Where did the time go - Death by 1,000 films - Week 7

Death by 1,000 Films

Did you get the memo?

One sticking movie. Uno. That's all I got to watch this week. And I almost watched it last week.

It was Mel Gibson's Mayan epic Apocalypto, and it was slow.

I originally went into this week hoping to finish off the “A” section of the list. Instead, I'm staring at six more films before I go on to the “B”s.

So why did this happen? I was on such a torrid pace, watching at least one movie every day.

The reason is because of St. Lawrence hockey and Syracuse football converging this week. I cover both teams, and preparing for SLU's season and covering Syracuse's first Big East football game made my days very long, very busy, and when I got home at 1 a.m. a movie wasn't really my first priority.

This week should be a little bit tamer. Today I'm headed to the movie theater, but tomorrow is a normal work day for me, so I will watch at lest one of the films on the list, probably two. I have Wednesday off (first day off in over one week), so I will knock off a few more that day.

It is a shortened column because, well, I have nothing to say. Apocalypto laughed at Mayan history. It turned the most advanced primitive civilization into just a bunch of heathens. It was wonderfully filmed, but historically inaccurate. It's also entirely in the Mayan language.

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THE MOVIES

Apocalypto. Rated: R. Year: 2006. My Rating: 3 out of 5 stars. A brief thought: It's good enough for a watch, but not highly recommended. It's on the list because it showed how good a director Mel Gibson can be.

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My Movie List.