I'm off to see ApocalytoFollow

My prediction of your review:

Depends on which age of Maya it's set in.

There were pretty bloodthirsty phases, including a brief phase of public child-rape to appease teh Bobs.

Dem crayzee Arawatls!!

Edited to add:

Of course as an Icon production, the message of the movie is likely to be how the Mayans all loved each other until the Jews caused all the wars.

Edited, Dec 11th 2006 3:28pm by Nobby

You got me started here.

If he's studying to be a Professor he might want to take his head out of his ***.

In all cultures where Human Sacrifice was common, the victims were either prisoners (of war usually), or "Honored Individuals".

Despite this 'honor' human nature dictates that many tried to escape.

Sure, there are exceptions and anomalies, but by-and-large, being told you're going to die for Bob isn't welcome. Yes there are occasional fanatics (As there are now among extreme Islamists and fundamentalist Christians or Jews).

The near-contemporary accounts (Landa and Torquemada were my main sources) are written from a very judgmental Catholic perspective and extrapolate all sorts of ridiculous assessments from hearsay and biased supposition.

They sound just Mel's cup of Tea

Fixed~

Nice. The only reason I even considered seeing the movie was because the previews did not show Europeans in it so I figured Mel Gibson couldn't slant the movie to badly if he couldn't put his view god in it. Guess I was wrong. Guess I wont be seein' it.

So did Mel go crazy as he got older or was he always a religious nut job?

My sources (ref1, ref2) says he's always been a nut.

I believe he ended up sleeping with the friend. Then we heckled him about it for 5 years. That is sacrifice

Not desperate. Bad friends though. The rules state that if a sacrificial distraction is being played, the wingman is entitled to whatever he can get from the fat/ugly chick, free of ridicule.

Wait....you're seriously upset that someone changed history for the sake of a movie?

My place....7ish?

For the last time, I'm NOT CLEANING YOUR HOUSE!

Good for you. Like I said, I'm not going to get upset about a foggy recollection of someone else's offhand comment any more than I'll stress myself to figure out why it gets you in such a tizzy that someone stated a fact that Mel himself and others agree with: the movie is not, nor was it meant to be, historically accurate.

Maybe it's because your house is so... dirty.

Ok, the movie, boiled down to the bone is basically a chase film. Guy gets captured, guy escapes. However, that isn't to say it wasn't a good watch. On the contrary, it was very entertaining-- in a guy way. Lotsa indigenous boobs, hearts being ripped out of chests, pungi stakes poking through limbs, animals biting faces off-kind of thing. Good stuff.

The film critics who claim this is Mel's best film must have been licking one of those toads the protagonist uses to poison his enemies with, because there is no way it's better than Braveheart. Yeah, it beats We Were Soldiers and that one where he can hear women's thoughts, but being drawn & quartered > human sacrifice, any day of the week.

The movie is all subtitles, but that's not really an issue since you could ignore the "dialogue" and figure out what's going on from the action. Like I said, it's very straight forward. I had hoped for a little more pain being dispensed out to the ****** Mayan who kills Bunga-bunga's dad, but he gets dispatched fairly quick.

One thing that struck me was if Gibson's movie was correct or historically accurate (which apparently it's not) then it's no wonder Mayan civilization just disappeared off the face of the earth. As Bunga-bunga runs away from Mayan-ville and his pursuers, he slips into what, for all the world, looks like an outtake from The Killing Fields. There's this huge pit with all the bodies the injuns have been killing, which happens to be co-located next to town. Hmmm, cholera and typhoid, anyone? Also, no one seems to be doing anything constructive like farming or crafting. There's just a bunch of white guys hauling around blocks of stone. Pffft! yeah, like that's gonna happen...

One last observation: I have decided that out of all the cats in the world I like jaguars best. Well, maybe snow leopards are still cooler, but that jet black coat sure looks nifty.

Oh. By the way, the guy lives and saves his family just as the conquistadors arrive to wipe out the injuns with small pox. End of movie, credits start to roll.

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