Betty Bowers Reviews The Passion

[Chovexani]

And hers is really the only opinion that matters, ne? :)
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BETTY BOWERS REVIEWS

Mel Gibson's

The Passion of the Christ

The greatest story ever sold


I don't normally bother to see a film when I've read the Book. Unlike Justin Timberlake, I prefer to eschew implausible deniability when it comes to the fragility of surprise. But since The Passion of the Christ (not, mind you, just any Christ you might happen to cross crosses with, but the Christ), grew from the prodigiously fertilized soil of Roman Catholicism, a church that has never been fettered by its source materials when it comes to wildly dramatic theological flourishes, I went anyway.

http://www.bettybowers.com/melgibsonpassion.html


My favorite line in the review: "Never has a recovering drunk claiming to have been guided by the lethal hand of the Lord so fabulously manipulated the media and public opinion into embracing gruesome carnage. Well, other than George W. Bush and that thing in Iraq"

:evilgrin:

[MoonAndSun]

1. I though St. Mel was suppose to be a faithful hubby, I have never

heard any rumors about him and other women, so maybe Betty knows something I don't?

snip>> "Anyone who saw the Diane Sawyer interview knows that Mel Gibson is a few beads short of a rosary. Mr. Gibson, a serial adulterer who finds piety in not speaking English at Mass, invested $25 million of his own money in this film.'

[Chovexani]

2. Betty knows all

She's got the scoop on Gov. Goodhair down in Texas too. :)

[Jokerman]

3. Great Line:

"I live in a country where witnessing two hours of bloody, barbarous torture in gloating detail is considered indicia of religious piety, whereas a mere second gazing upon a woman's breast is cause for outraged apoplexy."