Funny, no one is talking about 'The Passion' anymore.

[WilliamPitt]

:)

[skooooo]

1. And why do you think that is?

[WilliamPitt]

4. The short media attention span hates the baby Jesus, I guess

:)

[liberalmike27]

46. We

Don't hear much about The Matrix series either, and those movies were far more entertaining.

[pfitz59]

2. The Fundies had their mass orgasm.......

and then ran out of steam.... they want the DVD version so they play it over and over again at kiddie bible camp!

[Paragon]

3. They will when "Life Of Brian" is rereleased.

Damn Monty Python. :silly:

[hatrack]

5. Because "Life of Brian" is being re-released next month!!

I'll be there with a large popcorn! ;-)

[Kadie]

6. Hizbollah's Passion parody

Hizbollah's Passion parody

BEIRUT - The Islamic guerilla group Hizbollah is mimicking the trailer from Mel Gibson's crucifixion epic, The Passion Of The Christ, to highlight the sufferings of Iraqis under US occupation.

An official at Hizbollah's TV station, Al-Manar, said on Saturday that its version of the clip, titled The Passion Of The Iraqis, borrowed from a 'universal theme' to get its message out.

The 40-second trailer shows Iraqi prisoners' torture at the hands of coalition troops as parallel to the torture of Jesus Christ at the hands of the Romans and the Jews.

The clip starts with images of Iraqi suffering, including a coalition soldier kicking an Iraqi prisoner and a man and woman cowering in terror as troops burst into their home. The words 'No Mercy' and 'No Compassion' are flashed on the screen.

more... http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,4386,251368,00.html

[notadmblnd]

7. Nothing like some good old fashioned torture to get the

fundies attention.

[MikeG]

8. I would have seen it, but assholes kept giving away the ending.

[theoceansnerves]

9. occasionally

i watch the first three minutes of o'reilly muted, to see his talking points (to laugh, seriously.) he brought up the passion last week or the week before. hilarious.

[Rick Myers]

10. Today while browsing the 'educational' DVDs at Borders...

I saw a DVD release from the ABC PrimeTime interview with Mel Gibson!!! On DVD!!!!!

I ended up getting the Palm DVD 'The Work of Director Michel Gondry.' They don't carry porn...

:toast:

[Khephra]

11. The media is now starting to talk about Mel's tv show now.

They've just changed topics. It's going to be based on his real-life family.

It's untitled for the moment, but I hope there will be subtitles so we can understand the ultra-Conservative Catholic lifestyle.

(no joke...except for the subtitles part)

[Blue-Jay]

12. "The Passion of the McCain" Day today at DU.

Didn't you notice?

:D

[La Lioness Priyanka]

13. thank the Lord

or not!

whatever works!

[DBoon]

14. Hype was manufactured to begin with

All the churches bought blocks of tickets, selling out theaters and making the box office look amazing.

After they ran out of churches willing to pull this stunt, it turns out the average not-highly-religious person wasn't impressed

Attendance was grossly inflated for a couple of weeks, then only the few who were truly interested attended.

[hunter]

15. Starring Donald Rumsfeld as Pontius Pilate!

I'm sure the Roman soldiers stripped Jesus naked and made Him watch them having sex, right? Maybe the posed Him having sex with other prisoners, too.

[FailureIsNoOption]

16. Why is that funny?

Would bashing Christians and feeding them to lions be even funnier?

[leftofthedial]

17. are you volunteering?

please?

[WilliamPitt]

24. Yes, bashing Christians and feeding them to lions would be funny

That's *exactly* what I meant.

:eyes: <---- For you.

[Skittles]

30. Lordy

where do they come from and why is there a never-ending supply?

[Wapsie B]

44. The age of victimhood is over.

That is unless you're a konservative fundy. I'm a Lutheran and don't feel the least bit opressed. Problem is these konservative fundies have coopted the very definition of Christianity, so that if one dares to critique the religious right, it's taken as an attack on all of Christianity. These people, for all their political power do not encompass the whole of the Christian world. Far from it.

[Piperay]

47. NOT funny haha but

funny meaning strange, I guess irony escapes you.

[Cleita]

18. Hey Troy is it now.

Somehow if I have to wallow in ancient literature, this is more fun for me.

[MikeG]

19. If more people would read Homer than the Bible there would be less wars.

[Cleita]

20. Yes, Homer explains the whole disgusting business,

doesn't he?

[donco6]

21. Did you see the South Park episode?

Hilarious.

