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Sun, 03/21/2004 - 19:46 — tigrrrlilly

Have any of you seen this yet, and if so what did you think about it? :?:

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Mon, 03/22/2004 - 03:51 — Notyourfriend

Haven't seen it, haven't read the book.

Just more religious propaganda to wow young people into joining a church, and remind old people that their gonna meet the real guy one day.

Oh, and it feeds the fire between christians and those Christ killing jews.

:P

Tue, 03/23/2004 - 23:19 — tigrrrlilly

Folks are eating this stuff up! I can't figure it out either.

At the risk of offending the pious among us, I have to say that this movie was terrible. I walked out. And not just because I'm an atheist, either.

It was an action movie about the crucifixion! Leave it to Mel Gibson to bring religion to the lowest common denominator and appeal to simple-minded middle Americans everywhere.

What was with all the slow motion?
And the overzealous fog machine techs?!

Tue, 03/23/2004 - 23:49 — gulliver
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What was with all the slow motion? And the overzealous fog machine techs?!

The director of cinematography was Caleb Deschanel:

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After making two short noncommercial films of his own, Deschanel-with the help of former USC classmate George Lucas-met Francis Ford Coppola and did second-unit photography on Apocalypse Now (1979). That same year, elevated to director of photography, he stunned moviegoers with his cinematography for the Coppola-produced The Black Stallion and Being There Deschanel was characterized by one critic as having achieved a "cleanness of image and a brilliant luminosity." He received Oscar nominations for his camerawork on The Right Stuff (1983) and The Natural (1984), and has directed the films The Escape Artist (1982) and Crusoe (1988). He also helmed several episodes of the David Lynch-produced TV series "Twin Peaks."

The visual look was supposed to be based on the work of the renaissance painter Caravagio.

Wed, 03/24/2004 - 00:02 — tigrrrlilly

Technically, a lot of the sets and costumes looked kind of phony. To me, it was just too heavy handed, but I will defer to you. You're obviously way more educated on film than I will ever be.

Wed, 03/24/2004 - 02:06 — Anonymous

I'm inclined to agree with the Action Movie idea.

Wed, 03/24/2004 - 03:02 — withrow

I like Caravaggio's stuff a lot. In this one:http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=14280 , you can't really make it out, but the woman is simultaneously reading this guy's fortune and stealing his ring. And his vision of John the Baptist as really, really cute is an interesting take: http://www.theitalians.com.au/theitalians/Detail.cfm?IRN=161313 .

I think Roger Ebert is one of the wisest people in public life. His review of the The Passion was that it was a great movie, but terribly violent. I can pass on the violence.