Saw it last night. Interesting. Bloody. A classic little man versus "The Man" story. Elements of "The Terminator" franchise combined with elements of "Dances With Wolves." Beautiful cinematography. Not a "date movie." Worth the price of admission.
Saw it last night. Interesting. Bloody. A classic little man versus "The Man" story. Elements of "The Terminator" franchise combined with elements of "Dances With Wolves." Beautiful cinematography. Not a "date movie." Worth the price of admission.
"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever they can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser; in fees, expenses and waste of time." -- Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865) Lawyer and President who saved the United States.
"Without opportunities on the part of the poor to obtain expert legal advice, it is idle to talk of equality before the law"-- Justice Chas. Evans Hughes
I heard it's very anti-semetic...
There's not one Jewish character in the whole film!
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
- Fred Bastiat
I'm sure they own the studio or did the accounting or something.Originally Posted by Jerk
i found it hard to watch at times.
Whenever a boy comes you should always have something baking.
what is so controversial about it?
controversial? I dunno...the human sacrifice stuff kinda made me sick to my stomach.
Whenever a boy comes you should always have something baking.
i just remember the MSM billing it as "controversial"
probably mostly because of Mr. Gibson's involvement
remember when he was just a big star/sex symbol?
yes. I liked him better that way. he looked pretty good in person though..i must say.
Whenever a boy comes you should always have something baking.
SPOILER!!!
wasn't as graphic as it could have been. We didn't actually get to see the beheading. I still don't think it was any worse than Braveheart or Last of the Mohicans.
The average complaint I see from critics is the fact that he doesn't develop the characters enough. well it's a bang bang movie.
Homey, I don't get the Dances With Wolves comparison other than the fact there's good guy being chased by bad guy. We don't get to see the natives interact with the explorers which is what I was kind of expecting.
Last edited by picasso; 12/14/2006 at 11:07 AM.
Hmm..i thought there was ample character development...
Whenever a boy comes you should always have something baking.
DWW in that it gives insight into a particular native culture, and that culture also happens to have conflicts with other native peoples as well as an impending end to its way of life brought on by white incursion.
BTW, I still haven't worked out the smallpox piece, if that final scene represented the first appearance of whites.
"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever they can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser; in fees, expenses and waste of time." -- Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865) Lawyer and President who saved the United States.
"Without opportunities on the part of the poor to obtain expert legal advice, it is idle to talk of equality before the law"-- Justice Chas. Evans Hughes
that's a great point.
The little girl was a seer, or a vision herself.
true but she wasn't alone.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/apocalypto/
i thought it was great. there wasn't a single moment in the film where i felt the storyline was falling apart.
i thought it was a good time.....visually it was fantastic. how come the hole didn't fill up before? was this the first time it rained? i didn't think it was all that gory.....there's a dozen flicks made every year where more people get their chest or faces essploded or mutilated in slo mo with automatic weapon fire. there really was a lot of running....that's for sure. was that #2 bad guy Dennis Rodman?
yeah they did tons of running, kinda like in The Last of the Mohicans. an Indian Relay if you will.
I recognized the bad *** war chief right away as the Iriqouis Chief in The Black Robe.
Gibson definitely has a way of drawing you in as a film maker.
Wow!
If "ApocOlypto" was so bad, I'd better not waste my meager coins on "Apocalypto".
What a difference an "A" makes!
Well, you give me a shot and I'm gonna take it. LOL!
LF
Happy Feet it is, then.
at this point in the process, I can only assume it was a typo and they meant to say "cram"...
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