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" As a heavenly voice explained in Field of Dreams, another classic film about eternity and timeless values"

Your typical Hollyweird producer/director/actor, will NEVER be able to do a truly religious film in the christian style. They lack the faith, values and morals.

They can only come up with drivel such as "Field of Dreams"-type movies or how about "Powder" for a taste of what hollywerd calls religious pictures.

Sorry Hollyweirdos - Mel has you beat!

They lack the faith, values and morals.

That's what I was thinking as well. I'm so glad Gibson used European actors that were mostly unknown to American audiences. It would have spoiled it for me to have Ben Affleck or Tom Cruise in the movie. Speaking of Cruise, I wonder when he will be making his epic about Scientology?

Field of dreams isn't really about heaven. It is about a son who needs to be reconciled with his father, and baseball is merely a metaphor for the customs/rituals that were frowned on in the 1960's but that actually hold together one generation to another...

The writer was a non practicing catholic, but used the catholic idea of the sacramental: that ordinary objects can be used to convey the grace of God into our lives.
In field of dreams, the "sacrament" was the love of baseball, and the love of watching a good game with your family and friends as a ritual of solidarity and community.

Another example would be Thanksgiving dinner with all your family around is a sacrament of family love and connection, and even if you don't mention God, you know very well he is there and smiling at the celebration, just like he did at cana

Alas, hollywood is so deeply into blasphemy that they will make anti religious spiritual movies...even movies such as Seven years in Tibet has little or no religious meaning (religion as in explaining the deep meaning of life and it's connection to the eternal and to God), even though the Dalai Lama is Buddhist and quite spiritual in a non Christian way...