JPII Movie on CBS Tonight

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irish80122:
Has anyone heard about the CBS movie on Pope John Paul II tonight? I missed the ABC version and this one looks tempting but I am not sure if I should watch, especially with finals coming up! If it is good I would love to watch it, but I just am not sure. Anyone know anything about it? Thanks and God Bless!
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I saw the first part. I thought it was pretty good. I really liked the Hall Mark Channel movie on JPII.
 
I very much enjoyed part one of the CBS movie. I found it very powerful. I can not wait for the last installment of this two-part movie which will aired Wednesday December 7th at 8PM.
 
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Gregory24:
What the heck it’s not on?
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I was quite puzzled by that too. Something must have run overtime and caused that delay. I kept the station on, thinking I may have missed it, and then I saw a banner saying it would begin about 8:20. It would have helped to have those banners on earlier.
 
Did any one catch this? I saw part one last night, though I did not see it from the beginning. Part two is airing on Wednesday night. Will have to catch it.
I really hope there is a video of it, soon.
 
Part I was well done, giving an interesting look at JPII’s early life. It was also wonderful to see churches that LOOKED like Catholic Churches, complete with high altar and no “Cranmer tables.”

Priests and bishops wore beautiful pre-Vatican II vestments, with no sign of the normal post-VII polyester jump suits.

Amazing what we have lost since 1965!
 
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PreVatII:
Amazing what we have lost since 1965!
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What were your impressions of the scene of Mass being said in the forest with oars serving as a makeshift cross? I sort of had a reaction like - “the traditionalists won’t like that!” I am more traditionalist leaning myself, but I really didn’t know what to think at the time. I’ve concluded though, that you do what you have to do when your faith is being oppressed by the government!
 
The football game was on, and so everything was knocked back a half hour.
I heard that the CBS version is not as good as the ABC one. It reviews JP’s life adn legacy but does not go in depth about the effect of his legacy.
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The CBS version was not as good as the ABC one? The ABC version was a wretched, heart-hearted attempt at a biography.The acting was substandard, the direction lackluster, and the production value was far below what the subject matter deserved. Thank God the producers have treated the CBS version like a major motion picture and not a movie of the week, which is exactly what the ABC version was.

There was no sense of humanity in JPII on ABC. I got more of a sense of who he was in the first five minutes of the CBS one than in two hours on ABC. Good work!

S
 
mark a:
Not to put a damper on this thread or anything, but did anyone else catch the backwards sign of the cross?
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I did and started laughing. It is almost impossible to do a movie w/o someone making a mistake.

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I loved it and am looking forward to Wednesday. I’ve always admired John Paul the Great, but had no idea how great he really was. I loved how he became auxillary bishop b/c the Communists thought he’d be young and easy to control. God works in mysterious ways!
 
Very well done, can not wait till Wed! ABC was good but it can not hold a candle to CBS’s version.
 
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GordonBOPS:
What were your impressions of the scene of Mass being said in the forest with oars serving as a makeshift cross? I sort of had a reaction like - “the traditionalists won’t like that!” I am more traditionalist leaning myself, but I really didn’t know what to think at the time. I’ve concluded though, that you do what you have to do when your faith is being oppressed by the government!
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I lean traditionalist too, but didn’t have much of a problem with that. As long as the mass is properly and reverently said, and your’e right- they were being persecuted by the Soviets at the time (rather parallel to Christ’s open air sermons).

Loved the movie so far.
 
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Newvert:
As long as the mass is properly and reverently said.
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Yeah - That’s exactly right… I think its just maybe a little too limiting to think that an outdoor mass - even impromptu - would for some reason be improper… I don’t think Christ much preached indoors for that matter…
 
Bud Stewart:
I very much enjoyed part one of the CBS movie. I found it very powerful. I can not wait for the last installment of this two-part movie which will aired Wednesday December 7th at 8PM.
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I think that it is a pretty powerfull scene when he sees his friend Eva at the end and she is sick. He prays to Padre Pio and she is healed.
 
I missed most of it, and I was planning to record it but forgot to turn on the recorder.

I hope they repeat Part I… I saw the scene where they had a procession through the streets with the empty picture frame. That was a brilliant move. Since they had outlawed any public display of religious images, it showed that even an empty frame could be representative of what everyone knew was important to the people.

We take our religious freedom for granted, how do Marxists - socialists justify the suppression of human thought or basic human rights and somehow think this is right or good ???
 
I watched it and was so inspired! The one aired on ABC the other night gave me a totally different reaction. This one must have used the same material as the one on Hallmark Channel a few moths ago. They were similar. Looking foward to part 2.
 
I didn’t see the one on ABC, but I loved the first installment of the CBS version last night. Jon Voight will play the older version of JP II tonight. He is a great actor, and he looks a lot like JP.

I loved how they show what a good person he was. I wish I could have known him.
 
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Sparky:
I thought it was pretty good. But Cary Elwes playing young Karol drove me a little nuts. I kept thinking “It’s Westley!” 😑 He also had a silly look on his face half the time…didn’t have the JP look. The actor who played him in the European version did a better job–or at least looked more the part. Not that I dislike Cary Elwes (Princess Bride is one of my all time favorite movies…).

Looking forward to John Voight…but every time I look at him as JP, I keep seeing John Voight. We’ll see if that disappears as I watch it. If it does, it’ll mean the man is a-workin’. 👍
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I agree. I think it was really well done, but I had a hard time getting past the actors. I almost think it would be better if they had no name actors. I’m having a hard time seeing Farmer Hoggett as an archbishop. 😉
 
The CBS and Hallmark channel movies are excellent! The ABC movie very sub-standard and biased.
 
I did not see the ABC movie, but CBS movie was very powerful. Actually I was not going to watch it at all since it was done by a commercial station looking for ratings. But, once I started watching it I was hooked. Cannot wait till Wednesday to see the conclusion.
 
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snowman10:
I did and started laughing. It is almost impossible to do a movie w/o someone making a mistake.

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This film was definitely superior to the ABC movie. It was much more paced and believable. I have to say, however, that I did find a couple of mistakes (understandable mistakes, seeing as it was a production of the popular media):
  1. Before Poland was invaded by the Luftwaffe, Karol is in Mass and is waiting to receive Holy Communion. But the priest doesn’t present the Sacred Host with the ancient prayer: “Corpus Domini Nostri Jesu Christe custodiam animan tuam in vitam aeternam”, instead he only says: “Corpus Christi”, which is post-1969.
  2. In Nowa Huta, Bishop Wojtila begins Mass with the “Gloria in excelsis Deo”?? And talk about mutilating the latin pronounciation!
Can’t wait to see the rest of the film!
 
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