I was planning on going to see this movie last weekend but wound up nursing my boyfriend through a case of the flu. Next weekend for sure.
Is this movie in theaters yet?
Saw it. Great movie. Would see it twice BUT I heard the local theaters are only running it for ONE WEEK!!!!!
Has anyone seen this move and if so, whatdyathink and why?
My problem with a lot of these “Christian” movies is the characters tend tp be a bit wooden, especially those that actually portray Jesus - maybe not a problem here since Jesus problem isn’t in it much. But actual heart-felt, flesh and blood people who are real but not over emotional.
Sounds like a must see.
It’s a decent movie for a historical fiction.
Wife & I enjoyed it.
spoiler alert....
Jesus lives in the end.
I refute that “Ben Hur” was a Christian movie; it had mass appeal and was simply a reflection of the Western Civilization from which it sprung.
A Western Civilization that has been thoroughly distorted, gutted and discarded by our elite masters, BTW.
If this is true, can there be any more positive proof that we are in the evil mirror mirror universe?
Is it as good as Passion?
I saw it twice this past weekend. It really is well done...
The Wife and I watched Exodus: God and Kings this past week on HBO.
To say that it was an uninspired disappointment would be a gross understatement.
The reviews kept me out of the theater when it came out. Now I wish we had played Scrabble instead of watching that movie.
The script was pure dreck and the acting putrescene.
BFL
I was initially very skeptical that Hollywood could produce such a movie - but they did a good job.
I also admit that I am very uneasy with those who make images of God (Jesus Christ - God the Son), but in this case they had to do it for the movie. The film's fictional central character (Clavius the Tribune) stares at a very dead Jesus on the Cross, and then a week later he is staring at a very alive Jesus face to face. As they say, nothing is the same afterwards. And this also serves as a backdrop of the central question of: 'What think ye of Christ?'.
One of the tomb guards thought nothing - and went his merry way ignoring what he had seen.
The other guard was very troubled. He wanted to 'not believe' - but his eyes had told him something else - and he was trying to distract himself with the pleasures of the world (in this case drinking himself into a stupor) to ignore what he knew to be true.
Then you had the case of Pontius Pilate - a troubled man, but solidly going the way that the world beckoned.
And finally the Tribune. A battle-hardened cynic who came face to face with an 'impossibility' but dealt with it like a man, rather than ignoring it, or running away from it.
Overall, a good movie. My only complaint, would be I agree with my son who said that the Apostle Bartholomew looked like some surfer hippy type. Granted, maybe he did look like a surfer hippy type - and I'm an old grouch. But he was likable, and provided some comic relief. He just needed a haircut...
But all in all, the movie covered the items that the Apostles first preached:
Christ died.
Christ was buried.
Christ IS Risen.
And nothing is the same as it was before...
ping
I saw this advertised on the marquee at a cineplex, and I wondered what it could be about. I am stunned to learn that unHolywood has actually produced a redeeming pro-Christian film.
The only network promoting Risen is Fox News. Being completely ignored by the other channels. One of the biggest “Oscar” movies this year, in addition to the high tech rip off of Richard Harris’ “Man in the Wilderness”, is a movie starring Cate Blanchett as a lesbian in 1950s and how society delt with her lesbian affair. So that one and the “Man in the Wildness” ripoff called The Revenant, which starred a computerized bear and was a 90% fictionized version of the tale of Hugh Glass, will be the big winners a the Academy Awards.
bump for later
Wanted to see it this past weekend but couldn’t.
Planning to see it this coming weekend. Looks like it will be great.