[Polycarp]

Having seen the film now, I can only marvel that the attacks are pretty much demonic. Hopefully, the devil will end up spitefully biting his own tail on this one-- as he does in The Passion by inciting on the executioners of Christ, and thus being complicit in his own ultimate defeat. The Passion is high art. It is the greatest movie about Jesus ever made. In the discussion following the film, Mel and co. were asking us how mainstream theater audiences would react to the film. I told them, "Who cares? What you have here is so much more than just a product to sell. It will live forever, regardless of whether it is a commercial success for you or not."

[MaxPlus305]

Looking forward to seeing this. I've always liked Gibson's work (esp. in his version of Hamlet)

[TBall]

When does it come out?

[Callahan]

Wow. High praise from a Christian viewer. Expect this film to be ripped to shreds by "mainstream" Hollywood.

[Enlightiator]

The film is faithful to the Gospel, particularly St. John.

And best of all is a final look right into the camera of Mary, holding her dead Son. Mary is perfectly portrayed here..... She is contrasted repeatedly with the really super creepy Satan character, who is also a woman (something for the feminist theologians here? heh heh...).

Obviously my bible must be missing a few pages from the book of John...I don't remember any of these scenes....

[Desdemona]

bump

If anyone could make it work, it's Mel.

We need this. Badly. We need the reminder of what happened when He died. What He went through for us.

[.45MAN]

I do not go to the movies. I have not been in a theater for a couple of years and I do not rent movies, maybe one or two a year and I have never purchased a movie. If this movie went on sale tomorrow sight unseen I would buy it, and I think that everyone should buy it if nor no other reason than to tell the movie industry how we feel about them and what is going on the the world....

[NYer]

Superlative review!

And, NO mention of the language issue. Now THAT's news!

[hattend]

Looking forward to seeing this movie.