Mel Gibson as deranged lunatic, chasing down Stan and Kenny, because they had the audacity to see the film, realize it sucked, and demand their money back.

Kyle, on the other hand, is goaded by Cartman to see the film and understand why the whole world hates the Jews for killing Jesus. Kyle then delivers an apology speech to Christianity in synagogue.

Cartman, semi-unwittingly, leads a march of neo-Nazis down the street chanting anti-Jewish slogans in German. (The crowds think they're speaking Aramaic, and what a wonderful thing it is that this little boy is so fired up about The Passion anyway! But what's with the swastika?...)

Those guys have to be stoned to think of this stuff.

[thegreatone2020]

38. stoned yes....

but a great episode, nonetheless

[kskiska]

22. Easter is over.

Gibson timed the release to coincide with the Lent/Easter season. Besides, now we've got The Beheading and The Iraqi Prison Abuse. How much more blood and gore do we need?

[Mountainman]

23. Fundies are still pissed because the baught whole blocks of tickets

and didn't use them and can't get their money back.

[MoonRiver]

25. I just had a horrible thought.

Maybe the fundies don't need "the Passion" anymore because they have THE BERG VIDEO! Wingnuts seem to be using this video to teach society, including their own children, the same extremist beliefs through exposure to torture and death/sacrifice, as they were similarly doing regarding Gibson's film.

:scared:

[Cleita]

26. Horrible thought, but everything lately has been horrible

and awfully unexplainable.

[NecessaryOnslaught]

27. I'm waiting for Gibson's scientifically accurate flick..

about Noah's ark.:eyes:

[Tellurian]

28. Coincidence? After the release of The Passion, all hell broke loose @ WH

and thats a good ting!

[KharmaTrain]

29. The Sequel's Being Filmed

In this Christ returns as a cyborg with a German accent.

Or maybe Mel's busy doing up the true story of the Tao Te Ching. We've never really gotten the real low down on that one.

My bets, Mel and Dad are passed out in some religious rapture with all that money they got from the hype to this thing.

Just wait til the DVD comes out, then the Cable TV Premeier and the Network TV Premier (guaranteed to be an Easter classic in 2010) and the money machine still has a while to play out.

Nice to see Michael Moore took notes, as did Mr. Eisner and the folks at Miramax.

[BonjourUSA]

31. This film got a flop in France.

I don't know what happened else where in Europe, because I didn't seek informations about that, but here : not a big flop, but a flop. I'm happy for the healthy mind of my compatriots.

[Enraged_Ape]

32. Kinda funny that it was knocked out of the #1 spot by Hellboy

I still laugh about that.

[Morning Dew]

33. I thought i got knocked out by

Dawn of the Dead first.

[underpants]

34. Will, as you know it has already been completely disgusted

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=818212

[Jacobin]

35. Hadn't you heard?

The newest sado-masochistic flick is on the internet in the form of jpgs and movies of REAL homo-erotic torture in the Middle East.

Heck, Mel's gonna have to go do another one to top the new releases.

[TNOE]

36. Saw it this weekend

Found it pretty much unbearable to watch - this is a really great website - and this guy's article about it is probably very true.


http://www.clydelewis.com/dis/godtold/godtold.htm

[DinahMoeHum]

37. The photo of the Iraqi wired to a pedestal and the Berg video

brought the "Passion" to a horrifying reality. "The Passion" was just a movie. What happened in Iraq was the real thing. And remember, the Iraqi was in a pose similar to a crucifix.


:nuke:

[gratuitous]

39. Nobody watches "Titanic" or "Independence Day" either

I saw "Titanic" on the rack at Costco yesterday for $12.79 or some remaindered price. Blockbusters come and go (mostly go), and The Passion was no exception. It will experience a small resurrection of interest when it comes out on DVD, then submerge beneath the public consciousness forever. Years from now, younger folks will ask you if there really was a lot of controversy surrounding the movie's release, and you can bore them to tears with details of the shameless marketing hype that made such a stinker of a movie the biggest draw in the land. For a while.

[Finch]

40. IT WAS A NON-ISSUE... What was so wrong with it?

I saw it and found it really moving at times. Any talk of it being anti-Semitic was baloney! A "mob" condemned Jesus it wasn't identified specifically as a "Jewish mob" and the "powerful and corrupt" incited the mob it wasn't emphasised that many of these powerful and corrupt men where obstensibly Jews (although historically the pharasees had a remarkbly differant belfe structure to most lay jews and there was a lot of tension between the two groups) and let us not forget that at many points in the film Jews (not just Simon of Sireen but a number at the "trial") defended Jesus, if any one was maligned it was the Romans and even then only those responsible for torturing Jesus where portrayed as brutal thugs and even then who would argue that the role of torturer or interrogator did not attract sadists to the roman army at that time and that is how it was and sometimes sadly still is.... I found the film so moving at times... and almost all the criticism about it being anti-Semitic or overly violent was unfounded and stupid.

