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Mel unwell?

Wasn't Mr. Eszterhas responsible for the mind-blowing awfulness that was "Showgirls?" If so, perhaps he's not exactly qualified to judge the wellness of others.
 
Regnad Kcin said:
Wasn't Mr. Eszterhas responsible for the mind-blowing awfulness that was "Showgirls?" If so, perhaps he's not exactly qualified to judge the wellness of others.
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Showgirls is so bad it is almost brilliant. Watched it on TV with my wife at the weekend and was surprised that there was even more gratuitous nudity than I had remembered.
 
Showgirls is summed up by a friend of mine who saw it with me.

This always seemed impossible to me, but after a half-hour of naked breasts, I began to care that the story sucked.

Damn you, Esterhaus, for making us mature past our puerile adolescence!

Another friend of mine who saw it with us became violently ill half-way through the film. He afterwards claimed it was bad Chinese take-out he ate before seeing the movie, but we're all pretty sure it was the movie.
 
My brother: "Geoff, you'll get *tired* of seeing ****"

Me: "NO. WAY."

Yeah, well, WAY.
 
Can't listen to it now.

But as crazy and hateful as Mel is, this still seems fishy.

Estawhatsisname started working on a film project about Jews with a known drunken anti-Semite, and is now shocked and surprised that it didn't work out?
Had he not watched the Passion thingie?

And recording Gibson in his own house? Really?
If he was getting him to confess a muder, OK. But more anger and racism?
We already knew that.
 
I agree this is a particularly interesting quote:
"I have all this rage and I don't know why. I've tried therapy, but no-one can tell me why I'm so angry."

As a result of this accidental leak of personal information I have completely revised my view of Mel Gibson. Rather than being a foul mouthed bigot with an insane loathing of Jews and an enormous chip on his shoulder regarding the English, I see now that he is suffering from an undiagnosed condition. He is the victim here.

I shall now go and buy all of his most toe-curlingly awful movies in support of this poor man.

Not.
 
Wait a minute, at the beginning of the letter it says that Warner Bros told Eszterhas that his script was bad. Is that right? Or was it someone else's script?

And then Eszterhas dismisses this as the reason for not making the film and decided the cause was Mel Gibson's anti-semitism?

This seems a bit weird.

I can certainly believe that Mel is anti-semitic and that he swears a lot. But somehow I can't believe that Eszterhas was unaware of this.

Apparently there is a tape of Gibson swearing here:

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/transcript-mel-gibson-rant-joe-eszterhas-37108
 
Mel should switch to smoking weed.

Whatever the heck is wrong with him, alcohol isn't making it better.

At least he wouldn't have the energy to beat up his significant other.

OTOH, he'd probably get into conspiracy theories and come pester us on the CT forum.
 
New tapes of Mel? After the Oksana-debacle, has he not learned he needs to start frisking people? :eye-poppi
 
I bet if Mel became a member here he'd break the record for shortest time from joining to banning.
 
marksman said:
Showgirls is summed up by a friend of mine who saw it with me.

This always seemed impossible to me, but after a half-hour of naked breasts, I began to care that the story sucked.

Damn you, Esterhaus, for making us mature past our puerile adolescence!
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He entered the Porn Plot Zone.
 
marksman said:
Showgirls is summed up by a friend of mine who saw it with me.

This always seemed impossible to me, but after a half-hour of naked breasts, I began to care that the story sucked.

Damn you, Esterhaus, for making us mature past our puerile adolescence!

Another friend of mine who saw it with us became violently ill half-way through the film. He afterwards claimed it was bad Chinese take-out he ate before seeing the movie, but we're all pretty sure it was the movie.
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Showgirls did the difficult job of making Gina Gershon, who was at the time one of the sexiest women on the planet, totally unappealing. That takes some doing.
Paul Verhoeven as a director is like the Girl with the Little Curl in the nursery rhyme: When he is good he is very very good, but when he is bad he is horrid.
 
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