I watched it with my pastor and a bunch of other members of my church. I was the only one that did not like it. As a matter of fact, it disgusted me. Watching a remake of my savior getting tortured is not only not entertaining, it is not even educational. The movie creeped me out on many levels, not least of which the concept of Christians intentionally watching their savior be tortured and killed.
I just don’t get the concept.
Yes that reality that Jesus was whipped, crowned with thorns, and nailed to a cross probably could get in the way of your fantasy world of what Christ went through so that you can have a chance at Heaven. My wife and I loved the movie so much. I am shocked by your criticism of it being uneducated, it was absolutely educational. And to complain that Jesus was tortured. I definitely think you should stay far away from the Passion of Christ because you will have a heart attack seeing what Jesus went through on that one.
I wouldn’t mind seeing him suffer if I also saw his ministry time with his disciples after he had risen from the dead, when he ate with them, or when they walked with him on the road to Emmaus. The short scene of him getting up from the tomb was just not satisfactory enough to me. The whole rising from the dead was a big fulfilling purpose of all that he had to go through, not the other way around. If anything, that’s why I enjoyed another Jesus film, which I am trying to recall, in which there was some blood shown, but it did have him risen and talking to his disciples afterwards, it also showed Satan as a mobster, and showed him having visions of WWII. Now, if someone could just gladly help me figure exactly what that film was I would so gladly get a hold of a copy for keeps...