Mel Gibson's APOCALYPTO!

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.

xp George of the Jungle didn't feature conquistadors though did it. Maybe they're in the director's cut?

george was a conquistador gone native iirc

Predator vs. Aguirre

My money would be on Klaus Kinski.

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

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, February 14, 2010 4:22 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

picturing roman soldiers (very slowly) chasing a (very slowly moving) staggering jesus dragging his cross

In casting, it was important to Mel Gibson that he and Farhad Safinia find actors that matched the archetype each character represented. For instance, Rudy Youngblood struck Gibson as fitting the mythic archetype of a hero. Gibson saw that as necessary to allow people to identify with the film, since the movie's context is unfamiliar to most viewers, being in a foreign language and concerning an indigenous culture in the 16th century.

21st century physiognomy

This was really good, cant think of much else like it; Bang Rajan (haven't seen it) from Thailand had a sort of similar look.
Kinda wish it was released this year to see what kind of noise that would have made. I heard Youngblood did all his own stunts!

Yes, the costumes were great.

Oh yeah, I never came back to this thread to say that I saw this and thought it ruled after pre-hating based on the trailer

I think about the waterfall scene whenever I'm at the urinal and can't immediately pee.

it's a bit bombastic and heavy handed, but way way better than you could expect a fucking Mel Gibson movie to be.

Such a batshit piece of filmmaking but it still rules.

I only saw it the once but thought it was pretty solid and ambitious and, more than most movies, tbh, memorable.

Thoughts on representation? I thought of the way some have criticized Jodorowsky, Gilliam, George Miller, Herzog and Todd Browning for ruining a sympathetic portrayal with a sort of freak show gaze.

Two actors won Imagen awards (latino positive representation awards) and the film was nominated.