[sasportas]

Surely the Catholics on this thread must admit that human nature being what it is, that a movie such as this cannot escape the bias of its producer.

I understand that sequels to the movie are planned. If so, we are going to find out the truth. Whether or not he is using this first movie of a sequence to lead everybody on like a pied piper into his Catholic church. Or it is solely his faith in Christ that motivates him to do what he is doing.

There isn't enough in a movie based solely on the crucifiction to tell exactly where Gibson is coming from. If there is sequels to come they will probably shed a lot more light on this. It remains to be seen if Gibson is going to be applying a real noticeable Catholic spin, such distinctively Catholic beliefs as the exaltation of Mary to almost deity status, rosary beads, purgatory, the mediatorship of priests (instead of Christ himself, see 1 Tim. 2:5), and so on.

I'd rather not think that of him. I would hope that Gibson is more honorable of a man to pull something like that on us.

[drlevy88]

Gibson can be counted on to portray what Gibson believes to be true. If that embraces Mary and the rest of the controversial doctrines, then that's what we'll see on the screen. However there's no way that an ascended Mary could have anywhere near the cinematic impact of the suffering Christ. It would be like following a howitzer with a popgun.