Anyone seen Apocalypto yet?
I think the movie is a disaster, when it comes to the truth at least.
Tribal leaders and the academic community rightfully show their scorn for this "postmodern hodge-podge" of a movie.
Anyone with an inch of history, or night classes on anthropology, could see the farse (or bad research). It's not even a good action movie when it comes to that.
WHY did he NOT make the movie about Aztecs instead of the Mayans?
That culture would have been right up his alley with violent content.
Regardless.. I hope interest in meso-american culture will not be lost.
And there seems to be something brewing in mexico and guatemala.
A producer behind Lord Of The Rings, has what it seems had a talk *unverified* with a tribal eldar about making a more accurate movie about these exotic and ancient peoples which have survived to the present.
I think the movie is a disaster, when it comes to the truth at least.
Tribal leaders and the academic community rightfully show their scorn for this "postmodern hodge-podge" of a movie.

Anyone with an inch of history, or night classes on anthropology, could see the farse (or bad research). It's not even a good action movie when it comes to that.
WHY did he NOT make the movie about Aztecs instead of the Mayans?
That culture would have been right up his alley with violent content.
Regardless.. I hope interest in meso-american culture will not be lost.
And there seems to be something brewing in mexico and guatemala.
A producer behind Lord Of The Rings, has what it seems had a talk *unverified* with a tribal eldar about making a more accurate movie about these exotic and ancient peoples which have survived to the present.
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