Posted: 11/28/2006 3:40:09 AM EDT
Holy smokes!  Anyone else going to be seeing this? Looks like it might be good! Link Warning: Turn your speakers to a comfortable level. |
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I think Gibson's more a victim of his own taste for rotgut and stupidity than anything else, but the movie looks pretty good. The clip was kind of annoying in that I couldn't figure what the heck the movie was even supposed to be about, other than a bunch of guys are running around in some Mayan city and the jungle away, or to, something. There is a "synopsis" on the website that gives a basic story outline, sounds pretty good. I could do without seeing the pivoting log covered with spikes trap that is in EVERY jungle movie ever made. 
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Apocalypto, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Apocalypto is a 2006 film directed by Mel Gibson set in Mexico 600 years ago during the decline of the Maya civilization and before the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The film will be released on December 8, 2006. It is rated R in the U.S. for sequences of graphic violence and disturbing images. Background Mel Gibson filmed Apocalypto mainly in Catemaco and Paso de Ovejas in the Mexican state of Veracruz. Gibson uses the Yucatec Maya language[1] in Apocalypto, in the same way he used Aramaic and Latin for his religious blockbuster The Passion of the Christ. Apocalypto features a cast of unknown actors from Mexico City, the Yucatán, some Native Americans from the United States, and locals from Los Tuxtlas and Veracruz. While Gibson is financing the film himself, Disney has signed on to release Apocalypto for a fee in certain markets. The film was slated for an August 4, 2006 release, but Touchstone Pictures has delayed the release date to December 8, 2006 due to heavy rains interfering with filming in Mexico. On September 23, 2006, Gibson pre-screened Apocalypto to two predominantly Native American audiences in Oklahoma, at the Riverwind Casino in Goldsby, owned by the Chickasaw Nation, and at Cameron University in Lawton.[2] He also did a pre-screening in Austin, Texas on September 24 in conjunction with one of the movie's stars, Rudy Youngblood.[3] Themes Political subtext The movie is partially intended as a political allegory about civilizations in decline, in a way referring to the perceived crises Western civilization, and the United States more specifically, may be facing. Gibson compares Mayan human sacrifice with "sending guys off to Iraq for no reason".[4] This doesn't seem correct, but I don't know him or his political leaning. The link referenced in the footnote doesn't work so that didn't help. Cast Actor Role Rudy Youngblood Jaguar Paw Raoul Trujillo Zero Wolf Dalia Hernández Seven Mayra Sérbulo Mauricio Amuy Tenorio Maya Chief Miguel Angel Galvan Maya Priest Gerardo Taracena Middle Eye Rodolfo Palacios Iazua Larios Joaquín Cosío Trivia Mel Gibson's cameo in the teaser trailerThe title Apocalypto is a Greek verb (αποκαλύπτω) meaning "I reveal" [5]. The word "Apocalypse," Greek "Αποκάλυψις," which means "Revelation," is derived from this Greek verb, but the movie is not religiously themed or connected to the biblical Apocalypse. Although Mel Gibson does not star in the film, he does have a one-frame cameo about 1:46 seconds into the first teaser trailer.[1] The film is allegedly inspired by the text of the Popol Vuh (sometimes called the Maya Bible) and Spanish missionary descriptions of the Maya. |
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Gibson's comments about US sacrificing soldiers like the mayans www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-09-25-mel-gibson_x.htm?csp=34 |
Fuck Mel Gibson…  ANdy |
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Hmm.... My interest is piqued. www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,233518,00.html
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I agree. Hes an asshole. I however, will probably cave and see apacolypto at some point. Looks like a pretty cool movie 
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Well, it's not like the Meso-Americans were utopian saints. |
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I was not terribly interested to be begin with, but I skipped Gibson's Jesus Movie (I always get the name wrong) partially because it just sounded to almost masochistic in depicting Christ's suffering, not that that isn't appropriate to telling the story, but I don't neeed to SEE it in horrofic detail to know that Christ suffered unbearably. It sounds like this will be another cringer |
