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#1The Beaver
Posted: 1/23/13 at 11:44pm
Just watched this on a whim. I thought it was a touching, unique portrait of mental illness.
I've never been a huge Mel Gibson fan (even before all the scandal) but he's quite touching in this. The most nuanced performance I've seen him give. Shame he had to have a meltdown when this film came out, he'd probably have gotten more kudos.
Foster's direction (and performance) is superb. Jennifer Lawrence also gives a lovely performance. Anyone else find this film surprisingly good?
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#2The Beaver
Posted: 1/24/13 at 8:56am
Haven't seen it, and almost certainly won't. I can't bear the sight of Mel Gibson any more, the crazy is just too evident now. I remember the trailer, which came out soon after the release of those appalling phone calls, and it just seemed hilarious that the guy who'd made those calls was in a self-help movie featuring Jodie Foster (directing herself) as an apparently surrealistically devoted wife.
It may not be fair to judge the film this way without even having seen it, but there's nothing there to make me even remotely interested in sitting through it. At all. Maybe if it was on HBO on some really rainy Sunday afternoon when there was just nothing else on...
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Updated On: 1/24/13 at 08:56 AM
#2The Beaver
Posted: 1/24/13 at 1:39pmI was done with Mel Gibson with Passion of the Christ. Didn't see it and didn't want to see anything involving him again.
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