Mel Gibson's APOCALYPTO!

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)

So what's happening is

Mel Gibson's RAGNAROK!

are they gonna be talking Viking in this?

could have lost most of the first 45 minutes, but the prisoner march onwards this was a thrill!

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.

ya it was a bit shocking in "what women want" tho

haha, i like how all his great films are really just 2 hour chase sequences: mad max 2, apocalypto, passion of the christ

is this worth watching on bbc2 at 10, y or n?

yes

most definitely. V-Day counterprogramming (people literally have their hearts cut out!).

so why is it COUNTER programming then

lollllll @ passion of the christ being a 2 hour chase sequence

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.

a thousand times yes, sam

uel

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.

wait so this movie is actually just peen joeks?

that sets the tone. think of the opening as an amouz bouche.

on iplayer for the next week, uk people!

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.

they are both movies set in the jungle, yes

sorry if that came across as snarky. wasn't meant that way.

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!

this movie kind of reminds me of "george of the jungle" for some reason - similar vibe i guess?

Very much reminded me of Avatar.

was v. surprised about how this turned into a tarzan remake w/ added peen joeks.