Mel's Latest: Brilliant Film, Inane Interpretation

Townhall ^ | December 7, 2006 | Michael Medved

[ingeborg]

Gibson's film is a pastiche of other films, with Last of the Mohicans being its chief source of inspiration. I am surprised no critics have seen this. Apocalypse Now is also riffed and Dances with Wolves and a host of action films (think Predator). Apocalypto is more confected from test-audience elements than any other film I have seen in recent memory.

[Moonman62]

Mel is drinking and cursing his way to the bank. He can make an excellent movie, but he is not a happy man.

[Brilliant]

Mel is not a good speaker.

[Northern Yankee]

Thoughts?

[Zeon Cowboy]

I would like to watch and enjoy this film, as I enjoyed Passion, but Gibson is doing a pretty good job pushing me away. His comments are making me want to avoid this film, even though it looks great.

[PA-RIVER]

"Yes, abortion is equal. Just as cannibalism, homosexuality, and human sacrifices...."


Yes, I think Mel is on to something. The high rate of divorce, kids abandond to day care to fend for themselves as in "Lord of the Flies" so Mommy can work and have a new car. Infanticide and destruction of human life so that some actor who breaks his neck can hope to live for eternity. Sends the kids a strong message .... the strong survive, the weak will die.

Yes, Mel is on to something here.

[PA-RIVER]

I think you are dead on. My brother has same tendencies.
Loved the bottle for way too many tears. Talk politics, he goes balistic.

[Mel Gibson]

What’s human sacrifice if not sending guys off to Iraq for no reason?”

As a diversion, while our Saudi "allies" escape unscathed.

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When the Jews return to Zion. And a comet rips the sky And the Holy Roman Empire rises, Then You and I must die. From the eternal sea he rises, Creating armies on either shore, Turning man against his brother. 'Til man exists no more

You must go and find, Bugenhagen.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Loved the bottle for way too many tears.

Interesting typo.

[shekkian]

I saw it. I thought it was an okay movie, although I did notice a couple of obvious blunders. First, a full moon does not appear the same night as a solar eclipse, and second, you see the characters cross what I assume is the same river twice, right bank to left. It looked like Mel Gibson didn't think these things all the way through.

As for the Mayan city, I was wondering if Mel was trying to make an allegory about industrialization and capitalism, pillaging the earth and exploiting the little man. I haven't been to very many movies in the last couple of years, and I was just looking for some entertainment.

[FryingPan101]

Fascinating. Thank you.

[pjd]

What is conspicuously lacking in all of these analogies with the fall af the Mayan civilization is the arrival of the Spaniards.

When some fleet of ships carrying beings of very obviously advanced and unimaginable technology lands on our shores, then we can compare notes.

[proud American in Canada]

Interesting typo.

That was my thought exactly.

[beaversmom]

Don't take the kiddies or the wife......

I am the wife.

[beaversmom]

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.

Hard to believe that someone that served in WWII could be a Holocaust denier. Wonder if it made it over to Iran?

[Hatteras]

When did we start offering enemy hearts to the Sun God?????"

When we started offering a muslim the position of President of the United States.

[shekkian]

We just got one in Congress.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

Simplest theory that I can come up with is that Gibson is mouthing this crap line in penance to the media and Hollyweird liberal establishment.

....which is ironic since, IMHO, the Mayans and Hollywood probably have more similarities than any other segment of society.

[grammarman]

Let's not forget the human sacrifice on the other end, i.e. euthanasia.

[beezdotcom]

I'm waiting to see if some good conservative historian somewhere will discover that a contributing factor towards the downfall of the Roman and Mayan empires was the hyperbole of their pundits ABOUT the impending downfall of their respective empires...