Apocalypto really sucked.
PorchMonkey4Life
film about Amazon savages. These people are unattractive and they look
stank with bones in their hair and wood and bones through their noses.
The story was boring. The wasn't as over the top as it could have been.
Braveheart was more violent in my opinion.
I did something that I haven't done in a while, I fell asleep during the
film (when Jaguar Saw was about to have his heart ripped out and woke up
during the scene where that guy's face was being ripped off by the black
jaguar).
This film was really bad and should not have been made. Is there really
a demand for many films with Amazon savages running around half naked
and having their hearts ripped out and their heads lopped off and rolled
down the temple stairs.
I wish the missionaries arrived about 90 minutes earlier into the film.
That would have made a much more interesting film!
The pace was okay it was just the subject matter that turned me off.
I rate this film as 0.5 out of 4.0 stars.
CliffB
PorchMonkey4Life wrote:
> Mel was drunk when he made this.
Did yu see him last week on Leno? He's a neurotic freak. He almost
looked schizo the way he was fidgeting and facial-contorting. Leno had
a cookie or a melba cracker or something for Mel to gnaw on so the tics
wouldn't get out of hand. Quite weird. Is that part of some extended
Alcohol withdrawal/ DT's reaction? Damn he was hepped up. Also, of
course, the spineless Leno didn't even get into the Mad Mel jew-ranting
business. That was off limits. He really kissed some mad mel ass though
about the movie and in order to get him on the show I suppose.
n9...@hotmail.com
Not a chance for me.
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Zeph
On Dec 10, 4:52 pm, PorchMonkey4Life <pm4l...@yousuckbutidont.com>
wrote:
Kris Baker
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> You actually went to a Mel movie *after* Passion?
> Not a chance for me.
Can we come over to your forums, Stephen Yong, and
spam THERE? No????? Why not?
WarriorW...@yahoo.com
Zeph wrote:
> On Dec 10, 4:52?pm, PorchMonkey4Life <pm4l...@yousuckbutidont.com>
I saw it last night and found it intresting and different. But
certainly not DULL.by any stretch of the imagination.
WarriorW...@yahoo.com
Here's a thought: instead of rehashing Mel Gibson's Jew-bashing rants
when L.A. cops got him on a DUI in July, let's stick to his movie.
Apocalypto brings out what's unique and gripping in Gibson as a
director. It's pure adrenaline -- a tremendously exciting chase movie,
shot in Mexico, that just happens to be set in ancient Maya with
dialogue spoken in Yucatec Maya, with English subtitles. Heck, you
lived through Latin and Aramaic in Gibson's Passion of the Christ, so
don't be a wussy. Actually, you'd better not be gore-shy, because
Apocalypto is one brutal and bloody ride.
The plot, cooked up by Gibson and Farhad Safinia, focuses on Jaguar Paw
(Rudy Youngblood), a braveheart if ever there was one. Even women and
children are killed when his village is attacked by another tribe.
After hiding his pregnant wife and young son in a cave, Jaguar goes on
the run experiencing adventures that would give Indiana Jones the
screaming meemies. The movie flies by fast enough to cause whiplash.
Youngblood, 25, is a Comanche and Cree Indian from Texas, and he holds
the screen every treacherous inch of the way, suffering penitential
hardships from spears, snakes and tribal rulers intent on removing his
heart while it's still beating.
This being Gibson, there's more to the film than the rush. It's
impossible not to see parallels to our own cultured civilization, one
that knowingly destroys its environment and sends troops to Iraq as
human sacrifices. Gibson has made a film of blunt provocation and
bruising beauty -- it's breathtaking to watch a jaguar racing in the
jungle alongside the man who is named after the beast. Say what you
will about Gibson, he's a filmmaker right down to his nerve endings.
PETER TRAVERS
(Posted: Nov 21, 2006)
jayembee
> This film was really bad and should not have been made. Is there
> really a demand for many films with Amazon savages running around
> half naked and having their hearts ripped out and their heads
> lopped off and rolled down the temple stairs.
