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Mel Gibson's 'Apocalypto' a Bloody Good Time?

TUESDAY DECEMBER 5 2006 10:00 AM

Submitted by Alyk. Edited By Alyk.

TAGS: Apocalypto, Mel Gibson, Gore, Drinking



Don’t eat dinner before seeing Mel Gibson’s new movie, Apocalypto; the movie is crazy-bloody and violent. With the tag line, “When the end comes, not everyone is ready to go,” we should expect some beatings, but critics said the Disney film went a bit too far.

"The most violent movie Disney has ever released, with so much blood spurting out of orifices that even Martin Scorsese would blush," says FoxNews.com's Roger Friedman. "If you've wondered what it would be like to see heads and hearts removed without anesthesia, then this is the movie for you . . . The action is often cartoonish, and the dialogue - which is all spoken in some ancient dialect with subtitles - is often preposterous. In one scene, after what seems like the umpteenth bloody killing, one Mayan quips to another and the translation is, 'He's [bleeped].' "


Gibson directed and co-wrote the film, and he admitted the pressure from this film caused his out-of-control drinking, which came to a head during his infamous DUI arrest last summer.

Speaking on Spanish news show Aqui Y Ahora, Gibson revealed his ambitious new movie led him back to the bottle.

When a host asks if the "stress and driving yourself to a limit of knowing what you could do with this film perhaps led you back to drinking," Gibson replies, "Absolutely, I think there's a lot of pressures."


And Jews. Jews can really drive a man to drink.

 

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Gayballs

Gayballs

Seattle, WA
July 2005

DEC 05, 2006 10:34 AM

awesome

hadees

hadees

Austin, TX
December 2003

DEC 05, 2006 10:39 AM

What a schmuck.

Prophecusp

Prophecusp

Los Angeles, CA
October 2003

DEC 05, 2006 10:42 AM

mel is silly, but i want to see this because it's based on ancinet mayan culture....nobody makes movies about that (that i've seen)...who knows how reality based this film will be, but whatever...it looks halfway interesting...

Hossenfeffah

Hossenfeffah

Kansas City, MO
August 2005

DEC 05, 2006 10:43 AM

I understand you have a thing against Gibson and all, but regardless of your bias against him, his films (that he's personally directed specifically) have been widely accepted as being rather decent films. Gory, most definitely, but I think you're definitely spinning this one to make it sound like critics hate the film, when in fact advance reviews have been quite positive. Check out rotten tomatoes if you're interested in more than one out-of-context blurb on what people think of the film. Even the negative reviews state that, regardless of their overall feelings on the film, he certainly knows how to make a thrilling, immersive movie.

And yeah, like you, I'm not a fan of Gibson's rants, same as I'm not a fan of Russel Crowe's phone-throwing or bullying, but that doesn't take away from the fact that both are quite good at what they do professionally.

Sorry to knock you off your soapbox, but sometimes your bullheaded agenda is so blind that it borders on obsessively inane.

PsychicGoldfish

PsychicGoldfish

HOPEFUL

Orono, ME

DEC 05, 2006 10:47 AM

Mel Gibson drove me back to the bottle. I can't be held responsible for anything I say or do, because of Mel Gibson.

So now I am gonna say "Tilapia." Tilapia" is fun to say! Whoo! I am almost as fucking crazy as Mel Gibson! Wooooooo! Spinning around in office chairs is FUN!


(I'm not really sure what my point in, here but I feel like I've made it.)

Oh, and maybe I will go see it. If it's half as good as Cannibal Women in the Avacado Jungle of Death, another gory jungle culture favorite of mine, it will be worth the ticket price. Though, I think I will wait till it's in second run theaters. Just in case.

Gayballs

Gayballs

Seattle, WA
July 2005

DEC 05, 2006 10:49 AM

This was one of those things where i didn't see the 'bullheaded agenda.' Based on this I wouldn't be at all surprised if Alyk went to see it herself. Are you?

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

DEC 05, 2006 10:55 AM

Hossenfeffah said:
Sorry to knock you off your soapbox, but sometimes your bullheaded agenda is so blind that it borders on obsessively inane.


Wow. I really don't know where you got all that from.
Please cite the part that was "bullheaded" or "blind" or "obsessively inane" whatever the fuck that means...

In fact, I don't see where Alyk criticised the movie at all...

MC_Dove

MC_Dove

Cincinnati, OH
November 2004

DEC 05, 2006 10:58 AM

Hossenfeffah said:
Sorry to knock you off your soapbox, but sometimes your bullheaded agenda is so blind that it borders on obsessively inane.



are you one of those people that was born without a sense of humor? how sad. frown

CRSN

CRSN

Chicago, IL
November 2006

DEC 05, 2006 11:27 AM

Though I believe Mel Gibson to be a caricature of a clown, the man has done some fairly original things with movie-making. Also, I've long been fascinated with the Mayan culture - one particularly violent for particularly odd and fantastic reasons. This is all to say that I admit to being fairly stoked to see the movie - all obvious and expected retardedness (not a word) aside.

witchhunter

witchhunter

Jackson, TN
February 2003

DEC 05, 2006 11:30 AM

I am pretty interested in seeing this.

SirLoins

SirLoins

Killeen, TX
October 2005

DEC 05, 2006 11:34 AM

Today's secret ingredient is... penis.

Alyk

Alyk

Boston, MA
February 2005

DEC 05, 2006 11:38 AM

Hossenfeffah said:
I understand you have a thing against Gibson and all, but regardless of your bias against him, his films (that he's personally directed specifically) have been widely accepted as being rather decent films. Gory, most definitely, but I think you're definitely spinning this one to make it sound like critics hate the film, when in fact advance reviews have been quite positive. Check out rotten tomatoes if you're interested in more than one out-of-context blurb on what people think of the film. Even the negative reviews state that, regardless of their overall feelings on the film, he certainly knows how to make a thrilling, immersive movie.

And yeah, like you, I'm not a fan of Gibson's rants, same as I'm not a fan of Russel Crowe's phone-throwing or bullying, but that doesn't take away from the fact that both are quite good at what they do professionally.

Sorry to knock you off your soapbox, but sometimes your bullheaded agenda is so blind that it borders on obsessively inane.



I'm so sorry about all those phone calls I made to your home complaining about Mel Gibson; I was way out of line, and I apologize.

Stop assuming you know dick about the people who write these stories. Because you don't, unless I mistakeningly invited you to my last houseparty.

Hossenfeffah

Hossenfeffah

Kansas City, MO
August 2005

DEC 05, 2006 11:55 AM

Alyk said:
I'm so sorry about all those phone calls I made to your home complaining about Mel Gibson; I was way out of line, and I apologize.

Stop assuming you know dick about the people who write these stories. Because you don't, unless I mistakeningly invited you to my last houseparty.



Oh damn, was that YOU on the phone a few minutes ago? wink

But seriously, barring the last bit about being bullheaded etc, which I understand was probably too confrontational (and apologies if you were personally offended), you failed to address the meat of my post, which is that critics seem to love the movie, and "overly-violent" wasn't really an issue for most of the current reviewers.

Geisterfaust

Geisterfaust

Tempe, AZ
June 2006

DEC 05, 2006 11:56 AM

I dont agree with Gibson's views, but goddamn i want to see this. And so what if i'm supporting him, a lot of other people worked hard to make this movie happen too, and a lot of them probably arent anti-Semitic assholes.

Kestrel

Kestrel

Dallas, TX
July 2003

DEC 05, 2006 12:11 PM

"If you've wondered what it would be like to see heads and hearts removed without anesthesia, then this is the movie for you



I didn't care at all before just now.

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