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The Bashin' of The Christ., 12 May 2009

Author: dunmore_ego from Los Angeles, California

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Yeah, this is what all those other Jesus movies have been missing - the TORTURE. If you're gonna bash Jesus, you might as well bash him right.

Okay, send me your hate mail and get it over with. But Mel, not me, does more bashing of your effeminate savior than every other Jesus movie in the last two-thousand years combined.

That's all that PASSION OF THE Christ is. The maiming, whipping, crucifying and killing of one Jesus H. Christ, Super Jew. The ultimate Christian snuff film. People blame juvenile violence on video games, heavy metal music, any number of asinine inanities, yet here those same people are beating off to the beating, surging for the scourging, forcing this filth down their children's necks - then wondering in blank "who-me?" innocence why their kids are so violent.

Mel Gibson, a great filmmaker, has taken this most famous of Christian fairy tales and made HALF a movie. Because he knows the whole Earth is inculcated with the bloody tale, he provides not a whit of backstory, motivation, or plot, expecting us all to bow in supplication before this B-movie made on an A-budget.

Just one example of bad movie-making: We see Disciple Peter (we don't know it is him at the time), with a woman at his feet, draw a line in the sand and people drop stones to the dusty earth. Anyone unfamiliar with their fractured fairy tales is lost. (As all good christys know, this incident invokes the immortal, "Let him who hath understanding reckon the Number of the Beast" - sorry, that was Iron Maiden - this is, "He who is without sin alas poor Yorrick I knew him well.")

The moral of the story: create a faulty machine, then send a magical relative to fix the machine by BEING MURDERED. Still doesn't fix the machine. Tell everyone you did fix it. Let them argue amongst themselves...

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