Best Mel Gibson film ?

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  1. MikaelaArsenault

    MikaelaArsenault Forum Resident

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  2. fishcane

    fishcane Dirt Farmer

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    hands down
     
  3. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    honorable mention-The Patriot!
     
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  4. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    It was quite different! Mel has a style...of which I LOVE! we loved the movie.
     
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  5. Armjim

    Armjim Music is indeed a gift from Heaven

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    Two that I really like a lot and I believe are solid films: The Man Without a Face and Signs.
     
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  6. George Co-Stanza

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    He has a lot of good movies, but I believe Braveheart is his best by a country mile.
     
  7. Brenald79

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    I think he’s so awesome in the recent Dragged Across Concrete.
     
  8. mmars982

    mmars982 Forum Resident

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    I actually liked it, but I can understand a lot of people probably didn't. It was bizarrely different and he was pretty funny in it. I also thought he was very funny in Daddy's Home 2 - but I don't think Fatman will get as much viewing around the holidays as that one.

    To answer the OP, I think Passion of the Christ is the best movie he has been involved with. I hesitated to mention that for fear of starting a religious discussion, but I see it has been mentioned already and nothing like that happened.
     
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  9. smilin ed

    smilin ed Senior Member

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    I really like Gallipoli, Hamlet, Apocalypto, The Year of Living Dangerously, Braveheart. Maverick - but for James Garner.
     
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  10. hi_watt

    hi_watt The Road Warrior

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    Directing: Passion of the Christ

    This was a tough one as the first two Mad Max films are my favorite Gibson films by default, even though I dig his acting in The Year of Living Dangerously, Gallipoli, Lethal Weapon...yeah.

    For directing, that was also a tough one.
     
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  12. Brenald79

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    It would cool to see Mel staring and directing in a tv series. Something like he’s a teacher who discovers that he has cancer and decides to get into the drug business to repay his medical debts.
     
  13. Steve Baker

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    The Director's cut of "Payback" was more in line with the original story. Mel had the director canned, and made the movie more of a comedy than a crime film. But really the best version of this story on film is Lee Marvin's "Point Blank" directed by John Boorman, with Angie Dickenson, Carrol O'Connor and a young John Vernon. A film way ahead of it's time. But the very best version of this tale is the book by Richard Stark ( Donald Westlake). It is the first in a series of books about a criminal named Parker. Great stuff in a cotton candy type of way.
     
  14. myles

    myles Argyle, before you ask ....

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    Payback - I keep going back to watch again and again.

    Apocalypto - an absolute delight (unless it's your head rolling down the steps!)
     
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  15. Matt Richardson

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    The Bounty or perhaps Lethal Weapon II
     
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  16. Jackson

    Jackson Senior Member

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    For me it's ''Road Warrior'' with ''Mad Max'' next, also like ''What Women Want''.
     
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  17. skinnyev

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    I thought the directors cut of Payback just took out the voiceover narration and tried to take some humour out of it. I did enjoy this movie and the character of Parker is great in the books, but I wasn’t aware of the history of the character when I first saw the movie.

    I recently watched Lethal Weapon and was shocked how bad and dated it was, but it wasn’t the kind of bad that I enjoy about 80’s movies, it was just bad! I don’t know how that movie made sense to me when I was younger. Braveheart hasn’t aged well either and that was a great movie in its day.
     
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  18. twicks

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    Put me down for the Road Warrior.

    "If it's all the same to you, I'll drive that tanker."
     
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  19. Roman Potato Chip

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    Lethal Weapon wins for the hair alone. Credit to him for bringing credibility to what could have been a dumb action role, and of course Shane Black for writing it.
     
  20. geetar_await

    geetar_await I heart Linux.

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    the one where he's the head of a company & wears a beaver or something on his hand and basically goes crazy. inspired acting.
     
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  21. Saintbert

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    Edge of Darkness (2010). I love anything Edge of Darkness and Martin Campbell (the film is a remake of a classic British miniseries).
     
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  22. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    a bittersweet movie.
     
  23. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    ...by the book or not the DC royally sucked...
     
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  24. gonz

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    Signs
     
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  25. George Co-Stanza

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    What made Lethal Weapon good, and all of the sequels as well, was the amazing chemistry between Gibson and Glover. They played off of each other so well. This was talked about in another thread a while back, but Gibson, for all of his flaws, has a knack for having great on screen chemistry with his fellow stars.
     

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