol will bring out the core of an individual that they would rather keep hidden. You can get as drunk as you want, but unless you already hate Jews, you will not start spouting anti-Semitic nonsense after a few drinks.

Really, it's surprising that he was given a free pass after his first arrest.

That being said, hateful as the man is, I think he is a talented filmmaker. I didn't like The Passion, because I think it's a bad and un-nuanced retelling of the story of Christ. I did like Apocalypto, which was made after his first meltdown, when I should have hated him. And I will always love Braveheart. Say what you will, that's a damn fine movie.

Maybe Gibson's career is finished. Maybe not. He hasn't committed any true crimes. Roman Polanski is a child rapist, and I think he should be extradited and sent to prison for life, but he's also a great filmmaker.

Doubtful, but will be some time before you see him in a film again.  I wouldn't mind him gone but have a feeling someone will give him a chance again at some point. 

Ain't that the truth... :lookingup:

Ah, the path of love is never smooth....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x95onh2v5LA Needless to say, NSFW

All joking aside though, Mel did not become this person overnight.  His father is a monstrous, hate-filled excuse for a human being and it would have been very difficult for some of that to not rub off.  Mel either did a REALLY good job of concealing that side of himself, or else he had people in his life (Robyn and their children being the most likely candidates) who gave him reason to stay more grounded and rein in those worse tendencies, that aren't there anymore.
His rep is pretty well trashed at this point but I think, given some time, Doggett is probably right.  For one thing, he IS a talented filmmaker, and there have been plenty of abusers and racists who have had successful careers in Hollowood. It doesn't help either that the girlfriend doesn't exactly have any moral high ground to stand on, and this is a society that is usually pretty quick to blame the mistress first in "broken home" situations like this anyway. 

I'd say it will be a long time (if ever) before he's ever in the Superstar Limelight again.  Too bad it isn't the 1960s or 70s . . . he could go to Europe and act in dubbed, low budget horror movies.

Well, he hardly has to act like actors back then did.  Mel Gibson is worth, in dollars anyway, like 900 million.

I think that the tapes may have been tampered with muddies the water enough that it may help his image slightly, and that he was likely being manipulated doesn't hurt.  Mel Gibson is high strung and prone to bouts of anger and rage.  He also has twisted views on a few subjects.  But, eh, none of this is news to me personally, so it has no effect on my opinion of him.  I think it will damage his career some, but he already wasn't doing great anyway - Edge of Darkness didn't do well, and he hadn't acted much in the decade before that.  As a director, his future still looks good.


Did he really leave his faith behind?  I didn't know that part.  For someone with his background, that might explain a few things.  Oh yeah, and Indiana, I also like Signs.  Not a fave of mine, but I think it was a well-made, well-acted and entertaining suspense thriller.

On a final note, he has one more major role coming out.  The Beaver, where he plays a depressed man who begins to talk through a beaver hand puppet.  Supposed to be a dark comedy, directed by and co-stars Jodie Foster.  Early reviews have been fairly positive, particularly of Mel's performance.

No, I doubt his career is finished, in fact it's probably just starting to take off if you gauge it by what it takes to be a celebrity nowadays. :lookingup:

He's just modernizing his image.  Now he's a "reality" star.  He's probably somewhere having a beer and a good laugh with Joaquin Phoenix and Billy Bob Thornton right now as we speak.
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