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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
haha lamp I almost added a line about how I think that exact kind of thing is why nugent-flavored white guys always seem to fill the ranks of delta, seals et al.
― TOMBOT, Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
if I started a thread devoted to the discussion of films wherein the protag is basically a schmo who must use resourcefulness and luck to evade a pursuing cadre of elite(s) killers through foreign territory, would it get any posts
― TOMBOT, Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
Might degenerate into arguments about that genre v schmo who turns tables on his assailants (Straw Dogs, 28 Days Later, etc...)
― Gukbe, Saturday, 10 January 2009 09:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
― TOMBOT, Saturday, January 10, 2009 7:46 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i'd hit it
― s1ocki, Saturday, 10 January 2009 16:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
I admit I find it hard to think of the title character in Predator as a schmo.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 January 2009 17:00 (4 years ago) Permalink
he's probably a schmo to the other predators... that's why he's stuck hunting humans and doesn't even win
― s1ocki, Saturday, 10 January 2009 17:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
― s1ocki, Saturday, January 10, 2009 11:57 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yah im w/this
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 10 January 2009 17:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
btw <3 apocalypto
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 10 January 2009 17:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
the movie i hate to love!
― s1ocki, Tuesday, October 16, 2007 2:00 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― s1ocki, Saturday, 10 January 2009 17:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
im sort of proud of my iconoclastic love for this movie tbh
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 10 January 2009 17:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
ˆˆi never got past 30 minutes of watching this tbh.
― csa, Saturday, 10 January 2009 17:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
i love the scene going through the different mayan neighbourhoods
― s1ocki, Saturday, 10 January 2009 17:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
I watched Gladiator last night for the first time and the whole asshole-royalty-appeasing-the-masses-in-CGI sure looks the same in every movie.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 10 January 2009 19:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
man i hate gladiator
― tired (latebloomer), Sunday, 11 January 2009 04:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
such a boring, ugly movie.
― tired (latebloomer), Sunday, 11 January 2009 04:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
Apocalypto however was way better than it should have been
― tired (latebloomer), Sunday, 11 January 2009 04:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
otm otm otm
― s1ocki, Sunday, 11 January 2009 04:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
gladiator rules u guys r crazy
― ice cr?m, Monday, 12 January 2009 04:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
if I started a thread devoted to the discussion of films wherein the protag is basically a schmo who must use resourcefulness and luck to evade a pursuing cadre of elite(s) killers through foreign territory, would it get any posts― TOMBOT, Saturday, January 10, 2009 2:46 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― TOMBOT, Saturday, January 10, 2009 2:46 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this is basically the only kind of movie i watch so i would be down
― ﾞ（ﾟ､ ｡ ７ (cankles), Monday, 12 January 2009 04:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118012680.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
― krampus activities (latebloomer), Monday, 14 December 2009 11:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
i had an argument about apocalypto at a party with a bunch of drunk classical archaeologists a few days ago. we had to go find a mesoamericanist to answer our questions about human sacrifice. however if he made a movie about vikings i could be THE party expert! ("period drama about viking culture" hahaha)
― Maria, Monday, 14 December 2009 13:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
So what's happening is
Mel Gibson's RAGNAROK!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 December 2009 14:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
are they gonna be talking Viking in this?
― I regret choosing this bland user name (peter in montreal), Monday, 14 December 2009 17:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
could have lost most of the first 45 minutes, but the prisoner march onwards this was a thrill!
― caek, Monday, 1 February 2010 10:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
I still have not seen this, but it sounds great.
I know it has been said before, but it is great the way every Mel Gibson film ends with main character being sadistically killed.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Monday, 1 February 2010 15:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
ya it was a bit shocking in "what women want" tho
― brews before HOOS (s1ocki), Monday, 1 February 2010 15:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
haha, i like how all his great films are really just 2 hour chase sequences: mad max 2, apocalypto, passion of the christ
― caek, Monday, 1 February 2010 15:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
is this worth watching on bbc2 at 10, y or n?
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 14 February 2010 21:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
yes
― snoocki (s1ocki), Sunday, 14 February 2010 21:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
most definitely. V-Day counterprogramming (people literally have their hearts cut out!).
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Sunday, 14 February 2010 21:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
so why is it COUNTER programming then
― snoocki (s1ocki), Sunday, 14 February 2010 21:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
lollllll @ passion of the christ being a 2 hour chase sequence
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 14 February 2010 21:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
I do think it's funny how so many of Mel Gibson's flicks feature him as the (literally) tortured protagonist and then, when he gets a little too old to play the role, he moves behind the camera and hires proxy tortured protagonists. Sort of like Woody Allen and his own alter-ego leads.
Anyway, as a Mayan "First Blood" this wasn't bad.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 February 2010 21:35 (3 years ago) Permalink