The Passion...

[ScottotD]

Just watched the last half of this on TV and I found it hilarious, the Monty Python's Sam Peckinpah style blood spray, the overacting, the cheezy music and sets.   Even the S&M-dream whipping thing went on so long I was laughing.

Anyone else have a similar reaction?

[PhilosophicZombie]

Hey... Who likes pudding? I sure do. Let us eat pudding as brothers.

[RobtheBarbarian]

Your pudding is false. Prepare to die.

[aneel]

Yeah...I don't think RiffTrax will be touching this one...as hilarious as it might actually be.

[MarkAndrew]

Hey... Who likes pudding? I sure do. Let us eat pudding as brothers.

You know who makes good pudding?  Kozy Shak.  Yeah, I buy it now and again at my local QFC grocery store.

[Grillslinger]

Personally, I like the Jell-o Instant pudding. It's quick, easy and fun to make! Delicious!

[ScottotD]

What? it's just a movie.

Yeah...I don't think RiffTrax will be touching this one...as hilarious as it might actually be.

Yeah, that's why I didn't put this in 'Suggest a trax' because I guess Mike's religion wouldn't let him do this, also 10 Commandments would be MUCH better.

[Reductio_ad_absurdum]

*Walks in, looks around, and shrugs*  Meh... *Leaves*

[RobtheBarbarian]

Way to pad your post count, buddy. 

[Reductio_ad_absurdum]

Way to pad your post count, buddy. 

No, I use faux fur for that, not this awful carpet-like stuff.

Actually that was another way for me to just say, "To each is own."  As Scott H said, it is just a movie.  There is a difference in criticizing an adaption and the real thing.

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

eh i agree 10 commandments + heston + vincent price= pure gold

but this, bah i say. 

[nanites_r_us]

man all this talk of pudding is makin my belly ache for some... *le sigh* i'm too lazy to go out on a saturday just to get pudding.  i also have jell-o instant pudding, but i'm too lazy to make that either...

[Petey Wheatstraw]

Anyone find it slightly unsettling that a Christian would watch - and praise - a snuff film about the last hours of Christ, but wouldn't watch a snuff film featuring someone else? (I wouldn't watch a snuff film, period.)

[PlayMSTie]

As a Christian, let me take a stab at answering that, though I don't know how well I'll be able to articulate it: For us, it makes a difference that (1) this actually happened (we've heard the story in the Bible and in church and via dramatic re-enactments all our lives); (2) it was bloody and horrible and awful in reality (I was very young when I first heard about what crucifixion actually entailed, and believe me, it left an impression),  and (3) this was something that Christ went through for our sakes.

In a way it's a little like the difference between watching a movie about Anne Frank (this was real and happened to an innocent girl and we need to remember it) and watching a film about a fictional person being tortured by sadistic people just for the heck of it (hey, I just feel like watching someone suffer today).

Hard to explain, like I said, but there IS a difference.

And happy Easter!

[mrbasehart]

It also shows Christ's strength in accepting the punishment, and how much he was willing to sacrifice materially in order to save mankind.  I'm not a Christian, but that's what I took from the whole sequence.