The Passion of Jesus Christ

[Crash]

This is going to be a thread about the upcoming movie: the passion of jesus christ. THis is the one that mel gibson is directing and has been getting so much flack for. I totally and completely want to see this movie. About 3 years ago I had a dream about how graphic the end of Jesus' life was, how they beat him and really humiliated him. (I dreamed this after watching jesus christ superstar) I am amazed to see that a movie was made that is almost identical to my dream - kinda creepy actually.

So what are your thoughts on it so far, it comes out Feb 24th I think.

here is the trailer for it if you haven't seen it.

http://www.thepassionofthechrist.com...rs/w_high.html

here is the much more graphic (but better) trailer:

http://members.shaw.ca/chuglet/the-passion.mov

[Rndm_Perfection]

Mel Gibson's good, and he'll most definately do a good job directing the emotions. As long as the movie has good scripting, it should be more than epic.

[Professor S]

There is a lot of flack about this movie because of how violent it is and how it portrays Christ, but as far as I know it follows the Bible... so I'm not sure what everyone is getting all upset about.

What were you expecting? Christ to jump of the cross at the end of the movie and mow down Pilot with an AK-47 and then do a little soft shoe?

[Jonbo298]

Yeah, people are temperamental to this because its depicted the way it should be. The day before the movie comes out, I want to see some debates on the movie. I might see it just to see how good it is. I'm not as interested in the movie itself, just want to see it since its gonna stir up quite some controversy

[Canyarion]

Hm.... What's this movie MORE about? I mean, what IS the passion??

Just graphics is boring.

[The Duggler]

Originally Posted by The Strangler

so I'm not sure what everyone is getting all upset about.

Isn't there that whole thing about the movie making the jews look bad or something?

[Canyarion]

Well, the jews WERE kinda bad because they rejected the Messiah. They WERE the people of God, but they didn't accept their new king...

Dunno what the movie tells about them though..

[rottwylor]

I would rather go see Alien Vs. Predator....

[Joeiss]

I cannot wait for this movie.


john 3
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[1] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[2] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."

[Dark Samurai]

the movie looks pretty freaky....

and i like freaky movies

so i'll see it

[The Germanator]

Originally Posted by rottwylor

I would rather go see Alien Vs. Predator....

Ditto...I have no reason to see this Passion of Jesus Christ movie, I can already tell by the trailer that it's not the type of movie I'd wanna see.

[DimHalo]

I really want to see it. For many reasons, I love Jesus, Mel Gibson is good, and the Bible will be interesting to see on film (assuming they've done a good job at following it, which i hear they have).

However, financially it may be a problem. We'll see

[Happydude]

meh...i'll wait for it to come out on DVD

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Nitram

Isn't there that whole thing about the movie making the jews look bad or something?

Well if people were going to get upset about the movie then they should condemn the Bible as well. In the Bible it is Jews that betray him to his death. But you also have to realize that up to that point there were no Christians, only Jews and those that followed the old Roman religions. So while Jews did betray him, it was the Romans who persecuted and killed him.

You can't re-write the Bible for political correctness, so why should the movie about his life according to the Bible be re-written?

And for the record, I'm not Christian and I don't hold anything against Jews, in fact I'm one of Israel's biggest supporters.

The Bible is what it is, and so should the movie. As the Pope said: "It is as it was."

[TheGame]

+Rep Strangler

I think the movie should be interesting... I don't normally see any movies on the big screen unless it's a sequal to a movie I love. I don't know if I will see this one... chances are someone from church will buy me a ticket anyway