Mel's new "Jesus" movie...

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 3:09 am

Well, has anyone seen it? If yes, what is your verdict?

Edit:

The Passion, if I'm not being clear enough.

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 5:21 am

What?

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 5:38 am

I saw it, because I heard that it was pretty gruesome.

It is.

It definately ranks right up next to some of my horror film favourites as far as violence, and beats out the old low budget movies in quality. Jesus didn't just die for his sins, he got his ass handed to him for them.

The preaching part was pretty stupid. And I feel bad for snickering as Jesus gets Cat o' Nine Tailed around all the devout old people who stopped being shutouts for one night to watch their savior die, but, it was class violence I couldn't help it.

Yea those are my several cents.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 6:32 am

I saw it, it was alright. The whiplashing scene was cool, but its not as uber violent as people make it out to be. I hear the jews love the movie.

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 6:40 am

The nailing was pretty well done. The part where the Cat o' Nine Tails gets caught and rips off his skin is sweet too. And I loved the fact that the blood was all over the place when they were done. Sure there weren't any chainsaws or anything... but y'know, with what they had to work with, I think they did a pretty good job making it violent.

Bridgeburner · Post by **Bridgeburner** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 10:38 am

mel should be doing mad max 4 instead of wasting his time on this religious crap

evilmonkey · Post by **evilmonkey** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 11:37 am

Bridgeburner wrote:mel should be doing mad max 4 instead of wasting his time on this religious crap

well he is religious - deeply so - but the movie itself might be good for MM4, that is as long as MM4 gets as hardnecked as the Jesus movie, and doesn't fall totally into the hollywood category - and looses some of the religious agenda, and alas gets made in the first place, this movie might have helped it get it on.

the not loosing to hollywood part is very important, or I'll probably wont watch it jah.

SDMVersion3 · Post by **SDMVersion3** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 12:27 pm

I like the movie would have been much better if they had taken a bit of poetic liscense.

Replacing whips and lashes with chainsaws and scythes, giving Jesus the ability to fly and shoot lightning out of his eyes, chaning the Romans to invaders from space...

But that's probably just me.

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 2:30 pm

It may be cooler that way, but Mel tried to keep "The Passion" as close to the bible as possible. Hence why they speak in Hebrew and whatnot instead of English.

MurPHy · Post by **MurPHy** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 5:41 pm

Wolfman Walt wrote:Hence why they speak in Hebrew and whatnot instead of English.

They also speak Aramaic and Latin, too.