Post by partyanimalken on Dec 21, 2006 11:04:31 GMT -5
I’m confused. I recently saw Mel Gibson’s latest picture, “Apocalypto,” which is supposed to be about the fall of the Mayan empire, however, by the time it was over, I’ve seen so much human sacrifice, slavery, urban misery and general despoiling of the environment, I thought I was in Tijuana! More importantly, after watching the film, I was glad these bastards ain’t around no more.
After his village gets massacred, the main character -- Jaguar Paw (played wonderfully by Rudy Youngblood) – get’s captured by a bunch of mean, tough-looking Mexicans who wear human jawbones and chicken feathers. They kill everyone in the village except the Jaguar Paw’s wife and kid, then march all the captured Indians through the forest and only stop cause one of’em wants to go swimmin’.
Then they arrive at some sort of Disneyland-type theme park for rain forest cannibals where the priest-king lives on top of a ziggerat and wears peacock feathers and lops off peoples heads and goes noodlin’ around their insides and pulls out their hearts! No foolin’!
After their volcano god lets the sun shine again, they get tired of Jaguar Paw and the other survivors so they take them to an athletic stadium where they presumably practice their other primitive rights or play soccer. Jaguar Paw gets free and the mean, tough-looking Mexicans who wear human jawbones and chicken feathers chase him back into the jungle before he kills them with wasp nests, blow guns, quicksand and cliff diving fu. The best scene is when his spirit totem or pet jaguar eats the face off one of the Mexicans! Everyone finally gets their comeuppance and Jaguar Paw saves his wife and kids, but in the end, the Spanish show up and they want to build condominiums or a hipster coffee/cigar bar on Jaguar Paw’s beach.
I give the movie four stars, especially for Dalia Hernandez’ performance as Jaguar Paw’s wife Seven. She reminded me of a better time when woman were not afraid to let their hair down or do things like clean and close a wound using beetle mandibles.
After his village gets massacred, the main character -- Jaguar Paw (played wonderfully by Rudy Youngblood) – get’s captured by a bunch of mean, tough-looking Mexicans who wear human jawbones and chicken feathers. They kill everyone in the village except the Jaguar Paw’s wife and kid, then march all the captured Indians through the forest and only stop cause one of’em wants to go swimmin’.
Then they arrive at some sort of Disneyland-type theme park for rain forest cannibals where the priest-king lives on top of a ziggerat and wears peacock feathers and lops off peoples heads and goes noodlin’ around their insides and pulls out their hearts! No foolin’!
After their volcano god lets the sun shine again, they get tired of Jaguar Paw and the other survivors so they take them to an athletic stadium where they presumably practice their other primitive rights or play soccer. Jaguar Paw gets free and the mean, tough-looking Mexicans who wear human jawbones and chicken feathers chase him back into the jungle before he kills them with wasp nests, blow guns, quicksand and cliff diving fu. The best scene is when his spirit totem or pet jaguar eats the face off one of the Mexicans! Everyone finally gets their comeuppance and Jaguar Paw saves his wife and kids, but in the end, the Spanish show up and they want to build condominiums or a hipster coffee/cigar bar on Jaguar Paw’s beach.
I give the movie four stars, especially for Dalia Hernandez’ performance as Jaguar Paw’s wife Seven. She reminded me of a better time when woman were not afraid to let their hair down or do things like clean and close a wound using beetle mandibles.