[monkey]

The Passion has been panned in advance by some critics who say the story has been done to death.

What can you say?

And for the analysts:

This ignores the fact that attendance levels at Mass now are about what they were a century ago (high attendance levels in the decades before 1960 were the anomaly)

A century ago. Hilarious.

[aimhigh]

The Passion has been panned in advance by some critics who say the story has been done to death.

Seriously, for every film on Christ, there are 50 on prostitute murders. For every film on Christ, there are a hundred films on adulterous affairs. For every film on Christ, there are hundreds of films on boy meets girl. Yet, they don't use the phrase, "done to death" when another romance or murder film is made. Pure hypocrisy.

[kitkat]

***The Passion has been panned in advance by some critics who say the story has been done to death. ***

That particular statement in the article surely grabbed my attention, also.

Was the writer making a comparison between a fictitious story and an historic event? It sounds to me as though that was his intention.