Posted on 12/08/2006 9:26:29 AM PST by TaraP
I thought the movie would center on the Mayan Prediction that the Sun will blow up on 12/12/2012?
Even the Scientific Community has said the Sun will be at it's highest peak of exploding sunspots on that date?
I have zero interest in this movie and it has nothing to do with Mel Gibson. I have forgiven him long ago for his mistakes...we all have them. I have watched almost every movie he has made or stared in, but this one just seems very boring. I liked the Passion and put up with the other language but we knew the story so it was easy to follow. No deal on this one. Hopefully others will be interested and go see it.
So Christians are only supposed to see movies that have a religious message? What a silly, limited view.
I haven't seen it yet, but everything I have seen of it, and every person whose opionion I respect (and some I don't) have said it's a awesome film. I can't wait to see it myself.
I have less than zero interst in this film.
Of Course Not..
I will proably see it, I just thought it would be about the Mayan Prediction of 2012 which is kind of interesting
plus the title of the movie would make you think that.
Mayan Prediction.
The point of interest for these early astronomers seems to have been the projected end date in 2012 A.D., rather than the beginning date in 3114 B.C. Having determined the end date in 2012 (for reasons we will come to shortly), and calling it 13.0.0.0.0, they thus proclaimed themselves to be living in the 6th baktun of the Great Cycle. The later Maya certainly attributed much mythological significance to the beginning date, relating it to the birth of their deities, but it now seems certain that the placement of the Long Count hinges upon its calculated end point. Why did early Mesoamerican skywatchers pick a date some 2300 years into the future and, in fact, how did they pinpoint an accurate winter solstice? With all these considerations one begins to suspect that, for some reason, the ancient New World astronomers were tracking precession.
I want to see it. I'm interesting in the Mayans and in the dark side of humanity. Evil is much more fascinating to me than good, especially since the most evil of men believe they are doing good.
Maybe I'll go to one of his movies when he starts using English again.
I like violent movies, and I don't expect every film to have "European pride" or whatever the author here is talking about.
It looks like a great story and I look forward to watching it.
They are a hundred other people more fked up and violent than Mel freaking Gibson.
Where the hell are these "tut tut you violent monster" comments for psychos like Eli Roth or the @$$shards who keep churning out dreck such as turista, descent, the cave, etc ad nauseam?
how about that Italian guy who made a movie so depraved and violent that people were fainting and vomitting. IT made Eli Roth's sick fantasies look like baby Barbie's HAppy Fun JOy Joy partyy with Hello Kitty cuddlies.
Who is this Italian? of which you speak.
His movie sounds like something Ronald Reagan would not star in! Call my embarrassed if it turns out he did star in this international superproduction. Often in the last stages of his career, Ronald Reagan would go overseas to star in a movie or two, like a "Spagetti" Western or one of those Sword-and-Sandal epics. I wonder if it is one of these movies of which you speak. I did not know Ronald Reagan was in so violent a movie.
It's a masterpiece.
Go Mel go!
Don't expect me to jump on your "dump Mel" bandwagon.
I think what the author is saying is that a violent movie might be worth seeing if it had some sort of redemptive message. He is saying that he did not detect that in Apocalypto.
You've seen it?
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