I have not seen this movie, but mainly because it's about something I simply don't care about.
If Woody Allen did a good science fiction story, I would go see it. If this hackjob of a filmmker/editorial columnist Ridley did a good science fiction story, I would go see it. One thing (perhaps the only thing) I learned in film school is/was: what you see on screen usually has very little to do with the personal politics of the filmmaker. It usually has everything to do with the corporate politics of the studio and distribution machine.Do we boycott Star Wars movies because they are put out by Fox? On Dec 11, 2006, at 6:20 PM, Martin wrote: Easy for me. Gibson did the deed, so Martin won't do the flick. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did anyone see "Apocalypto" or plan to do so? I'm divided, both because I'm not sure about supporting Gibson after his rant, and because I don't want to see a surface-only treatment of an indigenous culture. I guess that's the eternal struggle for people of color: you want to see your culture depicted onscreen, but fear that even if "truth" is told, it'll focus on such a narrow part that it becomes somewhat stereotyped. That's why quantity is so important: one movie about Mayans in, oh--a century-- can't tell a complete and well-rounded story. Aside from that, Gibson's penchant for the extremely brutal side of Man is strange. In a recent interview he told Dianne Sawyer it was that violence and evil in humanity that held the most macabre fascination for even children. People *want* to see the explicit violence of Braveheart, The Passion, etc. I guess there is some truth to that, but seems like it's more than that. I don't go see a movie just because it focuses on graphic killing. So I wonder what Gibson's goal is? Is he trying to show Man's inhumanity against Man in order to make us look inside and realize we're not as civilized as we think? (An object lesson in humility, then?) Does his portrayal of violence onscreen serve the purpose of uplifting us, of saying "See, even at our worst--and here it is in bloody detail!--we ultimately overcome with nobility (Braveheart), and faith(The Passion"? Or is he just twisted and reveling in the cruelty? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] If any one of our restaurants were better than the rest, then customers would flocck to that location, creating a mass imbalance that could create a black hole, which would swallow the Earth. That's why we make every McDonald's from Pomona to Poughkeepsie the same good place to eat, thereby saving the Universe.-from McDonald's commercial ,28 January 1990 "Is anybody hungry?" - W Zeddemore, "The Real Ghostbusters", 'The Cabinet of Calamari' --------------------------------- Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
