I went round to a friend's house yesterday to chill after the long drive back from London to walk into this film. Talk about BRUTAL! Anyone else seen it?
I thought it was absolutely amazing! Yeah it was a little violent, but I love gore movies so that never really bothers me. It was soooo beautiful =) I wont say why, I would give away the story!
yeah, i totally loved it. i like the point made that societies that tear themselves up from the inside become more vulnerable to attack from the outside.
I saw it in the theaters and I thought it was OK...but just OK. I thought the violence was a bit TOO exaggerated.
you know, i just didnt' see it as being overdone violence, merely pretty damned accurate. i mean, look at the mayan art. that shit was gruesome. people are vicious to each other.
You can blame Hollywood for that one. All I kept thinking was how can they outdo that or what's coming next. You could guess what was going to happen with most of it. However, I have to agree with KC. This is pretty much how it was...only more savage.
yes i borrowed it off a friend gonna watch it tonight, hopefully get a little bit of herb to smoke before
That movie is rather inaccurate historically, mixing periods, mixing up the Mayans with the Aztecs, fucking up some of the architecture, and TRULY exaggerating the violence. It's really pretty though.
considering the massive piles of brutalized skeletons they've found, i wouldn't say that the violence was exagerated at all. people are vicious everywhere.
Good film, but totally inaccurate. The late Mayan civilization was pretty docile, and it was the Aztecs that carried out human sacrifices with that sort of sacrifice ceremony and on that grand scale, not the Mayans. Also, the God in which they are worshipping didn't even ask for human sacrifices. Gibson was just trying to make a 'foreign' action film, basically. He succeeded, but also made the Mayans out to be alot more savage than they were. Their culture and intelligence wasn't portrayed as much as it should've been.
havent seen it yet, but i will eventually in the south american culturse that practiced human sacrifice, when it wasnt a captured enemy it was a member who -wanted- to help out their socieyt, who wante dto make the rain fall so the crops would grow and the sun shine. moreso in aztec society was this common, self sacrifice via a priest for the good of your people, but, yeah. still wanna see it
