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Loud Applause for Mel Gibson's New Film "The Passion" is Awakening Deaf Ears in Hollywood
News Pundit.net ^ | 7/18/2003 | Douglas Oliver

Posted on 07/18/2003 11:12:44 AM PDT by ex-Texan

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1 posted on 07/18/2003 11:12:45 AM PDT by ex-Texan
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To: ex-Texan
So lemme see if I got this right. The writer criticizes people for criticizing a movie they haven't seen, and then goes on to praise a movie he hasn't seen?
2 posted on 07/18/2003 11:16:10 AM PDT by Huck
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To: Huck
And you shall know the truth and it shall set you free...but first it will make you REALLY miserable.
3 posted on 07/18/2003 11:17:54 AM PDT by Steely Glint ("Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable..." - G. Orwell)
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4 posted on 07/18/2003 11:18:03 AM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: Huck
Strangely, the criticism comes mostly from critics who have not even seen the movie but were basing their attacks on an old draft version of the script.

The German people supported the war and they didn't see the holocast pictures of either.

Ignorance is an embedded reporter in an empty environment.

5 posted on 07/18/2003 11:18:10 AM PDT by bedolido (Ann Coulter... A Conservative Male's Natural Viagra)
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To: Huck
And out come the fundie attack dogs on you...
6 posted on 07/18/2003 11:20:20 AM PDT by TheAngryClam (Bill Simon's recall campaign slogan- "If I can't have it, no one can!")
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To: Huck
So lemme see if I got this right. The writer criticizes people for criticizing a movie they haven't seen, and then goes on to praise a movie he hasn't seen?

For a movie that isn't going to appear for six months or so. Talk about a build up!

7 posted on 07/18/2003 11:21:50 AM PDT by Shermy
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To: Huck
Harry Knowles is an idiot, and I usually don't listen to a damned thing he has to say. The talkbackers at AICN aren't much better. You should've read the things some of them had to say about Mel Gibson, this movie, and Christianity as a whole.

Still, whatever Knowles' opinion of the movie may be, I'm very much looking forward to seeing The Passion! Judging by the trailer, alone (Which played really choppily for me), it looks to be a really powerful movie.
8 posted on 07/18/2003 11:23:02 AM PDT by Green Knight (Looking forward to seeing Jeb stepping over Hillary's rotting political corpse in 2008.)
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To: Steely Glint
I used to think that truth would make you free. I now know that truth purchases hatred. People hate the truth, they like comfortable lies. The more dedicated one is to the truth, the more of an outcast one becomes.
9 posted on 07/18/2003 11:24:19 AM PDT by Elliott Jackalope (Formerly Billy_bob_bob)
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To: Huck
So lemme see if I got this right. The writer criticizes people for criticizing a movie they haven't seen, and then goes on to praise a movie he hasn't seen?

Freeper Jim Hirsen's seen it---and he likes it. No, that's not right---he loves it.

10 posted on 07/18/2003 11:25:27 AM PDT by Map Kernow ("I love the Vixen of Vitriol---Ann Coulter")
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To: TheAngryClam
And out come the fundie attack dogs on you...

Uh-oh. Should I have prefaced my post with something like "I have no reason to believe the movie will be anything less than a transformational, awe inspiring triumph for Christianity and cinema, but..."

11 posted on 07/18/2003 11:29:17 AM PDT by Huck
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To: Huck
How do you like that Mantle of Victimhood? Enjoying it? Just wondering, as I don't actually see anyone, fundamentalist or otherwise, attacking you.
12 posted on 07/18/2003 11:31:34 AM PDT by Green Knight (Looking forward to seeing Jeb stepping over Hillary's rotting political corpse in 2008.)
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To: Elliott Gigantalope
Mel Gibson portrays the truth directly from the Bible and they act like he has re-written history. That type of ignorance is astonishing. But I do wonder why so much of Hollywood is atheist. I read on another thread that Christians there hide their belief to save their career. Was it always this way...or just since Clinton?
13 posted on 07/18/2003 11:33:35 AM PDT by BonnieJ
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To: Map Kernow
Freeper Jim Hirsen's seen it---and he likes it. No, that's not right---he loves it

Has he posted a review here??

14 posted on 07/18/2003 11:34:36 AM PDT by proust (Hello, Cthulhu!)
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To: Huck
Uh-oh. Should I have prefaced my post with something like "I have no reason to believe the movie will be anything less than a transformational, awe inspiring triumph for Christianity and cinema, but..."

Don't die until you're shot, Huck. Maybe your comments are best saved for when you see "The Passion"---I hear it's coming out around Lent next year. Consult your local Christian if you don't know when that is.

15 posted on 07/18/2003 11:36:02 AM PDT by Map Kernow ("I love the Vixen of Vitriol---Ann Coulter")
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To: proust
Freeper Jim Hirsen's seen it---and he likes it. No, that's not right---he loves it

Has he posted a review here??

???Why the double question marks? Has Jim posted a review here? No, but he has on Newsmax.com. It appeared there a day or two ago.

16 posted on 07/18/2003 11:38:38 AM PDT by Map Kernow ("I love the Vixen of Vitriol---Ann Coulter")
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To: Green Knight
How do you like that Mantle of Victimhood? Enjoying it? Just wondering, as I don't actually see anyone, fundamentalist or otherwise, attacking you.

Neither do I. Maybe the other poster's prediction was unfounded. While your "mantle of victimhood" comment is clearly snide and hostile, I wouldn't consider it an attack, so I agree with your scorecard, as such. Have a great day.

17 posted on 07/18/2003 11:38:51 AM PDT by Huck
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To: Map Kernow
Don't die until you're shot, Huck.

Great advice. Thanks.

18 posted on 07/18/2003 11:39:49 AM PDT by Huck
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To: ex-Texan
Perhaps the true graphic representation of Christ's suffering is really too powerful for movie viewers today?

I highly doubt that. There are plenty of other graphic depictions of suffering and cruelty out there.

I believe that people today thirst for the truth.

When has this ever not been the case?

Let them see the truth with their own eyes. "The truth will set you free."

They won't see the truth. They'll see a cinematic depiction of events described in the bible.

19 posted on 07/18/2003 11:42:57 AM PDT by Pahuanui (when A Foolish Man Hears The tao, He Laughs Out Loud.)
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To: Pahuanui
"When A Foolish Man Hears The Truth, He Laughs Out Loud . . . "
20 posted on 07/18/2003 11:46:24 AM PDT by ex-Texan (My tag line is broken !)
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