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Trollheart 08-29-2017 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by MicShazam (Post 1868574)
Willem Dafoe and Harvey Keitel? I'll get right on that!

And it's even by Scorsese. Incredible that I've never heard of it.
It's totally brilliant. Keitel is a bit useless, Dafoe is good but not great, but the idea in the movie is just stunning.

Frownland 08-29-2017 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1868572)
:p:
(#^.^#)

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1868573)
Mind you, you have to admire the stance the Church took on the movie. When asked what he thought of it, Pope JP II said "It is what it is". Huh? Nice and clear condemnation/endorsement there, JP! Typical ****ing Church!
Why should they be expected to do either of those things?

MicShazam 08-29-2017 01:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1868575)
It's totally brilliant. Keitel is a bit useless, Dafoe is good but not great, but the idea in the movie is just stunning.
I'm not even sure why I like both of those actors so much. Dafoe probably for Platoon. Keitel, maybe mostly for Bad Lieutenant.

Trollheart 08-29-2017 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1868577)
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Why should they be expected to do either of those things?
welllllll ... considering a lot of Christians were probably conflicted as to whether to watch it or not - would it be a sin, watching Christ get tortured, or was it their Christian duty to understand what He suffered for them? - I think the Church really dodged coming out either in favour of or against the movie, and I think Christians were expecting a decision from el Papa. I wasn't, but I was mildly interested in how they would react, and to just shrug was, to me, a total cop-out. Not that I'm surprised, as I say.

Frownland 08-29-2017 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1868581)
welllllll ... considering a lot of Christians were probably conflicted as to whether to watch it or not - would it be a sin, watching Christ get tortured, or was it their Christian duty to understand what He suffered for them? - I think the Church really dodged coming out either in favour of or against the movie, and I think Christians were expecting a decision from el Papa. I wasn't, but I was mildly interested in how they would react, and to just shrug was, to me, a total cop-out. Not that I'm surprised, as I say.
*Catholics

Anyway, true Christians would never watch the film because movies were not around during Jesus' time and are inherently evil. Those who are conflicted about whether or not the content matters should just keep on sinning.

Chula Vista 08-29-2017 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1868575)
Keitel is a bit useless.
One of the worst cases of miscasting ever.

Zhanteimi 08-29-2017 09:27 PM
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Janszoon 08-29-2017 09:35 PM
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Originally Posted by MicShazam (Post 1868558)
Apocalypto was very disappointing to me. There was so much opportunity to show something no movie (that I know of) has ever done before. I wanted to see this Incan society and how it works. Religious blooshed and societal structure, culture, etc. We get a few minutes of tease with a pretty fascinating pyramid set, then it becomes a generic chase movie set in the jungle that could easily have been transplanted to the streets of New York. Waste of an interesting setting.
I liked Apocalypto a lot, but I really wish it had ended differently.
Spoiler for spoiler:
One of the things I liked about it was that it was a historical Native American story that for once wasn't focused on defining them in relation to Europeans. Until the those boats showed up. I had really been hoping Gibson wasn't going to go there and he went there.

MicShazam 08-30-2017 12:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 1868659)
I liked Apocalypto a lot, but I really wish it had ended differently.
Spoiler for spoiler:
One of the things I liked about it was that it was a historical Native American story that for once wasn't focused on defining them in relation to Europeans. Until the those boats showed up. I had really been hoping Gibson wasn't going to go there and he went there.
I agree with that too. It could have gone down a few different small roads, but it chose to just go back to the main road. Trying to write this in a spoiler free manner :p:

Trollheart 08-30-2017 05:17 AM
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Originally Posted by MicShazam (Post 1868574)
Willem Dafoe and Harvey Keitel? I'll get right on that!

And it's even by Scorsese. Incredible that I've never heard of it.
Let me know what you think of it when you get around to it. And what you thought of the ending. No spoilers here.


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