FR MOVIE REVUE: THE PASSION OF CHRIST (post your comments here)

2/24/04 | FR MOVIE REVIEWERS

[Liz]

All the world is waiting for the powerful message in Mel Gibson's ground-breaking film, The Passion of Christ.

Post here your own personal reactions after seeing the film set to open tomorrow, Ash Wednesday. Passion has previewed in some areas.

Also post reviews and pertinent comments from your state and area's newspapers and publications.

[freemama]

Thank you for posting your response to the film. I haven't seen a review from a regular person who is not aquainted with the story of Jesus. It was very interesting.

You may wish to do some reading about Christianity and the meaning of the Crucifiction to believers to make more sense of the film. Ask "why did Gibson show so much suffering" as you research. It makes perfect sense to a Christian why he would. It was interesting to me to see that you didn't see the point in it.

[freemama]

Please come back to this thread and post your reactions after seeing the film I am interested in the opinion of the non-Christians after seeing it.

[Salvation]

I'll be back later. Going to a MardiGras fundraiser for our youth groups.

Put on the purple, green and gold!

Shrove Tuesday!

[BibChr]

It is similar to numerous similar myths in several cultures, and I have a great interest in such mythology.

Ah, yes; like the myth of the noble pagan, who considers himself outside and above the culture above which he's a member, looking down on others from the lofty height of a pretense to hyper-rationality....

Hey! You don't exist!

Dan
Why I Am (Still) a Christian

[Ichneumon]

I can't imagine that it would be any interest to anyone but a Christian.

Isn't that sort of like saying that "Braveheart" wouldn't be any interest to anyone but a Scotsman?

From a non-spritual aspect, it's a depiction of a man being tortured to death.

Ultimately, so was "Braveheart". :-)

[AppyPappy]

Except that Braveheart didn't depict a 12 hour sequence of events

[gatorgriz]

You disgust me... You truly do...

[LowOiL]

Have not seen it yet, but have got advance tickets for Saturday at 7PM. That ought to be good night to see it for the wifey and my mom and sister. I will be babysitting and may wait until the DVD is released. (I really hate movie theaters).

[alnick]

It doesn't depict the ugliest part of Jesus' life; it depicts the most beautiful. It was the ultimate sacrifice, made willingly, out of love. :-)

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***If yes, please provide a source citation.***

My answer had nothing to burning a church. I merely pointed out that the British green uniformed Rangers and Tories of the war showed an extreme form brutality during that war.
Try reading THE ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY OF PIONEER LIFE by AUGUSTUS LYNCH MASON written in 1883.

[Mamzelle]

re: Does it qualify if we just respond with a message that says, "I gave up flaming for Lent"?)))

LOL! good one...how about being provoking? Lucky I'm not Catholic.

[LowOiL]

It doesn't depict the ugliest part of Jesus' life; it depicts the most beautiful.

Well spoken, I agree.

[Mamzelle]

re: CS Lewis

Anglican Catholic convert? He was Anglican, I thought...?

[SamAdams76]

Some liberal columnist up here in Boston wrote a column in the Boston Herald that anybody taking their child to see this movie should be arrested for child abuse.

I found that statement quite ironic, considering the trashy movies, TV shows, music and video games that Hollywood has been foisting upon our youth for decades now.

[Mamzelle]

agreed bump

[Martin Tell]

I quite agree that Screwtape letters are a very good source for insight into the mind of evil. I understand that when Lewis released the letters in a series in a British newspaper some readers objected that the newspaper should not be printing such demonic writings. They did not get the joke! And I also agree that Cleese's reading is superb - he makes a great Screwtape. I also copied cassettes and then burned onto CD. Not sure they are available on CD. It does not take up much space as an MP3 if your car has a player.

I must nitpick at you in one area, however. You state, ...although Lewis was an Anglican Catholic convert." Lewis and his brother were born and raised as members of the Church of England (in Ireland). He fell away from the faith, but returned years later (a long conversation with Tolkien was key in the process). He never became a Roman Catholic, nor may he fairly be considered an Anglo-Catholic. He always believed in mere Christianity!

Yours faithfully,

Martin

[BigSkyFreeper]

A little friendly advice. Try approaching subjects or individuals you disagree with sometime with an open mind. You and everyone around you will be a lot better off.

[Liz]

His genius is selecting subject matter. An incomparable writer.

[Ichneumon]

Take a hike, Bunky. I don't think anybody cares what you think.

I do, for one -- a great deal more than I care for your hostility.

[Liz]

How's about cross-country?