wow what a movie..

[forgivenmuch]

i just watched the passion of christ for the first time tonight..i went to wal-mart and bought it.. it was very draining. i set and cried the whole movie.. it really makes you see what jesus went thru... it was such a powerful movie.. i am spirtual drained and broken hearted to see what jesus went thru. he suffered a death no man could of. i have been saved for yrs .. and i always knew that it was very bad how they done him...but to see it in that form.. it was like real life. there was one part i had to leave the room.. jesus paid the ultimate price for us. he loved us so much. i dont think no man could of took a beaten like he did and lived just to take more beatings.. until they hung him on the cross.. i felt bad towards the men that done him like that.. the part that got me worse.. was when mary was there by him..watching her son get beat ..and dieing right before her eyes..and there was nothing she could do.. i am a mother .. and my son is my life.. i just could never of imagined what she even went thru .. without having a child of my own. i could relate to her somewhat . jesus would get some strenth when he seen his mother in the movie.. i never thought of it that way.. but when you are being beat like he was... you need someone ..around you to look to ..for strenth.. im so broken hearted over the movie..it touched me so much. i just wanted everyone to know..if you have not seen that movie ..go see it.. its really worth it.. it really gives you a insight on how he really died. that is the best movie i have ever seen..but i dont want to watch it again... not right now... i could never sit and had popcorn and coke with that movie. thats a movie that really hits you..and hits you hard.. its very deep ..and it touches the heart. i hope everyone sees it.. it will really let you see. (corrected)

 

[fishstix]

I plan to watch it eventually, but I've decided that I'm going to do it when I'm alone for a couple of days as I'll probably want to spend extra time alone with God during and after watching it.

 

[Rafael]

It was difficult for me to see, but I see that it was probably very accurate in the spiritual brutality portrayed in it by those influenced by satanic power. I don't know if I will see it again, but I would recommend all see it once.

 

[Evie]

i just watched the passion of christ for the first time tonight..i went to wal-mart and bought it.. it was very draining. i set and cried the whole movie.. it really makes you see what jesus went thru... it was such a powerful movie.. i am spirtual drained and broken hearted to see what jesus went thru. he suffered a death no man could of. i have been saved for yrs .. and i always knew that it was very bad how they done him...but to see it in that form.. it was like real life. there was one part i had to leave the room.. jesus paid the ultimate price for us. he loved us so much. i dont think no man could of took a beaten like he did and lived just to take more beatings.. until they hung him on the cross.. i felt hate towards the men that done him like that.. the part that got me worse.. was when mary was there by him..watching her son get beat ..and dieing right before her eyes..and there was nothing she could do.. i am a mother .. and my son is my life.. i just could never of imagined what she even went thru .. without having a child of my own. i could relate to her somewhat . jesus would get some strenth when he seen his mother in the movie.. i never thought of it that way.. but when you are being beat like he was... you need someone ..around you to look to ..for strenth.. im so broken hearted over the movie..it touched me so much. i just wanted everyone to know..if you have not seen that movie ..go see it.. its really worth it.. it really gives you a insight on how he really died. that is the best movie i have ever seen..but i dont want to watch it again... not right now... i could never sit and had popcorn and coke with that movie. thats a movie that really hits you..and hits you hard.. its very deep ..and it touches the heart. i hope everyone sees it.. it will really let you see.

um,they say the torture that He went through in this movie does not even come close to what He really went through. This movie was way too much for me. i cried so hard during the movie,I wanted to get down on my knees during the beatings and tell Him how terrible I felt for what He sufferred. I wanted to scream out loud and my sister's and I could not control our crying during the movie. Afet the movie,in the car on the way home for 30 minutes,none of us talked. What can you say after this movie. You are so gratful and it makes you fall in love with the Lord all over again.

 

[sjanae76]

What struck me was that to die was his choice. I'd never really realized that before, I guess. He could have said, "No! This isn't worth it. I'm not doing it!" But he DID!

WOW! Talk about love!

 

[Everglaze]

Yes, I saw this movie when it came out in the theatre and I pretty much weeped myself. It's all God's love and yeah, when I saw the humans beat him and stuff like that, I thought it was cruel. It's very powerful..

