Posted on 12/15/2006 7:04:47 AM PST by Valin
I don't think it anything funny, it's just they operate in two different worlds. How much interplay is there between (say) an Astro Physicist and a professor of French literature? Not much I'd say.
And of course none of your tax money goes to the library buying the video, right. :-)
I can't control how the library spends those tax dollars; they even buy movies made by Roman Polanski. I won't personally/directly contribute to Polanski or Gibson.
It is unacceptable to the multiculturalists because it depicts a non-European culture as being evil. Only Europeans are allowed to be evil. The film is blasphemy against the multicultural religion of "everybody is equal and good, except those nasty Europeans"
Although the only movie I've seen in a theater in the last 15 years was "The Passion" I will brave the bubble gum and popcorn crowd to see this film.
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/troublemaker
The Pianist is an excellent movie.
I'll probably enjoy Apocalypto when I can see it without personally contributing to Gibson.
If you think the outcry regarding this movie is bad (and it will get louder)as it is ignored at the awards' dinners yet watched by multitudes - wait until somebody does a movie about Native North American Indians.
There would be a great movie in the barbarity of some of the Indians that sided with the French in the F&I War. But the real story would be one you don't hear about, that is the choice they took in siding with the loser of a war. History doesn't treat people who side with the loser of a war very well. Well, maybe that would be hard to translate to the cinema, so I guess torturing missionaries will have to do.
And neither the Astro Physicist nor the professor of French literature have ever met a "born-again chr*stian" in their lives, but that doesn't keep them from regarding them as monsters (while giving each other a free pass).
My husband and I saw Apocalypto last night. We give it a 9 on a scale of 1-10. We'd give it a 10 but as someone mentioned before there are a few cheesy moments that interupt the "suspension of disbelief"...when you see the movie you will know what they are. One hint, an incredibly well timed solar eclipse :)
BUT, overall this movie ia AWESOME!
Gripping, suspensful, gorgeous, shocking and entertaining. I'm a mother and I breed and groom dogs for a living so I didn't find it gorey at all...really what is so gorey about a human heart anyway? I'm very familiar with miscellaneous bodily fluids from man and beast, lol, the "Dirty Jobs" guy could have a field day at my house regularly ;) It's really not more violent than The Cinderella Man either..JMHO.
The truth is they were a$$holes and got killed everywhere they went. They were not "noble savages". I can just see them today with their own reservation and a casino on Galveston Island. If you complained about the blackjack dealer, he would eat you.
That's funny. (and true)
Cordially,
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