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To: UltraConservative
Warning: There are spoilers. If you are intent on seeing this movie, read no further

I have better things to do with my money, thank you.
Mel goes from idiot to idiot, with brief excursions into normalcy.

2 posted on 12/13/2006 5:04:21 AM PST by grobdriver (Let the embeds check the bodies!)
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To: grobdriver
Apocal... isn't that violent. Infact, Mel shows a lot of restraint in his depiction of the Mayans. Textbook treatment of the Aztecs and Mayans show them as cannibals by necessity. They had little protein in their diets that was from meat sources and didn't have the skill of animal husbandry - they didn't raise animals like pigs and cows and goats and chickens for mass consumption.

Written accounts by the first spanish invaders included the description of mounds of body parts. Body parts were divided between the castes. High castes got the better choices.

Mels move shows little of the institutionalized cannibalism, the stratified class structure but does a nice job of detailing a crowd scene around a pyramid on feast day.

Apocalypto has less gratuitous violence than a typical slasher move and far less horror than most teenager movies.

Until the hero took his second spear to the shoulder we all considered it the best movie of the year.

21 posted on 12/13/2006 5:27:26 AM PST by x_plus_one (Franklin Graham: "Allah is not the God of Moses. Allah had no son")
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To: grobdriver

I always wondered why Gibson made all those Lethal Weapon movies with the ultra left-wing extremist and kook, Danny Glover. Maybe things are as the author states -- that Gibson doesn't know right from wrong.


34 posted on 12/13/2006 5:44:37 AM PST by PhilipFreneau (God deliver our nation from the disease of liberalism!)
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To: grobdriver

Just a reminder that in spite of The Passion of the Christ, Mel is a Hollywood wh*re.


52 posted on 12/13/2006 6:29:24 AM PST by Mercat
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To: grobdriver

I'm suffering from Mel Gibson fatigue as well as Hollyrot's opinions about how we should live our lifes....there is nothing Gibson or Hollyrot have to offer that would alter my life.


95 posted on 12/13/2006 8:40:16 AM PST by auto power
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