Mel Gibson's APOCALYPTO!

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.

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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*

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

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

― s1ocki, Saturday, January 10, 2009 11:57 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yah im w/this

btw <3 apocalypto

the movie i hate to love!

― s1ocki, Tuesday, October 16, 2007 2:00 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

im sort of proud of my iconoclastic love for this movie tbh

ˆˆi never got past 30 minutes of watching this tbh.

i love the scene going through the different mayan neighbourhoods

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.

man i hate gladiator

such a boring, ugly movie.

Apocalypto however was way better than it should have been

otm otm otm

gladiator rules u guys r crazy

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

this is basically the only kind of movie i watch so i would be down

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118012680.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

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)