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   Message 959 of 1,939   
   Al Smith to All   
   Re: APOCALYPTO CRITIQUES   
   21 Dec 06 03:57:45   
   
   XPost: alt.mexico, alt.movies   
   From: invalid@address.com   
      
   >>>>What stake do you have in smearing Mel Gibson?   
   >>>   
   >>>>> Absolutely none.   
   >>>>> Based on advanced previews of the elaborate sets and beautiful   
   >>>>> photography, my family and I went to the movie with hopeful   
   >>>>> expectations, but what we saw was an inaccurate hate-filled   
   >>>>> depiction of Native Americans.   
   >>>>> Not being christian or Jewish, we had never seen Passion Of   
   >>>>> The Christ and were only mildly aware of the controversy of how   
   >>>>> he portayed Jewish people in a negative light. But now we wonder   
   >>>>> if they might not have had a legitimate complaint after seeing how   
   >>>>> Mel Gibson smears the Maya people so viciously in Apocalypto.   
   >>   
   >>> Oh, I get it, you thought you'd see the politically correct,   
   >>> sanitized version of the natives that Hollywood is so (in)famous   
   >>> for   
   >   
   >   
   > I have been reading Todd's postings on Usenet for many years.  He   
   > doesn't shoot his mouth off for no reason, the references he gave   
   > were pretty damn convincing, and he has always put his real name   
   > to what he writes.   
   >   
   > Who are you and why should we listen to you?   
      
      
   Jeez, when were you brainwashed? You read the words, you think   
   about them, and you make up your own mind. Who I am is irrelevant.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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