Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

Yes, it was finally released in the US late last year.

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

Sooooo buying it.

BUT before I do...How was the transfer on DVD in R1 btw? Good DVD set overall?

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

Mel Gibson has not aged well...must be all the alcohol and anti-semitism:)

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

I usually avoid BBC Region 1 DVDs as they have a tendency to not convert them correctly from PAL to NTSC. The one review I saw of the region 1 DVD says the transfer is so-so, but that may be because of the source material.

I recently picked up the UK Region 2 DVD for around $10, so if you have a multi-region player, that is the way to go.

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

Looks fine to me. He's aged a lot better than Pesci for example.

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

Saw him on Leno last night and Mel looked pretty good. :shrug:

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

Hopefully this does well enough to renew studios' interest in Fury Road.

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

I know your statement was some what tounge in cheek but I have to agree, Mel looks very weathered for a man that just turned 54. He looked older, with respect to their actual age, than Harrison Ford (67) does in Extraordinary Measures.

Having said that, the movie was really good and it was great to see Mel back on the big screen.

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

speaking of Ford, anyone see him on Kimmel last night? he was very slow, and looked out of it

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

Isn't that standard for all his talk show interviews?

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

He's an enormous pothead, so maybe he was stoned. As per the usual...


And yeah Mel Gibson looks like a piece of leather.

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

I think Mel looks fine. The movie sucks, though. Review will be up Thursday night.

The gist of it is, they made a political thriller and then someone at Warner turned it into Taken 2 against its will, and the scuffle is obvious. At first I thought it was okay, but my opinion has steadily dropped all through today.

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

Gibson is a heavy smoker, which tends to age people and give them that leathery look.

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

Armond White gives it a favorable review in New York Press.

Here's the link:

http://www.nypress.com/article-20843...d-passion.html

He makes it sound like something I want to see.

And, yes, I would have liked TAKEN a lot more if Mel Gibson had played the role.

I love White's first paragraph, which is certain to infuriate most of you reading this:

"Back onscreen in Edge of Darkness, after a seven-year absence, Mel Gibson looks like hell. He’s certainly been through it—enduring the worst public vilification since Michael Jackson and O.J. Simpson. But he’s still quite a good actor and brings a believably gruff, on-edge solidity to his role as Irish Boston cop Thomas Craven, who is searching for his daughter’s killer. He’s more believable than Sean Penn’s flamboyant grieving father turn in Mystic River. Had Gibson played Jack Nicholson’s role in The Departed the film might have achieved the authenticity that was lost to Scorsese’s lowlife fantasizing. Gibson roots Craven in credible middle-aged fatigue as if to prove he’s a truer artist than his haters claim."

I don't know what to make of the comparison with O.J. and MJ, but I agree with him on MYSTIC RIVER and THE DEPARTED.

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

From Kimmel last night:

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:lol:

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

He looks fine to me.

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

Well, for what it's worth, the point is that it ISN'T Taken and that WB has done a poor job of refashioning it into something that kind of resembles Taken. 75% is a slow-boil conspiracy thriller, 25% of it is vigilante revenge. And the conspiracy thriller is the much better movie.

Also, Armond White is a notorious contrarian troll.

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

he also just said he recently quit smoking.

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

I would prefer the 100% conspiracy thriller myself.

As for White, I'll have you know, he's an established critic who's been reviewing films for about 30 years now. I've been reading him, off and on, for most of that time. He was the regular reviewer at the City Sun, a weekly Brooklyn newspaper (pre-internet) before it went under. He's written for Film Comment and other publications and he's been the regular reviewer for New York Press, a weekly newspaper, for about 15 years now. That hardly matches the definition of a "troll." Contrarian, maybe, but so what? In a masscult brainwashed populace like we have today, contrarians are often the only ones who see the truth.

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

I don't agree w/ you, sorry. I'd elaborate but I will do so tomorrow.

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

I don't know whether I will see this or From Paris With Love when it opens next week. Paris looks to have more action in it, and anything with Luc Besson involved will be entertaining. But I have long wanted to see Mel Gibson in a movie again.

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

watch them both.

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

The thing that makes him a troll is that he, almost like clockwork, for some truly harebrained reasons, goes against the grain on almost every single movie released, no matter how mild or unanimous the consensus. To find a movie where Armond agrees with the majority, even partially, is to find a needle in a haystack. You can look at his Rotten Tomatoes profile and see how his Tomatoes are literally the opposite on around 97% of the movies released in any given period, if not more.

I mean, maybe I'm wrong, but he compared Speed Racer to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. I think he's got a screw loose.

Anyway, here's my review: http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/41912...darkness-2010/

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

Nice review droid. :thumbsup:

Re: Edge of Darkness (2010, Campbell) -- Mel Gibson returns
 

You are the first person I know who reads his review regularly. I have no problem with his going against the grain... it's the reasons for doing so that bother me, plus the fact that it is a torture to read his ramblings. I may not agree quite a bit with Roger Ebert on his liking or disliking a film, but he still is an interesting read and gives me new insights about the film....Armond White gives me nothing but frustration & exasperation.

But to each his own.