Mel Gibson's APOCALYPTO!

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A more interesting film that Mel will apparently be a part of: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478304/

― starke (starke), Saturday, 15 July 2006 03:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

Is that Malick title for real?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 15 July 2006 07:27 (6 years ago) Permalink

It's a working title, but I wouldn't be surprised if he kept it. From what I read, Malick and Gibson are good friends.

― starke (starke), Saturday, 15 July 2006 21:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

(If you meant title = the movie, then yeah, definitely real)

― starke (starke), Saturday, 15 July 2006 21:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

well that looks ambitious.

― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 15 July 2006 22:36 (6 years ago) Permalink

Isn't Mallick's next film due in about 2015?

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Sunday, 16 July 2006 18:58 (6 years ago) Permalink

I can't really tell if this is going to be any good. I DO think the world needs more awesome epic movies about pre-Columbian civilizations, I just have concerns about the awesomeness of this one.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 16 July 2006 19:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

"Gibson had originally cancelled the screenings but changed his mind and arrived wearing a mask and wig."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

Am I wrong on so many levels for kind of sort of wanting to see this?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

Am I betraying both my Jewish heritage and my pretensions of taste?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

Does it really surprise you that this would be Mel Gibson's idea of a Hannukah movie?

-- Dan (Come On Now) Perry (djper...com), December 21st, 2005.

After everything since now I really want this to be the case!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

Am I betraying both my Jewish heritage and my pretensions of taste?

Ancient Mayan Action Yarn > all sense of integrity.

So no.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Gibson had originally cancelled the screenings but changed his mind and arrived wearing a mask and wig."

how AMAZING would it be if Mel turned up in a Melton Mowbray mask and wig?

― teh_kit (g-kit), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

For some reason when I first read that sentence I thought they meant he showed up in a MAYAN mask and wig.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:51 (6 years ago) Permalink

There's always chuckling in the theatre during the preview when the immortal title APOCALYPTO appears from out of the solar flare....

You just can't resist saying it out loud in the booming preview voice!

― paizuri-san (davidcorp), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

The big sell begins.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

One of those is actor Edward James Olmos, a leading voice in Latino cultural affairs, who said he was invited by Gibson to an early screening. Olmos, who brought along his grown son, Bodie, said he was unprepared for what he saw.

"I was totally caught off guard," Olmos said in a recent phone interview from the set of "Battlestar Galactica" in Vancouver, Canada. "It's arguably the best movie I've seen in years. I was blown away."

Adama, nooooooooooooooooooooo!

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

Fighting all those Cylons must have gotten to him. Or he raided Tighe's drinks cabinet.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

omg, that's exactly what i said!! whhhhyyyyy??
xpost

and then i srsly began to reconsider my take on this movie. even though i've laughed every time i've seen the preview. such is the hold battlestar has on me. damn.
also xpost

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

I would do anything for Bill Adama, except watch Apocalypto.

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

this is a great thread.

i am totally seeing this movie no matter what.

― researching ur life (grady), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

i didn't see ONE Jew in the preview.

figures.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

visually it looks pretty impressive, judging by the trailer

― latebloomer: not to be confused with the dolphin from Seaquest DSV (latebloomer), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

are there any Conquistadors in this thing?

― researching ur life (grady), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

Nope -- it's set in pre-Columbian times.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

any crucifixions?

― researching ur life (grady), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:27 (6 years ago) Permalink

i'm sure they'll be plenty heart-sacrifices, or at least one or two

― latebloomer: not to be confused with the dolphin from Seaquest DSV (latebloomer), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

Olmos's kid is on nu-Battlestar, too, right? i finally watched the pilot movie last night.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

god help me i am kind of excited about this

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:05 (6 years ago) Permalink

Heart sacrifices? That's kid stuff! FULL ON ROYAL GENITAL MUTILATION PLEASE!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

This was by far the least appealing trailor seen before Borat.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

?? no wai. "pick of destiny", ugh.

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

they've been pimping this thing for over a year now wtf. first preview i saw was before MUNICH at christmastime for chrissakes.

― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

Just gearing up for them Oscars, don't you know.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

Pick of Destiny will RUEL.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

Soundtrack feat. Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Get Ripped Out"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

ok why do i want to see this so bad? what's wrong with me?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 03:36 (6 years ago) Permalink

Give in, give in. (I still haven't decided myself.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 04:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

i propose gathering a group of a few dozen people to attend the opening all nerded-out in full-on Mayan gear.

― researching ur life (grady), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 05:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

ha, the new fanbase will be called 'Lyptoids

― latebloomer: not to be confused with the dolphin from Seaquest DSV (latebloomer), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

it'll be a week-long bizarre internet fad that will fizzle 3 seconds after the movie premiers.

― latebloomer: not to be confused with the dolphin from Seaquest DSV (latebloomer), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

Does crucial.bonus live in Seattle? I was gonna boo after the trailer, but it would've woken everyone else.

― From the Moon to Pluto Back Down to Earth (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 11:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

so, this got really good reviews in the UK as well as getting the worst written review i think i've ever seen in print, from Philip French in the Observer. a bafflingly long and pointless career summary followed by a bafflingly long and pointless plot summary.

http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Critic_Review/Observer_Film_of_the_week/0,,1980473,00.html

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

I spoke to Melton yesterday, he says he has seen this now. He's in it, right?

― teh_kit (g-kit), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

That Observer review is, indeed, the worst fucking review I have ever read outside of a student paper. It's not even a review. Baffling.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 11 January 2007 13:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

all of philip french's reviews are like that these days, srsly. occasionally he throws in an irrelevant anecdote about a film review he wrote in the seventies.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 11 January 2007 13:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

Bloody hell.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

this is from this week, and bafflingly personal:

"The saddest thing about this unpleasant, mirthless film is that it's photographed by Anthony Richmond, the British cinematographer who shot Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth and Bad Timing. I suppose this is the kind of thing you have to do after you've married and been divorced by one of Charlie's Angels."

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Many people have the feeling that they're not entirely free to act and are being manipulated by outside forces (some call themselves Marxists, others are diagnosed as schizophrenic)."

ZING!

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

The saddest thing about this unpleasant, mirthless film

I don't think anyone involved was aiming for mirth.

― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

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