Movie Review: Teh Pashun!

Well, I just finished watching M.G.'s The Passi on, and I must say I thought it was pretty awful. I always knew this was going to be a bad and worthless movie, but after seeing it, I discovered a ton of reasons why it sucked that I hadn't even thought of!

It was gory. NOT as bad as I thought it would be. I guess I'm just used to the sight of blood and torture and all those good things now. I really can't believe that churches PROMOTE this movie though! It really seems to emphasize violence way more than understanding and forgiveness and all the other things Mel Gibson lied about on that Diane Sawyer interview a few weeks back.

It's WAY anti-semetic. Yikes! Those jews come off as straight MONSTERS! While I was watching it, I would pause it and look through websites about the bible, and I guess most christians are behind blaming the jews and making Pilate look like an "awww shucks" good roman govena! I dunno, but there's something inside of me that makes me sceptical of the bible's/gibson's version of Pilate. Its ALL politics, then and now. I was reading one article that suggested that the gospels painted Pilate (or PP as I like to call him) in such favorable light inorder to not offend Rome when they came out.

The movie was just directed and photographed poorly. It looked BORING. And I swear half of the movie is in slo-motion. So many shots of blood dripping in slow motion. SHADUP ALREADY! Crap.

I wanna see the Last Temptation of Christ again. I remember liking it, but I can't remember much about it.

BTW, this reviewer watched a d/l'd version of the flick that was shot by a camcorder in a theater. It was weird - a few times thru the movie, you see a silhouette of some guys getting up to go to the bathroom or something. It looks like its part of the movie! Its just this shadow of a guy crouching down, walking across the scene! Also, I kinda missed the 1st and last words of the subtitles, cuz they were cutoff. BUT, in defense of watching the camcorder bootleg version, it added this strange, grainy, late 70's horror flick vibe to the movie! It was awesome! It reminded me of some of those fucked up 70's b-movie horror flicks theyd show on channel 5 when I was growing up. The movie gets points for that!

I'm flying thru Angels and Demons right now. Fuck, its the SAME fucking story as da Da Vinci Code! Oh man, if I had read this book 1st, then read da da vinci code, I'da felt SO ripped off! Its just tacky. Still, all the illuminati/vatican shit is sorta interesting and fun to read. :)

Anyone ever read Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco? People have told me to read that if I liked conspiracy/history type o shit.

thanks for listening!

-Love, Ruby.