Cool! I may actually buy the video or download it on iTunes when it comes out. :-)
My wife and I plan to go see it in the next couple of days. I am glad to hear it was actually done right.
Hollywood has rediscovered that religious movies about Jesus and the Bible make a lot of money at the box office.
Must see it. By supporting decent movies like this instead of crap, it encourages new movies of this genre.
I am always very skeptical about Jesus films. Because 99 times out of 100, they are awful, awful in every sense of awful.
The only Jesus film that stirs the soul, that brings the whole issue into crystal clear focus, was not a film, but a series directed by a Jew who remarked “there’s something about the story”.
The film masterpiece “Jesus of Nazareth” can educate anyone in the space of 7 hours on history’s greatest event.
No need to read the Bible from cover to cover (although bible study is greatly helpful for understanding), all one needs to is sit down by oneself, or with friends, or family, or even with nonbelievers, and watch this masterpiece directed by Franco Zeffirelli. It will not preach to you, it will put you there. You will be transfixed, unable to leave the room like reading a novel you can’t put down.
It’s also free online:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBG1HiKRLWQ
Is this a review of the trailer?
Thanks, I am always skeptical of Hollywood’s version of the Bible stories. May have to go see this one now.
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Wow. If the movie lives up to that, this is going to be good.
The story of Salvation is an incredible story.
It touches on the mystery of the universe. It touches on the Holy Trinity, the introduction of Sin, the Redemption of Man, and a new world where folks who have chosen Salvation Through Faith will live out eternity.
In some sense, I almost think of movies that overlook this story to bring us action movies with extreme violence, to be sinful misdirection.
They make something incredible, so incredible, that the story of salvation almost pales in comparison. I don’t think that happens in a vacuum. It is yet another way to lead folks away from the greatest story ever told.
Do I think there is a place for the typical Hollywood action flick? Yes. Do I think they are all bad? No.
What I object to is the overlooking of a major segment of our society, that expresses a belief in the God of our fathers, and goes wanting for a good telling of what our story is.
This segment of our society, is hungry. This segment needs to live on, expand, and thrive. Our Constitution actually depends on a Christian society that will honor strong morals and a sense of devotion to good principles.
Moving the populace back toward the Creator, is as important to the nation as the family cornerstone.
Things are slowing turning...
The pendulum has started back in the other direction.
Thank God.
I just saw an ad/trailer for that? Kinda shocked me actually. Not the movie itself. Just that it was made.
I am a skeptic when it comes to most Hollywood iterations of Bible stories, but this looks very high quality and faithful to the Resurrection.
the best modern Christian movie I’ve seen lately is WAR ROOM
I think they really erred in the one liners after the Biblical points were made, I think the movie would have been MUCH better without them
but still, that is a MUST OWN movie
I watched the trailer the centurion uses the Shroud of Turin to ID Jesus.
Thanks for posting. That was awesome. Watched both trailers. The long one was excellent.
I’m outside the theater now...about to head in for the 9:40 show. I’ve long been intrigued by the account of Christ’s appearance before Pilate in John. The other three gospels give a pretty consistent rendering of the encounter, but in John, it specifically mentions that the Jewish mob stayed outside so as not to defile themselves. Pilate has Christ brought inside to interrogate Him, and their back and forth is recounted with some detail and specificity. It begs the question, “who recorded it?”
I’ve heard very good things about Risen. I rarely catch movies at the theaters themselves anymore, but I just may show up for this one.
There are 2 must watch movies for me each year. The Passion of the Christ and They Nativity.
I’ve seen the movies and read all the Left Behind books by Tim La Haye and Jerry Jenkins.
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From a strictly technical standpoint the movie is well done. Cinematography, casting and acting were all first rate. The movie begins with a disheveled Clavius (Joseph Fiennes) trekking through the Judean desert in the aftermath of events, and stopping at a remote waystation, where the innkeeper recognizes him as a Roman and notes he is wearing the ring of a tribune. As the innkeeper engages Clavius in conversation, Clavius stares out the window which is divided by two wooden branches which form a cross. The movie then flashes back to Clavius engaged in battle putting down a band of Jewish insurrectionists in the days prior to Passover (there's some battlefield violence here that contributed to the PG-13 rating).
The movie is of course, speculative fiction, so while the events are extra-biblical in a Ben-Hur kind of way, there's nothing that overtly conflicts with the New Testament.
From a Christian apologetics standpoint, there were two passages I found particularly profound. In one scene, Clavius speaks to Christ on a starlight night while the apostles are asleep. Clavius admits to Christ something to the effect of, "When you died, I was there. I helped kill you." It occurred to me that Clavius was speaking for me and for all humanity; Christ died for all of us, and consequently, we all had a hand in His death.
At then end of the movie, Clavius is back in the remote inn speaking with the innkeeper again, staring out the crossed window. Fiennes does a magnificent job of portraying a witness to the most profound series of events in human history whose physical wanderings at this point are symbolic of his spiritual and intellectual wanderings, trying to make sense of all he has witnessed. The innkeeper asks if he believes to which Clavius replies something to the effect, "I believe I will never be the same again." When I first saw the movie last night it caught me as a bit weak and non-committal, but in watching it a second time and pondering it a bit, it seems to be the appropriate response for the Clavius character at that time. Certainly, without the benefit of 2,000 years of hindsight, and knowing the full import of events just witnessed, and having (just a few days earlier) been a worshipper of the Roman god Mars, Clavius was now looking at somebody who had just given up a position of power and import within Roman society to embrace something he didn't fully understand, but knew that his life had been altered for eternity.
The PG-13 rating is appropriate, although I think mature kids with an interest in the New Testament could probably handle it at 11 or 12.