Comments on: I don’t see a lot of movies, but this was good….

By: Julio Pixtan

Julio Pixtan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:24:00 +0000

What a load of lies this movie is. It perpetuates the need to justify the invasion and murder of the peaceful people of this continent. To paint with blood and sacrifice a culture that gave you the concept of zero and the only pyramids in the western hemisphere. A culture that knew more about pharmacopeia, anatomy, physiology, math, agronomy and astronomy than the horde of idiots invaders that landed here in 1492.
The Mayan people didn’t burn the Spanish priest that came here on a stake, it was the Spanish priests that did that to the Mayan. The british were no different when they invaded this continent. Let us look at your crimes in this continent in a movie. Expose your own lack of culture and your need for blood and war. Mel Gibson is a fake if he wants to give you a glimpse of the Mayan people then and now. He could never do it because he thinks like a white man, money, power, destruction and blood.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:08:15 +0000

Totally, because of biased European accounts, the natives of Mexico must have sacrificed people and ripped their hearts out daily, if not by the hour! Really, because of a few select instances, Cortes used his keen estimation skills and wrote back to Spain saying that these people MUST sacrifice people for the hell of it, all the time. Indeed, a few lives were offered to Cortes because the Aztec confused him for a deity at first. The good natured Spaniards never would do something like that to another man. It’s not like Cortes didn’t mercilessly slaughter everyone in his welcoming celebration when he arrived, NOT AT ALL! He just wanted to give the Aztec’s hugs He hugged them so hard they tripped over their own intestines as their heads rolled on the ground…

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:08:04 +0000

Apocalypto was extremely inaccurate,
it plays on the public’s ignorance of pre-Colombian history.
Human sacrifice did indeed occur in the Mayan civilization, but the level of brutality that was shown was used to help reinforce Gibson’s message that Christianity is somehow morally superior (despite leading the charge of leveling the indigenous population of the Americas 90%).

Nods to using an all indigenous cast though,
and all in Mayan..nice touch. That’s where the pros stop though.

By: Some Random

Some Random — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:32:12 +0000

Yer it is a heaps good movie. Really takes a good look at the Mayan culture and shows us how brutal it was.

By: smokey mcpot

smokey mcpot — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:46:43 +0000

mel gibson doesn’t like it when you twist his nipples

By: Auryana

Auryana — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:22:24 +0000

Apocalypto is a phenomenal movie, with a beautiful story line, and a very unique way of telling it. I love apocalypto and I think it is by far one of the best movies Ive ever seen.

By: G.E. Smith the Capitalist Dove

G.E. Smith the Capitalist Dove — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:48:21 +0000

I agree that the movie was phenomenal; one of the best I’ve seen in years. I suspect it got short changed by the Academy due to Mel’s drunken Antisemitic rant. I think Gibson is a right-wing zealot, but I can still appreciate his art, and this movie was just that. I watched it once alone, and then prodded my wife to watch it with me again the following night. I definitely wouldn’t mind seeing it again, either.

One thing, though: I did read some Christian-supremacy and even anticapitalist vibes — probably only because of Gibson’s reputation, but I picked up them up nonetheless. Particularly at the end of the movie, where it is implied that the white Christians are coming to “civilize” the Mayans — by force, of courI agree that the movie was phenomenal; one of the best I’ve seen in years. I suspect it got short changed by the Academy due to Mel’s drunken Antisemitic rant. I think Gibson is a right-wing zealot, but I can still appreciate his art, and this movie was just that. I watched it once alone, and then prodded my wife to watch it with me again the following night. I definitely wouldn’t mind seeing it again, either.

Even if these messages were not purely figments of my imagination (which they very well may have been), I still recommend this movie to everyone. It may not be as classically excellent as Braveheart, but in its own way, it is just as good.se. Yet the protagonist ambles off into the jungle, suggesting some back-to-nature/survivalist themes.