Nate SuperAdmin

Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 151 Location: Columbus, Ohio
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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 8:20 pm Post subject: So ... this small suburban publication in Cali quoted me? |
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May 25, 2007. The Pleasanton Weekly based in Pleasanton, California.
"Mad” Mel Gibson ups the hyperbolic gore
ante in the vastly entertaining and supremely silly
“Apocalypto,” a film aptly described by Nate Zoebl
on the Web site Picture Show Pundits as “...an
art film for jocks.” This description is not far from
the truth—if this were 20 years ago Mel, Arnie the
governator or even Sly Stallone might have donned
a loincloth and greased themselves up to play a
villager in this 16th century peace-loving village
threatened by the domineering and bloodthirsty
Mayans (disclaimer: as portrayed in the movie).
Mel, again, goes with the language purity theme
as he did with the “Passion of the Christ,” only
this time the movie is in various Mayan dialects
translated into some crusty jocularisms for the
good guys and sinister ramblings for the bad guys.
An idiom, I think, that Arnie and Sly may have had
trouble with."
http://74.125.95.132/custom?q=cache:IZFywr_lJTIJ:www.pleasantonweekly.com/morguepdf/2007/2007_05_25.pls.section2.pdf+apocalypto&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=pub-2203864489454098
This is just weird to me. I got cited by another film critic across the country. Well, good for Pleasanton for spotting good taste. _________________ "Trying is the first step toward failure." - Homer Simpson |
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