It's easter... good friday....

What about "The Passion"?

Personally I can't stand biblical epics. And we're not all Christians you know - or even vaguely religious.

Mind you "The Life of Brian" might have been nice. :D
 
I'm not really that religous or anything, but those sort of films get me in the easter mood.

Films like High School Musical 2 and Perry Mason don't :p
 
NAF
I understand your points ....when I were younger we got many biblical epics today ..even Ben Hur , tis a shame...
an we are a Christian country ...
I was in my local shopping centre this afternoon (not by choice I might add)an the amount of commercialistic zombies shleping about made me think of Romeros film lol ;)
 
aliasjones
I am not a bible thumper by any means but those films were all cool an I would gladly watch them today ...:)
 
They had a documentary about Moses on Discovery Knowledge earlier :)
Anyone interested it will be repeated at 2am March 22 - in an hr and a half (short notice)
 
CH4 are showing Mel Gibsons' dredfull The Passion of Christ on Monday (a bit late?) and Five have Ben Hur tomorrow. ITV 3 was showing Jesus Christ Superstar.

But we could do with more:

The Robe
The King of Kings
Jesus of Nazereth
Spartacus
 
Shroud of Turin documentary on BBC2 at the moment.

It's nothing to do with Easter but as biblical epics go, I like 'The Ten Commandments' - the way they depict the passover is so creepy - that green mist descending... :eek:
 
I like watching some of the epic Religious films, thing is i'm in no way religious, don't believe in it, but for some reason it touches me when I watch them, is that weird??:o
For example i've seen god knows how many horrors, all the Saw films, Hostel etc which feature torture, none of those bother me, sort of become de-sensitized, yet when watching the torture scene in The Passion I was sort of overcome with emotion.
Even Jesus Christ superstar hits me at the end, and that's a bloody musical:o
Wondering whether it's the innocence portrayed, and how someone who's trying to good, suffers in the way they do, I don't know.

I did read when The Passion came out, that someone watched the movie at the Cinema, then afterwarRAB walked into a police station in America and admitted to killing someone, he said the effect of the film overcame him and was the reason for admitting.:eek:
 
Got that one at the moment in, hadn't been paying attention properly though, did they say there was recently another Shroud uncovered? or was it another theory?
 
Just watched it - absolutely fascinating documentary. Sacred Music on BBC4 is also excellent, about the history of choral/cathedral music.

But as this is the film forum:

Ben Hur is on on Easter Monday on Five at 3pm. :)
 
In that major survey the BBC did a few years back the UK was the least religious country in the Western world, with only a tiny proportion of the population still believing in the existance of a god.

One of the rare occasions that actually made me proud to be British.

RegarRAB

Mark
 
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