What's your favorite Biblical/Spiritual movie?

[patrick457]

I like the 1925 Ben-Hur. The film’s using Technicolor on the Biblical scene was ingenious, though the film’s ending was a bit lame and is very much Bultmannian if interpreted in one sense.

 

[Cacho36]

Mel’s Passion of the Christ.
I can only handle watching it twice a year. This past Friday I watched it with our High School Youth Group (I’m a youth minister). It was just as powerful as the first time I saw it. After the movie we spent about an hour (the teens and I) talking and I answered their questions. I love how Gibson just totally loaded that movie with symbolism about the Eucharist.
Anyway, it’s my favorite.

my favorite is passion of the Christ, even though lots of criticism I can still feel the hurt the Jesus suffering…

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[mdgspencer]

My favorite religious movie is “Padre Pio, Miracle Man,” a full length movie enacting his life. A number of excellent Catholic films have been coming out in recent years, and this is one of them.

 

[mdrummer5]

Therese of the Andes-EWTN shows it every summer around her feast day. I watched it last summer and it was the beginning of me realizing she was to be my patron saint.

Never saw Passion of the Christ, never want too. Everyone I know of who saw it says they wish they hadn’t.

I haven’t seen it yet for the same reason actually and yes it was due to how violent it was.

One of my friends said he watched it and despite knowing what happens (cradle Catholic) he couldn’t help but acting like a guy watching a guy movie…

“you’re the son of God… do something!!!”

That was long before my decision to convert… since that decision I’ve planned on seeing it but haven’t yet… I’m sure that will likely change soon with Easter coming.

 

[mdgspencer]

I can see how some people would avoid The Passion of the Christ. But as I watch it, I think of how Jesus went through this deliberately, knowing from the beginning of his life that all this would happen to him–which he did all for our sake. We are saved by what happened, which is why Catholics wear crucifixes. And too it is possible to watch this on another level. The Gospel of St. John see this as an act of his glory–it is then that he was glorified, a glory that involves the greatness of his love.