Apocalypto - 5 stars

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Nov 1, 2005
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ReKz said:
Wrong...The Mayans were still around at the time of the Spanish conquest, just not as strong as they once were.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Yucatán
wrong?..the mayan people are still around to this day..what i said was that the mayan EMPIRE depicted in the movie wasn't around anymore.as a matter of fact,those temples used in the movie had been abandoned way b4 the spaniards arrived...
What appears certain is that by 900 AD the Maya's numerous ceremonial centers had been abandoned. Swiftly disappearing beneath dense jungle growth, many sites avoided destruction by Spanish Conquistadors, remaining hidden and remarkably well preserved until the 19th century.
 
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TBo01 said:
^i havent seen this film and i know some parts of the history

but usually, films have only one side to a story....its hard to even incorporate two sides to a story, so thats why i feel mel gibson would do soemthing like that......i.e. passion of the christ had one side only
I still don't understand what you mean by "one side" of the story? What is the side that would be depicted in this movie and waht would be the side that wouldn't be depicted?
 
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cant wait to see this man i been talkin about it to all my friends but im the only one who knows bout aztecs and mayans n shit haha so they not into it but they gon watch it cuz ima make em.. tryina go today for sure
 
Feb 17, 2006
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I definetly wanna check it out, it sounds interesting. Is there anything I should know prior to seeing it? ie. history on mayans. the prices here just got jacked up 6.25 during day and 8.50 at night....
 

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surcaliman said:
wrong?..the mayan people are still around to this day..what i said was that the mayan EMPIRE depicted in the movie wasn't around anymore.as a matter of fact,those temples used in the movie had been abandoned way b4 the spaniards arrived...
I was talkin about the empire, not the people...Sure, a lot of the major centers/cities were abandoned during the "collapse" of the empire, but there were still important centers which flurished well into the appropriate timeframe (first Spanish-Mayan encounters).

During the succeeding Postclassic period (from the 9th to the early 16th century), development in the northern centers persisted, characterized by an increasing diversity of external influences. The Maya cities of the northern lowlands in Yucatan continued to flourish for centuries more; some of the important sites in this era were Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Edzná, and Coba. After the decline of the ruling dynasties of Chichen and Uxmal, Mayapan ruled all of Yucatan until a revolt in 1450. (This city's name may be the source of the word "Maya", which had a more geographically restricted meaning in Yukatek and colonial Spanish and only grew to its current meaning in the 19th and 20th centuries). The area then devolved into city states until the Yucatán was conquered by the Spanish.
 
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good movie, of course people will bitch about it for personal reasons against mel gibson, but this movie doesnt ever claim to be factual. like saying "man thats so inaccurate that scarface took that many bullets in the final shootout scene"
 
Aug 26, 2002
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2-0-Sixx said:
^^didn't make it this past weekened but planning on going this week sometime.

So I take it you thought it was really good, considering you watched it twice?

yea its a real nice flick....

I took the folks to see it Friday ...then my girl Sunday..

I picked up on a lot of things the second time around...that I missed before.

let me knwo what you think of it..

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Nov 27, 2002
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regardless of Mel Gibsons views on certain people an other things he makes good movies an this was one the best.
That lil girl was hella scarey , an the past does repeat itself u see them sporting them grills?
Only thing I wanna know is an i know its a movie but they said FUCK a few times an other words, are those words even that old?
But damn if it did not look hella real with everything. The people,the set just everything in general,cant wait for the dvd an special features.
The look on those dude faces when they seen the ships was crazy too, but reading this thread b4 seeing it i knew it was coming.
I would like to see a movie like this next on aztecs or tarascan indians which these people arent really thought of or brought up in history yet if you read history they defeated the aztecs in every battle an the war between them is one the main reasons the aztecs an their empire fell to the spanish.
 
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^^yea mayne....i forgot to say that..

they had GRILLZZ!!!! I was like WHAT!??!?!?!?!

im glad you like it...and fuck yea...History repeats itself..
I could give a fuck who or what Gibson likes.....

He makes some classic ass movie..
and YES everything looked real ass fuck!!

Great Flick!

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I was surrounded by a bunch of lame pussies at school telling me to boycott this film but after reading all this hype, I may just watch it. I wasn't giving a fuck before but now i want to see what its all about.
 
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i saw it opening weekend, got zooted to it, and this shit was no joke. there was so much violence, i was just glad it was over. THERE IS ALOT OF HISTORICAL INACCURACIES IN APOCALYPTO but yes i was entertained (and shocked at the blood and violence). the underlying message at least to the viewers is to have no fear of opressors.


read these and get the facts straight...
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/news/apocalypto.shtml

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/11/DDG5KMSDK51.DTL

http://www.independent.com/artsandentertainment/2006/12/apocalypto_lacks_an_authentic.html

the first hollywood movie about the mayans or aztecs should not have been one where they are fighting each other BUT i hope this movie inspires more to be created and in the right way.
 
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i saw it
i liked the focus on themes like abolition of fear and family values
also, i like how their culture means what they say, and sometimes dont have to say anything at all. there is so much more integrity/intention in the messages they try to convey to each other, what they say, they mean. i dont know its deeper than just that but i think its tight. i wonder if our ever expanding vocabularies are more efficient, when sometimes we say thousands of words but our message could be given in like 3.