Mel Gibson's APOCALYPTO!

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!

the movie i hate to love!

yeah so this basically fucking ruled. I watched it through twice yesterday, once with commentary. gibson is, uh, kind of a crypto-bigot, wow.

Hahah, any choice phrases?

“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.”

"crypto"

"kind of"

i will say this once more:

TAPIR BALLZ

this was all in all a pretty enjoyable action flick. certainly better than that shitty jesus movie.

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

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.

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.

you missed some amazing, amazing sequences from the chase, though.

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

i forgot about this!
i will like all chase stuff, i'm sure

is this sort of like The Naked Prey?

Is it going to disgust me with all its "lol mayan empire collapse under own perversion!"?

Bottom line: I still couldn't finish watching the movie. Too reductive and too predictable.

-- Aimless, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 1:41 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

pretty rich to call a movie predictable when you didn't watch it all the way through.

Maybe he predicted he was going to stop watching.

this film plays like a tribute to the color green. the nonstop lush action on acid worth any melophobia. loved it.

Laurel it's more like "lol mayan empire collapse under own fixation on building stuff out of cement"

pretty rich to call a movie predictable when you didn't watch it all the way through.

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.

this asshole does not deserve any of your money

did they harvest the organs of their prisoners for transplant? because this guy calls it the mayan protocol.

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*

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.

there's something amateurish-looking about some of the cinematography, like parts of it look like a tv mini series or something

i didn't find. elaborate?

Ending was a bit Lord of the Flies-sy.

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.

I read that last sentence three times wondering to myself, "what scene had a bear in it?"

Sorry, there was an implicit "It" at the beginning of that sentence.

tim curry's in this too? omg does he wrestle the bears!?

Dude, he IS the bear.

Bears comparison to the Bad News Bears.

Saw this last night, thought it was pretty good if a little naive.

The non-fight/chase-scene cinematography was pretty epic.

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)

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

pretty dope movie imo

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?

the army is a pretty bullshit institution if u cant get some funding to answer that very question

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.

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

Might degenerate into arguments about that genre v schmo who turns tables on his assailants (Straw Dogs, 28 Days Later, etc...)

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 7:46 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i'd hit it

I admit I find it hard to think of the title character in Predator as a schmo.

he's probably a schmo to the other predators... that's why he's stuck hunting humans and doesn't even win