anyone seen apocalypto? if not, then you should see one.
the movie is superb!!! best giler
another Mel Gibson movie

fantastic casting and costume.


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*looking forward on this Feb 15.... GHOST RIDER!!!!

bro ini movie tahun biler da

uhhuu... last year end lorrr... bukan Apocalyps yang perang tuh..ishh ini betul2 nih...kekek

Nice ah ??? I made a mistake mis judge from its cover (i thought another boring drama type of movie) if nice i will wait for these DVD thanks bro

It already in DVD, clear giler beb. should get one!
It was banned and controversal movie in some countries but to us it is just another entertainment.

citer nih best woo...mule2 igtkan citer ape..pastu terus hooked...syiokk oo citer ni...mel gibson mmg best!!..haha,xde org tgk tenacious d ke?tp boring sket a..

Apocalypto is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 film directed by Mel Gibson. Set in the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico) before Spanish contact, it depicts one man's experience during the decline of the ancient Mayan civilization. The film was released in the United States on December 8, 2006 to mostly positive reviews from film critics according to Rotten Tomatoes, but has been criticized by a number of anthropologists and archaeologists working in the field of Mayanist studies for its depiction of late Maya society as little more than unsophisticated "brutal savages", as well as for its evident anachronisms and other historical inaccuracies.


Background
Mel Gibson filmed Apocalypto mainly in Catemaco and Paso de Ovejas in the Mexican state of Veracruz. Gibson uses the Yukatek Maya language in Apocalypto, in the same way he used Aramaic and Latin for his religious blockbuster The Passion of the Christ. Apocalypto features a cast of unknown actors from Mexico City, the Yucatán, some Native Americans from the United States and Canada, and locals from Los Tuxtlas and Veracruz.
While Gibson financed the film himself, Disney has signed on to release Apocalypto for a fee in certain markets. The film was slated for an August 4, 2006 release, but Touchstone Pictures delayed the release date to December 8, 2006 due to heavy rains interfering with filming in Mexico. On September 23, 2006, Gibson pre-screened Apocalypto to two predominantly Native American audiences in the US state of Oklahoma, at the Riverwind Casino in Goldsby, owned by the Chickasaw Nation, and at Cameron University in Lawton. He also did a pre-screening in Austin, Texas on September 24 in conjunction with one of the movie's stars, Rudy Youngblood.

Themes
The movie is partially intended as a political allegory about civilizations in decline. Said Gibson in September of 2006: "The precursors to a civilization that’s going under are the same, time and time again... " This is shown most literally though the opening quote by Will Durant and the last line by Jaguar Paw, "...seek a new beginning."

Critical reception
Apocalypto was given "two big thumbs up" by Richard Roeper and guest critic Aisha Tyler on Ebert & Roeper at the movies. Michael Medved gave Apocalypto four stars (out of four) calling the film "an adrenaline-drenched chase movie" and "a visceral visual experience. Overall the review tallying website rottentomatoes.com reported that 107 out of the 164 reviews they tallied were positive for a score of 65% and a certification of "fresh".

One very negative review is found in the January 2007 issue of the magazine The Peaceable Table. Reviewer Benjamin Urrutia avers the main story line is derivative of that of Lord of the Flies, "with Jaguar Paw as Ralph and the Conquistadores as the British Navy."


Inaccuracies
The film has been accused of historical inaccuracy and racism by historians, Native Americans, and those in the archaeological community. The film has been accused of fueling a stereotype of native Mesoamericans as bloodthirsty savages with few civilized achievements other than architecture. For example, it was more typical of the Aztecs to practice the kind of human sacrifice depicted in the movie, rather than the Maya. The sun god Kukulkan, to whom the sacrifices are offered, is in fact the Maya equivalent of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl and did not demand human sacrifice.
On the other hand, in Mayan rituals prisoners of war were in fact killed "on top of the pyramid […] by having his arms and legs held while a priest cut open his chest with a sacrificial flint knife and tore out his heart as an offering."

The diseased little girl is depicted as having smallpox. However, smallpox did not arrive in the Americas until the early 16th century with the Spanish Conquistadores.

