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December 11, 2006
Apocolypto Wins the Weekend
Huh.
Guess not everyone kept their "I'll never see another Mel Gibson" movie pledge.
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Mel Gibson's bloody epic "Apocalypto" debuted as the No. 1 weekend movie, proving the filmmaker still can deliver a winner despite his drunken-driving arrest and anti-Semitic rant last summer.I think Mel Gibson has one man to thank for helping the American people forgive him."Apocalypto," a Disney release set in the Mayan civilization and told in an obscure Mayan language, opened with $14.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Michael Richards. Honestly. I think people compared the two rants, and decided what Gibson said wasn't really that bad, considering. I'm not saying what Gibson said was necessarily good - just saying who comes out less covered in mud in this particular head to head matchup.
Allah posted a clip from this weekend's SNL - the "re-cut" Apocolypto trailer. Meh. The jokes it makes are exactly what you'd expect. Makes me wonder if they've got Aaron Sorkin writing their comedy sketches. SNL may have been groundbreaking television in 1975, but I'm thinking it might be time to retire the old beast. I sat through the opening sketch, the monologue and the recut trailer and half-smiled once.
The opening sketch was Bush behind a desk, talking about the Iraq study group report. It was a bad Bush impression mixed with the jokes everyone has been telling about Bush for nearly seven years now.
Groundbreaking.
If I'd been writing the sketch, I'd have gone with a Jurassic Park theme myself, given the average age of the ISG's writers. But that's just me.
Posted by slublog at December 11, 2006 08:31 AM
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I don't think it was the fact what Gibson said wasn't as bad, it was that Richards' rant was recorded. Reading a transcript rather then watching someone go completely crazy can make all the difference.
Posted by: coldmexican at December 12, 2006 08:34 AM
I wonder whether Gibson's rant is out there on tape somewhere. Don't police cars have cameras now?
Posted by: Slublog at December 12, 2006 08:58 AM