Well.
This looks… bizarre.
What do you guys think?
bizarre is, indeed, the very word I would use.
It looks interesting, but something tells me it’s going to gross somewhat less money than Mr. Gibson’s previous effort.
Did you download it? Go searching for a single frame in the Quicktime version of this trailer for an easter egg.
Looks like a really amazing movie, actually.
It made me curious, at any rate.
Looks pretty damn stupid to me.
Looks like the same film style as Passion, without the instant interest to Christians.
It could be interesting, or just really self-indulgant.
I think I’ll like it. I’d pay to see the Aztec (or is this Mayan?) civilization in its glory days.
Those are supposed to be Maya and isn’t the movie going to be in Quiché?. I’ll catch this movie, could be very interesting.
It’ll use Yucatec, says Wikipedia.
They claim it isn’t going to be religious, but I’d be surprised if the Mayan calendar (end of) is not mentioned.
How can a calendar have an “end”?
The Mayan Calender runs in (very long) cycles. Supposedly, at the end of certain cycles, the world might well change/be destroyed.
It’s more like an ancient version of the Y2K bug. Their calenders simply couldn’t handle dates past what we’d call 2012 AD.
However, they’d already fixed it. We’ve found Mayan calenders that could handle dates up to about 10,000 AD.
I saw this trailer recently. It looks interesting, but in the what the heck is it about? sort of way. So does anyone know what the actual movie is about?
The date I was referring to December 21, 2012, is an end not the end.
The Mayans believe that at the end of all the long cycles, the gods will create a fourth world and it will signify the end of mankind. Wikipedia
OK, I can get the thinking behind shooting The Passion in Aramaic. But now Mel is getting just plain silly.
HA! that’s great. Good to see he still has his sense of humor. Now if he could just find his razor.
No way – if there’s one thing we need it’s more historical movies set with their original languages. Movies set in ancient Greece should be in ancient Greek. The ancient Persians should speak Persian and Aramaic! The Egyptians should speak Egyptian! The Scythians should speak Scythian! The Sumerians should speak Sumerian!
And the Schnozzberries should taste like Schnozzberries!
I think it’s supposed to be about the collapse of their civiliation, not the glory days.
Only someone interested in linguists would say such a thing!