[AGL] Mel Gibson makes me wanna puke

[Gerry]

I couldn't sit through the Christ flick, too unnecessarily gory for me. A minute or two of torture can make they point as well as 10 or 15 minutes. I think Mel is ill. Will not try to sit through another of his needlessly brutal flicks. BTW not all the reviewers are so crazy about it.
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  From: Fontaine Maverick 
  To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
  Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 9:05 AM
  Subject: [AGL] Mel Gibson makes me wanna puke


  A disclaimer about my personal bias: Gibson is on my list of "10 famous people I love to hate".
  Friday's Statesman had not only a review by Chris Garcia, but an interview with a professor of Mayan studies, on the new film, "Apocalypto" - she said that the film was despicable because it portrayed the Mayans as brutal, left out all of their accomplishments, was full of inaccuracies, and brought the Spanish catholics in at the end as saviours! It bugs me that many of the reviewers around the country are gaga over it.

  http://www.statesman.com/search/content/shared/movies/stories/2006/12/history.html

  and here is Garcia's review:

  Gore meets grandeur for a weird mix
  By Chris Garcia
  Austin American Statesman 



  "Apocalypto" is the best horror movie of the year. It's a sadistically, sociopathically violent spectacle that devolves from gripping action film to a relentless phantasmagoria of graphic carnage that hammers you with gory image after gory image — blood, guts, brains, heads, limbs — in the service of message that's at best murky.>>>>

  http://www.austin360.com/movies/movies/etc/getCriticReview.jspd?criticReviewId=728
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