Apocalypto...

Morphine Child · Post by **Morphine Child** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:31 am

I saw a late showing of this tonight, and I was blown away. I really loved it. The story was good, the plot was cool, and the overall realness of what was going on then was pretty convincing. "Passion of the Christ" did nothing for me, but I thought Mel Gibson did a wonderful job on this one. As far as gore goes, this movie had a few scenes in it that outdid "passion", and I know that was a big deal for a lot of "passion" viewers. Obviously this movie isn't receiving near the hype, but it does have a few disturbing moments. Disturbing along the lines of the French film "Irreversible".

martymieux8266 · Post by **martymieux8266** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 11:46 am

i wanna see that.

poopstains · Post by **poopstains** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:47 pm

My feeling is that this movie won't get a fair shake by any critics or anyone in the media, due to the fact that Gibson has fallen off the deep end.

scuzzbagcomics · Post by **scuzzbagcomics** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:43 am

yeah i saw apocalypto friday night. definitely not a movie to try and make out with your gf during.

lots of gore and violence. i assume the people performing the human sacrifice on jaguar's paw's people on the pyramid were AZTECS. what i liked most about the movie was the dress and designs of the people. mesoamerican culture! pretty awesome. but the decapitations and cutting out beating hearts kinda sucked really bad. so if those were the AZTECS, then I guess I'm not really bothered that the spanish annihilated them all. The AZTECS were so decadent. on the other hand jaguar paw's people still live on to this day in mexico and central america. forest tribal peoples still survive.

Apocalypto is full of action and suspense. Gibson definitely knows what he's doing. I'm glad i saw it, but I don't think I'll wanna see it again.

Grindspine · Post by **Grindspine** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:40 am

scuzzbagcomics wrote:yeah i saw apocalypto friday night. definitely not a movie to try and make out with your gf during.

lots of gore and violence. i assume the people performing the human sacrifice on jaguar's paw's people on the pyramid were AZTECS. what i liked most about the movie was the dress and designs of the people. mesoamerican culture! pretty awesome. but the decapitations and cutting out beating hearts kinda sucked really bad. so if those were the AZTECS, then I guess I'm not really bothered that the spanish annihilated them all. The AZTECS were so decadent. on the other hand jaguar paw's people still live on to this day in mexico and central america. forest tribal peoples still survive.

Apocalypto is full of action and suspense. Gibson definitely knows what he's doing. I'm glad i saw it, but I don't think I'll wanna see it again.

I question if Gibson did any research over mesoamerican cultures or just took the well-known fact that Aztecs performed human sacrifice as the basis of a movie.

Scumbag, you like the fact that the Spanish partially anihilated that culture, then interbred with them to make modern day mexicans?

therecordinghouse · Post by **therecordinghouse** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:33 am

crazies make the best movies, and music...

Morphine Child · Post by **Morphine Child** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:15 am

Well actually, the movie was about the Mayans. I get the two confused too, and during the movie I was thinking it was the Aztecs there for a minute.

As far as it being a good thing that the Spanish killed off the Mayans? The Spanish were just as crazy when they came over...

scuzzbagcomics · Post by **scuzzbagcomics** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:51 pm

I question if Gibson did any research over mesoamerican cultures or just took the well-known fact that Aztecs performed human sacrifice as the basis of a movie.

Yeah i dont know if their culture was expressed truthfully but man they had some cool costumes. thats all i know. like the leader of those headhunters. he had the coolest costume ever. he was badass. everyone in that movie had awesome costumes.

Scumbag, you like the fact that the Spanish partially anihilated that culture, then interbred with them to make modern day mexicans?

Hey man say what you want about the Spanish. At least they didnt practice human sacrifice. They did execute people (Inquisition) and of course for crimes and offenses. But they didnt kill people like those people did. (rip out beating hearts) pretty bloodthirsty man

Well actually, the movie was about the Mayans.

Alright I'll trust you on that.

As far as it being a good thing that the Spanish killed off the Mayans? The Spanish were just as crazy when they came over...

Yeah the spanish did a lot of damage for sure.

scuzzbagcomics · Post by **scuzzbagcomics** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:54 pm

**Edited for Content** Ka

WhAT THE FLIP guys???

is the word "CLITORIS" really that offensive? Or is the fact that its your mother's that makes it so offensive?

so what, Tipper Gore working for FWM.com now?

paradox now · Post by **paradox now** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:05 pm

scuzzbagcomics wrote:Hey man say what you want about the Spanish. At least they didnt practice human sacrifice. They did execute people (Inquisition) and of course for crimes and offenses. But they didnt kill people like those people did. (rip out beating hearts) pretty bloodthirsty man

The spanish had their own form of sacrifice. You have to look outside the box. Us Americans have our own: sacrificing our people for freedom, etc. I assure you that if you do the research (ala anthrpologia), you will find "sacrifice." As a post-script, genocide is usually considered a bad thing.