Onibubba wrote:I hope that this is a good movie. Unfortunately, many religious films are little more than message movies, backed by religious organizations, for the religious community. Examples are the Time Changer and the Left Behind films. This is not always the case. A good religious film should be a good movie first, and a thought provoking vehicle second. This allows a wider audience and a broader scope of discussion of the themes. I hope this will prove to be one of those movies. Other religious (xian) movies that are worth viewing (please add to this list any other recommendations)

1. Agnes of God - Nice twist Very overlooked film.
2. Last Temptation of Christ - As mentioned before, an amazing, thought provoking film that is NOT about Jesus fucking as many who protested yet never swa the film assume.
3. Ten Commandments - A FUCKING HOOT!!! I watch this at least once a year. How the Jewish community can be up in arms about Mel's movie and yet be OK with the bitching, howling, mob of assholes that whine at Moses at every turn and embrace Dathan at every impasse is beyond me! And it's gothic too! Well, it DOES have Vincent Price in it.
4. Life of Brian - More social commentary than a parody of christ, who is never actually insulted or parodied in this film.
5. Jaccob's Ladder - More a film about letting go than christianity per se, but enlightening and thought provoking.
6. Dogma - OK, it is a Kevin Smith film, so dick and fart jokes abound, but the movie raises so many good questions and issues, it really should be seen and discussed.
7. OK I don't remember the name of this one, but making this list has made me think about it. It concerns a woman whose life has bee filled with drugs and promiscuity. She joins a doomsday cult that preaches the coming apocalypse. She meets a man who tries to bring her to her senses and does just as...Seemed like a good movie at the time, late 80's I think. Anyone else seen this? Ack, I'm rambling. See you at the movies.

7. OK I don't remember the name of this one, but making this list has made me think about it. It concerns a woman whose life has bee filled with drugs and promiscuity. She joins a doomsday cult that preaches the coming apocalypse. She meets a man who tries to bring her to her senses and does just as...Seemed like a good movie at the time, late 80's I think. Anyone else seen this?

I THINK number 7 on your list may have been "The Rapture," which was fairly contrversial at the time but hard to track down now (WELL worth the trouble, however). Tell me if this is how you remember it: The lead character joins a conservative group after years of "sinning," there is a powerful scene where she murders her own child to ensure his "salvation" (shades of the Abraham and his son story here), and then the actual rapture happens while she's in jail (trumets sounding, the Four Horsemen of the Apolcalypse, etc). In the end, she rejects God out of anger over her son -- it ends with her standing resolutely outside Heaven and basically telling God to blow off. It's a pretty powerful flick, released sometime between '89 and '91 (if my memory is correct).

Coor wrote:. I've studied Gibson's way of directing, since his debut. He's EXTREAMLY picky of somethings, but then he lets others go. Example: The battle in Braveheart that was actually on a bridge, and he placed it in a field. Sometimes Gibson can get lazy, about histrocial accuracy, .

Mistress Eve(L) wrote:so this asks the question........WWJD?

Just when you thought Mel Gibson couldn't make a bigger
turd than "Lethal Weapon IV", he drops this one. And
all of the Jews are pissed off because he's telling everybody
that they killed God. Now let's think about it. That's not
so bad is it? I would think the Jews would want this movie
highly circulated in the Muslim world, with the obvious
threat being, "If you guys don't back off, we'll kill your God,
too. Then you get no 70 virgins, no paradise, no nothing."
Anyone who can kill God is one bad mother fucker.

But let's not forget that Jesus rose from the dead AND
ascended to a throne in heaven. Not too shabby. So in
essence, nobody really "killed" Jesus; it was more like a
fraternity hazing, or an early version of "Fear Factor" where
you endure all kinds of shit to win a valuable prize. Way to
go Jesus, and way to go Jews for helping him keep it real.

ophelia wrote:Regardless of what you believe, or what limited information your viewpoint stems from, it is a very Catholic version of the passion (suffering) of Christ, based largely on the paintings and depictions of post-Heliand Christianity.