Posted on 02/22/2016 11:43:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind
BFL
Comparing it to the Passion is, IMHO, an apples and oranges comparison. The Passion was meant to be as historically and biblically correct as possible. Risen is speculative fiction with regards to a Roman military tribune tasked with investigating the missing body. In as much as he is a fictional character, so is his dialogue with Bartholomew, Mary Magdalene, Pilate, etc. As a period piece, it makes you feel as though you were there, and as fiction set amongst a historic backdrop, it is very believable. There is little if anything that committed Christians will take issue with, but, IMHO, the movie better serves the purpose of planting seeds among the skeptic/agnostic crowd.
Dogmatics and apologetics aside, it remains a tight, interesting story.
I was initially very skeptical that Hollywood could produce such a movie - but they did a good job.
I also admit that I am very uneasy with those who make images of God (Jesus Christ - God the Son), but in this case they had to do it for the movie. The film's fictional central character (Clavius the Tribune) stares at a very dead Jesus on the Cross, and then a week later he is staring at a very alive Jesus face to face. As they say, nothing is the same afterwards. And this also serves as a backdrop of the central question of: 'What think ye of Christ?'.
One of the tomb guards thought nothing - and went his merry way ignoring what he had seen.
The other guard was very troubled. He wanted to 'not believe' - but his eyes had told him something else - and he was trying to distract himself with the pleasures of the world (in this case drinking himself into a stupor) to ignore what he knew to be true.
Then you had the case of Pontius Pilate - a troubled man, but solidly going the way that the world beckoned.
And finally the Tribune. A battle-hardened cynic who came face to face with an 'impossibility' but dealt with it like a man, rather than ignoring it, or running away from it.
Overall, a good movie. My only complaint, would be I agree with my son who said that the Apostle Bartholomew looked like some surfer hippy type. Granted, maybe he did look like a surfer hippy type - and I'm an old grouch. But he was likable, and provided some comic relief. He just needed a haircut...
But all in all, the movie covered the items that the Apostles first preached:
Christ died.
Christ was buried.
Christ IS Risen.
And nothing is the same as it was before...
We're definitely seeing it this weekend. He owes me for "Revenant".
You didn’t enjoy the man-bear love in Revenant?
For the most part, I tend to agree. Most of the fictional Biblical epics simply use the Christ story as a backdrop. To an extent, Ben-Hur is supposed to depict Jesus and Judah Ben-Hur as two parallel men who take different paths. However, they never really get into the purpose of Christ's mission in the film. The moments where Christ appears probably only resonate with Christians who already know Christ's story.
Ben Hur is certainly worth reading in the original book. I agree that when Hollywood got hold of it for a movie, they screwed it up, as usual.
But that classic novel is presumably the distant source of this present movie. What matters is, does the movie do a good job? Evidently so, judging from the reviews and the comments here in FR.
“Thanks for ruining it for me. lol”
i am also forgiven for it.
amen to that
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Amen What a Savior
Let's see. Too long? Check. No real plot? Check. Director you have never heard of before? Check. Hollywood name actor? Check. Yep, has Oscar winner written all over it.
In all fairness neither of us wound up liking it. But it was his turn to pick so we went. And since I'm always dragging him over to the art houses on the Kansas side to see movies like Mr. Turner or Brooklyn then seeing Revenant was the least I could do. Definitely looking forward to seeing Risen though.
I saw this advertised on the marquee at a cineplex, and I wondered what it could be about. I am stunned to learn that unHolywood has actually produced a redeeming pro-Christian film.
I thought it insightful and a good story. I liked it.
The only network promoting Risen is Fox News. Being completely ignored by the other channels. One of the biggest “Oscar” movies this year, in addition to the high tech rip off of Richard Harris’ “Man in the Wilderness”, is a movie starring Cate Blanchett as a lesbian in 1950s and how society delt with her lesbian affair. So that one and the “Man in the Wildness” ripoff called The Revenant, which starred a computerized bear and was a 90% fictionized version of the tale of Hugh Glass, will be the big winners a the Academy Awards.
bump for later
[My problem with a lot of these “Christian†movies is the characters tend tp be a bit wooden,]
The latest Christian movies are very well done.
Wanted to see it this past weekend but couldn’t.
Planning to see it this coming weekend. Looks like it will be great.
Read the book first, the book is always better than the movie.
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