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Always_lurking
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Username: Always_lurking
Post Number: 2
Registered: 02-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 04:48 pm: | 
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Now who's going to see this one and why? I'm interested in the graphic detail and seeing how true he stays to the Bible. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 46
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 05:15 pm: |
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I'm suspicious of anyone who makes a movie depicting what he deems to be the absolute truth. Implicit in Mel Gibon's rationale for doing this is that God told him to do it so everybody could see the light. In trying to impose its beliefs on the world, proselytizers of Christianity persist in discounting that it is only one of 5 major religions, most of which have been around much longer than it has. Even if Gibson's movie is true to the biblical version, how do we know if the biblical version was accurate or just symbolic. Everybody is entitled to their own belief which is one reason I don't think religion should be commercialized. |
Always_lurking
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Post Number: 3
Registered: 02-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 08:48 am: |
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In that case the people who want to see it should and those who don't, stay away. The film is not mandatory for anyone. He also stated that it was his movie and his interpretation of the Bible. Not matter what, everyone has his/her own spin on the Bible from scholars to the novice reader. Some of those other countries didn't show Matrix because they thought it had too much of a Christianity basis, so it could be the same with The Passion. Every religion believes in their path. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 50
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 11:49 am: |
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We agree that every religion believes in its own path. Only the other ones don't have someone with an extra 25 million dollars laying around so, like Mel Gibson, they can produce a movie which amounts to nothing more than "preaching to the choir". (How much more admirable Gibson would be if he took that 25 million dollars and anonymously donated it to the fight against AIDS.) |
Always_lurking
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Username: Always_lurking
Post Number: 4
Registered: 02-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 02:20 pm: |
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Can't argue with you there but then again that goes to someone doing what they love, what they have a passion for with his money. I'm sure he donates to whatever causes he feels he should. In his mind, this could be a big donation to a greater cause.
Anyway, I guess you're not going to see it  |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 51
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 04:32 pm: |
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I'll watch this movie if it ever comes on TV.
I think I was turned off by Mel Gibson's interview with Diana Sawyer. There was just something sinister about his hard-eyed demeanor, and his seething indignation. To me, he seemed like a borderline fanatic, a loose cannon. |
Dpoetist
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Post Number: 7
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 09:53 pm: |
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I saw the movie out of curiosity and yes it is very graphic but I'm sure it's no worse than what our ancestors endured or how they were brutally beaten and tortured during slavery. My third eye has been opened towards religion and I see things from a more open perspective. I didn't add anything to this movie nor did I take anything from it because just like the Bible, it had a lot of allegories in it. |
Yukio
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Username: Yukio
Post Number: 78
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 13, 2004 - 02:52 am: |
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yes....cynique. I hear that MGibson is part of some sect of catholicism that blames the Jews for Jesus' death..... |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 53
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 23, 2004 - 11:42 am: |
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Melvin stated that he was using unknown actors--but it turns out several of them are very well known in Europe--as porn stars!
http://watch.pair.com/cast.html
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Chakrya
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Username: Chakrya
Post Number: 1
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 18, 2004 - 08:07 am: |
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Cynique, hi it's Lurkerette. It's been a while.
First of all, let me say I cannot stand Mel Gibson. His films are vapid and he is an egomaniac. But in response to what you said....
...none of the other religions has followers who don't have the money to finance films like Gibson's? The Sultan of Brunei is a Muslim, there is untold wealth in Saudi and the other OPEC countries who are Islamic. Islam isn't a proselytising religion, that's the real reason they don't feel they have to produce religious propaganda such as the Last Passion.
Gibson's film was made because Christianity is dying out, although from what I've heard many young people went for the violence rather than the message of the film.
Strange you should say that Gibson should have donated 25Mil to AIDS charities anonymously...how do you know he hasn't?
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 440
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 18, 2004 - 12:14 pm: |
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Hi, Lukerette. Points well taken. |
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