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Jesus VR: The Story of Christ review – virtual reality cinema gains disciples
The Guardian ^ | 2 September 2016 | Peter Bradshaw

Posted on 09/02/2016 8:55:08 AM PDT by fella

Bad acting, clunky camerawork and overheating headsets … VR’s first feature-length 360-degree movie is no miracle – but the medium might be a blessing

The e acting? Dire. The direction? Awful. The adaptation? Conservative and pedestrian. In conventional terms, everything about this new retelling of the Jesus story – showing here in Venice in an abbreviated 40-minute cut – is ropey. It is all too clearly influenced by Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ:


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Sounds like something worth seeing.
1 posted on 09/02/2016 8:55:08 AM PDT by fella
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Venice Festival in Italy, not Venice California. I was ready to promote this film until I realized I was in the wrong country!


2 posted on 09/02/2016 9:30:38 AM PDT by georgiegirl
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Venice Festival in Italy, not Venice California. I was ready to promote this film until I realized I was in the wrong country!

You mean it's not Venice, Louisiana?

3 posted on 09/02/2016 10:02:19 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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There’s one there too?


4 posted on 09/02/2016 10:03:43 AM PDT by georgiegirl
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