Apocalypto (2006) Full Movie Reaction

''My "only" real gripe with the movie is ALL THOSE HEADLESS BODIES left to rot in the jungle heat and NO ONE smelled that?'' THIS!! exactly! i mean c'mon... the movie was presented somewhat good... but if you get critics to promote it or give a rating? GAME OVER!

yeeeeeah, It's kind of like Gibson took the Aztecs, Maya, and Inca people and squished them face first into a blender but then he forgot to put the lid on before letting 'er rip and now there's bits and pieces of them all over the place so now it's impossible to tell which bit of culture belongs to which people. He does get major storytelling points though. There's quite a few (understatement) inaccuracies but again, storytelling points! My "only" real gripe with the movie is ALL THOSE HEADLESS BODIES left to rot in the jungle heat and NO ONE smelled that? I read somewhere that you could smell a concentration camp from MILES away but here are these people who live in the jungle, completely oblivious to the fact there's a hugeass city a days walk away and they never thought to investigate where that godawful stench was coming from.....anyway. I actually do like the movie other than that, I just go in with the mindset of watching a story, not a history lesson.

Alyson Addington

ohhh i guess ur right. i seen it somewhere too. and even today scientists are intrigued by their tech and style

ohhh good info. well Mel need it a punch line... so he chose a fictional one.. he borrow the facts from history, but was hard to track it accurately. is true about Mayans and their calendars.. the ships when they came i was like ''oh?? i thought i am watching something like few thousand years old'' not few hundred lol

Another outstanding accomplishment of the Mayans was their elaborate writing system. Few of the indigenous peoples had anything like it. Other peoples such as the Inca managed to build and administer empires without a writing system.

Els

I really like this movie for focusing attention on a sophisticated culture that many know little about, and certainly doesn't appear in the movies. Experts in Maya history have pointed out various errors, but there are two major errors that even a regular guy like me can see. The first is when everyone freaks out over the eclipse. In fact the Mayans were excellent astronomers, and quite capable of predicting eclipses. The second is when the strange ships appear offshore. The Mayan cities had collapsed already, replaced by other cultures, before Europeans ever arrived. Although Mayans still live in the area.

Els