Back when Mel Gibson brought out The Passion of the Christ, I offered the opinion on NRO that Mel is much too interested in scenes of gruesome things happening to human bodies, and I suggested that as an added draw for his future movies, movie theaters might be rigged up with machines to squirt fake blood at the audience at suitable points in the story. (I had not, and still have not, seen Passion; my opinion was based on Mel’s pre-Passion work.)

Many NRO readers thrilled at the success of Passion emailed in to scold me for my disrespectful remarks. We-e-ell, here is Roger Friedman reviewing Apocalypto, Mel’s new movie, for Fox News:

Apocalypto is the most violent movie Disney has ever released, with so much blood spurting out of orifices that even Martin Scorsese would blush. If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to see heads and hearts removed without anesthesia, then this is the movie for you. Grey’s Anatomy it is not.

[Derb] Actually, sounds like Gray’s Anatomy it **is**.