Hey it's there!

Someone call Rob Zombie and let's green light this thing.

After all, he made Tusk. I feel like Zombie Jesus is the next logical step for him after that!

....I never saw it but it seemed too violent to drag little kids to.

It was brutal.

I have to admit that it was only LAST YEAR that I tried watching it for the first time. By that time I'd completely forgotten that it had earned the nickname "Texas Chainsaw Jesus" for its violence and gore. I simply couldn't find anything else that I wanted to rent from my town's last remaining video store so I decided to give "Passion" a try. During the "scourging" scene most of what I'd read and heard about the film came flooding back to me. That scene was a far as I got, and I'm used to some pretty extreme stuff. I sat through the French horror movie called "Inside" which is almost legendary for its violence. I found Passion so extreme as to be numbing right off the bat.

I don't think she was ready for it. She was a button down Nazarene (no movies, drinking, dancing, etc.).

I have only seen it once myself. I put it in the class with Schindler's List. I honestly did not have a problem with it except for the Satan symbolism which was not in the Bible. The Romans were horrific and brutal, and I don't think it hurts to see it on screen to understand how bad it truly was. If you are going to criticize it, you are going to have to criticize Schindler's List and 1984 (which is fiction). Even William Wallace's execution (a twofer from Gibson in horrific torture snuff porn).

it was about 600 people being saved. I would have preferred seeing Stanley Kubrick's The Aryan Papers on the big screen over Spielberg's film. The problem I have with most of his films is almost all of them end up with a resolution to the problem(s) at hand. There isn't much thinking when it comes to his body of work.

Schindler's List wasn't a brutal film. Sure, it had its scenes of brutality, but it was not a brutal film to watch.

it sort of seems as though the snarky comments may well write themselves.

Teen Jesus struggles with puberty, turning water into wine abuse, and anger issues at the mall.

Likes it.

which never made it into the New Testament and in which Jesus as a young child is described as working miracles and also doing some bad things - like killing another child who bumped into him.

that has apparently been rediscovered by some mega-church goers.

Maybe a guest appearance from Tony Stark.

Since he strove for such brutal realism the first time around.

"Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most human."

Genesis permitted is not. Is planet forbidden.

transgender bathrooms?

and a firm X rating from the MPAA.

I was visiting a friend in another city who wanted me to go to an evening church service with her because the pastor had gotten a sneak preview of it and was going to talk about it. I had never been to a modern church like this before. Big and blocky with the church website address in giant neon block letters along the roof. We walked in, and to the right you could walk through a tunnel that looked like the inside of a cartoon log to the children's area where there was a life-sized animatronic tree with birds on its branches. Apparently they talked to each other, giving Bible lessons in the process. There was a bookstore/coffee shop, and the outside of the sanctuary looked like a movie theater, complete with glass encasements for posters advertising what the next blockbuster sermon would be about.

We were in the first 10 rows. They used nothing but folding chairs. Rock band on stage, giant TVs all about so you could see the pastor on stage. Pastor comes out - he's dressed cool, cuz y'know, Pastor Chad Lovesall, he just wants to rap with us about God and stuff. At one point in his sermon, the spotlight on him goes dark, and the live feed on the TVs turn to a pre-recorded bit of Pastorbro Chad walking in some woods talking about Jesus' sacrifice, and he's carrying a railroad tie on his shoulder to represent the cross Jesus was carrying. Toward the end, the camera stops panning with him because Pastordude is going to walk out of the shot, but before he does, instead of dropping the tie from his right shoulder where he was carrying it, he lifts it up and throws it over himself to the left, and he kind of struts off camera. This was not meant to be funny. I found it hilarious, and I started laughing as the spotlight comes back up, and the pastor looks directly at me as I'm getting it under control but still shaking, and I mime throwing something over my head then flexing at him while my friend is slapping my shoulder to stop it. Pastor Amigo Chad was upset at my reaction but went on with his sermon, and I "discretely" exited to sit out the rest of the sermon, which meant I was the first in line for the free cookies on the tables outside the sanctuary.

Friend never made the mistake of asking me to church again.

TlalocW

That's what happened, the last time Gibson tackled this subject matter.

...recalling his youth as Mad Max, pharisee, on the road to Damascus.