Arizona Roll Call: The Passion Of The Christ 2!!! WOOT!!!!
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All I know is that I've got tickets to a showing @ 13:30 hours tomorrow at an out of the way theatre most in SATX have ditched for the bigger Multi-Plexes. *Going to prove interesting indeed, especially seeing the reaction to the others in the audience alongside me. I'm wondering if my own wife will be able to handle the levels of violence that's supossedly in the film. Me, nothing fazes me anymore, I've seen a man in an auto accident decaptitated, and someone blow their brains out once. Nothing I haven't seen. But for the fools cryin' this movie is TOO VIOLENT, they need to check themselves and best recognize that the mofos of the past did shit that would make a police brutality session mild in comparison.
...see ya when it's all over.
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...see ya when it's all over.
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I think one of the best things I've ever heard in regard to this film was one preacher saying "I encourage all of you to see this R-rated movie..." It just seemed sort of odd seeing a preacher recommending the viewing of an R film. Then again, the Song of Songs can be pretty risque at times.
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Mercenary X99 said:
Hah, truer words have never been uttered...
Funny how the term 'Drawn and Quartered' is a sort of 'good ole time' sort of word for punishment. Like "Tally HO! That rascal should be drawn and quartered!"
Funny- given that it was an institution in the old world- torture, disembowelment, dismemberment and the public display of the corpse-parts at different corners of the city.
Mark Fuhrman- eat your heart out.
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Since i'm gonna marry a Christian woman, and I myself feel that I am a "Christian in training", I hope that this movie will continue to move me in positive directions towards understanding Christ's ways and his sacrifice for us.
The pastor of her church will only wed established christian couples too.
I expect to stifle tears when I see this movie, and cannot wait to experience it. The trailers alone moved me...
The pastor of her church will only wed established christian couples too.
I expect to stifle tears when I see this movie, and cannot wait to experience it. The trailers alone moved me...
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I'm not going to go see it, but I had a friend complaining about paying $8.00... so I just told him he could "read the book".
It would be funny if the movie credits ended with:
"Read the novelization by Matthew, Mark, Luke, John et al"
"Read the further adventures of Jesus in the Book of Mormon"
It would be funny if the movie credits ended with:
"Read the novelization by Matthew, Mark, Luke, John et al"
"Read the further adventures of Jesus in the Book of Mormon"
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Bobak said:
Based on the characters and stories by Mathew Mark Luke John etc.
Further adventures book of mormon, that would be fucking hillarious. But it wont be, he is a Mecha-Catholic, I heard they drink lambs blood.
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I say fuck Mel Gibson, and fuck the film itself. From Braveheart to this recent crap there is not one of his films which does not carry idiotic political bullshit. Usually anti-English, now in all likelihood antisemitic. What the hell does that guy think he is? A goddamn preacher? Pffft
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Torturing criminals is a very fine tradition that should be reinstated. We spaniards were particularly adept at it...as I have said in the past, 'tis a shame that the Inquisition does no longer exist.
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Torturing criminals is a very fine tradition that should be reinstated. We spaniards were particularly adept at it...as I have said in the past, 'tis a shame that the Inquisition does no longer exist.
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c.t.h said:
There's nothing particularly "wrong" with him, he just has far-right, extremist views that many people don't agree with.
Funny you mention Germany and the concentration camps, because his father doesn't believe that the Holocaust happened. He thinks that it's one big conspiracy conjured up the Jews and Freemasons who are really in power. Mel said that he thinks the Holocaust happened, but that there were much less than 6 million killed.
Among other things Gibson has said: He believes his wife is probably going to Hell, along with everyone else that isn't a Catholic; that women and men can't coexist in the work place (he called his previous female partner a "cunt"); that he's secretly persecuted by unseen "forces"; that the Holy Ghost is working through him; his films have not-so-subtle traces of homophobia and brit-bashing; etc, etc...
He definitely has his mind set about some things, and while I disagree with probably 100% of what he says, I respect him for not caring what others think of him and doing what he wants to do.
