The Passion Of The Christ

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Wasn't Kill Bill going to be the name for the Passion of Christ, anyway?

[MacGuffin]

The Passion Climbs to $264 Million in 3 Weeks

Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ added yet another big $31.7 million in its third weekend in theaters to boost its total to a massive $264 million. The $30-million budgeted film, distributed by Newmarket Films, has moved up to the #23 spot on the all-time domestic blockbuster list, only three million behind Shrek ($267.7), and is now the second-biggest R-rated movie all-time, with only about $17 million to go to pass up The Matrix Reloaded for the top spot.

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The Passion Climbs to $264 Million in 3 Weeks

this is really really crazy huge blockbuster.  who would've thought?  i wonder when it will start to peter out and dropoff or if it can keep this insane climb going.

[grand theft sparrow]

The Passion Climbs to $264 Million in 3 Weeks

this is really really crazy huge blockbuster.  who would've thought?  i wonder when it will start to peter out and dropoff or if it can keep this insane climb going.

I think it's guaranteed to be in the top 3 until Easter weekend.

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A friend of mine changed the music on the trailer... I think it works much better.

[Just Withnail]

[mutinyco]

This thread is longer than Jesus' beating in the movie...

[Jeremy Blackman]

This thread is longer than Jesus' beating in the movie...

You must be a slow reader...

[MacGuffin]

This thread is longer than Jesus' beating in the movie...

*Spoilers*

[tpfkabi]

The Passion Climbs to $264 Million in 3 Weeks

this is really really crazy huge blockbuster.  who would've thought?  i wonder when it will start to peter out and dropoff or if it can keep this insane climb going.

I think it's guaranteed to be in the top 3 until Easter weekend.

that's probably true. the "Christian" market is rather large and there is a lot of money there. the film is causing a lot of people that don't go to movies at all to go......like old people and people that think the movies are the devil. my cousin's church rented a theater at 9am on Saturday morning......and it was packed.......and this church is not even in or near a large city......so i can't imagine what these mega churches with 1000's or even 10,000's of people are doing

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Mel Gibson May Develop Maccabees Film
Source: Entertainment Weekly

The Passion of The Christ director Mel Gibson told Sean Hannity on his radio show today that his next entry in the genre may be the story of the Maccabees, the Jewish guerilla fighters who led a successful rebellion against Greek conquerors 165 years before Christ, inspiring the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Gibson said the story "fired my imagination." Recounting the story, which occurred in biblical times but is not recounted in the Bible, Gibson said: "It's about Antiochus, the king who set up his religion in the Temple, and forced them all to deny the true God and worship at his feet and worship false gods. The Maccabees family stood up, and they made war, they stuck by their guns, and they came out winning. It's like a Western."

The story ends with a miracle: When the victorious Jews cleansed the Temple of its sacrilegious, they found only enough oil to light the Eternal Flame for one day, but it managed to last eight days, until more oil could be rendered. Hence the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah, when Jews light candles on an eight-branch menorah each night.

[Jeremy Blackman]

The Maccabees family stood up, and they made war, they stuck by their guns, and they came out winning. It's like a Western.

This leads me to one question... does Mel Gibson have some kind of sick compulsion to equate heroism with violence?

[©brad]

The Maccabees family stood up, and they made war, they stuck by their guns, and they came out winning. It's like a Western.

This leads me to one question... does Mel Gibson have some kind of sick compulsion to equate heroism with violence?

yeah see, that's my problem w/ everything too. as if making a film extremely violent automatically renders it extremely powerful. i can't comment on passion b/c have yet to see it, but that's how i felt w/ braveheart.

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The Maccabees family stood up, and they made war, they stuck by their guns, and they came out winning. It's like a Western.

This leads me to one question... does Mel Gibson have some kind of sick compulsion to equate heroism with violence?

yeah see, that's my problem w/ everything too. as if making a film extremely violent automatically renders it extremely powerful. i can't comment on passion b/c have yet to see it, but that's how i felt w/ braveheart.

i can almost guarantee thats how youre gonna feel about the passion then.

[mutinyco]

Maybe not...I mean, the violence here isn't powerful or gross. It's so overdone that it's really pretty funny...