[RoseofTexas]

That part where the cross was flipped over on Jesus stomach...OMG! You could hear the audience GASP! I of course cried my eyes out, during and after the movie.

[torchthemummy]

This is great. I am so happy for Mel Gibson and the marketing strategy is perfect (the free advertising not withstanding): open on Ash Wednesday and run through Lent climaxing with Easter. Of course that won't be the end but this period will obviously be the strongest.

Today I looked through my local leftist newspaper and not one story or short blurb. Nothing. Zero. Nada. Here we have official numbers that verify The Passion as the fastest five-day gross not just for a Wednesday opening but in history and they totally ignore this major story. Plenty on the Oscars so that must have been their excuse. I'll check tomorrow when there is no Hollywood-lovefest to report on.

[gobucks]

"That part where the cross was flipped over on Jesus stomach"

You know, it was the last thing I expected too. Talk about a bizarre scene. But, they treated him like he wasn't even human doing that...and that scene thus captured, like the whole movie, the message perfectly of what we're supposed to 'get'.

Our world is far too inhuman these days.