"Slamming all the other films nominated for Best Pic isn't the best argument for Gibson's film."
Agreed. "POTC" might've been an inspiring movie for religious movie goers, but watching a guy get beaten, bloodied, and stuck up on a cross for 2 hours isn't great cinema. I guess since I grew up Catholic, was an altar boy who helped with Stations of The Cross every Lent, and read the accounts of the Crucifiction literally, I just wasn't that in awe nor surprised or shocked by "POTC".
Well OK if all you saw was just 'a guy'.
And watching a three-hour film about an eccentric millionaire who once dated Katherine Hepburn is your idea of important cinema? Somebody's values are perverted--and it's not Gibson's.