Tim M

good comparison.
i liked apocalypto because when i saw it i fell asleep for the first hour or so and woke up right when the guy started getting chased. I liked the violence with the frog poison and the guy getting hit face bit off. and i really like the jaguar symbolism where the guy was invincible after he climbed out of the mud.

yo dude! apocalypto is pretty awesome. i don't know if i'd say it was like run lola though. that was all surreal and flipping back and forth. this was an epic of blood, guts and totally coolness. who cares if mel gibson hates jews and calls policewomen 'sugartits'? his public craziness leads to awesome movieness.

freedooooooooooom!

I thought it looked like a Discovery Channel documentary: Hi-def cameras used in just sort of shoulder-height positions, sometimes crouched on the ground, and rarely from any kind of crane. This ws probably because they were in a jungle and could't really get more than a few yards away from the actors.

The acting was just enough to get by and it was probably disguised by the fact that we don't know Mayan from Mandarin.

The violence was *always* just off-screen. The blood was the only stuff to make it into the shots which to me is evidence of Gibson wasting his budget on other shit. Like extras and set design and making it look overall like a Discovery "revisit the past!" kind of special.

The symbolism is so straightforward it's almost embarassing to admit you know what's what.

The story was fucking awesome. The action, while not as brutal or impassioned as Braveheart, was still extremely imaginative. Alas, I really hated this overwrought, emotionless, less-than-epic epic and I recommend it to just about nobody.