[lbo-talk] Mel Gibson does the Mayans

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Dec 3 09:52:31 PST 2006


New York Post [Page Six] - December 3, 2006

Orgy Of Blood

THE early word on "Apocalypto," Mel Gibson's two-hour-plus epic about the Mayan civilization before the conquistadors arrived? "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].' "



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