[AGL] Mel Gibson makes me wanna puke

[Fontaine Maverick]

A disclaimer about my personal bias: Gibson is on my list of "10 famous people I love to hate".
Friday's Statesman had not only a review by Chris Garcia, but an interview with a professor of Mayan studies, on the new film, "Apocalypto" - she said that the film was despicable because it portrayed the Mayans as brutal, left out all of their accomplishments, was full of inaccuracies, and brought the Spanish catholics in at the end as saviours! It bugs me that many of the reviewers around the country are gaga over it.

http://www.statesman.com/search/content/shared/movies/stories/2006/12/history.html

and here is Garcia's review:

Gore meets grandeur for a weird mix
By Chris Garcia
Austin American Statesman 



"Apocalypto" is the best horror movie of the year. It's a sadistically, sociopathically violent spectacle that devolves from gripping action film to a relentless phantasmagoria of graphic carnage that hammers you with gory image after gory image — blood, guts, brains, heads, limbs — in the service of message that's at best murky.>>>>

http://www.austin360.com/movies/movies/etc/getCriticReview.jspd?criticReviewId=728
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