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EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: MAD MAX IV — HOLOCAUST ROAD

By | February 2004

I don’t care if Gibson is accusing the Jews of killing Jesus. I don’t care if he’s saying the aliens from “Signs” did it. It still won’t change the fact that this is a movie based on a story that most people already know and far too many people take literally…

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