Because it's grown controversial, I'm watching 'Apocalypto' a second time. It's just fascinating to me that people managed to make this film controversial, just because the actions of its director were controversial.
Duh. Don't these twits know *anything* about Mel Gibson, and the movies he makes? Mel is a ROMANTIC. 'Apocalypto' is a LOVE STORY. It's not about the fall of an earlier culture. It's not about the arrival of Christianity on the shores of that culture. It's not about Mel getting drunk and saying shit that he shouldn't have said. It's about Jaguar Paw and Seven being in love with each other, and holding onto that love in times of adversity. I mean, duh. In my opinion, anyone who takes a lovingly-made story of courage and, yes, love, and twists that into a forum for their hatreds is more than a little twisted themselves.
