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(Message started by: Justin Ewart dot com on Mar 2nd, 2004, 4:04pm)
Title: PASSION OF THE CHRIST - your reviews
Post by Justin Ewart dot com on Mar 2nd, 2004, 4:04pm
So, who has seen it and what did you think?
Title: Re: PASSION OF THE CHRIST - your reviews
Post by alx59 on Mar 3rd, 2004, 8:59am
Do you think this movie deserves a topic?
If yes, what do you think about depicting people in a racist way?
Title: Re: PASSION OF THE CHRIST - your reviews
Post by obi-john on Mar 3rd, 2004, 2:22pm
have yet to see it, although i am wanting to.
Title: Re: PASSION OF THE CHRIST - your reviews
Post by Lo-Fi Superstar on Mar 3rd, 2004, 6:22pm
Being as i am a Christian of course the movie had a more profound affect on me personally. BUT barring all that, it was very violent and very very well done.

I was only bored at a couple spots where he kept dropping the cross.

I have nothing but good to say of it and I wish people would stop it with the whole racist anti-semetic thing too.

It does not matter who killed him, we all did. He didn't just die for the Jews.

I cried a number of times and went with a girl I know who is an athiest and she cried as well, so I can confidently say that it's moving?

Out,

Jay 8)
Title: Re: PASSION OF THE CHRIST - your reviews
Post by NeverEverAfter on Mar 18th, 2004, 2:40pm
I thought it was pretty well done [like the acting and the picture] . . . but . . . I don't know the story of Jesus Christ at all, seeing I'm atheist, so I got kind of bored.

It was sad, though. I cried I couple of times and I think the movie had a good intention, but I think it was kind of over rated.
--Janjan.

EDIT: Okay, I'm a member of the Atheist Teens community on LiveJournal, and some of their comments about the movie are very . . . interesting. For one, they see it as a movie that simply came and won't go away. They told stories about people that forced them to see the movie and how it will "change their lives" and such. Some of the stories reminded me of my own encounters with little old ladies on trains.

So anyway, it could be both racist and it could not be. I guess for some people that don't believe in Jesus Christ would think of it as rather annyoing after a while, especially when some people can't stop talking about it.  :-*. I just felt like doing that.
Title: Re: PASSION OF THE CHRIST - your reviews
Post by obi-john on Mar 19th, 2004, 2:01am
Ok i finally saw it. Thought it was great.  One part in it I thought was one of the best scenes ever shot (during Mary's flashback when it comes back to the present and he falls).  I'm not a true believer but this movie makes you want to be.  Great film.
Title: Re: PASSION OF THE CHRIST - your reviews
Post by UnderZenith on Mar 21st, 2004, 3:46pm
I thought it was very well done, very tasteful, and very powerful and moving. makes me kinda wanna read to bible so i can know the story a bit better  :o
Title: Re: PASSION OF THE CHRIST - your reviews
Post by ProdigyBoy on Mar 22nd, 2004, 4:47am

on 03/03/04 at 08:59:02, alx59 wrote:
Do you think this movie deserves a topic?
If yes, what do you think about depicting people in a racist way?


i'm not sure if the movie really portrayed people in a racist way.  i'm not historical/theology expert but I didn't find the movie to be racist.  I think they did a pretty good job of showing man put him death (and/or he died for man).

I found the movie experience of watching it was sobbering, like attending a funeral home.  Invoking that feeling could be a success but it bringing up as much disscussion as it did in public is probally the greater feat.  There wasn't much new from visual representation other then the whipping scene.  The stations of the cross and the movie Jesus of Nazereth (1979) covered everything that The Passion showed.

Seeing the physical representations of the devil i found to be odd.

I wouldn't say it's a must see movie becuase of the graphic nature and the fact there are other effective portrayls of Christ's death.

Cameron Bay.