Mel Gibson’s latest picture, “Apocalypto,” came out this week on DVD. It's supposed to be about the fall of the Mayan empire, however, by the time it was over, I’ve seen so much human sacrifice, slavery, urban misery and general despoiling of the environment, I thought I was in South Dallas!
After his village gets massacred, the main character -- Jaguar Paw (played wonderfully by Rudy Youngblood) – get’s captured by a bunch of mean, tough-looking Mexicans who wear human jawbones and chicken feathers. They kill everyone in the village except the Jaguar Paw’s wife and kid, then march all the captured Indians through the forest and only stop cause one of’em wants to go swimmin’.
Then they arrive at some sort of Disneyland-type theme park for rain forest cannibals where the priest-king lives on top of a ziggerat and wears peacock feathers and lops off peoples heads and goes noodlin’ around their insides and pulls out their hearts! No foolin’!
After their volcano god lets the sun shine again, they get tired of Jaguar Paw and the other survivors so they take them to an athletic stadium where they presumably practice their other primitive pagan rights or play soccer. Jaguar Paw gets free and the mean, tough-looking Mexicans who wear human jawbones and chicken feathers chase him back into the jungle before he kills them with wasp nests, blow guns, quicksand and cliff diving fu. The best scene is when his spirit totem or pet jaguar eats the face off one of the Mexicans! But after the leader of the Mexicans finally gets his comeuppance and Jaguar Paw saves his wife and kids, the Spanish show up and they want to build condominiums or a hipster coffee/cigar bar on Jaguar Paw’s beach.
I give the movie four stars, especially for Dalia Hernandez’ performance as Jaguar Paw’s wife Seven. She reminded me of a better time when woman were not afraid to let their hair down or do things like clean and close a wound using beetle mandibles.
Originally posted by FleabittenWe can turn it into a thread about Wall of Voodoo if you want. I saw them perform once and the night the tour rolled through Dallas, the drummer had eaten some bad chicken McNuggets in Amarillo the night before and he had a bad case of Montezuma's revenge, according to singer Stan Rigway. He wore a Devo-type flight suit and I'm sure he was wearing an adult diaper underneath. Despite his obvious discomfort, he was a real trooper and somehow finished the show. I was ten feet from them if not closer, because in those days, New Wave was just coming up (I'm guessing this was about 1983) and bands like Wall of Voodoo, Bow Wow Wow and Gary Numan had to play at this small club in Dallas called The Agora Ballroom. I think it seated only 500.
And here I thought this thread was a homage to Wall of Voodoo. 😳
As a side note, my friend once illustrated a comic book story based on the WOV's song called "Camouflage" about a mysterious GI who comes back from the dead to save his buddies fighting in the Nam. At the time, I always wore a flat top during summer since I was playing a lot of baseball and the summers in Texas were pretty brutal. My friend chose me as the model for Camouflage.
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterEating Iguana's ?????
Mel Gibson’s latest picture, “Apocalypto,” came out this week on DVD. It's supposed to be about the fall of the Mayan empire, however, by the time it was over, I’ve seen so much human sacrifice, slavery, urban misery and general despoiling of the environment, I thought I was in South Dallas!
After his village gets massacred, the main character ...[text shortened]... afraid to let their hair down or do things like clean and close a wound using beetle mandibles.
I wont be taking my pet Iguana's to see the film..... actually i dont need to see it now as der schwarze Ritter has basically told us the whole film.....😠
