So all in all - 50% snoozy bloodlust, 50% exciting but shakily executed chase.
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:07 (6 years ago) Permalink
― chap (chap), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:13 (6 years ago) Permalink
Western civilization 2007 right there.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:13 (6 years ago) Permalink
― nathalie, Saturday, 10 March 2007 13:31 (6 years ago) Permalink
― daria-g, Saturday, 10 March 2007 17:56 (6 years ago) Permalink
― latebloomer, Saturday, 10 March 2007 17:59 (6 years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 March 2007 20:08 (6 years ago) Permalink
― s1ocki, Saturday, 24 March 2007 20:13 (6 years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 March 2007 20:14 (6 years ago) Permalink
Saw this the other night. Thought I was going to be bored because the capture scene went on a bit, but as it got going it ruled. The city scene is amazing. Costumes deserved triple oscars. Those people with the elaborate headdresses and shaved foreheads!
― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 00:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
the movie i hate to love!
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 02:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
yeah so this basically fucking ruled. I watched it through twice yesterday, once with commentary. gibson is, uh, kind of a crypto-bigot, wow.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 25 February 2008 23:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
Hahah, any choice phrases?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 February 2008 23:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
“Sharp-toothed Lithuanians armed with baseball bats are crawling across the beach into your house. What should we do with them? We have to fight back.”
― da croupier, Monday, 25 February 2008 23:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
"crypto"
― latebloomer, Monday, 25 February 2008 23:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
"kind of"
― Jordan, Monday, 25 February 2008 23:36 (5 years ago) Permalink
i will say this once more:
TAPIR BALLZ
― latebloomer, Monday, 25 February 2008 23:36 (5 years ago) Permalink
this was all in all a pretty enjoyable action flick. certainly better than that shitty jesus movie.
― latebloomer, Monday, 25 February 2008 23:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
so who are the people on the boat at the end of the film?
christopher columbus, played by the set designer, and a franciscan monk played by the film's armorer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyages_of_Christopher_Columbus#Fourth_voyage
― El Tomboto, Monday, 25 February 2008 23:40 (5 years ago) Permalink
I just thought it was funny that mel could only remember like three of his actors' names from the whole movie. I mean he did remember a lot of details about so many of the people who worked on the film but clearly in his brain everybody was probably pedro 1, pedro 2, frank, pedro 8, carlito, pedro 26, fast pedro, old pedro, etc.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 25 February 2008 23:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
I checked this out of the library and watched it the other night, up to the point where the hero escapes and clambers through the pit of corpses. Right there I could see the entire remainder of the film would be an extended chase scene, so I bailed out.
Mel's POV as a writer and director is simple, simple, simple. The whole plot could be written on a napkin. However, the costumes for this film were utterly, jaw-droppingly fabulous! I can't rave enough about the costumes. The set design, cinematography and editing were all pretty darn good, too, but the costumes were mesmerizing. Loved 'em all.
Bottom line: I still couldn't finish watching the movie. Too reductive and too predictable.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 01:41 (5 years ago) Permalink
you missed some amazing, amazing sequences from the chase, though.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 01:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
but if I didn't love, love, love well-filmed pursuit action I probably wouldn't rate stuff like the warriors and behind enemy lines in my top x for all time
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 01:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
i forgot about this! i will like all chase stuff, i'm sure
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 02:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
is this sort of like The Naked Prey?
― gershy, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 03:15 (5 years ago) Permalink
Is it going to disgust me with all its "lol mayan empire collapse under own perversion!"?
― Laurel, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 03:22 (5 years ago) Permalink
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pretty rich to call a movie predictable when you didn't watch it all the way through.
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 03:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
Maybe he predicted he was going to stop watching.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 03:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
this film plays like a tribute to the color green. the nonstop lush action on acid worth any melophobia. loved it.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 04:20 (5 years ago) Permalink
Laurel it's more like "lol mayan empire collapse under own fixation on building stuff out of cement"
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 04:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
slocki, you don't seem to appreciate how simple-minded Mel is as a storyteller. When the storyline is laid out like a plank road for an hour, you can predict it's not going to suddenly change into a cloverleaf freeway exchange.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 19:36 (5 years ago) Permalink
this asshole does not deserve any of your money
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 20:11 (5 years ago) Permalink
did they harvest the organs of their prisoners for transplant? because this guy calls it the mayan protocol.
― Hunt3r, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 20:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
xxx-post
hahaha you didn't make it to the twist!
*SPOILERS*it's all a hallucination being experienced by Jesus on the cross at the end of the Passion*SPOILERS*
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 20:19 (5 years ago) Permalink
Hey dudes. I'm watching this now. It's kinda not bad, but not so great that I'm too enthralled to be posting while watching. I like the imaginative rendering of Mayan civ, although there's plenty of stuff that's hard to buy (doing dozens of sacrifices one after the other, for example.)
It's a boilerplate macho man epic, but not without its fun.
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 13 July 2008 04:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
there's something amateurish-looking about some of the cinematography, like parts of it look like a tv mini series or something
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 13 July 2008 04:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
i didn't find. elaborate?
― s1ocki, Sunday, 13 July 2008 09:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
Ending was a bit Lord of the Flies-sy.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 28 July 2008 16:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
I thought it was a pretty good historical action movie. Mel knows how to film action scenes - I guess he's worked with some of the best in the business, and he was apparently paying attention. The historical color was interesting and the vision of the Maya as a bloodthirsty, decadent civilization ripe for overthrow was intriguing. Bears comparison to "Road Warrior" for its extended chase scene and costume design.
― o. nate, Monday, 28 July 2008 18:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
I read that last sentence three times wondering to myself, "what scene had a bear in it?"
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 28 July 2008 18:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
Sorry, there was an implicit "It" at the beginning of that sentence.
― o. nate, Monday, 28 July 2008 18:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
tim curry's in this too? omg does he wrestle the bears!?
― latebloomer, Monday, 28 July 2008 18:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
Dude, he IS the bear.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 28 July 2008 19:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
Bears comparison to the Bad News Bears.
― s1ocki, Monday, 28 July 2008 19:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
Saw this last night, thought it was pretty good if a little naive.
The non-fight/chase-scene cinematography was pretty epic.
― Steve Shasta, Monday, 4 August 2008 22:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
this film is coming up on Behind Enemy Lines in my will absolutely watch this anytime anywhere top ten list. it's on some cable movie channel right now and I have just decided that my ideal technique for daydream violence needs to be me showing up covered in mud and pitching a nest full of hornets at whomever (former "bosses," former "colleagues," friedman, brooks, norquist, etc)
― TOMBOT, Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
I mean really why try to be all kill bill fancy ninja sword shit when there's free mud and stingmaster bug bombs all over the place
― TOMBOT, Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
pretty dope movie imo
― and what, Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
how long do you think you have to spend running around and hunting in forests before you learn how to pluck your own dud arrows out of tree trunks on the jog?
― TOMBOT, Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
the army is a pretty bullshit institution if u cant get some funding to answer that very question
― Lamp, Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:40 (4 years ago) Permalink