MicShazam

the Passion of the Christ. Exactly two hours of Jim Caviezel groaning and pretending to bleed a lot. Surprisingly little story. Even most of the symbolism won't make a lick of sense if you haven't read the Bible or heard the stories. Satan is in the movie, for example, but his presence makes zero sense, changes nothing and means nothing if seen only inside the context of what the movie presents us with. As such, the movie is 100% preaching to the choir. You're not supposed to watch it if you don't already know the New Testament in and out. I'm not religious, but I still find theology interesting. This movie has nothing on Cecil B. Demille's Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments - two movies that I enjoyed very, very much. Those movies work outside the confines of an already devout Christian mind, Passion of the Christ does not.

Frownland

That's why it's so successful and "is the most inspiring thing ever made *touches self*."

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Chula Vista

Torture Porn disguised as something significant.

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Frownland

And not in a good way either.

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Chula Vista

And then he followed up with Apocalypto, which easily could have done without 75% of the ultra graphic violence.

Mel's a disturbed man deep down.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Frownland

I never even watched it, it seemed too much like an imperialist's wet dream. I have no problem with graphic violence so long as it serves the plot.

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MicShazam

Apocalypto was very disappointing to me. There was so much opportunity to show something no movie (that I know of) has ever done before. I wanted to see this Incan society and how it works. Religious blooshed and societal structure, culture, etc. We get a few minutes of tease with a pretty fascinating pyramid set, then it becomes a generic chase movie set in the jungle that could easily have been transplanted to the streets of New York. Waste of an interesting setting.

Chula Vista

Like in "I Saw the Devil". The graphic violence was necessary for that movie to have 100% full sensory impact.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Trollheart

At least I'm using something the system recognises. Which smiley I use is my choice and doesn't change anything for anyone. It had to take Batty longer to write, asterisk and then bold the two "spoilers" than it would have for him to simply click the spoiler tag and write a note. I really don't give a ****, I'm just arguing to be a ****, but I do wonder what his thought processes were when it took longer to do it the way he did? I thought he was a lazy ****er.
Watch The Last Temptation of Christ; far superior movie.
Indeed. One reason why I won't watch it. Also, I don't speak ancient Aramaic.

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Frownland

:d

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