--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > It was "out of the theaters" that quickly because > of a concerted "hit" upon Mel Gibson by people who > didn't like the things he'd said while drunk not > long before the film came out. And the fascinating > thing is that a great number of *those* people > never saw the movie, and are negatively commenting > on a film they've never seen. I believe we saw > another instance of that here on FFL today.
Again Barry is afraid to mention my name. The reason I commented critically on the film, first of all, is *not* because of what he said while he was drunk. I've been wary of Mel Gibson ever since seeing his appallingly gore-drenched movie "Patriot." And it isn't "fascinating" at all that people comment on the movie without having seen it, given that there are many expert reviews available. I certainly wouldn't comment on the artistic merit of the filmmaking without having seen it, but when an expert on Mayan culture points out its historical inaccuracy, I don't have to see the film to verify that--indeed, it wouldn't help, because I'm not an expert in Mayan culture. Barry's embarrassed here because I quoted that previous comment of his on "Passion" in which he indicated the authenticity of the period detail, including the use of Aramaic and Latin in the dialogue, made him feel he was watching a documentary. What I was primarily addressing was Barry's dismissal of the historical inaccuracy of "Apocalypto" as unimportant.
