Whew!

Personally, I avoid movies that are considered unsuitable for children. Take
"The Passion of the Christ," for example. What is spiritually uplifting
about it? If the film is not entertaining, does not lift my spirit, and
apparently only depicts violence for the sake of violence, why would I
subject myself to it?

Here is my brother's review of same film:

http://ae.tbo.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...ults&M ovie_I
d=43285



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On 5 Mar 2004 09:59:32 -0700, Blanche
wrote:

Jay Honeck wrote:
Unfortunately, the action is so barbaric that I nearly barfed. (Example: A
ten minute scene with Jesus being whipped -- nearly to death -- with
fishhook-laden whips. If you want to see a human have his skin torn off in
slow, graphic detail -- front AND back -- this is the movie for you.)

What? You never saw the episode of Buffy where Willow skins
Warren out of anger? Fantastic! Wonderful CGI! They even did
it in layers!!!!

They only needed odor vision to finish it off:-))

Freshly skinned and *very* realistic. Told you I like ecapist
*stuff*.


Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Jesus looking like an Arab...

Maybe he looked like an Iranian


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Amen. Easily the most entertaining, absorbing fiction I've ever read.

My daughter and her husband swear by them, but I never got past the
first couple of chapters.

I loved the movie, however. Saw it on the plane. But then I often
enjoy in-flight movies, just as I used to enjoy in-flight meals. (You
should have seen the meal that went with Master & Commander! There was
an Oreo cookie and a ... mercifully, I forget.)

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Ironically, what we got from Mel Gibson's film is this: I can now almost
guarantee that neither child will grow up practicing *that* particular
religion.

Jay, you can't possibly make sure a prediction. Several of my
daughters grade-school chums grew up to be intensely religious, one of
them after a detour through the Naval Academy and Pensacola.

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Since the only people who consider the movie
to be anti-Semitic are a bunch of intransigent hotheads

The Wall Street Journal reviewer did take time out from his
description of the torture to point out that the Romans were falsely
depicted as benign, procedure-oriented, dispassionate rulers who were
more or less forced into the crucifixion by rabid, Jesus-hating Jews.
I envision the American army in Iraq, trying to mediate between Sunni
and Shi'a. The WSJ reviewer (okay, okay, his name ends in "stern")
thought that this was an a-historical view of Pilate and the Romans
generally.

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Reminds me of that guy on Seinfeld--Elaine's boyfriend.

"Do you mean that you think I'm going to hell?"

"Yeah."

"Doesn't that bother you? I'm going to burn in hell for, oh, years and
years--doesn't that bother you?"

"Why should it bother me? I'm not going to hell; you are."

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As opposed to anti-religious nuts, I suppose. Frankly, the supposedly
non-religious appear to be every bit as dangerous and bigoted as the very
devout.

Agreed.

Extremists at either end of the spectrum are dangerous.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay, you can't possibly make sure a prediction. Several of my
daughters grade-school chums grew up to be intensely religious, one of
them after a detour through the Naval Academy and Pensacola.

Well, that's true. At some point, they will reach their own spiritual
crossroads.

I just don't think this flick does anything to portray Christianity in a
positive light -- and I doubt that was Mel Gibson's intended outcome.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"