[Lorianne]

"Apocalypto": Bloody and beautiful http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2003466520_apocalypto08.html

[Jane Austen]

I just saw the film. Definitely not for children, and I looked away a couple of times. But overall mesmerizing with not a single dull moment.

[Red Badger]

He should have made it a musical........Apocalypso......

[The Blitherer]

I really want to see it, but I can't, in all good conscience, pay money for a movie whose inspiration and message is "evil America". Just can't do it.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

This article from the BBC is about how people are accusing Gibson of racism in the movie: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6216414.stm. Although he has done some bad things, Gibson went through a lot of effort consulting various Amerindian groups while making the film. He went through a lot of effort so that the movie wouldn't be racist.

[Cap'n Crunch]

Maybe this reporter would have given the movie "Two thumbs up" if the Mayan priests were abortion center doctors sucking babies brains out in a nice sanitary office room.

[SaltyJoe]

Hmmmm, the pre-Christian Western Hemisphere was cannibalistic to some degree. Some were more ravenous than others. Let's face it, my ancestors were either food or having their neighbors over for dinner (pun intended).

Is it any wonder that Christianity was so welcomed and accepted by the victims of cannibalism? The more horrific the tyrannies, the greater the conversions.



Our Lady of Guadalupe stands up for the Americas. She is the one who crushes the head of the serpent, the devil, who plagues all mankind.

[BradyLS]

Good. Almost fun. Kinduva twofer, really. I found the first hour fascinating in a National Geographic Special kind of way. And the last hour as a good, inverted remake of Predator.

[bert]

.......Based on the evidence on screen, it would seem we've already failed the class.......

I would take a contrariand view. The fact is, there has been historical success.

Jesus was crucified and ended the need for human sacrifice.

Mel made a movie making the actual spectacle historically unnecessary.