Posted on 03/20/2006 5:30:25 AM PST by Dark Skies
BUMP
Since Gibson's movie is bringing in jobs and mucho, mucho dinero, I seriously DOUBT if there will be a ban on anything wherever he shows up.
He's probably getting the red carpet treatment for bringing in so many jobs and so much money.
I was a little disappointed that Mel Gibson did not give us more of the life of Christ. After the passion make ,more Epics about Jesus. However, Mel brought more into my life with one movie then all the years I attended church Sunday school.I , like a lot of people ,now feel closer to Jesus then I did before. However , Mel has chosen to show us the horror of human sacrifice and knowing what a great job he did on the Patriot and also Braveheart, I do not feel i would be disappointed in this one. Mel Gibson is something Hollywood and liberals cannot handle , he is not afraid to tell the truth as he sees it. I will see this movie.Look out somebody is going to be mad at Mel again.
And that's the truth! That alone is a good thing, so who should care about smoking! hehe!
Let's see.
She was cute.
It has Roman Legionaries in it.
She ran around bare chested.
There's lots of fighting.
Celts are nutballs and fight naked and/painted painted.
They use chariots.
Sounds like a great movie to me!!!!
I didn't know who she was. She was thought to be an, er, "extra-large" redhead. Maybe she was simply acting out her frustrations at being so fat. :o)
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Boudica (also Boudicca, Boadicea, Buduica, Bonduca) (d. 60/61) was a queen of the Brythonic Celtic Iceni people of Norfolk in Eastern Britain who led a major uprising of the tribes against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire. Upon the death of her husband Prasutagus (circa 60), the Romans annexed his kingdom and brutally humiliated Boudica and her daughters (some sources say she was beaten and her daughters raped), spurring her leadership of the revolt.
In 60 or 61, while governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was leading a campaign against the druids on the island of Anglesey in north Wales, the Iceni and their neighbours, the Trinovantes, rebelled, and led by Boudica, destroyed the former Trinovantian capital and Roman colonia of Camulodunum (Colchester), and routed the Roman Legio IX Hispana under Quintus Petillius Cerialis. Boudica's army then burned to the ground the twenty-year-old settlement of Londinium (London) and destroyed Verulamium (St Albans), killing an estimated 70,000-80,000 people. Roman emperor Nero briefly considered withdrawing Roman forces from the island, but ultimately Boudica was defeated at the Battle of Watling Street by the heavily outnumbered forces of Roman provincial governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus.
The chronicles of these events, as recorded by the historians Tacitus[1] and Dio Cassius[2], were rediscovered during the Renaissance and led to a resurgence of Boudica's legendary fame during the Victorian era, when Queen Victoria was portrayed as her "namesake". Boudica has since remained an important cultural symbol in the United Kingdom.
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Dang! An adventure movie that also tries to get the history right. What a NOVEL idea. I wonder if it'll catch on.
Which does not necessarily make it the truth.
While I did not think The Passion was a great film, and in fact I found elements of it downright odious, it did make me realize more fully that Jesus was a Jew and that Christianity is really a breakaway sect of Judaism. That POV won't win me any fans here, but that's what I brought away from the film.
One more post here. When I saw the PASSION OF THE Christ,I never thought in any way it was never anything but my own sins that put Jesus on that cross> There are some people who want to condem Christian Catholics for things that happened centuries before we all were born . Catholics make mistakes ,like the inquision, but we acknowledge them . Mistakes are made because we are all human, but never once in my catholic life time did I ever blame anyone else but me for my own sins which I beleive he died to save me from . Try to understand the Chrsitian religion and what exactly was said in the movie. Don't hate Mel because he takes real unpolitical correct histroy to task.
LOL
Thank you for answering my question.
My list of great movies is very long. It includes most David Lean movies, most Billy Wilder movies, and pretty much everything Paddy Chayefsky wrote, plus lots of other classics. In recent years I like the films of Steven Soderberg, and I this year I thought Crash was fantastic.
The left REEAAAALLLLYYYYY hates Mel Gibson don't they? They are making him out to be a maniac. Liberal punishment for making a Christian movie, being passionate about Christ and being VERY SUCCESSFUL in making/distributing said Christian movie.
Will state some titles of their movies and I might go rent them on DVD or VHS.
Go get him Mel.
This article is just another example of their lunatic hatred of Christians in the MSM and Hollywood. For example:
"The Passion experience--especially the part in which critics hurled anti-Semitism charges at Gibson, an ultraconservative Roman Catholic whose father has questioned whether the Holocaust happened--thickened Gibson's hide along with his wallet."
What in the world does Gibson's father have to do with anything, or this movie? And Frank Rich's charges of "anti-semitism" just showed how the word has been drained of all meaning by overuse and misapplication. Hitler killed 6 million jews - Per Frank Rich: anti-semite. Gibson makes a movie about Christ - Per Frank Rich: anti-semite.
And this:
'Gibson nonetheless is a lightning rod--pro-Mel and anti-Mel blogs abound on the Internet--and he knows that even non-Mexican detractors will ask why, if he's so morbidly fascinated with the bloody deeds of Jewish Pharisees and Maya priests, he doesn't hold a mirror to his own church and film the Spanish Inquisition."
WTF?! What "non-Mexican detractors"; you mean the writer of the article? And why should GIbson make an anti-Christian movie, Hollywood makes 20 of those every year.
hello, the movie was about the last hours of Jesus life, not the history of the life of Christ. Understand, we Christians all know and the key word is know that Jesus was raised as a Jew. We all are taught he followed the laws of Moses. Such as what our Easter dinner is composed of . OUr Easter food comes from the passover meal. you need a Christian friend there to under stand us as I under stand or try to understand my roots.But anyway you have my answer, don't hate Mel cause he did not give a histroy lesson, most Christians already know the history anyway, at least I do.
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