The Passion
Film, Religion 02/25/2004 |The more I read about Mel Gibson’s “The Passion”, the less interested I am in seeing two hours of one man being brutally tortured to death.
However, I did love Satapher’s take on the controversy in a MeFi thread…
Wasn’t it the destiny of Jesus to die for the sins of the world? so that we might be saved?
Shouldnt this movie spark pro-semitism!? Someody had to kill the bastard — somebody had to save your soul! THANK GOD THE JEWS KILLED JESUS AND SAVED OUR SOULS. GOD DAMN.
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p>Okay, maybe it’s a bit wrong. But it’s really funny.
To me.
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February 26th, 2004 at 4:13 am
That’s what I’ve been thinking all along. Not that I have the slightest interest in seeing the movie. Mel Gibson is a homophobic, far-right wingnut.
February 26th, 2004 at 5:11 am
Sorry Mel, I have no interest your movie at all.
February 26th, 2004 at 2:41 pm
I get so frustrated when I see clips of people saying “Omigod this movie changed my life!!!!” It’s not like this movie isn’t based on the most popular book ever or anything. Even our oldest, most historic books are being dumbed down into movies. Can’t people read any more? Apparently not.
February 26th, 2004 at 4:03 pm
It is funny. I’m just not going to see the movie, simply because I don’t care. Mel’s a funny actor and a nice guy in person (actually very friendly), but I’m just not interested in the movie. Maybe enough people will just not be interested enough to see it for him to realize that if he doesn’t get his arse back on the movie screen then he won’t have much further success in hollywood.
February 26th, 2004 at 10:26 pm
I havent seen the movie yet (I won’t until it hits the dollar theatres!) but many students here, other than the uber christians, think that the graphic violence is perhaps the only ‘cinematic tool’ Gibson used to make the movie as intense as is feasible (using this violence).
I don’t know how far it’s true, but a friend of mine went into the theatre telling himself beforehand that the name of the movie was “The Passion of a Prophet”. This allowed him to purely judge the movie’s merits, aside from the emotional quotient of Jesus’ torture (he was raised in a ‘very’ christian household).
He told me it sucked. It was like any of the ultra-violent movies he’d seen; movies which were only the costumes, the good font used in poster-design, the makeup, and the sets and obviously the 2 minutes of cinematic gold that is the trailer.
Will any such ultra-violent movie ever hold a candle to A Clockwork Orange? (My personal bias!).
April 20th, 2004 at 8:34 am
Hi all,
does anyone knows (and has it) the font used in the poster-design?
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Cristiano.