Apocalypto

starfinger · Post by **starfinger** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:14 am

What a great movie.
(No thread??)

-craig

jute gyte · Post by **jute gyte** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:58 am

I was amused that you could instantly tell who the hero would be because he was the only member of the tribe with straight, white teeth (much like Jesus' in Passion of the Christ: dedicated to twice-daily brushing even during the 40 days in the desert, I presume).

On a more serious note, this was a bad action movie masquerading as something more worthwhile.

starfinger · Post by **starfinger** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:04 am

I didn't notice the teeth thing, but I that's pretty funny. I thought the story worked well enough, but the real star was the atmosphere created by the cinematography, costume/makeup, etc.. Anyway, it really drew me in... certainly more than a lot of movies with renowned plots.

-craig

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:14 pm

I liked it the first time I saw it because it was fast and exciting and had the best jaguar eating someone's face scene ever. Then the second time I turned it off a quarter of the way through because I remembered it's just a bunch of naked, bloody people running.