Mesoamerican history
On a very basic level, the movie contains a number of items unknown in precolumbian Mesoamerica, such as metal javelin blades. The Maya city inaccurately combines details from different Maya and Mesoamerican cultures widely separated by time and place. For example, temples are in the shape of those of Tikal in the central lowlands classic style while decorated with Puuc style elements of the north west Yucatan centuries later. The mural in the arched walkway includes elements from the Maya codices combined with elements from the Bonampak murals (over 700 years older than the film's setting) and the San Bartolo murals (some 1500 years older than the film's setting)-- as in most civilizations, the styles of Mayan art changed dramatically over the centuries. Elements of such non-Maya civilizations as those of Teotihuacan and the Aztec are also seen. Robert Carmack, an anthropology professor from SUNY Albany's renowned Mesoamerican program said "It's a big mistake - almost a tragedy - that they present this as a Maya film." His colleague, Walter Little, agreed: "A lot of people will think this is how it was, unfortunately."
Stephen Houston, Professor of Anthropology at Brown University, points out that human sacrifice victims among the Maya were kings, members of royal families, and other high-ranking nobility. "They didn't run around rounding up ordinary people to sacrifice." (See Washington Post, 15 December 2006.) Karl Taube, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Riverside, objects to the huge pit filled with corpses. "We have no evidence of mass graves," he points out. Professor Taube also objects to the large number of slaves, something for which there is also no evidence (Ibid.) Also, there is little possibility that the Maya would have been "dumbstruck" by the sight of a city. As an agricultural people, they also would not have allowed fields of rotting corpses near their crops. Zachary Hruby, of UC Riverside, lamented the use of the Yucatec Maya language, as it gives a sense of authenticity to a film that he says has taken many unfortunate liberties with the subject. Specifically these liberties include: the style and scale of the sacrifices, the presentation of the Maya villagers as isolated people living off the wild forest, the chronological compression of the more urbanized Terminal Classic Maya and the primarily village-dwelling Late Postclassic Maya.

The eclipse
Edgar Martin del Campo of SUNY Albany has pointed out that the Maya had an understanding of astronomy and would not have been in awe of an eclipse as they are depicted in the movie.. However, though Mayan astronomers and priests knew about eclipses and how to calculate the date of their re-occurrences the lay people may not have had access to the same information. In the movie it is clear from the reactions on the faces of the priests that they were fully expecting the eclipse - that they had in fact scheduled the ritual sacrificial ceremony to co-incide with it. (The solar eclipse is followed by a full moon on what appears to be the evening of the same day, an astronomical impossibility: solar eclipses only occur during the new moon.)
As it is common in movies and fictional media, the eclipse is seen occuring in few seconds, while the moon's shadow stands over the sun for some time, before again leaving quickly. In reality, eclipses take place for several hours, and the observated movementof the moon's shadow is unaltered

The eclipse scene of the film is reminiscent of an episode during Christopher Columbus' fourth voyage; like the priests who manipulate the public with their knowledge of an eclipse, Columbus impressed local Arawaks in what is now Jamaica by predicting a lunar eclipse. This scene has become something of a cliche, appearing in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and in an episode of The Adventures of Tintin called Prisoners of the Sun, adapted to the screen as Tintin and the Temple of the Sun. This same plot device was recognized as an inaccurate cliche as early as 1952 by Guatemalan author Augusto Monterroso, who used an ironic reversal of this plot in his story The Eclipse, in which a friar who tries to use this gambit is sacrificed as the priest calmly reads "one by one, the unending dates in which there would be solar and lunar eclipses, which the Maya astronomers had predicted and noted in their codices without the invaluable help of Aristotle."

Awards
The film was nominated for three awards at the 79th Academy Awards: Sound Mixing, Sound Editing and Makeup. It also earned Golden Globe, BAFTA and BFCA nominations for Best Foreign-Language Film.

Trivia

Although Mel Gibson does not star in the film, he does have a one-frame cameo (pictured to the right) about 1 minute, 46 seconds or about 2/3 into the first teaser trailer. His appearance is just before the screaming monkey is shown.
The leader of the warband Zero Wolf yells "I am walking here!" when a tree almost falls on his group who are making their way to the Temple. This is a parody of Dustin Hoffman's famous line in Midnight Cowboy, which was an ad lib by Hoffman.
Like Gibson's previous film, The Passion of the Christ, the movie has no opening credits, and begins with a quote. The title is only seen during the end credits.

