Posted on 12/01/2006 3:38:06 AM PST by AmericaUnited
'Apocalypto' Is More 'Mad Max' Than Mayan
With the subtlety of several thousand flying mallets and arrows, here comes Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto," a two hour plus torture-fest so violent that women and children will be headed to the doors faster than you can say "duck" when the film opens on Dec. 8th.
Indeed, 'Apocalypto' is the most violent movie Disney has ever released, with so much blood spurting out of orifices that even Martin Scorsese would blush. If you've ever wondered what it would be like to see heads and hearts removed without anesthesia, then this is the movie for you. "Grey's Anatomy" it is not.
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"Apocalypto" surpasses "The Passion" in every way as a movie about pain, flagellation and wounding. The grotesqueries are almost numbing, and at some point they become laughable. But all the while, you're thinking, what's the point here? If "Apocalypto" was supposed to be about that transitional civilization, where is it? After two hours and several minutes of squirming and covering eyes, you start to think that "Apocalypto" exists just to show violence for itself. The point is lost.
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Yeah, the Mayans were all puppies and kittens.
I'm looking forward to this. It is being called Gibson's best film ever. For pure screen spectacle and sheer beauty, I don't anything will beat it this year.
And I've had enough of his interviews where he speaks in the third person.
It seems to me that a lot of critics panned Braveheart when it first came out.
If I listened to the news the Poodle would be president. I think I'll form my own opinion.
Mad Max with Mayans? Can't go wrong with that!!!
ditto that.
I won't see it, but probably my guys (hubby and son) will.
The thing about Gibson is that he picks subjects for his movies and then decides to portray them realistically.
Read about the Mayans...there's probably no more torture, blood, gore than is historically accurate.
Same with Passion of the Christ, the Bible says Jesus wasn't recognizable as a man after his beatings. The scourging was probably historically accurate.
Braveheart wasn't what you'd call "tame" either.
His desire, I guess, is realism, and his subjects are historical. That's better, in my book, than the garbage coming out of Hollywood like Kill Bill, etc.
I saw the Passion, but don't feel compelled to know more about the Mayans than I already know, so since I "can't stand the gore, I'll stay out of the theater."
So whats the beef? Is there a law that requires me to have to see the movie.
Mel Gibson and HollyWood may make all the movies they like, doesn't mean I am required to see it.
You say it's too bloody for the children, who's their parents, what is required by a parent?
I don't want anything to do with it.
Entertainment based on murder simply doesn't move or compel me to view it. I don't watch these films and hope I never have a desire to.
For others, if that's entertaining to them, fine. Enjoy it. For those who wish to consider it, it might be good to ask "Why?"
A definent will see movie!
Hey it's a free country buy my beef is Gibson is a FRAUD! As pointed out by the reviewer, this movie has little to do with wanting to show case Mayan civilization and just an excuse to sell a blood/gore filled spectacle.
Hundreds of human sacrifices were performed daily - the temple steps flowed with a river of blood and with hearts ripped out while the 'victim' was still alive.
So what did Roger Friedman expect in a realistic retelling -- 'Bambi Goes To The Yucatan'?
Have you seen the movie?
We've got all we can handle with Bedlam in Oklahoma.
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