 

[flyin high]

I saw the movie twice in the theatres and broke down both times. All of the pain made me physically ill....i almost had to leave the theatre, but i couldn't seem to get out of my seat. After the movie noone stood up for at least 10 min after the credits finished rolling. Never seen anything like it.

I plan on buying the movie on DVD sometime soon...although i don't know if i will be able to watch it again..

 

[forgivenmuch]

i do think they may of come close to what he went thru.. it was brutal.. i could never imagine the movie was that powerful.. i never had to leave the room with any other movie in my life. i was so heart broken.. i dont think i can watch it again. i bought the movie.. but i cant .. i will pass it on to others that need jesus in thier lifes. may i say..everyone needs to see it. it really gives a strong lay out of what he went thru.

 

[silentpoet]

Two scenes really touched me. One is when He falls down and Mary goes towards Him. With extreme effort He stands again and starts forward with His cross. The other is a little part where Jesus is on the ground at Golgotha and he is crawling towards the cross. Those are the two pieces that touched me the most.

Overall it is a very brutal movie. But that is what our actions cost. Our sins have a price. It is our actions that to this day put Him on the cross.

 

[Catherineanne]

i felt hate towards the men that done him like that.. the part that got me worse.. was when mary was there by him..watching her son get beat ..

I have not seen this film and I never will. The Gospels are perfectly adequate, and we do not need to see gratuitous, overblown violence of this kind, to know what Our Lord did. Comments such as the above, about the stirring of emotions of hatred, make me very angry with the film-makers. This is emotional manipulation of the very nastiest kind, and I am angry that they have used Our Lord in this way.

This film is as unnecessary as a graphic childbirth film set in a stable, complete with blood and gore, to show us all that Our Lady gave birth to Our Lord.

That would be about as tasteful, in my opinion. The makers should be ashamed of themselves.

 

[forgivenmuch]

i guess to you..having feelings of any kind is a sin? we all have those feelings in us.. i wont let you ruin what this movie done for me.. i will refrase what i mean.. i hated to see jesus get beat by those men.. it was very heart felt..it went deep in my soul... you know ... i always had a imagination..of how it was like.. but i really did not even come close to what he had really went thru.. but that movie really layed it out. if you choose not to see the movie ..thats you.. but i would suggest everyone to see it.. i will stand up for the movie..it was very Good! sorry but.. i really felt hate towards what they done.. i hate satan..and i know that they were doing the will of satan..so i hated satan in the men that done it.. sorry to offend you.

 

[sjanae76]

I have not seen this film and I never will. The Gospels are perfectly adequate, and we do not need to see gratuitous, overblown violence of this kind, to know what Our Lord did. Comments such as the above, about the stirring of emotions of hatred, make me very angry with the film-makers. This is emotional manipulation of the very nastiest kind, and I am angry that they have used Our Lord in this way.

This film is as unnecessary as a graphic childbirth film set in a stable, complete with blood and gore, to show us all that Our Lady gave birth to Our Lord.

That would be about as tasteful, in my opinion. The makers should be ashamed of themselves.

I don't think it was overdone at all, except for the flogging. They went a little too far there. I think it helps us realize what Jesus did for us. The magnitude of his suffering. The enormity of his love for us.

 

[Sketcher]

I have not seen this film and I never will. The Gospels are perfectly adequate, and we do not need to see gratuitous, overblown violence of this kind, to know what Our Lord did. Comments such as the above, about the stirring of emotions of hatred, make me very angry with the film-makers. This is emotional manipulation of the very nastiest kind, and I am angry that they have used Our Lord in this way.

This film is as unnecessary as a graphic childbirth film set in a stable, complete with blood and gore, to show us all that Our Lady gave birth to Our Lord.

That would be about as tasteful, in my opinion. The makers should be ashamed of themselves.

I don't think so at all. Some people didn't know just how bad His crucifixion was, how great His sacrifice was. It is not a nice little story, and for your information, it was toned down when compared to the real thing. Gibson left His underwear on, like every other artist and filmmaker, though it didn't really happen that way. I found it hard to believe that the flogging could have been worse, but it might have been.

