"JESUS" movie: worst religious movie ever?

[a1621517]

if u buy a movie at a dollar store
ur in for a bad time

 

[Luvz2travel]

I watched “JESUS” in the process of reviewing some wonderful, accurate old-timey flicks about Judeo-Christianity my friend scarfed up at the dollar store, and this one was filmed in the Holy Land and…It was like watching Jim Jones throw the Bible down and stomp on it, as was his wont. This 1979 movie may be the most widely-viewed film of all time as it has been translated into various languages and shown in villages and towns all over the world. There’s the altar call ending but that’s not the problem. The Bible is so consistently contravened it’s tragic. “Christ” is in the storm-rocked boat, is awakened and does staring ju-ju at the sea to quiet things down. “Peace! Be still!”, is gone. This is “Magic Jesus.” It’s like “Children of the Corn” meets “The Bad Seed.” Sweating blood, this movie messiah is little more than inconvenienced, not anguished.

The Bible is so heavily cut-and-pasted-and-emended in the “JESUS” movie it’s nonsensical and misleading, all to perform par cours maneuvers to undermine Catholic teaching and practice. It’s in the circular file, a waste of time and space. Any other religious flicks that you would consign to oblivion? And to pile on, the movie “HEAVEN IS FOR REAL” likewise undermines Christianity and is absolutely unrecognizable as deriving from the book Heaven Is for Real or the sequel, Heaven Changes Everything. Thanks, producer T.D. Jakes, for leaving out all the Catholic stuff, like St. Michael and the Virgin Mary, and the groovy wrassling with a lion scene and…All the good stuff. Greg Kinnear? May your 15 minutes of snarky “Talk Soup” fame be well and truly over after your heartless phoned-in performance.

Jesus of Nazareth and The Gospel of John are the best and really the only good and acurate ones. The Gospel of John is basically what it says the Gospel of John almost verbatum.

 

[JB_Brother_4446]

Jesus of Nazareth and The Gospel of John are the best and really the only good and acurate ones. The Gospel of John is basically what it says the Gospel of John almost verbatum.

What about The Passion?

 

[carmelitenovice]

I think it was this “Jesus” film that our parish distributed for free several years ago, along with some colorful booklets and study materials… I watched it but don’t recall my opinion. I suspect I felt as I do about most Biblical epic movies: Why do they all have to speak in the “round tones” (to quote “Singing in the Rain”)?’

I just happened to watch “Paul: The Emissary” yesterday. Which was all right for what it was (dramatizing his life in only 54 minutes). It too had the “round tones” problem and also, for all the traveling he did, he never got dirty, his clothes never got ripped and he didn’t have a hair out of place, even in prison.

While I didn’t see Heaven is for Real, I suspect I would agree about the movie, much as I generally like Greg Kinnear. I read part of the book but I couldn’t stomach it. This is a supposedly caring father who lets his very young son on a cross-country trip and does not take him to a hospital or urgent care despite repeated vomiting and pain. As I recall, he suspected it was the flu, so what does he do? He has the kid stay with some friends – nice way to spread illness, daddio.

The kid didn’t die, he had a dream while under anesthetic. As a preacher’s kid, it does not surprise me that he dreams of biblical things. Then over the next several years, he’d spout off with, “Oh yeah, I saw Jesus do this…” (Who recalls dreams that far back?)

As to the miscarried sister that he supposedly saw or learned about, who knows? Kids often do pick up little facts when the grown ups think they aren’t listening. Or, he may have been told by someone else.

Sorry if this is a thread jack…