Posted on 12/08/2006 4:56:23 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
If anyone really feels the need to see throats cut up close just google some of the Chechen atrocities for the real thing. If after that you haven't had enough then by all means give Mad Mel your money.
There's only 2 movies I've seen where a heart is lifted from a live person....
..Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom..(hated that movie)...
..and Last of the Mohicans...Loved the movie, hated the heart scene.
Even in the Mohican movie, essentially you see the victim's eyes open very wide, but barely see the Indian cutting out the heart.
In Jones movie, the music & drums add to the suspense, but it doesn't DWELL on it for long.
I will pass on this movie....
There is too much happening in real life too horrifying....
..and potential for real horror from the mideast.
Yeah, and Hollywood loves Quentin Tarantino's movies, as well. Maybe Mel should change his name to Sam Peckinpah, Jr.
the reason these guys are so good is that south Park speaks the truth, often pointing out the Emporer who has no clothes. they also target everyone and everything ..so they are fair and have much more material to use in their humor.
Yeah--and how about the Tarantino movies? Gore as high camp.
That sentence didn't make any more sense than your criticism.
nah, Mel just makes snuff films for the massess. the guy is an arrogant self centered violent-loving jerk.
"Snuff films for the masses." Yeah, that's his genre all right. He's never done light comedy or romance or adventure. Nope. Just "snuff films."
Get out more.
Exactly. Not that this movie is campy, but if gore serves a purpose, then it shouldn't be avoided any more than any other film element. And the bloody truth is, the Mayans were utter savages.
The usual story is that the Mayan relgion ws not as bloodthirsty is the Aztec. Indeed, it is claimed that the Spanish story about the Aztecs was a lie. But the temples in Mexico smelled like slaughter houses, and horrified even soldiers hardened in war with the Moors.
Uh, yeah, sure. I suppose Hitler and Stalin were doing the same....just ran out of time to make the connection to Jesus.
You need to take more care in distinguisihing between fantasy and reality. Apocalypto is a movie, no one actually dies. Hitler and Stalin actually killed millions of people.
The hypocracy of Hollywood is stunning...there is more raw violence in an episode of The Sopranos than there was THE PASSION. Hollywood thrives on violence...ask Mr. Tarrantino what he thinks of Mel's films. When it comes to Gibson, all of a sudden everyone gets so puritanical. It's incredible.
Maybe they started working to figure out when the eclipses would occur after this happened a few times, ruining all their human sacrifice party plans.
The others with whom I went to see the film plan to go back a second time.
I do not like gore and at spots just looked away. But this is what the Mayans were liked.
Babies don't count with Libs.
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Mel has designated the wrong group as "the enemy" if his rant about the Jews being at fault for all the wars is any indication of his views. It's pretty evident that the Isalmic terrorists are the "enemy", that evil and the devil are the "enemy", so he needs to think that through. Germany had a great resource in the talented and productive Jewish people; what a horrible waste of humanity, from those lost in the Holocaust, not to mention the loss of life among the non-Jewish people of the world. My father survived the war, but it affected our family adversely in spite of all we could do to rise above it. - I'm so sick of the megalomaniacs and egotists of the world, from the politicians to the Hollywood so-called "intelligentsia" imposters.
Youre watcfhing too much TV - the conventional wisdom re: indians is largely myth.
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Similarly, where game was plentiful, Indians used only the choicest cuts and left the rest. When the buffalo hunting tribes on the Great Plains herded hundreds of animals over cliffs in the 18th and early 19th centuries, tons of meat were left to rot or to be eaten by scavengers - hardly a result consistent with the environmental ethic attributed to Indians. Samuel Hearne, a fur trader near Hudson's Bay, recorded in his journal in the 1770s that the Chipewayan Indians would slaughter large numbers of caribou and musk ox, eat only a few tongues, and leave the rest to rot.
Indians also manipulated the land to improve hunting. Upland wooded areas from east to west were burned to remove the undergrowth and increase forage for deer, elk, and bison. Indeed, because of this burning, it's possible that fewer "old growth" forests existed in the Pacific Northwest when the first Europeans arrived than exist today.
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