The Passion of the Christ. Most overrated POS movie ever?

[GoldGoblin]

Totally untrue.

^How so?

 

[KenK]

Eh, it wasnt that good.
The one thing I did like was how Satan was portrayed.
Kind of androgenous if I remember.

I did like that.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

If your not a christian,then this movie will not make any sense to you.You will see it as something else.

I was raised a Born Again Christian, forced to go to Christian schools all the way from kindergarten to my senior year, forced to read the Bible all the way through 5 times and was an honest believer until I got in to my mid-20's.

I am not a Christian and it made perfect sense to me.

 

[thealiasman2000]

You are a Jew, then?

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

huh?

 

[LastSunrise1981]

You know, Wilhem-Scream is RIGHT.

They should do a movie about the entire life of Jesus, and not just his death.

Then go to the library, blockbuster, or a christian bookstore and you'll find movies about his life.

Until then people need to stop *****ing about the Passion of the Christ.

 

[Joker]

Wow. I have to say, probably one of the worst movies I have seen in awhile. The movie by itself is so bad that I doubt most people would even understand any of it. I grew up in a muslim family so know alot about the stories but the movie does no job of even telling you who are all the people. the character development is nowhere to be seen other than some jesus nice guy flashbacks. The movie tries a cheap, lets see jesus get beaten for two hours just so the christian who actually believe in all the silly stories can cry for 2 hours.

I saw the Life of Brian yesterday and it was 10 times better than this crap, and probably truer to what probably happened.

My favorite part of The Passion was when Jesus INVENTED THE TABLE...as if Jesus wasn't already enough of a personality, they had to have him INVENT THE F**KING TABLE...think about that for a second...just...think about it...

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

people need to stop *****ing about the Passion of the Christ.

mmmm...why is that?
Where do I pick up the official list of things that I can't b**** about and things that I'm allowed to b**** about?

 

[DarKush]

I thought it was a pretty good movie. However, my only quibble with it was that I wish Gibson had focused a little more on Jesus's life and ministry, to show why the priests felt Jesus was a threat.

 

[Sava]

i loved this movie

 

[WallCrawl]

My favorite part of The Passion was when Jesus INVENTED THE TABLE...as if Jesus wasn't already enough of a personality, they had to have him INVENT THE F**KING TABLE...think about that for a second...just...think about it...

HA! I forgot that had happened in the movie. Oh man...

 

[amazingfantasy15]

I thought the movie was well made, didn't change my opinion about religion (Christianity is nice in concept, but there are way too many plotholes for me to have blind faith and I'm really sick of the politics behind it). Also, I didn't mind that other parts of Jesus' life weren't shown, that's not what the film was supposed to be about. The film will move "Jesus' freak" Christians to tears because they truly do believe in this, others, like me, it will have no effect, others still it will anger because they the have big problems with religion. At least that's the way I see it, in the end it's a story Mel Gibson wanted to tell and he told it. However, to compare Mel Gibson to Tom Cruise is ridiculous, Mel doesn't go on talk shows to sell his religion (except the press tour for the opening of Passion), he's not making outrageous claims and trying to keep him and his wife/girlfriend as much in the spotlight as possible.

 

[Calvin]

You are a Jew, then?

Haha, this totally came out in a Borat voice when I read it.

 

[The Kid]

Well it's good that movies like this can get made and seen by the public isn't it? I'd hate it if every subject were censored to make it safe and sweet.

I hope more religious people do movies with hardcore blood and guts flying everywhere. People I know tend to forget how gory the bible is.

 

[Liquid Snake]

I was raised a Born Again Christian, forced to go to Christian schools all the way from kindergarten to my senior year, forced to read the Bible all the way through 5 times and was an honest believer until I got in to my mid-20's.

I am not a Christian and it made perfect sense to me.

It took you into mid 20s? wow. I was pretty much done at about 17. I mean most of it is because of hype and debates and than I did some thinking on my own and reading.

 

[BT18]

Aliasman has never made one post I've ever seen that wasn't mindnumbingly stupid in a way that has no comedic and only an annoying value.

 

[Spider-Face]

it is based on the visons of a nun from like the 15th century or something. there is a stong catholic tradition of focussing on the physical suffering of jesus to see how much he actually went through for us.

that said i read the nun's writings and there really was very little focus on the resurrection. i dont want to watch the film.

 

[BT18]

it is based on the visons of a nun from like the 15th century or something. there is a stong catholic tradition of focussing on the physical suffering of jesus to see how much he actually went through for us.

that said i read the nun's writings and there really was very little focus on the resurrection. i dont want to watch the film.

2 nuns actually, one from the 17th century and an anti-semitic nun from the 19th century.

 

[Spider-Face]

im not sure that that is true. i read the 17th century (sorry) nun's visionary writing and it prety much correlated to the depicitons in the film

 

[Warhammer]

I wish Michael Ironside portrayed Satan.
He played a good Satan on a DTV movie of Jesus I had to watch a few years back.

Anyway, The POTC was a movie that I will never watch again.
For the couple of days after watching it, I was anti-Jew and anti-Roman.

 

[My vengeance]

It didn't strike me as one of the worst movies of all time...just mediocre at best.What really disturbed me about it was that it was oversaturised with caricatured portraits,be they of pharisees or of Roman soldiers and noblemen.Also,I know they were trying to go for an authentic look by making them speak Aramaic,but seeming as Greek was lingua franca and the language of commerce throughout the Roman Empire,and that,in particular, Greek was well understood in "Galilee of the Gentiles," the region where Jesus Christ of Nazareth was raised, and grew up as a young lad,it was most likely that Jesus spoke with Pilate by use of this language.

 

[Golgo-13]

Wow. I have to say, probably one of the worst movies I have seen in awhile. The movie by itself is so bad that I doubt most people would even understand any of it. I grew up in a muslim family so know alot about the stories but the movie does no job of even telling you who are all the people. the character development is nowhere to be seen other than some jesus nice guy flashbacks. The movie tries a cheap, lets see jesus get beaten for two hours just so the christian who actually believe in all the silly stories can cry for 2 hours.

I saw the Life of Brian yesterday and it was 10 times better than this crap, and probably truer to what probably happened.

These Passion bashing threads have been done to death, get a life *******.

 

[cryptic name]

edit.

 

[Liquid Snake]

I wish Michael Ironside portrayed Satan.
He played a good Satan on a DTV movie of Jesus I had to watch a few years back.

Anyway, The POTC was a movie that I will never watch again.
For the couple of days after watching it, I was anti-Jew and anti-Roman.

oh so if you were black, you'd be anti white? just because their fathers owned slaves? wow

 

[Silver]

I didn't like the film at all.. I suppose I don't find cinematic pleasure in seing a guy being tortured for two hours, Jesus or not... this stuff only works for me in zombie horror comedies.