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Not to rush to Mel Gibson's defense,
but his right-wing views are strictly in the theological sense: he's a member of a Catholic splinter group that doesn't accept Vatican II (and thus doesn't accept the Papal edict absolving the Jews) and also does not think the Pope is inspired by God (which is a pretty fundamental things to most Catholics). Another Vatican II fact that explains the movie: Vatican II is where the Papacy gave permission for churches to hold church in languages other than Latin -so it's not a surprise that Mr. Gibson wanted his version in languages of the time period (some of which haven't been spoken in centuries, like Aramiac).
As for the movie, anyone paying attention to the "controversy" since the beginning knows that he planted it. His first interview about the movie, before it was ever shown to anybody, said that it was garnering controversy. I don't blame him, movie producers (notably Harvey Weinstein at Mirimax) have done that for years: the whole notion of "all publicity is good publicity." Remember: If you have a low budget movie like "the Passion", you really want to save promotion costs by creating a "controversy" that will get news channels to hope all over it and give you free press.
Wait... does that mean all of this boils down the money? Yes, silly
but his right-wing views are strictly in the theological sense: he's a member of a Catholic splinter group that doesn't accept Vatican II (and thus doesn't accept the Papal edict absolving the Jews) and also does not think the Pope is inspired by God (which is a pretty fundamental things to most Catholics). Another Vatican II fact that explains the movie: Vatican II is where the Papacy gave permission for churches to hold church in languages other than Latin -so it's not a surprise that Mr. Gibson wanted his version in languages of the time period (some of which haven't been spoken in centuries, like Aramiac).
As for the movie, anyone paying attention to the "controversy" since the beginning knows that he planted it. His first interview about the movie, before it was ever shown to anybody, said that it was garnering controversy. I don't blame him, movie producers (notably Harvey Weinstein at Mirimax) have done that for years: the whole notion of "all publicity is good publicity." Remember: If you have a low budget movie like "the Passion", you really want to save promotion costs by creating a "controversy" that will get news channels to hope all over it and give you free press.
Wait... does that mean all of this boils down the money? Yes, silly
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Lovecraft0110 said:
...ahem.....No one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!
Sorry, had to say that.
As for this New film, cant say that im particularly motivated to see it or motivated enough not to see it if any of my friends want to go.
As for Mr Gibson's past films, i have liked a few, although i have refused to watch braveheart out of principle.
Kind of on the subject, i refuse to watch other bullshit lie films such as U571 and Black Hawk Down.
Hollywood can make whatever fiction films it likes, but unfortunately people are stupid enough to believe them as Historical Fact.
Sorry rant over, thats my post for this year done
Bobak said:Not to rush to Mel Gibson's defense,
but his right-wing views are strictly in the theological sense: he's a member of a Catholic splinter group that doesn't accept Vatican II (and thus doesn't accept the Papal edict absolving the Jews) and also does not think the Pope is inspired by God (which is a pretty fundamental things to most Catholics). Another Vatican II fact that explains the movie: Vatican II is where the Papacy gave permission for churches to hold church in languages other than Latin -so it's not a surprise that Mr. Gibson wanted his version in languages of the time period (some of which haven't been spoken in centuries, like Aramiac).
As for the movie, anyone paying attention to the "controversy" since the beginning knows that he planted it. His first interview about the movie, before it was ever shown to anybody, said that it was garnering controversy. I don't blame him, movie producers (notably Harvey Weinstein at Mirimax) have done that for years: the whole notion of "all publicity is good publicity." Remember: If you have a low budget movie like "the Passion", you really want to save promotion costs by creating a "controversy" that will get news channels to hope all over it and give you free press.
Wait... does that mean all of this boils down the money? Yes, silly
That was a breath of fresh air.
Mel can eat it as far as Im concerned. His newfound ubercatholicism reeks of falsity.
To quote Daisuke Jigen : "Fuck him and the horse he rode in on."
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Oh what a world we live in when a movie made for 30 MILLION DOLLARS can be called "low budget".
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bloodhokuto said:
"expect"?
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Bobak said:
I can't wait for the Burger King promotions. And the other non-related ways it can be promoted (a la the old SNL skit with the 'Philadelphia' action figures and Sega Genesis game).
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Bobak said:
Ahem.
Catholic splinter group my ass. "Group of likeminded idiots" is a better, more exact term.
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I do not plan to see this movie at all.. its an anti-semitic piece of shit that I will not support.
