Movies That Were Probably Made By a Spasm of Six Year-Olds on Acid: The Top 75 Action Films Poll Results Thread

Still haven't watched Apocalypto, think I'm kind of scared to...

it's really good.

its really bad.

believable vs believable in the context of the series/movie

it's really good.

mel kinda goes herzog and it works.

stoked

mel kinda goes herzog

rmde

really, mel's deepest excellence

kinda wanna do a straight up comedy poll just so morbz can butt in every ten posts and say stuff like "i notice nobody voted for bernard le pew's acclaimed 1922 french short La Vie En Escargot." *groan* *rolls eyes on the internet even though we can't see his eyes*

that and the 4000 buster keaton youtubes.

bernard le pew's acclaimed 1922 french short La Vie En Escargot.

if this isn't about a snail that drives a car I am going to be wicked pissed

I liked Apocalyptico even though I didn't vote for it in this poll.

see all I ever on Apocalypto is "it's soooo awesome" and "it's sooooooo horrible" and I just don't know about rolling the dice on a 50/50 crappy movie.

I need to know more. Apocalypto-stands need to tell me more abt why this is good. If it's cheesy good, I'm not buyin' it.

Apocalypto-STANS

ability to type fading

apocs is great, it's not cheesy at all, its a pretty intense lil movie

Apocalypto is basically an extended chase flick

I want to compare it to The Fugitive somehow but I would need to rewatch both to say something sensible/credible

so it's like the naked prey, only less racially queasy, even tho mel gibson made it?

Vgirl how much do you enjoy the following: torture, fancy loincloths, running, jungles

What are the Mayan words for doghouse, henhouse and outhouse?

it's exciting!

and scary!

xxxpost Shakey: personally, or in movies?

the epigram at the beginning of apocalypto makes it a gross movie imo

its better than The Rock in the jungle, but The Rock in the jungle was still awesome.

are there dudes looking like DLR/Yankee Rose album cover y/n

it's almost as good as Anaconda.

I don't even remember the epigram at the beginning of Apocalypto

I don't really remember the torture tbh; I just remember high quality chasing

hmmm...it seems I may need to roll the dice after all

Fugitive in the Jungle kind of sells me

it's a really good action movie. that's what i'll say. its non-stop.

is it a THRILL RIDE, scott?

The politics is basically big government = apocalyptic death cult

well that's kind of true if you think about it, just look at Congress

I don't even remember the epigram at the beginning of Apocalypto

I don't really remember the torture tbh; I just remember high quality chasing

― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 4:42 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

a great civilization does not die from without unless it has killed itself from within.

something like that. basically, the mayans deserved to get conquered by the europeans because look at how savage and brutal they were.

I mean, maybe if we didn't know as much as we know about mel gibson's worldview the epigram would have been more palatable

yeah but rilly its about running after this dude

makes u think

i understand it's meant to be mel's medidation on how a godless society destroys itself. the best answer in his own case being 'white people show up' just makes it funny i guess (haven't seen it btw)

xps

i won't watch any new mel movies. don't want to pretend i don't know what a freak he is. and i kinda wish he would go away forever now. mayan movie got in under the wire. or something. i caught it on t.v.

the whole middle part is basically 'look at these disgusting savages (no, literally, they're disgusting savages)'

I got turned off on him once he started making bullshit like Maverick and What Women Want, I jumped off the Mel train a long time ago.

the whole middle part is basically 'look at these disgusting savages (no, literally, they're disgusting savages)'
^^^

so it's like passion of the christ with more running

passion of the fugitive?

mostly. Mayans = Romans, Jesus = some schmuck from the wrong tribe

logan's passion

and in between there's lots of stabbing, beheading, disemboweling, etc.

you're selling me on this more than the ppl who like it, Shakey

what women want's getting my #1 vote in the romcom poll

something like that. basically, the mayans deserved to get conquered by the europeans because look at how savage and brutal they were.

Well that plays in more than one direction, doesn't it? The sense I came away with from the movie at the time (which I would need to rescreen to see if this reaction makes any sense or if I'm constructing memories based on Wikipedia summaries) is that it could be taken to mean that the Mayans would have had better luck repelling the Europeans had they not spent most of their time killing everyone around them.

There are also specific spoilery things I won't talk about since VG hasn't seen the movie that make it more ambiguous than whatever distasteful idea Mel had in mind when putting the thing together.

Ultimately, I just thought it was an enjoyable chase flick. Whatever actual violence was going on didn't even register to me as obscene or out of line; I literally have no memory of it, and you guys are talking like it's the entirety of the movie! (contrast with Bad Boys II where I very vividly remember both the bodies getting thrown out of the back of the hearse and the dude who got chopped up and put in a bin and the body parts flying all over the place during the siege on the bad guy's mansion, etc etc)

i checked the recording this morning and got as far as the epigram and was like "ohhhh boyyyy...."