Posted on 12/06/2006 7:45:53 PM PST by AngieGal
We went last night; it was good. (We already knew the ending. HA!)
I went opening day and loved the movie.
Then I came home and read Matthew and Luke.
I plan to go again. Let's support them when they're doing something right.
Who wants to pay to see a flim about God made by the godless? Good riddance to bad rubbish!
Well Marty, your studio stupidly released it two weeks too early. It's a family film and a Christmas film and Dec. 1 is too early for your target audience.
We're taking our youth group this Sunday, but I know many, many people who plan to see it the 23rd or the 26th when their extended family gets together.
I am also sure it will do well on dvd next Christmas as this is the kind of thing you give your grandbabies.
I went last Saturday with my wife. It was a very good movie. If you want more good movies with values you are going to have to go to them in the theaters, it's called capitalism. Movie makers will not make movie after movie if they continuously lose money. Show that there is a demand for these types of movies and you will get more of them.
I saw it. It's a good picture. If I had a family, I would take them to it.
Traditionally, films made specifically for the holiday season don't do well. That doesn't mean it won't be a success, though. My feeling is that it will be a 'family classic', ie, something that will make money in the future from DVD sales and TV franchising.
"Documentaries are not typical movies."
Now that you mention it, it seems to me that this movie is a documentary. It is definitely nonfiction. Check the dictionary.com definition:
doc·u·men·ta·ry
Movies, Television. based on or re-creating an actual event, era, life story, etc., that purports to be factually accurate and contains no fictional elements
It's important because there are a lot of believers out there in Hollywood that are fighting for our beliefs. These aren't dishonest, new-age, liberal Christians. These are true believers. And if you don't support movies like this, you won't get anymore in the future.
Just something to think about: This is the first time in history when the main artistic influence is secular liberalism. Previously, the Christian church paid people full time to paint a beautiful mural or sculp a statue. It's the same reason why many churches today pay their chorus leaders full time.
Beauty through art, team with truth, through the word of God, has an amazing way of transforming people. I know I felt that transformation when I watched "The Passion." If you want more movies like that, then get to the box office. If you want more "Brokeback Mountains," then please stay home.
Sounds like Blackmail to me.
sweet now can they stop making all the other movies as well
Is it OK if I just buy a ticket and do something better than watch a rote retelling of the Nativity story?
Good movies succeed. Bad movies fail. This feels like an attempt by calculating hollywood-types to make make money off gullible Christians.
My kids are 3rd and 6th grade. There are some violent scenes with the Roman soldiers, but I wouldn't call it too gory. There is a troubling scene with a few dead men hanging from a tree, but it's very brief, and I'm not sure my kids even caught it. There are scenes when Elizabeth and Mary are both giving painful births, but I consider that one educational. Over all, it lead my kids to ask questions and consider things from the nativity story that they've never considered before. Everything from the journey to Bethlehem not being an easy walk just down the road, to Mary being so young, to the turbulent Roman world of the time.
I'm not in a rush to see it because I don't trust Hollywood to do a good job and I don't want to support them in anything. Besides, they'll probably make Joseph gay or imply that the birth wasn't virgin or something like that.
Hollywood can rot. Anytime I can be part of them losing money, I'm all in!
Bump! I went to see The Passion and took my daughter and grandaughters.
If Hollywood doesn't praise Christ, the rocks will cry out!!
The last religious movie I saw was Monty Python's The Life of Brian.
Any Gladiators in it? Chariot racing? Naval battles?
If not how can it change history!
Gee, I'm really worried especially after "The Last Temptation of Christ".
prolly... let's judge her!
I totally agree with you. I am too busy with school projects to take the kids to this one immediately. My husband and niece will take our three children closer to Christmas. Lucky me gets to stay home with the little one.
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