It doesn’t surprise me if the book is better; that’s what happens when Hollywood tinkers with great literature of any kind. “1984” was the last movie I saw that was as good as the book it was based on.
It has “made for TV” written all over it. Why bother seeing it?
Haven’t seen the movie but the trailers have given me some sense of the “cringe” he talks about. But it sounds like the crucifixion part was good. I’ve always felt like depicting the brutality of the crucifixion was gratuitous, but I’m learning that for each undeserved brutal thing he received, I received undeserved forgiveness, favor, honor, healing, and riches. My focus is now on the degree of God’s love for me in taking all that I deserved and putting it on Jesus so that I now get all that Jesus deserves. Thank you Jesus.
There is absolutely no way to depict accurately the Bible on the screen. However, the goal was to spread the Gospel, which was Downey’s intention, so I applaud her. Did she succeed at that, I wonder? Why make changes to what Jesus actually said, according to Scripture, and create an impression that is inaccurate or misleading?
I agree that Downey was horribly miscast as Mary. Her awful plastic surgery was so distracting, let alone her looking like an Irish lady that wandered onto the set. In the tv production, she chose to highlight Samson and Delilah, but no mention of Jacob and his 12 sons - odd choice, I thought.
Mel Gibson was right when he said about his version of ‘The Passion of Christ’ - “This is my movie - if you don’t like it, go make your own movie.”
Retarded drivel.
I very much admire Roam and her husband.
No doubt this will be an excellent film.
For the record I don’t think I know anyone associated with this movie.
There is absolutely no excuse for not portraying Biblical characters exactly as in the Bible. The Downey/Burnett TV series on the Bible had so much fiction included that we turned it off by the second week.
Last night, we viewed the movie Jacob which my wife rented from Netflix. Not a bad movie but once again, they threw in silly scenes that were not in the Bible.
There is no excuse for doing that. One can produce a two hour length movie about significant Biblical characters without resorting to fictionalizing the character(s).