I have such disdain for Mel Gibson. It's hard to enjoy his movies anymore

[tulipsandroses]

Anyone else have a similar issue? With other actors?
Hard for me to separate the bigoted asshole he is in real life from the performer.

He makes movies I like though. Just started watching Edge of Darkness - really good so far. But gosh it’s hard to think of him as the good guy.

[Aristus]

1. I still watch the Mad Max films and enjoy them.

I don't watch anything else he is in. "Braveheart" was once one of my favorite films. Now, between Gibson's non-stop dickshittery, and the spectacularly awful historical inaccuracies, it's pretty much unwatchable.

[oregonjen]

2. Tom Cruise

Can’t stand him and the cult he belongs to.

[erronis]

3. Woody Allen?

I'm not much of a movie watcher anymore - sorta got out of that back in the 90's.

[Sneederbunk]

4. I can appreciate the art although the artist may be flawed.

[Woodwizard]

5. I try to have that sentiment.

But there are a few that just crossed the line too far. Gibson is one of them.

[kelly1mm]

13. This has been an issue since the early days of film. Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will is

a visual masterpiece .... too bad it is Nazi propaganda about the 1934 Nurenberg rallies. Before that was D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation was a GIANT leap forward technologically and visually ... too bad it celebrates the rise of the KKK in post civil war America.

[BootinUp]

6. I am not sure why but I do not

have an interest in them (Gibson Movies) much anymore.

[CharleyDog]

7. Yes, I just can't

with

Mel Gibson
Steven Segal
Kevin Spacey
Johnny Depp
Clint Eastwood

not too interested in these hackneyed cliches'

Tom Cruise
Kiera Knightly
Julia Roberts
Richard Gere
Sean Connery
Brad Pitt

Mostly I watch British dramas for their fresh faces, good acting, authentic feelings

[JustAnotherGen]

11. I'm obsessed with

British Television. We get better stories and acting out of Shetland and Agatha Raisin than we do most Hollywood produced big budget films.

Clint Eastwood - I will still watch some of his camp Westerns. And Two Mules For Sister Sara remains in my top ten list.

[CharleyDog]

14. Yes, Shetland is a favorite

other favorites in the Brit police procedurals is The Unforgiven, The Bay, and Silent Witness. Black Work is good in the genre of "husbands who pretend they are dead"

Recently watched all the "Landscape Artists of the Year" so sad when it was over. Also the Simon Schama series is evocative.

[Ocelot II]

8. I like his older movies, before he became an antisemitic alcoholic religious fanatic

horse's ass. Maybe he always was that way, but at least it wasn't so obvious before he did the Jesus movie and started beating up his girlfriend. Gallipoli and The Year of Living Dangerously are a couple of my all-time favorite movies, and I don't think of them as involving THE Mel Gibson - just some good-looking young guy with the same name.

[MLAA]

9. Won't watch Sarandon, Eastwood, Gibson, Allen and Wayne anymore.

[Martin68]

10. Jon Voight is and excellent actor but a wing nut of the worst kind.

I can usually separate art from the person, though. John Wayne is one actor I just can't abide, but that has as much to do with his acting as his politics.

[whathehell]

17. The irony of his present day right wingery is

the fact of his great, Oscar winning performance as the anti-Vietnam war vet, Luke, in "Coming Home". He was absolutely terrific in that role.

[Martin68]

18. That's what I mean. So I can separate the artistry from the man.

[mitch96]

12. ahhh don't watch them.. easy peasy..nt

[bif]

15. A good movie is a good movie.

I try to put my prejudices aside and just enjoy the movie for what it is.

[whathehell]

16. I can't watch him anymore..

Not after hearing of his racism, antisemitism and the horrible way he reportedly treated the mother of his youngest child.