Apocalypto
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[Jun 15,2007 10:34am - CNV ""]
Awesome and fucking bloody movie... Surpassed my expectations with some excellent visuals !!! The Mayan sacrificial temple was brilliant...
[Jun 15,2007 10:53am - CNV ""]
- We found a great number of books... and since they contained nothing but superstitions and falsehoods of the Devil we burned them all.
- Catholic Bishop Diego De Landa, after burning priceless books of Mayan history and science, July, 1562
[Jun 15,2007 11:04am - XmikeX ""]
Movie ruled. Gore in a movie doesn't so much impress me, so I wasn't sure if I was really going to be floored by this movie. Great story, very suspenseful, and the twist at the end I didn't see coming at all.... well I've read a history book so obviously I had to have seen it a little bit. Great movie though. I would have liked to see some of the other villagers (like that one big goofy guy) get a little more retribution. I think I would have felt a little better about it.
[Jun 15,2007 11:29am - anonymous ""]
for the love of god, who was apolcalypto?
[Jun 15,2007 11:33am - Josh_Martin ""]
anonymous said:for the love of god, who was apolcalypto?
He was the guy that dropped you as a baby, ensuring that you would ask stupid questions like this.
I heard he was friends with Jethro Tull. The two of them would hang out at Leonard Skinnard's house.
[Jun 15,2007 11:33am - Kinslayer (aka c.dagger) ""]
good movie....for a JEW hahaha
Just kidding.
Paul, lets practice on Sat.
[Jun 15,2007 11:37am - CNV ""]
Matt and I are working on the album this Saturday.
I will shoot you an email...
[Jun 15,2007 12:51pm - FuckIsMySignature ""]
Josh_Martin said:anonymous said:for the love of god, who was apolcalypto?
He was the guy that dropped you as a baby, ensuring that you would ask stupid questions like this.
I heard he was friends with Jethro Tull. The two of them would hang out at Leonard Skinnard's house.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
[Jun 18,2007 12:11pm - FuckIsMySignature ""]
i just watched this last night. pretty good flick... i dont know how historically accurate it was but other than that it was entertaining
[Jun 18,2007 3:47pm - Strep Cunt ""]
Who knew Mel could come up with something awesome like that.
Jaguar Paw is the shit. "Almost"
[Feb 3,2008 4:01pm - the_reverend ""]
started watching it, went to the bathroom.. came back and they were all dying.
[Feb 3,2008 5:53pm - NIGGER ""]
IT'S ANTI-SEMITIC
LOL
JEWS R WHITE
BLACK POWER!
[Jun 27,2009 12:53pm - BoarcorpseJimbo ""]
watching this now, awesome so far.
[Jun 27,2009 9:51pm - arilliusbm ""]
classic movie. saw it the day it came out & bought the dvd the day that came out.
Primary reason why I liked it was because no one makes movies about the Mayan Civilization.
That being said, however, it is NOT HISTORICALLY accurate by any means. Definitely one of my biggest complaints but I still thoroughly enjoyed it.
I hated the fucking ending...
[Jun 27,2009 10:55pm - joeyumbrella ""]
movie rules, no care on history. most mel gibson movies are the best
[Jun 28,2009 3:31pm - BoarcorpseJimbo ""]
So Mel Gibson really likes his violence..
[Jun 28,2009 3:39pm - the_reverend ""]
I really liked how this show exactly what happened back then in great detail.
[Jun 28,2009 9:22pm - arilliusbm ""]
the_reverend said:I really liked how this show exactly what happened back then in great detail.
you've got to be kidding, right? have you opened up a history book in the past 5 years??:LOL:
[Jun 29,2009 8:40am - joeyumbrella ""]
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just this...
[Jun 29,2009 9:46am - BoarcorpseJimbo ""]
Yes Jim, I think he was joking.
[Jun 29,2009 10:13am - arilliusbm ""]
He is half-right, though. They do go into great detail about certain aspects of Mayan society.. however the whole premesis is off. Mel Gibsom portrayed the Mayans (although never clarifiet IS the Mayans) were an evil people that had no respect for human life. And his finishing tough was when the Spanish came, arriving as savoirs with monks and crosses for these savages. A few examples of stuff that didn't happen in real life:
1.) There were no "jungle" tribes back then that had no contact with Mayan cities. There were Mayan cities littered about, 10-20 miles apart in most cases. They had roads, trade routes, and the like. If these "tribes" had no idea of Mayan cities than that's just false.
2.) Most Mayans would have been honored to be sacrificed in the name of their god. they wouldn't have been petrified like the ones in the movie.
3.) The city was loosely based off the aritecture in the Mayan city of Tikal, which was at its height of power well before the Spanish came. Basically, as a whole, the whole Mayan civilization was 90% gone when the Spanish arrived.
4.) There hasn't been much proof to support a mass grave like the one shown in the movie. Gibson just added that to paint the Mayans are savages even more.
5.) The whole entire fact that the Spanish arrive at the end of the movie made me want to puke. They arrived 600 years after the Mayan's apex. When they Spanish arrived the Aztecs were in power, but they were more to the west in Central Mexico.
It is absolutely absurd to watch movies now thinking they'll be historically accuarate. But this movie was a great movie, despite its lies. As you can see, I'm obviously pro-Mayan because I think Mexico would be a much better place today if the Spanish hadn't conquered it and destroyed 85% of Mayan artifacts/documents/language.
[Jun 29,2009 10:29am - Conservationist ""]
arilliusbm said:Basically, as a whole, the whole Mayan civilization was 90% gone when the Spanish arrived.
Basically, all Amerind civilization was 90% gone when the Europeans arrived.
They always were downers.
On the eugenics list, we were talking about the different origins of Amerinds. Likely one group were the North Americans and slave peoples of Central America, and another group were Inca, Maya, Aztec... a smarter group, probably from Japan. The others were Siberians who couldn't hack the transition to modern Asians. This is why Asian groups cluster at two ends of the IQ spectrum: about 95 (Vietnamese, Thai, Amerinds, Mexicans, etc) and about 105 (Chinese, Koreans, Japanese).
[Jun 29,2009 10:47am - the_reverend ""]
arilliusbm said:
the_reverend said:I really liked how this show exactly what happened back then in great detail.
you've got to be kidding, right? have you opened up a history book in the past 5 years??:LOL:
I don't give a shit what happened in the past 5 years. that's not history. history is like what mel gibson did here describing out what happened back then.
[Jun 29,2009 10:49am - arilliusbm ""]
I've heard about that as well. Pretty intriguing if you look at the DNA trail left by the people who migrated thousands of years ago.
On a side and off topic note, one forgotten historical connection that barely anyone talks about are the Hopi Natives being in contact with the Mayans. The Hopi (ancient ones) were the mother tribe of the Navajo natives, and had a city of 40,000+ in the desert of Arizona. They've recently discovered trade routes coming out of Mexico and into areas where the Hopi civilization thrived. Same stuff goes on today, but its the drug cartels, and a bunch of Mexicans doing it, haha.
[Jun 29,2009 1:14pm - Eli_hhcb ""]
I saw this in theaters. One of the most troubling movies i'd ever seen on the big screen.