:eek: I can't believe that! He and his wife were laughing?? :eek: You're right - that is disrespectful. You shoulda said "Hey - this is a movie about Christ, so shut up jackass!" -- heehee - can only imagine the looks you woulda gotten ;)

I haven't seen it - probably won't. I don't do well with these types of movies -- not that its anywhere on the same level what-so-ever, but after I saw Legends of the Fall (or, as it is better known - "Everybody including the cow in the fence dies") I was depressed for weeks. I certainly don't think I would do well watching this, but I do wish the movie all the success in the world. I am enjoying hearing everyone's thoughts on it after they have experienced it.

JAM - I loved your post - great job as usual!!

i'm not religious at all. i went to see it thursday with my boyfriend, who had to explain so much to me because mel gibson didn't give any background in the movie. so basically, if you didn't already know the specifics of the story, you wouldn't know exactly who everyone was.

i thought it was extremely well done. i even loved that it was in latin and aramaic with subtitles, even though i thought i would hate that. it was very powerful.

i can't see how the movie is supposed to cause anti-semitic feelings. yes, i found myself getting angry with the jewish leaders and pilate, but not at jews or romans as a whole. that's just silly.

that was one of the most well-done movies i have ever seen.

but i have one major issue---they should not allow 4 and 5 year old children into an R movie, especially at 9:30pm on a school night! what irresponsible parents! they can't even read what is happening. get a freaking babysitter! and if you want your young child to see this especially graphic movie, go on a saturday afternoon when the kid doesn't have school the next day! those kids will be having nightmares for weeks:mad:

Saw it last night...pretty powerful film, the theater was completely silent for about 10 minutes after the movie ended.

I'm not what you would call a "good Catholic;" I attend church every week but my religion doesn't shape my day-to-day life as much as it could (or maybe should).

As far as taking offense to anything in the movie; I'm not a member of one of the groups that could take offense, and don't really feel qualified in any way to speak to that. As a Catholic, the movie blew me away.

I'm not sure if I'd see it again, it was a lot to take. But I guess that's the point...

Here's another educated article that looks at the movie.... (tried to just have a link but it never seem to work properly).


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-Rudey

it is obviously #1 at box office. wed/thursday- it made $41 million
fri/saturday- it made $76 million....for a grand total of $117 million+

I just got home from seeing this movie with my co-worker. It is quite the powerful film. I do encourage everyone to see it with their families. It is not however a movie that you would see as a social outing where you kick back and have popcorn and a soft drink. I actually had hershey's kisses in my purse for my coworker and I to munch on and just couldnt open my purse to get them out(good thing we ate some before the movie).

If you havent seen it but are planning to, please keep the following in mind. It is violent. It is gory. It is not for children or immature teens. It is okay to shed tears. It is okay if you need to close your eyes or turn away (you will still hear the violence and torture). It is okay if you need to step out of the theater. It is okay to ask questions. It is okay to ask why.

Also as a personal opinion, I did not see anything at all anti-semitic about this movie. It even says in there, or GREATLY IMPLIES rather, that the sins of humanity killed Jesus.

I'm still taking in this movie. It has impacted me enough at this point to make a few changes in my life, has given me what I needed to settle a particular family matter, and has made me quite...........I dont want to say anxious or uneasy.......but I cant really describe the feeling. My hope is I dont have a panic attack about it and vomit up my pasta I ate for dinner (which is what happened the last time a movie got to me a few years ago).

I'll post more tomorrow after I've let it sink in some more.

I honestly cant agree with this statement now after having seen this movie. The sheer torture that Christ suffered prior to being nailed to the cross itself was probably to an extent than having his hands and feet nailed. So I cant possibly imagine a worse death than this.

Well Babylonian impalement was pretty bad. They sat you on a pole with a sharpened point so that the point went into your rectum . . . gravity slowly killed you as the pole pierced up into your bowels. They also didn't beak your legs so that you died faster . . . I'll have to look up some other causes of death like that to see what was available . . .

LOL! Sorry.........I had to laugh at this. :)

The greeks had a pretty gruesome method of exexution too..... take two small boats, one man, and honey. Make a sandwich with the man as the meat and the boats as a bun, make sure to leave hole for head (like a stock), smear man in honey, lash boats together and set him adrift.... in around a week he should be eaten alive by magots.

Good GAWD!!!!

-Taualumna, who is just about freaking out

Also, I cannot remember which culture did this, but I have heard about a person being tied to two horses and the horses being prompted to run in opposite directions ripping the person apart. That is horrible. I still don't think that compares to the long and constant torture that Christ endured.

Some of the other descriptions of dramatic executions do seem to be a bit more torturous, but who knows?

Its called being Drawn and quartered.
Cause you are supposedly ripped into four pieces.

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Mr A and I saw the movie Saturday.

Going to Mass this morning, and other devotional practices like the Rosary, Eucharistic Adoration, and Stations of the Cross (especially that one....) has an entirely new profoundness and depth that was not there before.

This will be my only comment on this picture.

Adrienne

I enjoyed the outtakes at the end of the movie.

Outtakes?

I am the only person in the world who hasn't seen it. (I think that's official.) I think I eventually will but I will most likely just rent it.

Don't worry... your not the only one not to have seen it ;)

I really don't have any desire to see it either, but in the end someone will probibly rent it and i'll be to bored to walk away....

I haven't seen it either. I intend to buy it and watch it in privacy.

The best part of the outtakes was when the Roman dude forgot his line and then slip down the stairs.

I rented this movie last night.

It was an extremely violent and powerful movie. Although at one point I did have to turn the movie off and watch something a little light hearted because I just couldn't handle the violence.

This is probably one of, if not the most, violent movie I have ever seen.

For me, it was powerful enough to AlMOST want to make me go to church (the reason I won't would best be suited for another thread).

It was well acted, well directed. However, I do wish the Mel had stuck to his original vision and not used subtitles. The words that were spoken in this film were not as important as the emotion that was portrayed.