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I finally watched Apocalypto last night...

rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
edited June 2007 in Strut Central
....and I can't front: schitt was kinda dope to me.

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  • prof_rockwellprof_rockwell 2,867 Posts
    I said the same thing when I finally saw it.
  • SPlDEYSPlDEY Vegas 3,375 Posts


    - spidey
  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
    the scene with the mud and hornets nest?
  • alcoholic_drinkalcoholic_drink 101 Posts
    That movie was disturbing on many levels.
  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
    That movie was disturbing on many levels.

    no doubt.

    it was also sorta ill.
  • djkingottodjkingotto 1,704 Posts
    ....and I can't front: schitt was kinda dope to me.

    enjoyed it myself. i dug the hornet flinging!
  • edith headedith head 5,106 Posts
    would you say this is a dude movie?
  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
    would you say this is a dude movie?

    like the opposite of a chick flick?

    I wouldn't say that at all.
  • grandpa_shiggrandpa_shig 5,799 Posts
    seriously? i ffw'd through most of it and still got what was going on. i felt like i got beat over the head myself with his theme/message.

    in other news i saw knocked up and i loved it!
  • puchitopuchito 374 Posts
    Overall the movie was

    But I thought the best part was being able to see how an Mayan city looked in tact....sacrifices, costumes and all. That was made the whole movie worth while.
  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
    Overall the movie was

    But I thought the best part was being able to see how an Mayan city looked in tact....sacrifices, costumes and all. That was made the whole movie worth while.

    yeah that was cool....but historically way off right?

    I mean, it looked like the height of the Mayan civilization, i.e. "ancient times," and then.....
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    ...the Spanish show up?

    I was like, "wait a minute?!?"

    Weren't the great Mayan cities already in ruins when the conquistadores showed up?
  • SPlDEYSPlDEY Vegas 3,375 Posts
    Horribly innaccurate and viciously offensive, but EH. Who gives a fuck about accuracy anyway make that money Gibson machine.

    - spidey
  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
    Horribly innaccurate and viciously offensive, but EH. Who gives a fuck about accuracy anyway make that money Gibson machine.

    - spidey

    as a devout "Catholic," Gibson has an interest in painting the Mayan culture as totally doomed before his boys show up right?

    the conventional wisdom is that when the conquistadores/missionaries show up that that's the beginning of the end for the continent's natives.

    but Mel flips it by having his boys show up at the end of the movie, i.e. after we've just watched for two hours how violent and fucked up Mayan culture already is.

    so he absolves the Church of any real responsibility for the genocide of the native Americans.

    he's an asshole; about that there's no doubt.

    but Jaguar Paw getting pursued through the jungle for the last quarter of the movie is one of the illest chase scenes I've ever seen.
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