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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In Europe the Pope begs the EU to consider the roots of Western Civilization and acknowledge God and absolute Truth,he preaches to an anesthetized people, Mel is trying to do the same things with pictures.
Mel doesn't like the Pope. He thinks any Pope since Vatican II is not legally holding the position, and is a false Pope. Mel, like his father before him, is virtually a schismatic from the Catholic Church. Read the history of his father (pull up Hutton Gibson on the Internet), and you will see what's going on here. Mel also believes his new movie is a portrayal of Bush and how he led us into war in Iraq. Mel thinks of himself as a pacifist while doing one movie after another that is all blood, all gore, all the time. Take your rose colored glasses off.
And his movies have grown more and more sadistic, as time goes by. He revels in the horrific gore he shows in slow motion and in obscene detail.
If there isn't, there will be one soon, expressing its "outrage" at Mel's movie.
Mel's said that it's the way that President Bush and his administration acts. He made this movie as a parable; used the Mayans to represent present day America.
BRAVO!
This is a bit of Mel's dad's bio from Wikipedia - helps to explain Mel's psyche:
"Early life
According to Wensley Clarkson's biography of Mel Gibson, Hutton studied for the priesthood in a Chicago seminary called the Society of the Divine Word. According to one friend of the family, he left the seminary on the eve of World War II, disgusted with the Modernist doctrines taught there.
Hutton Gibson served as a US Army Officer in the Pacific Theater during World War II after graduation from an OCS program. He was wounded in action at the Battle of Guadalcanal and invalided home in 1944.
He married Anne Reilly Gibson on May 1, 1944 at the Catholic parish of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Brooklyn, New York. They had ten children and adopted another after their arrival in Australia. Anne died in 1990. Hutton has since remarried.
Hutton Gibson and Jeopardy!
Hutton Gibson claims to have won a substantial amount of money on the Art Fleming version of the Jeopardy! game show. After winning several thousand dollars on his first appearance, he reportedly won $21,000 at the Jeopardy! championship.[3] Episodes from this era of the show do not survive, so there may be no formal record of Gibson's appearance. The show currently considers 1965 Grand Champion Burns Cameron's cumulative total of $11,100 to be the Fleming-era record, a much smaller amount than the amount that Gibson claims.[4][5]
In the 1960s Gibson worked for New York Central Railroad. In the early morning hours of December 11, 1964 he slipped on some spilled oil and seriously injured his back. A work injury lawsuit followed and it finally went to court on February 7, 1968. Seven days later, on Valentine's Day, Gibson was awarded $145,000 by the jury. What remained of this money after paying off debts and lawyers was still a substantial sum, and with that he relocated his family to Australia that same year. One of the reasons he made this move was reportedly because he believed that changes in American society were immoral.[3]
Hutton Gibson in Australia
After the promulgation of the Novus Ordo, the Gibson family home in Sydney, Australia was used as a secret chapel where the Tridentine Mass was offered. Also, Hutton used the house to store statues and altar relics which were being discarded by Catholic parishes at the time.
Hutton was the secretary of the Latin Mass Society of Australia, but was ousted after becoming increasingly vocal about his belief that the See of Peter is vacant due to the Popes embracing heresy (see Sedevacantism).
Notable beliefs
Hutton Gibson is a Sedevacantist (a form of Traditionalist Catholicism). His ideas, however, are rejected by many in the Traditionalist Catholic community. He believes that the Second Vatican Council introduced heretical doctrines into the Roman Catholic Church, and he believes that every Pope elected since Pope John XXIII have been illegitimate anti-popes. He has been especially critical of the late Pope John Paul II (whom he refers to as "Garrulous Karolus the Koran Kisser"). [6] He has also stated that the Second Vatican Council was the result of a secret anti-Catholic plot orchestrated by both Masons and Jews.[7]
Gibson adheres to the theory that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were not carried out by Islamist terrorists aboard the planes, but rather by an unknown party using a "remote control,".[8] He further believes that Jews want to take over the world and establish a one world religion and government.[9]
Hutton Gibson (left) with Holocaust denier Fredrick Töben, head of the Adelaide Institute, at the 2003 International Conference on Authentic History, Real News and the First Amendment
When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (prior to becoming Pope) stated that, although Judaism did not accept Jesus, it was nevertheless the "elder brother" of Christianity, Gibson observed that Abel also had an elder brother.[10]
He questions aspects of the Jewish Holocaust, especially the commonly accepted statistic that between five million to seven million Jews were killed, arguing that it would have been impossible for the Nazis to have disposed of so many bodies.[11] He further claims that most of the Holocaust was "fiction,"[11] that the thousands of Jews who disappeared from Poland during World War II "got up and left",[11] and that census statistics prove there were more Jews in Europe after World War II than before (a claim that is disputed by historians).[12] In support of his father, Mel Gibson claims that his father's beliefs do not amount to Holocaust denial. (Mel Gibson also says that he loves his father and will not speak out publicly against him.)
Hutton Gibson publishes a quarterly newsletter called The War is Now! in which he details many of his views."
Many thanks for the post. I knew some of the info, but not all of it.
Both,separately,are using the tools they have available to sound the alarm and get people to wake up and start thinking about what is happening.
The Pope travels round the world and preaches,teaches and promulgates his message using the media to carry it far and wide and Mel makes spectacular movies carrying what maybe the same message for the same purpose, throughout the world.
I share with them the concern that the world is going to hell in a hand basket and using the means at my disposal,I post a comment or two on Free Republic several times a week and tell my grandchildren scary stories about what's gonna happen if they don't behave.
And while we are all Catholic (BenedictXVII,Mel Gibson and myself)that is totally beside the point,as is whether Mel and/or his father think the Pope is legitimate or not.
With regards my post above,I meant to say whether Mel likes the Pope or not,they see the same problems.
Not 'We'! Maybe you don't and seem to be a 'blood enthusiast'.
I'm looking forward to it.
Don't believe it? Go read your conditioner bottle and see if it doesn't say either "Keratin enriched" or "Bio-Keratin enriched." Maybe is says "Collagen enriched" or "Bio-Collagen enriched" but whatever, if it does not specifically specify what the source is for the collagen or keratin then the collagen and keratin has been derived from aborted children. Aaaaaah… the hypocrisy!
I’ll be watching Mel’s movie to see how many similarities there are between the ancient Mayan empire and our own.
Thanks, Victoria.
Read what I posted. If it doesn't specify "animal" or "seaweed" or "honey", etc. then it is human.
So to answer your question... YES! I'm positive.
But not for the young or the squeemish.
Already planning to see it a couple more times next week.
Premiers in Australia on January 11.
Not sure I could handle the torture scenes tho!
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