Mel's "Passions"

[dissention]

Originally posted by trackaghost
That's like saying "I've seen Kill Bill, apart from all the violent bits"... err, that's pretty much the whole movie!

My problem is that you appear to have pretty much made up your mind about the movie before you even saw it. And deny that if you will, but your posts indicate that's the case.

I *loved* "Kill Bill" because that was heavenly directed (even though nothing could top his masterpiece "Jackie Brown") and had a LOT of originality to it.

I disliked "The Passion" for the reasons I've pointed out. Do with them what you will, I don't have to watch the constant torture in the movie to get a feeling about it. You don't have to watch a porn flick to get a general idea about it. You don't have to watch an actor get fileted for two hours to get the point of that, either. You simply have to be familiar with the backstory. I simply see no purpose in it but to put blame on people and to make religious people feel guilty. I think it would've been pretty impossible for me to have made up my mind about the directing before I saw it. The other aspects, though? To be honest, I had made up my mind. Mel Gibson has proven himself to be a major asshole in the past when it comes to gays and religion, so it's rather hard for someone to put all that aside and be completely unbiased throughout.