Mel Gison's new show "Completely Savages" is great

[buggs]

It iw written byt the guys who wrtie the Simpsons, and while it isn't as raunchy as "Married with Children", it's great. I hope they do get a little more raunchier. The show starts out with the families maid taking all of their clothes into the back yard, pouring gas on it, and then throwing a match on it. All the dad can say is "Well, Lost another maid." The Dad talks about how they have gone through 23 maids since his wife left 12 years ago. So he decides that he is going to teach his boys how to clean up for themselves, and tells them he isn't getting a new maid. He tells the boys to clean up. Now one of the buys is the goody two shoes and starts to clean up, but the smart son tells them it is all jsut a game, and if they do this then they will never get a maid. Then he pull sout his guitar and starts singing "Daddy's going to buy you a pink apron until the other brothers, except the goody goody clean one, sides with him. Pretty soon the house is a mound of garbage, but the Dad still doesn't relent on getting a maid. Finally the smart one comes up with the grand plan that they need more garbage, so they steal garbage from the old lady down the street and dump it all over the house with their garbage. The dad comes home and says "Oh this is your worst plan ever. This isn't even our garbage" And the smart sone says "Yes it is." And the dad goes "Okay. Who uses Dentu-grip?" and the jock son says "I do Dad. It is to keep the football from slipping." Then the Dad says "Okay. Who uses the Vagasil?" The show is great. They move this one lamp around to cover the hole in the living room floor that the sons had dug into it years ago to dig a tunnel to hell. Even at the end, when the goody-goody two shoes son is on the couch, too shy to ask the girl across the street who has a crush on him to a date, is great. The Dad and the other sons are up stairs taping notes on what he should to next to a hockey stick that they are lowering from a hole in the ceiling. Mel directed the first episode, and it is great. I would like to see it a little more raunchier, and scathing like the simspons is. If the dad where more like Homer when he tells Bart to "shut up boy" that would make this a really great show.

 

[TklDuo-Ann]

IF Mel is involved in this, I doubt that we'll see it get raunchy. He's said on many occassions that he's done with that kind of stuff. Personally, I'd be happy to see it stay silly but clean. There's already way too much raunch on TV for my taste.

Ann

 

[Azrael]

Oh, Please

He's "done with that kind of stuff," right. After releasing movies with some of the most vivid depictions of torture Hollywood has ever seen? He added ordeals to Jesus' suffering that are not found anywhere in the Bible (or even in the known books that were left out) in "The Passion of the Christ."

I can name a lot of Mel Gibson movies, but very few where (a) his main love interest, and often his child/ren, didn't die horribly and graphically onscreen, or where (b) his character wasn't tortured horribly.

Braveheart... Payback... Mad Max... in no particular order. Lethal Weapon... well, his wife is already dead before the movie starts, so I suppose that one doesn't count, even if he is recklessly suicidal for most of the movie. Oh, yeah, in Mad Max we get to see a before & after of someone who was strapped into the seat of his upside-down truck, doused with gasoline, and lit on fire. Congratulations! We've got burning alive, bondage, and claustrophobia all in one!

Sorry... I like a lot of Mel Gibson's movie, but since TPotC came out I've lost all respect for the man, and I don't buy this 'nice Christian' act he's got going. His father leads the Catholic Church's semi-secret militant arm, for Christ's sake, and he's a member himself. These are the people who think that the Crusades and the Inquisition were good and holy things.

 

[buggs]

K. I was talking about the show "Complete Savages" and NOT The passions of the Christ.