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
a thousand times yes, sam
― caek, Sunday, 14 February 2010 21:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
uel
― caek, Sunday, 14 February 2010 21:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol
and so i will.
was thinking of starting a bullshit free rolling 'should i watch this film y or n' thread but then realised that no ilx film thread would ever be bullshit free.
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 14 February 2010 21:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
wait so this movie is actually just peen joeks?
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 14 February 2010 22:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
that sets the tone. think of the opening as an amouz bouche.
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Sunday, 14 February 2010 22:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
on iplayer for the next week, uk people!
― caek, Monday, 15 February 2010 09:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
watched it last night, pretty great IMO, if gory. Mel Gibson is obv. a weird guy, but this kind of suited the batshit craziness of this. I'm sure this has been said upthread already, but it reminded me of Aguirre quite a lot.
― Neil S, Monday, 15 February 2010 10:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
they are both movies set in the jungle, yes
― da Wesley CRUSHER (latebloomer), Monday, 15 February 2010 12:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
sorry if that came across as snarky. wasn't meant that way.
― da Wesley CRUSHER (latebloomer), Monday, 15 February 2010 13:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
Similar aesthetics, I thought. Obviously they are stories told from very different perspectives. It's more an atmosphere thing I suppose, and I did also think of Aronofsky's The Fountain too, so it may well be just a matter of them all being set in the jungle!
― Neil S, Monday, 15 February 2010 13:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
this movie kind of reminds me of "george of the jungle" for some reason - similar vibe i guess?
― amuse-douche (s1ocki), Monday, 15 February 2010 15:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
Very much reminded me of Avatar.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 15 February 2010 15:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
was v. surprised about how this turned into a tarzan remake w/ added peen joeks.
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Monday, 15 February 2010 15:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
xp George of the Jungle didn't feature conquistadors though did it. Maybe they're in the director's cut?
― Neil S, Monday, 15 February 2010 15:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
george was a conquistador gone native iirc
― amuse-douche (s1ocki), Monday, 15 February 2010 15:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
Predator vs. Aguirre
― dyao, Monday, 15 February 2010 15:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
My money would be on Klaus Kinski.
― Neil S, Monday, 15 February 2010 16:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, February 14, 2010 4:22 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark
picturing roman soldiers (very slowly) chasing a (very slowly moving) staggering jesus dragging his cross
― dayo, Monday, 23 January 2012 03:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
In casting, it was important to Mel Gibson that he and Farhad Safinia find actors that matched the archetype each character represented. For instance, Rudy Youngblood struck Gibson as fitting the mythic archetype of a hero. Gibson saw that as necessary to allow people to identify with the film, since the movie's context is unfamiliar to most viewers, being in a foreign language and concerning an indigenous culture in the 16th century.
21st century physiognomy
― dayo, Monday, 23 January 2012 03:22 (1 year ago) Permalink