No, the film is NOT more graphic than the Bible! It is nowhere close! Please reread the Scripture I quoted in post 299 which I partially quote below. The Bible's description is FAR more graphic than the film:
"...His appearance so disfigured beyond that of any man and His form marred beyond human likeness."
Could you not tell the actor playing Jesus was still a man? I could. He wasn't "so disfigured beyond that of any man" or "His form marred beyond human likeness" or neither of us would be able to recognize the actor as a man. Indeed, Jesus was so marred that even His Disciples did not recognize him at first after His resurrection.
Then please tell me why most people can tolerate reading about a person who was burned alive but don't want to see a picture of the corpse. Just because a terrible and gruesome event really occurred does not automatically justify a graphic reenactment.
I am willing to bet that if let's say a bunch of Protestants made a movie that was a 100 minute long graphic reenactment of how Catholics burned Protestants at the stake during the middle ages, to include the devil walking in the Catholic crowds as they laughed and cheered while the Protestants screamed in agony -- Catholics would loose it!! They would go ballistic. Sean Hannity would pop an artery!! Do you think that they would accept that because the event really happened we need to show the blistering skin, the devil and the flesh falling into the fire and hissing?
As a Catholic when I look at it that way I understand why some Jews feel as they do. I understand why some are so offended by the violence. Put yourself in their shoes. Just because it is a movie about Jesus is it not above criticism. The critcim is not going to hurt anything really. Why throw good men like Krauthammer over the side because of it?
Darn what a gyp! You should get your money back.