OT: mel gibsons new movie

[warren]

i think its called 'passion of the christ'

what do you guys think of it?

 

[Booyah]

i think its called 'passion of the christ'

what do you guys think of it?

Haven't seen it. Heard a hell of a lot of people are bleating about anti-semitism though.

 

[gunnamatta bay]

Jews are angry that it portrays them as bloodthirsty savages.
I read and saw reports that it is extremely violent.
Gibson only agree at the last minute to allow english subtitles. Otherwise it's all in Latin and some ancient Jewish dialect.
Gibson is a staunch Catholic and from what I read attends a church where the traditional Latin dialogue is used.

It's all a bit weird for my liking.

I think I prefer the Life of Brian!

 

[warren]

yeah gibson said he wanted it to be raw and to not potray jesus as a hollywood hunk with brown hair and blue eyes as they have done in the past

 

[gunnamatta bay]

I love swords and sandal movies. I saw shorts of Troy starring Brad Pitt and Eric Bana. Thats my sort of movie so I hope to see it asap.

 

[blacktip-reefy]

GET THIS f**king THREAD OUTTA HERE!!!

 

[Quint]

Full of piss when I posted this,now Sober and decided to not get involved in this topic........

 

[Quint]

What Reefy Said........................................

 

[King of the Hill]

GET THIS f**king THREAD OUTTA HERE!!!

I dont mind a good OT but:
GET THIS f**kING THREAD OUT OF HERE
DELETE IT NOW!!!!!!!

 

[Eskimo Sharkie]

I've seen it and anyone who is a Christian will be deeply affected by it. It's the last 12 hours of Jesus' life, very violent and faithfully follows the Biblical accounts. The film is in Latin and Aramaic, the languages spoken at the time and it is a little distracting following the subtitles, though you don't really need to as anyone with a rudimentary grasp of the Bible will be able to follow it.

As for anti-Semiticism, it is a fact, according to the Bible at least, that the Jewish money lenders were responsible for pressuring the Romans to do something about Jesus after he trashed their temple. Everyone was bloodthirsty at the time and I don't think it portrays them in any worse light than the Romans.

 

[Sheros los Deros]

Lord of the Rings is a better FANTASY epic. I'm not interested in Mel's masterpiece, thanks very much.

 

[lolesi]

haha life of brian, good movie that one

 

[Eskimo Sharkie]

I agree with you there Lolesi. The best biblical film ever made.

Wolf nipple chips, get them while they're hot, they're lovely.

 

[Generalzod]

Jews are angry that it portrays them as bloodthirsty savages.
I read and saw reports that it is extremely violent.
Gibson only agree at the last minute to allow english subtitles. Otherwise it's all in Latin and some ancient Jewish dialect.
Gibson is a staunch Catholic and from what I read attends a church where the traditional Latin dialogue is used.

It's all a bit weird for my liking.

I think I prefer the Life of Brian!

Though Mel chose Latin for the Movie, Scholars believed it should have been in Ancient Greek.
I'll be going to see it.

 

[King of the Hill]

sounds like the most boring f**kin' movie ever conceived

right up there with tim burton's nightmare before christmas

that was truly the nightmare before christmas

oh, and sleepy hollow...which made me sleepy with its hollow plot

 

[imasharkie]

You're home early SS

 

[The Popper]

I'd like to see it too, General.
From my studies, Koine Greek was the main language spoken in the eastern part of the Roman Empire and Latin was the main language of the western part. Judea was in the eastern part.
Perhaps Mel has used Latin as it was the language of the early Roman Catholic Church.
I believe Koine Greek was a language developed in the time of Alexander the Great to facilitate orders given to his troops, as they spoke several different languages and tranlation was unwieldy, too slow and dangerous when giving orders in battle. Koine Greek was retained as a major language in eastern Europe and the Middle East in Roman times.
I believe that the Bible's New Testament was originally written in Koine Greek, Attic Greek and Aramaic. The Old Testament I believe was written in Hebrew.

 

[millersnose]

:lol:

@ reefy and his obvious frustration with the success of this thread

 

[PJ]

I knew you were old Popper, but not that old!

 

[carinashark]

Is it somthing about passionfruit? Sorta christian and fruity? But really I think any religion shows up human frailty. But ummm this is about footie isnt it ,this forum.Or is it like christians and lions in the forum. I like the stuff about Lance Thompson in the paper this morning. This guy cant take a trick, he plays his heart out every week and is soon to be unwanted , according to the papers. Go on Brownie make another big mistake! Im thinking the dragons wont be in the top eight in 2004.
Carinashark