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exactly. And a glimps of his defeat of Satan. And if anyone thinks it was just a snake, notice that in one of the close-ups of Satan you see the tail of the snake breifly come ot of Satan's nose. It actually looked like a snot ball, but it was a tail. Then they pan down and you see the snake. So it wasnt "just a snake". It was an embodyment of Satan.

This makes me wonder about the whole "juiced baeball" theory. All these people came out to say that the balls were juiced, yet tests showed that they werent. However, the claims continued. I think it is now pretty evident that the baseballs werent juiced, the players are.

I need to get my eyes checked. I skimmed of that and thought it read score howard Stern LOTR. lol. I thought "huh?"

I dont think so personally. I knwo it is bad that it has been 3 years and we havent gotten him yet. But it never hurt to appeal to the dumb people of the US and say "HEY! Re-elect me! I caught the man who killed your brother and sisters, mothers and fathers."

"Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. 15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel." Note: The "living thing" you are talking about is THE DEVIL! You should just let it live? Yea, I for one would love to see the devil live. I dont knwo about you.

WOOO HOOOO!!!! THAT'S AWESOME! That may be my all time favorite TV show.

He'll get "captured" in August or so. Always helps to make a "capture" around election time.

Agreed. I kind of did the same with my firends as well. And this was BEFORE I had scene it. I have no dooubt that once I have a chance to get together with all of them again, we will talk at length. My girlfriend said on the ride home after the movie, that she had "A heavy heart". What she ment was, she now truely understands what Jesus went through because of our sins. Mel accomplished what he set out to do.

I think that really is why Mel mad this movie. Let's face it, in our society today, we do not know what Jesus really wnet though. It is almosy kind of shrugged off. "Oh yea. He died. He died to forgive out sins. THanks Jesus". We say that while not really understanding WHAT exactly he went though. We live in a world where you flick a switch and the criminal dies within seconds. What Jesus went though was far more than we could have imagined. His death would be ruled "cruel and unusual punishment" by todays standard. THis movie, I believe, gives us the referance as to what he went though. NOW we understand. Was it 100% accurate? no. But we get the idea.

I agree with you on that point. I too was a little suprised that it wasnt played up more. It was partially shown and that was about it. Now, as a beleiver and someone who was raised in the faith, I know the importance of that. And that being seen in the movie (all be it a short part of it) was important. I think if Mel had wanted to make this more as a disipleship movie, he should have found a way to explain its importance. The only reason I knew it was an important event from the context of the movie was the reaction of the high priest as he loks up and sees the veil is gone. But, if I wasnt someone who grew up in the churhc, I probably wouldnt have thought anything of it. SO yes, I agree that part was under played.

Luke 23:35-36 "The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, "He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One." The soldiers also came up and mocked him. They offered him wine vinegar 37and said, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself." Not how the "rulers" and the "soldiers" are mentioned seperatly. To me, the rulers mentioned were the high priests. Maybe not Caiaphas specifically, but, in my opinion, it probably was one of the high priests. Luke makes sure to seperate the rulers from the soldiers to show that they were not the same people.

hahahaha. Well, wel done!

Agreed. I went to AMC 30 in Barrington and some about the smae thing.

WOW! That was reading a LOT into that scene. Just because there was some destruction of the temple, doesnt mean that God has "damned the Jews". Surely if there was some form of an earthquake at the time of Jesus's death, there would have been some damage done. Matthew 27:51 says: "At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split." Those rocks could have included some within the temple.

I just went through and read EACH of the Gospels where it talks about how Pilot handled Jesus. Ian ALL of them he is reluctent to send him to die. He sees no cause and for the reason, he wanted to let a killer free. His hopes were that if he offered what he thought to be a horrible person, they would realize that Jesus wasnt so bad after all. To me, that REALLY points out his reluctance to kill Jesus. And to his amazement, they didnt pick Jesus to be set free.

If I am not mistaken, isnt it true that one soldier said something along the lines of "Truely this is the son of God" while Jesus is on the cross. So, some were moved.

I wish i would have counted, but while I do feel it was more than 40, it fell well short of "a couple hundred". It may have seemed like a lot, but it really wasnt. The scene just dragged on for so long that it seemed like there were mroe than there really were. As for the cross, that I can agree with. I can think of 4 in the movie, but I am sure there are a few more. And were are kidding each other if the bible included EACH and every time Jesus fell on his walk. It was a long walk and i have no doubt he fell more than 3 times. So, on that I am willing to give him some slack.

So "carefully choreographed" that I didnt SEE ANY! I went into this movie expecting it to be ant-jew. After all, that is what the press has been saying. I expected to leave that theater thinking "I want to kill a jew because they killed my Lord". When in reality, i left thinking "hmmm........ other than the high preists they werent bad people. Just misguided" (And by misguided I mean that they didnt follow Christ) I thought it was an amazing movie. What it 100% accurite? No, of course not. i never expected it to be. If they went word for word out of the bible, the movie owuld have lasted around an hour and would have been dry. Some say that it lacked spirituality, but I feel that the flash backs helped provide that spirituality. After all, the last 12 hours of his life wasnt "spiritual". It was tourcher. Personally, I believe a lot of the elements were added purely for plot line development. After all, it would have been hard to advance a plot with a few events.

STEVE! THAT SIG ROCKS!

I didnt see that at the one I went too, although I was so consentrated on the film ai really never looked. lI will tell you thsi though, at the end the croud was dead silent. you could have heard a pin drop. Then the whole audience applauded. I cant think of a time that more then like 20 people applauded, let alone the whole place.

WHAT? Are you implying that all Germans try to find hidden stereotypes? Are you saying we are all dumb? That all we do is drink? THat is really low of you. ;)

Just make sure that you can handle the graphic violence. (at least on one occasion you can literally see his flesh ripped from him) It is prety bad, but i can handle stuff like that. Not all can though.

when I first heard that, my mom made a similar comment along those lines. lol

It better be in the DVD extras. lol

By the way, the man who played Jesus (Jim Caviezel) did an absolutely AMAZING job in this movie.