If the box office matches THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, then the
answer to that question is "yes". If it bombs, the answer is "no".
> The pace was okay it was just the subject matter that turned
> me off.
So what possessed you to go see it in the first place? It's not
as if the TV ads didn't make it pretty clear that it was about
half-naked Amazon savages running around the jungle.
-- jayembee
Karl S
> Mel was drunk when he made this. What would possess this guy to make a
> film about Amazon savages.
The Maya lived in Mexico and Central America. The Amazon is in South
America.
RichA
PorchMonkey4Life wrote:
> Mel was drunk when he made this. What would possess this guy to make a
> film about Amazon savages. These people are unattractive and they look
> stank with bones in their hair and wood and bones through their noses.
>
> The story was boring. The wasn't as over the top as it could have been.
> Braveheart was more violent in my opinion.
The Patriot was more violent. As usual, faggoty critics overreacted
and LIED.
The movie however was well done and visually excellent.
Bill Anderson
Actually, Amazons were said to have lived in Pontus, which is part of
modern day Turkey. :-)
--
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Highlandish
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> Karl S wrote:
>> On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 21:52:09 GMT, PorchMonkey4Life wrote:
>>
>>> Mel was drunk when he made this. What would possess this guy to
>>> make a film about Amazon savages.
>>
>> The Maya lived in Mexico and Central America. The Amazon is in South
>> America.
>
> Actually, Amazons were said to have lived in Pontus, which is part of
> modern day Turkey. :-)
of course you mean of the amazon worrior women, being from that region.
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PorchMonkey4Life
mel gibson as a director usually makes good stuff so even though the ads
made the piece look unattractive, I ignored that and just went with is
past history of directing.
In the future, Mel Gibson films will not be automatic must sees for me.
Deborah
The movie hasn't come to my town, yet, but I would expect the movie to
be visually excellent. Dean Semler was the cinematographer.
Deborah
mc
WarriorW...@yahoo.com wrote:
> I saw it last night and found it intresting and different. But
> certainly not DULL.by any stretch of the imagination.
It's gotten some terrific reviews (with the disclaimer "no matter how
you feel about him..."). I doubt I'll see it though. I've never been
a big fan of his.
mc
Doomella
There's just something inherently uninteresting about the *oeuvre* of a
pretentious man with a mullet.
subscriber1997
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MG is a money makin machine $$$$
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chef_boyhowdy!
that was funny.
What does Dear Mel credit with the fall of the Mayan empire? So far, there
are absolutely ZERO historical records that can pinpoint it. Nobody really
is sure why the city states were abandoned.
curmudgeon
Or then again as the thinking mans *Slasher Flick*
"There are no enemies in science just anomalies"
CliffB
Didn't he blame George Bush?
chef_boyhowdy!
I'm secretly hoping that the movie would end with Mel Brooks riding up as
Cortez and saying something like, "Lets Have Another War! Matzah Balls for
Everybody!"
unfortunately Cortez took down the Aztecs, not the Mayans.
subscriber1997
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no
the fall of the empire was the
fault of the 1st Reagan administration
and those crazy spics
MaryLong2
It was beautiful and the faces of these people were beautiful. It was
beautiful and shocking and cruel. I don't know that I've ever
experienced anything quite like it. Mel is a storyteller.
Gwendolen
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> ____________________________
> I saw it last night and found it intresting and different. But
> certainly not DULL.by any stretch of the imagination.
>
seen in a long while.
Gwen
Al Smith
>>>>> film about Amazon savages.
>>
>>>
>>>The Maya lived in Mexico and Central America. The Amazon is in South
>>>America.
>
>
> and did not practice that type of sacrifice.
And you'd be wrong.
David Wright
40tude.net>:
I think the movie was about the Incas. The Mayans never met the white men,
David Wright
Really? That's not what I read from the links on this movie. These sources
indicated that the Mayan Civilization fell before the white men visited.