Box Office
Budgeted at $40 million, Apocalypto enjoyed a $15 million opening weekend, topping the Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle Blood Diamond and Nancy Meyers' The Holiday. The following weekend, it dropped 46.6% to land in sixth place. It dipped another 50% over the four-day Christmas frame and fell out of the top 10 altogether. As of January 25, 2007 the film has grossed $87,893,348 worldwide.
In the United Kingdom the film set a new record for the highest opening weekend take by a foreign language film. It took £1.3m compared to the previous record holder, Hero, which took $1.05m in 2004. Gibson's The Passion of the Christ only took £229,426.

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Plot summary
Opening quote: "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within." — W. Durant

During a tapir hunt in the Mesoamerican jungle, Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood), his father Flint Sky (Morris Birdyellowhead), and their fellow tribesmen encounter a procession of traumatized and fearful refugees. The procession's leader explains that their lands have been ravaged, and with Flint Sky's permission, the procession passes through the forest. When Jaguar Paw and his tribesmen return to their village, Flint Sky tells his son not to let the procession's fearful state seep into him. At night, the tribe's elder tells the village a fable of man dangerously never filling his want, despite having the capabilities of the world's animals. The villagers follow the story with music and dance, leaving Jaguar Paw to ponder.

The next morning, after Jaguar Paw wakes from a nightmare, something terrible happens in reality too: with everyone still sleeping, Jaguar Paw sees strangers enter the village, setting aflame homes with their torches. The raiders, led by Zero Wolf (Raoul Trujillo), attack the villagers in their dawn raid and subdue as many as possible. Jaguar Paw slips out of the village with his pregnant wife Seven (Dalia Hernández) and his little son Turtle Run, lowering them on a vine into a small cave (a chultun, shaped something like a well) to hide them. Jaguar Paw returns to his village to fight against the raiders, but he is subdued with the rest of his tribesmen. A raider whom Jaguar Paw attacked, Middle Eye (Gerardo Taracena), prepares to execute Flint Sky in front of his son. Flint Sky tells Jaguar Paw not to be afraid, and Middle Eye slits Flint Sky's throat.

Before the raiders leave the village with their prisoners in shackles, one suspicious raider severs the vine leading into the ground cave, trapping Jaguar Paw's wife and son within. The raiders and their captives make a trek toward a Mayan city, encountering failed maize crops and slaves producing plaster. They also pass a small girl with smallpox who warns the raiders that their end is near. In the city's outskirts, the female villagers are sold as slaves, and the male villagers are escorted into the city to the top of a step pyramid. A priest sacrifices several captives by pulling out their hearts and then decapitating them. When Jaguar Paw is on the altar to be sacrificed, a solar eclipse stays the priest's hand. The priest declares the sun god Kukulkan satisfied with the sacrifices, and he asks the sun god to restore light. The eclipse passes, and light returns to the world.

Zero Wolf, told to dispose of the captives by the priest, takes them to a ball field. Their captives are released in pairs to run the length of the field while the raiders target them with javelins, arrows, and stones. Jaguar Paw successfully reaches the field's end and though injured by an arrow piercing, bypasses a raider "finisher", Zero Wolf's son Cut Rock, by killing him. An enraged Zero Wolf pursues Jaguar Paw into the jungle with his fellow raiders. The chase leads back to the forest in which Jaguar Paw's village was located, and Jaguar Paw declares from the bottom of a waterfall up to the raiders that they are in his territory now.

Zero Wolf's raiders fall to both the forest's elements and Jaguar Paw's traps. The clouds begin to rain, which begin to flood the ground cave in which Jaguar Paw's wife and son are still trapped. Jaguar Paw kills Zero Wolf by setting off a trap meant for hunting tapir, and he is chased by two remaining raiders out to a beach. There, they encounter conquistadors and missionaries making their way toward the shore in rowboats. The amazement of the raiders allows Jaguar Paw to flee. He returns into the forest to rescue his wife and son from the cave. He finds that his wife has given a submerged birth to a healthy second son, and the family is rescued. Jaguar Paw leads them deeper into the forest, leaving behind the conquistadors anchored in ships off the beach.

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