[TNOE]

41. What's Wrong With it? Not Overly Violent

unfounded and stupid? How long did the beating go on? 20 minutes, half hour, most of the movie?

Here's a few things that are wrong with it (from article posted above):

I laugh out loud when I see Christian groups come together to shut down "porn shops" when out of the 66 cast members of "The Passion", there are 33 that have appeared in porn or horror films.

I am merely pointing out that the piety of the film is unwarranted. With porn stars and horror film alumnus, participating in the movie it is hard to take Mel Gibson seriously.

In summary "The Passion of the Christ " is a horror movie disguised as a religious tract. It stars horror and Sci Fi actors as well as several European Porn stars "virtual unknowns" to good Christians who avoid these films.
The first thing you see when the film begins is an image of the left eye taken from an old painting of Christ. This is the image for Gibson’s film company "Icon Films." The image reminded me of the ancient Egyptian "eye of Horus" which many believe to be the "evil eye of the illuminati."

The scene opens in what appears to be a graveyard. A dark figure is praying and looking into the sky. We later learn that it is Jesus. It appears that Jesus is praying to the moon.

I found it a bit unnerving to see Christ praying to the moon when in ancient Syria and Canna, the Moon-god was named "Sin." I don’t know if Gibson knows this, but it seemed a bit much to be focusing on the moon.

From the time that Christ is betrayed in the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus is beaten and eventually his right eye is punched and it swells until it is closed. In fact it remains closed throughout the movie.

This has been cited in the Old Testament as the very symbol of the Anti-Christ.

"Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened."--Zechariah 11:17

At the end of the film Christ rises naked with his profile showing one eye as well. According to Dr. Cathy Burns, author of the book "Masonic and cult Symbols Illustrated" claims that one of the symbols of the illuminated anti-Christ is a one eyed naked man on a horse.

[hunter]

52. Noooooooooo!

First Dr. Laura, than Rush, and now Mel Gibson!

All our right-wing icons are falling like flies. What next? John Ashcroft caught naked fondling aluminium breasts behind the blue curtain?

[SOteric]

54. Oh for the luva Pete. It was a non-issue. Nothing happened.

Folks just love being terrified of this movie and what the Fundies might do the way that the establishment used to fear rock-n-roll and what it might lead the hippies to do.

Fundamentalists cross every racial, ethnic, economic and socio-cultural barrier. As Democrats and progressives we shun them at our own peril. We used to be the inclusive ones, but when African American men can leave a Fundamentalist Baptist prayer meeting wearing GOP insignia because they believes that they are the inclusive, God-fearing party and we are the party of snooty, ivory-tower intellectuals and miscellaneous drugged-out freaks, one reasonably needs to wonder how true this can still be.

[cheezus]

42. Why is that funny? How long should we be talking about it.

Don't worry. We'll all get riled up again when the sequel is being hyped.

[Walt Starr]

43. "The Passion" is SOOOOOOO last month

Get with the program.

[drdigi420]

45. good, there's enough christian propaganda on TV

its insulting to those of us that dont believe in fairy tales

[revree]

48. THANK THE LORD.

[HornBuckler]

49. We've Got Real Torture Now!

Don't Need Any Of That Fake Stuff!

[DrWeird]

50. The big three apologists are gone.

Two were banned.

One decided "as a democrat" he didn't want to be associated with this site anymore.

Funny how that happens right when Bush's rating are tanking, the war gets lost, and Kerry gets out in front of the polls.

[Amaya]

51. And this is a bad thing?

:shrug:

[hippiegranny]

53. I'm still mad about it

There is an older thread in the Meeting Room that I started titled "I Lost My Daughter to the Fundies". Say what you will about my obvious lack of influence, the movie did some damage in my family.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=111x21982

[Lou_C]

55. I had a choice of going to see Hell Boy or the Passion

I picked Hell Boy.

[riverwalker]

56. the standing man in Abu Ghraib pic

with his arms out...looks like a crucifixion.
Maybe the fundies have had enough of the snuff flicks for awhile. They ought to be wondering why "nice Christian boys and girls" can act worse than the "heathens" they claim to be so morally superior to.