The Passion Of The Christ

[ShanghaiOrange]

At my theater the mananger is making us take down the Dawn of the Dead and Van Helsing posters.

[Ravi]

I thought it would be longer than 2 hours.

[SHAFTR]

2 hours, and absolutlely NO previews or commercials per Gibson's request.  It would be funny if someone put on a Hellboy preview though.

or if they used product placement in the movie.

[The Disco Kid]

BAh...Im always the last one to hear the joke.

[Sleuth]

Nice poster, especially the one on the right (save for the font).

I still believe this movie could be an artistic triumph. I may disagree with Gibson's politics, but I'll judge his films on their own merit.

In the meantime, I'm very amused by this:

[Stefen]

Oh man. The religious groups are eating this flick up! I don't even think it's the actual movie but the hype of the movie. I saw a passion keychain at hastings and I saw a passion nascar on tv, this is insane. But I live fairly close to this church and they had it on their little sign that anyone could sign up for their "Passion of christ field trip" so I went in and checked it out and they said with a $20 donation I get to see the movie and ride in the bus with the other field trip attendees. I calmy left. Crazy.

[puddnanners]

i saw the movie and it is an exploitation film.  Mel Gibson has taken the passion of christ and made it into an exploitative gore picture.  This is probably the most pointless piece of cinema ever.  I have no clue who Mel made this film for or why he made it, because the religious groups and youth groups that are buying up all the tickets will not be able to watch this (am i right in asuming that a lot of these churchy people have never even seen an R rated film?)  And that is another thing, this movie proves that Mel has an AWFUL lot of clout in the industry, because I have no idea how this passed with an R rating.  Personally, it wasn't the gore that bothered me at all, it was that scenes dragged on for so long, and the pacing was so unforgiving and relentless, that i felt like this movie beat me up.  The only thing positive for me about this movie is that i cannot wait until it opens up so i can see all the shit that will be going down at theaters (my place has sold out like fifteen shows) when people are absolutly disgusted and appaled with this film.  This movie did not enlighten, entertain, educate or evoke any emotion out of me at all, it just made me want to get up and leave.  I know that I do not post here often (i am a faithful reader though), and that you are probably not sure about my film taste and how i react to certain movies, but have faith in what i say (ha!), that this is a gigantic waste of celluloid, a truely worthless trainwreck of a film.  Mel, what was the point??

[metroshane]

the pacing was so unforgiving and relentless, that i felt like this movie beat me up.

Haha.  How ironic that is was YOU who was suffering 8) Imagine being crucified.  That's gotta really suck.  I don't know why Jesus didn't just get up and leave.

[Ravi]

the pacing was so unforgiving and relentless, that i felt like this movie beat me up.

Haha.  How ironic that is was YOU who was suffering 8) Imagine being crucified.  That's gotta really suck.  I don't know why Jesus didn't just get up and leave.

Now you tell me.

[Stefen]

Rotten tomato watch...

Fresh: 8
Rotten:5

62% Fresh.

EDIT 1: Bad review just added.
Fresh: 8
Rotten:6

57% Rotten

EDIT 2: The count continues.
Fresh: 21
Rotten:19

53% Rotten

[puddnanners]

metroshane, i think that Gibson wants the audience to feel the crucifiction through the images in the film (which is stupid anyway because i am guessing that the core audience will not be able to handle it),  but instead, because of terrible filmmaking, the pain comes from the poor editing and awful pacing, not from whats on the screen.   I believe this to be the reason that the film is so bad.  I know that jesus felt suffering while being crucified, but i don't think that it was from boredom, like i was while watching the film.

[Jeremy Blackman]

but instead, because of terrible filmmaking, the pain comes from the poor editing and awful pacing, not from whats on the screen.

Can you elaborate? Is that part of it just cheesy, or was it convincing but just too over-the-top graphic/disturbing?

[Stefen]

I don't really have high hopes for this. most of the people I have talked to that are have seen it and know my tastes tell me I won't like it. But i'm a big fan of two things. 1. jesus. 2. gore

[SHAFTR]

Jesus Sells,
I expect this movie to make big money.  Think of all the religious groups who are buy group tickets.

[Pubrick]

what's the word on monica bellucci, did mel give her character the same amount of graphic realism?