Apocolypto

Just saw the new Mel Gibson film "Apocolypto". Curious if anyone else has seen it? Got fantastic reviews, and I found it to be quite dissapointing; a real shock for me!

The movie i felt was just poorly put together, and was really just eye candy in the end. Beautiful costumes and environments, and filmed well...but man, this was NO Braveheart or Passion!

My bro said it was so unrealistic because it was based on a myth? Never heard that, I thought it was going to be historicaly correct and crap but damnwas it WAY off.

It was "meh"

I though it was a brilliantly paced action film.
The visuals were gorgeous.
the music added to it

I don't think it was unrealistic, except for the running part.
the Mayans were not exactly a peaceful civilization.

Yeah, but only really bad during a ritual scrifice part, which leaves about no aspect of ritual sacrifice to be imagined. Everything else is basically Braveheart on a lesser scale with fewer dismemberings.

Edited by stonebeard - December 12 2006 at 21:55

I also didnt find the movie "gory" at all really. Come on, this movie compared to what we have seen was childs play! So, what, a few guys get hit with spears and bows, and they are bludgened instead of having their heads cut off.   At times it had disturbing themes, but it wasnt like braveheart where blood was splattered on the screen after a guys leg was sliced off.

Also, this movie if taken seriously was INCREDIBLY unrealistic!

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How did he get his wife and child out of that impossible dilemma of being in a rain filled hole? How did they even SURVIVE beyond a DAY in there!??!?! and PREGNANT!??

The main character was shot through the side with an arrow, and runs for about 2 days from his enemies...who SOMEHOW follow him like a STRAIGHT line through a JUNGLE. Impossible.

He RUNS from a jaguar...Impossible.

He is then shot AGAIN in the sholder, and LIVES, and SAVES HIS WIFE AND CHILD AND BABY!!! omfg.

i remember coutning them as the movie went along...and why does this little girl have the voice of a woman when shes telling the omen???

The movie just BAGH dissapointed me on so many levels. "meh"


P.S., I found the main characters acting to be horrible, with his "I am in front of a camera right now" looks every other cene. Awful.
    

Edited by The Lost Chord - December 12 2006 at 22:23

There's a better option: Apocalypso.... great song by Mew

Are the bad guys English in this movie? Usually are...

Well, it was more so the feel or realism that I was looking for...not so much accuracy. I could care less if there are a few things scewed by the movie, but Apocolypto was just taking away the entire FEEL of a civilization like that...I just didnt even believe it.

Meh, it was okay, but Blood Diamond was much, much better. 

I love braveheart and the passion, I think those are beautifuly made movies, historically incorrect or not...I dont care, the movies kicked ass!

I just want to laugh at Mel Gibson because I think he got the Mayans and the Aztecs confused: the Mayans were dead LONG before Cortez came. Their civilization essentially vanished, and it is speculated that they had deforested the surrounding area so much that they were destroyed by floods or something because of erosion or changes in the weather. I saw something on PBS about it a while ago.

Some people I knew saw it and said it was pretty good. I wasn't going to see it anyway so I don't really care.