(There’ve been so many threads about “The Passion of the Christ” that I thought by now the acronymn “POTC” is as recognizable as “LOTR” & “ROTC”)
I’m sure the POTUS wants to see POTC, but how about you? -and, if you don’t mind, please let us know how religious you are.
I’m an atheist, but that wouldn’t stop me from seeing a good story no matter what its religious or political bent. However, I’m not convinced that this is what we have here.
The Buddha died of food poisoning, but I wouldn’t want to see a two hours of someone retching and puking do death on film for two hours, either.
I saw this coming: I grew up in SW Wisconsin, and never went to see the yearly Passion Play in New Glarus, either in German or English. And I’m not going to dig Jethro Tull’s “Passion Play” out of some box in my closet.
A lot of people don’t understand it, but I have absolutely no inclination to go see it. I know the story, it sounds overly gory(for something that I would want to see. I know that that’s what probably happened, but that doesn’t mean I’d want to watch it happen today, so why would I watch it on film?), and I really don’t feel like going to something that has spiked so much controversy. I just don’t. And apparently, Mr. Gibson decided to take artistic liberty, and put the spikes through Jesus’s hands, which, if he’s trying to make a documentary type piece on Christ, is just dumb.
I have no desire to see it. I go to movies for entertainment or escape. This movie promises neither. I don’t like violence and gore. I went to see Platoon with my husband because he really wanted me to see it. I hated it. It hurt to watch.
POTC is overly hyped and I avoid hyped movies, just because. Mel won’t get any of my money.
If it matters, I grew up Catholic, attended an Episcopal church for a while, but I haven’t been regularly churched for years.
I couldn’t care less about seeing it, but then I don’t have a lot of interest i moves anymore anyway. Many of the people reacting so dramatically are not the typical guts-and-gore moviegoing crowd, so their opinions mean little, quite frankly.
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As for the movie’s graphic violence, if it is so horrible I want to know why it was allowed with an “R” rating–when the original Scarface was submitted for rating, the MPAA would only give it an “X” for its gratuitious violence, and it was edited with the most graphic scenes removed…–but this sounds at least as bad–and it got an “R”?
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Not interested. In general, I prefer reading for my entertainment. If I watch a movie, then it is because I want to mindlessly veg out. For those I watch action flicks or romantic comedies.
I won’t see it. I’m an atheist, but that’s only part of why I won’t watch it. I really hate seeing a lot of gore and violence, and I have no interest in watching someone getting tortured to death for two hours, or however long the movie is. I’ve watched scenes in other movies that still haunt me decades later, I still sometimes recall the scenes suddenly and become almost physically ill. I don’t need to add more images to my mental hard drive, to pop up at random.
This is also why I don’t go see a lot of movies, period. Too much gratuitous violence for my taste. And the ones that aren’t really violent sometimes have a lot of “grossout” content, which I also don’t like.
Not I! I’m an atheist, and while I’m big on violence, I’m not such a fan of gore and disfigurement. It might be interesting to attend a screening to sit beneath the screen and watch the audience, though.
Maybe we could conflate the two titles and get Pirates of the Christ. I’d pay to see that.
I won’t go see Passion, though. It sounds like the kind of film that wouldn’t need to be seen on a big screen. I generally only go to an actual theater (and put up with crying babies and rustling popcorn and sticky floors) when there’s a special-effects movie on. Intense drama, violence? I can watch that on a TV-sized screen later if I feel like it.
I’m an atheist so that’s the main reason I won’t be watching. Even disregarding that though, the intensity of the violence, blood, and gore would probably too much for me so even if I were interested, I doubt I’d go. There’s no fun in watching a movie if you’re squirming in your seat the whole time and having to avert your eyes and fight back bile.
Didn’t open any of those POTC threads, though, huh?
I have no intention of seeing The Passion of The Chirst. Back when I wore a cross, I wouldn’t wear one with poor suffering Jesus on it, any more than I would have worn a John The Baptist’s Head-on-a-platter pendant. The suffering of Christ is sad, and way to lurid to want to see a movie about.
Plus, I really really hate the title. The Christ?! There’s only ever been one Jesus Christ, just like there’s no one else in the world (currently) with both my first and last name, because my last name is extrodinarily uncommon(it was “created” at Ellis Island as an Americanization); only a little more than 1,500 people have it. You don’t hear people refering to me as The <insert first and last names>…
Another atheist here and I won’t see it mainly because I just don’t care about the subject matter. Also I am not a huge fan of excessive violence and gore, it wouldn’t prevent me from seeing it if it was something I wanted to see.
I don’t think I can stand it, because I don’t have the option of distancing myself from the film by telling myself that it is just a movie. It isn’t. People really did that to my Lord.
I couldn’t bear to watch. There is a passage in William Buckley’s book Nearer My God to Thee, in which he describes a vision a nun had of how the Crucifixion might have been, and I almost couldn’t read it.
The idea is too ghastly. Crucifixion is too ghastly.
