Taosman
Your Cousin In New Mexxico
We saw this movie last night and found it very interesting!
It is subtitled which may turn many off, but the two deaf people in front of us semed to enjoy it! :tongue2:
We didn't find the subtitles a problem, though the wife says she would have liked english lator in the movie.
Mad Mel does a great job in creating another world and time.
Great chase scene in the movie gave me sweaty palms.
I enjoyed it.
Apocalypto
2006-US-Action/Adventure, Drama
N.Y. Times Review by A. O. Scott
REVIEW SUMMARY
Violence has become the central axiom in Mel Gibson?s practice as a filmmaker, his major theme and also his chief aesthetic interest. The brutality in ?Apocalypto? is so relentless and extreme that it sometimes moves beyond horror into a kind of grotesque comedy, but to dismiss it as excessive or gratuitous would be to underestimate Mr. Gibson?s seriousness. And say what you will about him, he is a serious filmmaker. Which is not to say that ?Apocalypto? is a great film, or even that it can be taken quite as seriously as it wants to be. Mr. Gibson?s technical command has never been surer; for most of its 2-hour 18-minute running time, ?Apocalypto,? written by Mr. Gibson and Farhad Safinia, is a model of narrative economy, moving nimbly forward and telling its tale with clarity and force. It is, above all, a muscular and kinetic action movie, a drama of rescue and revenge with very little organic relation to its historical setting. Yes, the dialogue is in various Mayan dialects, which will sound at least as strange to American ears as the Latin and Aramaic of ?The Passion of the Christ,? but the film?s real language is Hollywood?s, and Mr. Gibson?s, native tongue. ? A. O. Scott, The New York Times
It is subtitled which may turn many off, but the two deaf people in front of us semed to enjoy it! :tongue2:
We didn't find the subtitles a problem, though the wife says she would have liked english lator in the movie.
Mad Mel does a great job in creating another world and time.
Great chase scene in the movie gave me sweaty palms.
I enjoyed it.
Apocalypto
2006-US-Action/Adventure, Drama
N.Y. Times Review by A. O. Scott
REVIEW SUMMARY
Violence has become the central axiom in Mel Gibson?s practice as a filmmaker, his major theme and also his chief aesthetic interest. The brutality in ?Apocalypto? is so relentless and extreme that it sometimes moves beyond horror into a kind of grotesque comedy, but to dismiss it as excessive or gratuitous would be to underestimate Mr. Gibson?s seriousness. And say what you will about him, he is a serious filmmaker. Which is not to say that ?Apocalypto? is a great film, or even that it can be taken quite as seriously as it wants to be. Mr. Gibson?s technical command has never been surer; for most of its 2-hour 18-minute running time, ?Apocalypto,? written by Mr. Gibson and Farhad Safinia, is a model of narrative economy, moving nimbly forward and telling its tale with clarity and force. It is, above all, a muscular and kinetic action movie, a drama of rescue and revenge with very little organic relation to its historical setting. Yes, the dialogue is in various Mayan dialects, which will sound at least as strange to American ears as the Latin and Aramaic of ?The Passion of the Christ,? but the film?s real language is Hollywood?s, and Mr. Gibson?s, native tongue. ? A. O. Scott, The New York Times
