"Passion of the Christ": the negative Reviews are coming out
 

David Denby at The New Yorker:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/cin...301crci_cinema


David Ansen at Newsweek:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4338528/


DVD Talk Review
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=9664

And here I thought it would be negative reviews of "Pirates of the Caribbean."

~~edit~~ Now I see you've fixed the thread title. Oh well.

hehe, yeah, POTC would be confusing so I changed the title

I read the reviews. Both reviews are fair, IMHO. The main complaint was the graphic violence, and both caution against taking children to the film.

David Ansen states that he is not a Christian. I don't know the religious affiliation of David Denby.

Yeah, Depp is great in POTC. Wait....

On Topic: Fox News had a woman (forgot her name) that works at In Touch Weekly and all she could harp on was that guys who loved bloody horror films would like this. Seriously.

I heard a woman on the radio this morning who'd seen the film. She called Gibson a sadistic sadomasochist who gets off on gore, and said that the movie deliberately tries to punish the audience. She also said at her screening there were a few walk-outs.

That's what I'm figuring the big reaction would be. Gibson even said he made the film a little more violent than the event might have been. Then again, the medical report on the effects of the crucifixion might prove otherwise.

The New Yorker reviewer is extremely biased, if you ask me. I get the feeling that he went in knowing he wouldn't like the film, then wrote accordingly.

So are the negative reviewers going to hell?

Yes, but not because of this. All critics are doomed to hell.

No. They're entitled to their opinion:)

I believe this is one of those films where one should not rely on other people's reviews regardless if they've agreed/disagreed with said reviewer in the past, and instead see it for themselves.

I agree. Based on the subject matter both Christians and Non-Christians are going to go in with biases and that's ok. But like any movie, I think people should go in and see it for themselves.


To be honest...

I haven't seen it yet but if there was movie that had a good reason to show GRAPHIC VIOLENCE in a proper context I would think it would be the story of Christ.

the whole things just an excercise in gore...I think I'll just watch Evil Dead or Dead Alive again...

Yes and there they will be forced to watch all 7 Police Academy movies and House of the Dead in a eternal loop.

that or if it's a Peter Jackson splatterhouse flick. :)

Soon to be 8 Police Academy movies!

why does robocop get cut for violence, but this does not....maybe they should have called it "RoboChrist"?

I would go see a movie called RoboChrist blind, with no questions asked, based on the title alone!

A lot of Christians would make you think otherwise. Been in a campus ministry, and they will try to tell it to you.

"He was taken down in the line of duty, but three days later he rose from the dead... as ROBOCHRIST!"

Follow the ten directives!

Villain: "haha, he'll never get us at our island base... WHAT? He's WALKING TOWARDS US!"

RoboChrist: "Repent thy sins! You have until the day of judgement to comply! Dead or alive, you're coming with thy shepherd!"

I'd buy that for thirty pieces...

They woulda made several million more on the title alone

Basically, to sum up the two article, The Passion of the Christ is anti-semetic.

I think this better sums up both reviews:

"This ain't your parent's Jesus movie"

Basically, to sum up dawn_dead's post, "I didn't read either article."

After reading Denby's review - he's definitely well-informed, but I wonder how much of his review is actually a review of the movie and not Gibson. Do we really need Jesus contrasted with Mad Max? Is it relevant?

Denby says little about the actors or the film itself, which I see as unfair. He does make a good point about the violence, though - and I'm with him on the idea of not bringing children. We've sold churches entire showings - and I don't like the idea of fifty eight-year-olds watching their God getting the shit beaten out of him.