Posted on 12/13/2006 4:59:55 AM PST by UltraConservative
Written accounts by the first spanish invaders included the description of mounds of body parts. Body parts were divided between the castes. High castes got the better choices.
Mels move shows little of the institutionalized cannibalism, the stratified class structure but does a nice job of detailing a crowd scene around a pyramid on feast day.
Apocalypto has less gratuitous violence than a typical slasher move and far less horror than most teenager movies.
Until the hero took his second spear to the shoulder we all considered it the best movie of the year.
I and mine will take your word for it and continue to avoid Gibson gorefests, mad slasher movies, and teenage-oriented horror flicks alike.
You missed nothing , it was embarrasing for him. Mel is a very talented guy, but he looks and acts like a train wreck. He kind of reminds me of his character in Lethal Weapon, on the crazy side, without the handsome and loveable!
Gibson had "Jaguar Paw" on with him. The actor is VERY suited for movies with subtitles, as he was pretty much inarticulate.
Gibson says the primary reason for a movie is entertainment.
He didn't know about the Holocaust Denial conference in Iran, because he doesn't watch TV.
He might make another Lethal Weapon movie.
His "unfortunate incident" has allowed him to grow as a person.
It's really early in Hollywood compared to New York.
His movie isn't as violent as "Braveheart."
He was not very charming, was jittery, and displayed no sense of humor.
To equate the freeing of 15 million from a barbaric dictator to the genocide of a peaceful society is the height of ignorance. Hope mel lost some of that money he made from the Passion.
Pray for W and Our Troops
He did seem to be holding back anger/hostility...but not very well, or convincingly.
..did nothing to recommend his movie, even if I was inclined to see it, which I'm not!
Because the human sacrifice scenes are a metaphor for the 6:00 am sale frenzy at Best Buy. ;)
After five hundred years of fighting moors in spain the spanish were masters of whatever they did.
That just about summed it up!
Get a grip. Mel, IN HIS OWN WORDS, has told you what HE thinks the movie is about, and Christianity isn't the point!
Actually, cultural leaders equating human sacrifice with self-defense and the imposition of law and order is grounds to be concerned about our future.
One more example of how hard drinking kills brain cells.
I've never seen Gibson so ... animated. His eyes were darting around the room, and he seemed to answer everything sarcastically. He seemed almost apoplectic.
When Steve Doocy (sp?) asked what Gibson thought about the ongoing anti-Jewish "conference" in Iran, Gibson feigned to know nothing about it, saying "I dont watch TV."
Maybe it was my perception, but Gibson seems to have lost his natural joviality since his DUI arrest where he was rightfully admonished by the general public for his a-holish comments about "Jews being the cause of nearly all wars," or whatever it was he said.
You nailed it. I gave a summary of the interview a few posts above yours.
I always wondered why Gibson made all those Lethal Weapon movies with the ultra left-wing extremist and kook, Danny Glover. Maybe things are as the author states -- that Gibson doesn't know right from wrong.
I think if one sees the movie and draws their own conclusions one may see it from my prespective which is this:
Many in the US on the left embrace a New Age belief that we should all get in touch with how the indians were back before Europe invaded the Americas.
Well, thanks to Mel he has shown everyone what this would mean.
And it's becomes clear to anyone viewing the movie what changed all of this sick behaviour at the every end.
Thanks Mel, I don't care what you say it means, I think once you see it it makes it's own statement very nicely.
Gibson is a flaming idiot. No better than Babs, Danny Glover, or any other hollywood dingbat.
At least with The Passion, there was a reason for the violence. IMO, the violence demonstrated just how much Jesus Christ endured for the sake of humanity. However, it was a very hard movie to watch and I had to turn away several times.
OTOH, blood and gore for its own sake... no thanks.
I went to see the Nativity instead. Very uplifting!
It was released on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, which does not occur in the summer.
To be fair though, if Apocalypto is an accurate portrayal of the violence that went on back then, then it does not exist for it's own sake. It exists as a window to the past, to the history of how these people really were.
Now, you can choose to look through the window or walk right on by. Makes no difference which really. The fact remains however, that if it is an accurate portrayal, then it does not exist for it's own sake.
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