Also, the sacrifice of individuals in the Mayan civilization consisted mainly
of sacficing political opponents of the King. The Incas, on the other hand,
practiced the kind of sacrifice you see in the film (more or less, although I
don't know if even the Incas raided villages to get sacrificial victems).
Al Smith
Good grief. A dead horse you are beating.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypto
"Apocalypto is a 2006 film directed by Mel Gibson. Set in the
Yucatán Peninsula before Spanish contact, it depicts one man's
experience during the decline of the ancient Maya civilization."
http://www.aztlan.net/apocalypto.htm
"Los Angeles, Alta California - August 22, 2005 - (ACN) After
producing and directing the most successful independent film of
all time, "The Passion of the Christ", Mel Gibson is today
preparing to film, in Mexico, what promises to be yet another
blockbuster titled "Apocalypto". Though the script of the film is
being kept "top secret", there is no question what the film will
be about. The title "Apocalypto" which in Greek means "an
unveiling and a new beginning" and the fact that the film will
revolve around the ancient, highly evolved and mysterious Mayan
civilization, gives away the theme and content of the film.
"Apocalypto" will be filmed entirely in the Mayan language and the
cast will consist of local indigenous Mayan actors."
John F. Eldredge
wrote:
>>>>>>Mel was drunk when he made this. What would possess this guy to make a
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> film about Amazon savages.
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>The Maya lived in Mexico and Central America. The Amazon is in South
>>>>>>>>>>America.
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think the movie was about the Incas. The Mayans never met the white
>>>>>> men, and did not practice that type of sacrifice.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>And you'd be wrong.
>>>>
>>
>>
>> Really? That's not what I read from the links on this movie. These sources
>> indicated that the Mayan Civilization fell before the white men visited.
>> Also, the sacrifice of individuals in the Mayan civilization consisted mainly
>> of sacficing political opponents of the King. The Incas, on the other hand,
>> practiced the kind of sacrifice you see in the film (more or less, although I
>> don't know if even the Incas raided villages to get sacrificial victems).
>
>
>Good grief. A dead horse you are beating.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypto
>
>"Apocalypto is a 2006 film directed by Mel Gibson. Set in the
>Yucatán Peninsula before Spanish contact, it depicts one man's
>experience during the decline of the ancient Maya civilization."
>
>http://www.aztlan.net/apocalypto.htm
>
The Mayans did sometimes practice this form of human sacrifice,
judging from the murals they left behind, but a more limited form of
self-sacrifice by the upper classes, wounding themselves in order to
supply sacrificial blood, was more common. However, the Mayan
civilization collapsed several hundred years before the arrival of the
Spanish. By the time the Spanish arrived, the dominant civilization
in Central America was the Aztecs, who practiced the same sort of
human sacrifice, but on a much larger scale (for the reconsecration of
the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in 1487, they allegedly sacrificed
80,400 prisoners over a four-day period).
The Incan civilization was a thousand miles or so to the south, in the
high Andes. They sacrificed a small number of people, generally by
being buried alive at sacred sites high up in the mountains. National
Geographic Magazine had a cover article on Incan mummies a few years
ago.
--
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LIBERATOR
The movie was outstanding you moron.
PorchMonkey4Life
Yeah.. But POTC (not the Depp movie!!) was such a surprise hit and was
so well done, that I ignored reason and gave it a go. I'm not too bent
out of shape, it's not like I paid for POTC.
thedo...@gmail.com
> Mel was drunk when he made this. What would possess this guy to make a
> stank with bones in their hair and wood and bones through their noses.
>
> The story was boring. The wasn't as over the top as it could have been.
> Braveheart was more violent in my opinion.
>
> film (when Jaguar Saw was about to have his heart ripped out and woke up
> during the scene where that guy's face was being ripped off by the black
> jaguar).
> This film was really bad and should not have been made. Is there really
> a demand for many films with Amazon savages running around half naked
> and having their hearts ripped out and their heads lopped off and rolled
> down the temple stairs.
>
> That would have made a much more interesting film!
> The pace was okay it was just the subject matter that turned me off.
> I rate this film as 0.5 out of 4.0 stars.