10 Movies That Mock You For Paying Attention

10. Apocalypto

After the surprise blockbuster success of 2004's extremely dark, gritty religious epic The Passion of the Christ, all eyes were on Lethal Weapon star Mel Gibson's next move as a director. The controversial actor had already seen serious success with his debut the Oscar winning epic Braveheart, so where does one go from here?

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The answer, of course, was further back in time and into territory that was even less likely to succeed than a film entirely in Aramaic.

2007's gory, kinetic Apocalypto was a stripped down, uber-intense chase movie following a lone heroic mesoamerican farmer through the lethal journey to save his tribe from becoming Mayan human sacrifices. Violent, propulsive, and raw, the film proved that Gibson was unconcerned with mainstream approval despite his blockbuster past.

Never was the director's uncaring approach made clearer, though, than in one gag he decided to slip inside the film for more canny viewers.

Freeze frame this sombre, deathly serious film as the camera pans over a mass grave over Mayan corpses, and if you time it just right you'll see...

Yep, there's Waldo of Where's Waldo fame, just chilling in an ancient Mayan temple's burial ground for the director's own amusement.

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