There were a couple other cool things in my opinion that could have been done with the movie, but overall it was very well done, and most importantly, it does not portray Jesus as a sissy, which some of the more recent films (especially a pathetic miniseries) have inadvertently done.

Personally, I MAY get it someday. I saw it in the theater, and I would only watch it on special occasions. I couldn't eat spaghetti for about a month after watching it.

 

[rainbowprism]

I don't see how this movie USED the Lord in anyway at all....it glorified him. To say that this movie was shameful would mean that any art depicting Christ's suffering would be just as bad.

 

[Evie]

I have not seen this film and I never will. The Gospels are perfectly adequate, and we do not need to see gratuitous, overblown violence of this kind, to know what Our Lord did. Comments such as the above, about the stirring of emotions of hatred, make me very angry with the film-makers. This is emotional manipulation of the very nastiest kind, and I am angry that they have used Our Lord in this way.

This film is as unnecessary as a graphic childbirth film set in a stable, complete with blood and gore, to show us all that Our Lady gave birth to Our Lord.

That would be about as tasteful, in my opinion. The makers should be ashamed of themselves.

the makers should be proud as this is a great tool and witness for God! It has no other purpose. I saw the interview with Mel Gobson. Why would he make such a powerful movie based on scripture,then use it for the worst. Give me a break! I am going to buy it and use for my unsaved family to watch,as this was his intention for the movie. Don't judge based on others opions unless you have seen it yourself.

 

[bkg]

This movie came out during a point in my life when everything was literally going straight to hell. I saw it with reservation, with doubt, with cynicism.

This movie has done something that no movie has ever done: it put a face on the truth that is the Gospel. People can question Gibson's motives all they want, but the result is that God has used this movie for GOOD in so many peoples lives!!! I cried, I was moved, I found my heart was softened towards the voice that was our Lord calling me back to him.

For those of us who are very logical and not very creative, this movie serves a great purpose... it, as i said, puts a face on the Gospels. People would never have imagined it to be as bad as Gibson portrayed... but I personally think his portrayal was the limits of what WE, as a society, could handle... and likely not nearly the beating that Christ really received.

I found the movie to be very true to the Gospels, even with the creative freedom taken. It did NOT use Jesus as a pawn for anything. To say that would be to state that any theatrical representation of the Gospels serve no purpose other than to "use" Jesus. Putting Jesus in a box, or limiting the expression of His life/resurection to only printed word... well, that (to me) severely limits our God.

 

[forgivenmuch]

amen! i really agree with what you all wrote here.. that movie alone.. turned to many to God.. and that is a testamony.. and anyone that agrees with that.. well i will let thier fruits speak for itself. i am so humbled right now .. i thank God for sending that movie my way. i really seen God in the movie.

 

[SonOfThunder]

we are visual humans, we need constant reminders that Jehovah God is working and this movie is a testimony to what Jesus did for us and just how much of a sacrifice it was we will never fully grasp.

First I find the whole concept of a father giving his son as amazing, most parents would say "take me first"

Secondly I find the concept of separation for this purpose so amazingly ....well wow, what can I say?


Lots have said this movie is wrong, and I haven't seen it myself ... I have no comments to make on if it is right or wrong.

If one came to an understanding and will now enjoy eternal life I am sure Jehovah God is very pleased.


James

 

[fishstix]

To say that this movie was shameful would mean that any art depicting Christ's suffering would be just as bad.

That's an excellent point. Many traditional paintings, sculptures, etc. would have to also be considered as depicting "gratuitous violence".

 

[Catherineanne]

i hated to see jesus get beat by those men.. it was very heart felt..it went deep in my soul... you know ... i always had a imagination..of how it was like.. but i really did not even come close to what he had really went thru.. but that movie really layed it out.

That was not Jesus. It was an actor, playing a part.

In my view the Zeffirelli film about the life of Jesus, with Robert Powell, is a very compelling and powerful film. It shows the crucifixion as the gospels do, without dwelling on the horrors in close up. And the crucifixion scene there generally makes me cry. This also was actors, playing roles, but with more respect for the person of Our Lord, and for the other people involved.

I am not against religious films per se. I am against gratuitous violence in any guise.