Countdown to the Second Coming - August 31

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puppylove:
Where can I order my copy of The Passion?
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on the first day it is released its like $5 cheaper in **Walmart **… only for that day i think … they had that kind of sale for Lord of the Rings. im not sure if they will do the same thing for the Passion.

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Thanks Webdezyn & T.A. Stobie, SFO.

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in amazon its like $17 … in walmart on the first day sale it should be around $14 …thats how much the Lord of the rings was selling for on the first day.
 
When i saw the title of your thread, i thought you were trying to predict the 2nd comming of christ.
 
Once for me. Get this, my 18 yr old daughter, who likes The Patriot and Gladiator, thought The Passion was the most violent movie she’s ever seen. —KCT
 
I pre-ordered it a month or two ago…it is the best movie I have ever seen.
 
I saw it once. Is it an excellent movie? I’m not sure yet. I need to watch it again. The movie did not have the emotional impact on me that I thought it would. I’m not sure why it didn’t. I’m probably in the minority here, a minority of one, but I don’t understand the absolute praise of the movie. I’ve never seen a movie and immediately after watching it thought it was the greatest movie ever. For me, it takes a while. Sometimes just thinking about different scenes or watching it again, before I really know if I liked it. I wish I could say that the violence had more of an affect on me. I don’t know if it is because there have been so many violent movies made already or that it almost seemed unrealistic to me. We all try to imagine what it must have been like for Christ, but I don’t feel that the Passion really gave me a better understanding for what it was like. Which may not make sense since the movie was so graphic. Maybe too graphic? Well, just my feelings.
 
My husband and I went on Holy Saturday with a large mixed group of Catholics from several parishes that had bought out the entire theater weeks earlier. No one was eating and only a few people had drinks. We wanted to see it ourselves before allowing our younger teens to see it. After the film ended, the theater was totally silent for several minutes, aside from sniffling. It was a powerful experience. Our Bishop came to the showing, and he gave a talk afterwards.

Then we took our teens to see it in a regular theatre the following week. People were munching popcorn, getting up and leaving and coming back, answering their cellphones DURING the film, calling out things like “Oh! This next part is so cool!”, screaming aloud… I could hardly believe the difference in the experience for me, from the reverent first showing, which was truly a spiritual afternoon, to this “entertain me” second showing, which felt secular at best.

I look forward to watching again in the privacy and reverence of our living room. I agree that it is not likely to be a film I watch over and over again but one that has moved me deeply already.
 
Edwin1961 said:
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I saw the film twice and plan on getting the CD. It will be great to watch it while praying the Sorrowful Mysteries, and watching it during Lent.

go with God!
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I’ve seen it twice. A week after I saw it for the first time, I was on a plane on which the flight was quiet (nobody was talking to others… it was a VERY early flight).

I had a window seat, so I grabbed an airplane pillow cradling it between my shoulder and ear and against the plane window, pulled out my rosary, and started saying it.

It was a Thursday, but instead I said the mystery for Fridays == yup… the Sorrowful mysteries.

I gotta tell ya… the ENTIRE flight, I was on just the first mystery… Gethsemane. Instead of referring to a tiny little printed picture in the rosary pamphlet, I was picturing our Lord there in the Garden of Gethsemane as it showed in the movie.

This had to have been the MOST impactful meditation and prayer I’ve ever had on that mystery… the entire time of the flight (90 minutes, not counting the first few minutes when I was just “settling in” to the rosary) I was praying “Thy will be done” for me in my own life while thinking about my own cross that our Lord is permitting for me to bear.

I barely remember ever actually saying the Hail Mary after the first however many more than ten I’d said… I just lost count.

I was TOTALLY engrossed in that ONE mystery!! What an awesome experience it was to pray even just the first decade of the Sorrowful mysteries. Sure… 90 minutes on that first decade… yup… that’s what I did. Was actually a bit disappointed when I had to snap out of it when the pilot started announcing our descent.

I had been taking that trip to take care of family financial and personal business… and it would take REAMS of paper to tell you how all the different things that happened during my trip were CLEARLY grace granted to me… in many apparently small ways.

Atheists would call it serendipity. I know it’s grace.

I will definitely get the video! (I haven’t yet invested in a DVD player)
 
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Makerteacher:
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Then we took our teens to see it in a regular theatre the following week. People were munching popcorn, getting up and leaving and coming back, answering their cellphones DURING the film, calling out things like “Oh! This next part is so cool!”, screaming aloud… I could hardly believe the difference in the experience for me, from the reverent first showing, which was truly a spiritual afternoon, to this “entertain me” second showing, which felt secular at best…
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I find this a very odd experience.

I have seen the movie 3 times and all 3 experiences where the same in the theater, nobody talked, nobody moved, except to cry.

Did anyone else out there experience this “entertain me” feeling in the theater when watching “The Passion of The Christ” … just curious!
 
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RomanRyan1088:
When i saw the title of your thread, i thought you were trying to predict the 2nd comming of christ.
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I thought so, too.
 
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SMcCarthy:
Unfortunately I only saw the movie twice. I have purchased very few DVD’s but this is certainly a must. I am anxious to show it to my family members who didn’t want to go to the movies to see it.
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Just curious… is it that your family “didn’t want to go to the movies” to see it?

Or is it their way of saying that they don’t want to see it, at all?

Just curious. I’ve got a couple of friends who tend to sound “politically correct” or “socially correct” instead of directly communicating. Causes all kinds of communication problems.

I take people at their word. The hard part for me is to tell when it is that THEY think that they’re being direct, when instead they are (in their mind) being “polite.”

Sometimes people are saying “no” without actually having the chutpah to say the word “no.” I guess I just was never given a secret de-coder ring.

I’m a direct communicator…so others sometimes don’t understand that I’m just stating facts instead of being in their face about something.
 
I’m buying it, and can’t wait to see it. We don’t see many movies in the theatre; too expensive, and we really like to pause the movie and talk about it. With such a moving film like The Passion, there was no way I could see it in the theatre. I know we’re going to want to pause to discuss, pray, and wipe tears away. And since our “local” theatre is over an hour drive each way, we would have been too physically, emotionally, and spirtually drained after watching to be able to drive back!
 
Saw it thrice. Each time an emotional and spiritual experience. ESPECIALLY the first time.

I will buy the DVD, of course, but I won’t be watching it all the time. I may not watch it for months. Who knows.

But I love Mel.:). I love when a man goes completely against the grain of society and is religious, both publicly and privately. I know that’s hard to do in Hollywood. Oh I could write a book…
 
I haven’t seen it. I won’t buy the DVD, I won’t rent it either.

I know how the story goes, and I have absolutely ZERO interest in seeing it. I can’t imagine sitting for three hours watching someone get brutalized, and then killed. I just don’t find that entertaining, or spitiually inspiring.
 
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lizziebeth730:
I know how the story goes, and I have absolutely ZERO interest in seeing it. I can’t imagine sitting for three hours watching someone get brutalized, and then killed. I just don’t find that entertaining, or spitiually inspiring.
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someone ? that someone is God … if your not christian it wont interest you but if you are …
 
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