FF:NZ The Passion Of The Christ

Anyone seen it? Thoughts etc.?

 

My mum saw it and she hated it she and her friend said they cried all the way through and that it really tested their faith!

I'm to young to get in legally because our local vilage cinema's ask for Photo ID, so I am going to have to wait till it comes to rialto and sneak in!

 

Sneaking illegally into a movie about the life of Jesus ... there's irony in there somewhere, lol.

 

hmmm ... so if you're a Roman Catholic, and you sneak into a move about the life of Christ, and you're underage, do you have to confess that sin?

I'll probably go see it on Good Friday as an act of pennance. Not really sure I want to see it, but I guess I should.

 

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I'm sure that was a valid point SFL
I'd like to see it given I've seen just about every other religious movie at some stage. I have no strong faith anyways, so I don't really see it as being a challenge.

 

I was reading something the other day about the difficulties suffered by the actor playing Jesus, James Caviezel.

While filming the flogging scene, he said he was accidentally whipped twice, which left a 14inch scar on his back, and he scrapped his wrist. He was struck by lightning while filming the Sermon on the Mount scene, and suffered from hypothermia while filming the cruxifiction scene. That was what he described in a newsweek interview, and the other day I read of another one on imdb - apparently the cross fell on his shoulder at one stage, causing a shoulder seperation, and the scene was left in the movie.

Either he was misquoted somewhere, or its a miracle the poor guy made it through filming alive. He seemed okay with it, though, and didn't mention any pending lawsuits .. talk about dedication to the art of acting.

 

Struck by lightning?

Sounds like God didn't want this film made!

 

lol

edit = maybe 'God' thought his acting wasting good enough. Surely if 'he' didn't want it made 'he' would have done something to Mel.

 

Yeah, the interviewer suggested that to him -

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4212740

^ I found the original interview through a google search. He just laughs about it. Boy, I wouldn't be laughing. I'd be taking out an insurance policy against acts of divine movie critics.

 

Ouch, having your skin ripped off sounds beyond painful.

I don't think I'll go watch this film. The whole thing seems wrong somehow. I've already read about parents making their children to watch it and when they cried during the torture scenes, they said "Jesus did all this for you so you must watch this!" And religious freaks sending weird spam email to people . Ah, maybe those don't have much to do with the movie but religion just isn't something I want to touch right now.

 

What I find strange is the way people seem to be thinking the film is a documentary. Like everything in it is, err, gospel, and was exactly the way events panned out 2000 or so years back.

 

ah, cmon JP, it's coming out of Hollywood.
how more accurate can it get?

And for the record, havent seen it, have no intention of seeing it.

 

Oh, did I mention that I _have_ read the book?

 

My brother recently saw the film. He's pretty conservative in his theological views ... well, far more than me, at least, and he did not have a high opinion of it. There seems to have been this view presented in the media that 'the religious are hailing this film' but opinion seems to be equally divided both in and out of religious circles, in my experience. Perhaps they were basing this view on all those who rushed to see it within the first few days of opening.

On another note, I was reading this article in the listener the other day, that speculated we may have a wave a 'biblical epic' type movies on the way, seeing that 'Passion' has proved to be such a cash cow. We all know how hollywood studios jump on the newest fad.

 

More biblical movies? I sure hope not. It would be pretty ironic too, if that really happened.

 

Kitt327,
Here is the article about the Pastor that died durin Passion of The Christ.

A Brazilian pastor has died of an apparent heart attack while watching the Mel Gibson film The Passion of the Christ, witnesses say.

Jose Geraldo Soares, a 43-year-old Presbyterian pastor, had reserved two cinemas at a Belo Horizonte shopping mall on the weekend to see the film with his family and the congregations of two local churches.

But halfway through the movie, Soares' wife noticed that he was no longer awake. A doctor who was also watching the film tended to Soares, but the priest was already dead.

"He was calmly watching the movie next to his wife," said Amauri Costa, a family friend who also attended Soares' funeral this week.

Soares is at least the second person to die while watching The Passion, which opened in Brazil last week. Peggy Scott, 56, died of a heart attack on February 25 in Wichita, Kansas while watching film's climactic crucifixion scene.

The film, which was praised by Catholic leaders in Brazil as a faithful depiction of events in the Bible, has been criticised by many for its violent and bloody portrayal of Christ's final hours.

 

I'm kinda wondering if maybe there's usually a couple of people who die during every movie ... they just happened to be reporting on these ones.

 

Like Kitt said, I'm sure that this isn't the first film that someone has ever died watching. (I'm sure people die of heart attacks in porn films all the time.) This film has been controversial, and I guess there's a temptation to make some kind of link to the supernatural/spiritual.