"JESUS" movie: worst religious movie ever?

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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.
 
I haven’t seen a religious movie yet that was really worth the time. The only one I still watch is “The Robe” - and that’s only because of Richard Burton. The overacting by Victor Mature & a few others is barely tolerable.
 
I haven’t seen that one, or even heard of it. If you’re looking for a good Jesus movie, check out The Gospel of John. It’s my favorite.
 
Jerurussia said:
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.
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I understand that you may not like the ‘Jesus’ movie, and that’s fine. As for me, I have been showing this movie, translated into Haitian Creole, over the past 3 years in remote regions of Haiti. We take a video player, screen, speaker, and generator in order to show it. Most times we hire local people to carry the equipment because there aren’t roads, only paths. If you could only see the effect this movie has had on people. These people, for the most part, have no or very little knowledge of Jesus. Most have never seen a movie before. Just the fact that you are showing a movie, some times hundreds of people will show up. Believers and non-believers alike.

I have even been asked by voodoo priests to show the ‘Jesus’ movie in voodoo villages. It’s a little nerve racking to be in a complete voodoo village at night to show a movie about Jesus, but it has opened many eyes.

So not everything in the movie is ‘perfect’, but the overall impact on people that don’t know who Jesus is, can be amazing.

I do respect your opinion though! God bless,

SJ
 
what a coincidence. 2 years ago free copies of this movie were spread at a Catholic Youth Day in a city in the Netherlands. So I got a copy as well. I don’t remember particularly well how it went, all I remember is that it seemed a little incoherent to me.
 
The Way and There Be Dragons - two recent movies with strong Catholic undertones. The first is about the Camino de Santiago, and the other is about St. Jose Maria Escriva - both are available on Netflix.
 
Mumbles140 said:
The Way and There Be Dragons - two recent movies with strong Catholic undertones. The first is about the Camino de Santiago, and the other is about St. Jose Maria Escriva - both are available on Netflix.
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I certainly agree with “There be dragons”, good movie, accessible enough, not excessive violence, perhaps some. I have heard about “The way” and would like to see it eventually.
 
“Of Gods and Men” is probably the single best religious movie I’ve seen. It’s about the monks in Algeria who were killed by Islamic militants.
 
Contarini said:
“Of Gods and Men” is probably the single best religious movie I’ve seen. It’s about the monks in Algeria who were killed by Islamic militants.
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Well, this is sort of general mentioning “best religious movie”, hey, I’ll probably go with in fact, it’d make a good thread to list one’s 10 most favorite religious movies but I’d go with the 1943 Franz Wurfl classic, “Song of Bernadette”, the post-war French movie on St. Vincent De Paul, “Monsieur Vincent” certainly is classic without being overly dramatic or flashy, just in black and white.

I read this book on those Monks in Algeria: amazon.com/The-Monks-Tibhirine-Terror-Algeria/dp/0312302940

And did see the movie. Thanks Redbox!
 
Come Easter time, I set the DVR going quite a lot. The golden era I believe was in the early '60s, perhaps 1950s some, for religious movies and just about all of the Bathrobe and Sandals genre are pure classics. There are some Old Testament movies out there as well besides the mega-classic “The ten commandments” which is utterly fantastic.
 
“Jesus” the movie is totally non-Hollywood, imho, totally a Church-made film. I will have to watch it again because I don’t agree with the first post but it is interesting, I can see why it might be spoken of in an unfavorable light.
 
I liked Ben Hur, The Robe, The Ten Commandments, and Mel Gibson"s The Passion.
Song of Bernadette and The Nun’s Story and Joan of Arc.
I didn’t like God is NOT Dead or Heaven is for Real.
 
“For the Greater Glory” came out in 2012 I believe and is one of my favorite movies period.

It is about the Christa war in Mexico where the Mexican Govt. virtually outlawed Catholicism and the fight for religious freedom…quite indicative of our own times.
 
redbaron162 said:
“For the Greater Glory” came out in 2012 I believe and is one of my favorite movies period.

It is about the Christa war in Mexico where the Mexican Govt. virtually outlawed Catholicism and the fight for religious freedom…quite indicative of our own times.
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I wanted to see that movie. I also wanted to see The Way with martin sheen.
 
I have the reincarnation of the “JESUS” movie, “SON OF GOD.” Roma Downey, oy vey. This one adds a thirteenth disciple, Mary Somebody. “SON OF GOD” does violence to the Bible to its great detriment, like cutting off the “Our Father” halfway through, and has “Magic Jesus” elements like “Jesus” touching the water to make the fish come for Peter…Wow, what gall to rewrite the plain and powerful teachings and biography of Jesus.:mad:

My sincerest thanks for the great religious film suggestions.
 
The problem with religious movies is devoutly religious people feel inspired to write, direct, and act in films and seem to forget the importance of actually knowing how to write, direct, or act.
 
DerekTM said:
The problem with religious movies is devoutly religious people feel inspired to write, direct, and act in films and seem to forget the importance of actually knowing how to write, direct, or act.
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Spot on! :rotfl:
 
Leonardo DeFillipis’ “Maximilian Kolbe: Saint of Auschwitz” is a masterpiece, made all by himself but he had a number of projects before, Song of Solomon and St.Francis where he honed his skills.

But if some people prefer Hollywood movies, I understand that too.
 
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