What was God thinking when The Passion of the Christ was snubbed..

[LynneSin]

Poll question: What was God thinking when The Passion of the Christ was snubbed..

...for any Golden Globe Nominations?

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. "That Heathen Mel Gibson - he got that whole story wrong and scared.......

......lil kids with all that violence"

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. Thank myself that violent POS didn't get chosen

[LynneSin]

4. We'll thank you too hun

:hi:

Hey, how about coming to Austin Texas mid-march for http://www.sxsw.com festival. Ramsey & I will both be there!!

[sir_captain]

3. Don't forget

"Phew...didn't need more free advertisement for anti-semitism."

[Beer Snob-50]

5. what are these bozos thinks?

first passion is snubbed and then christmas with the kranks!!

[GRLMGC]

8. haha n/t

[LynneSin]

9. Christmas with the Kranks sucked compared to SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2

Seriously SBBG2 is #1

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0270846/combined

[Beer Snob-50]

19. anything starring scott baio cannot be all that bad!! eom

[sui generis]

6. the fundy community is outraged OUTRAGED I TELL YOU

those godless christian hating hollywood non-mainstream America jews must have put together a VAST LEFT WING CONSPIRACY.

(:evilgrin:)

[GRLMGC]

7. It's a shitty movie

Who cares? I'm sure God has a good eye for quality cinema. This piece of shit was an abomination of film. No character development (not everybody is completely familiar w/ Jesus Christ) and no character exploration (same reason). Not to mention that the whole film was a chronicle of a torture. I guess it may make the religious feel really guilty, but others just find it repulsive (this is coming from someone who can take a lot of violence on film).

[crasmane]

11. I heard it was nothing but a glorified snuff film.

nt

[jjmalonejr]

16. Totally agree with you

I was less bothered by the so-called anti-Semitism (which was SO over-hyped by critics of the film) than I was by the fact that people were lauding a mediocre film as some kind of masterpiece.

Like you, I'm not particularly offended by violence, but the violence in this film seemed like a cheap way to elicit emotion from people who go into the film with a deeply personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It was a substitute for the hard work of character development, which would elicit sympathy for Christ and his followers from ALL viewers, WITHOUT the extreme violence.

Cheap, violent Christian porn.

[yardwork]

20. It was scary to hear people talk about it after they saw it.

(I didn't see it. Roger Ebert said it was the most violent film he'd ever seen, and that was all the info I needed.)

But I know a number of bushco-loving so-called Christians who fell all over themselves going to see The Passion the minute it was released. They came back acting like they'd been on seriously bad acid trips and seen Jesus in the flesh. They felt shivers of delightful feelings of guilt and horror and moral superiority over everybody else. "Look what Jesus suffered for me! Wow!"

Extremely unhealthy encouragement of psychotic narcissism, imo.

I do think that Mel's over-hyped snuff film contributed to chimpy's win.

Churches all over the south took busloads of parishioners to see the movie. So-called Christian families took their kids!

[GRLMGC]

21. Yeah

I wanted to see it because I don't like people telling me not to see something and I like to see things for myself. Besides, a friend of mine who goes to bible study got me a ticket for free (along w/ trying to get me to go to bible study w/ her). Anyway, it was put on by a Christian business association. Most everybody in the theater (not me, I had my hands over my eyes and I wanted to leave) was weeping. The Passion was made to make Christians feel guilty. It's not a good film.

[DemBones DemBones]

10. Other. God wasn't surprised but doesn't care.

The followers of Jesus were told, by Jesus, thay they be would be hated just as Jesus was.

[Endangered Specie]

12. "mmmm! Man there was sooo much violence and blood...

I almost came myself" :evilgrin:

[TlalocW]

13. "Why do they keep portraying my son as a white guy?"

"Especially this time around with that surfer dude in the role? It's not like Junior went around saying, 'I am the way, the light, fer shure, dude!'"

TlalocW

[sonicx]

14. Jesus doesn't need to be reminded over and over and over again

about what happened. He has a pretty good memory.

[ronnykmarshall]

15. "Oh, please Pia Zadora won one!"

[LynneSin]

22. Yeah, and Renee Zellweger got nominated for that piece of crap

Bridget Jones 2

Proof that God doesn't exist or just has a bad sense of humor

:shrug:

[Left Is Write]

17. I don't think God is a micromanager.

I don't believe He's necessarily interested in whether "The Passion" or Mel Gibson wins any awards.

[Joe Chi Minh]

18. How dare

you demonise my people, when it was their political/putative religious leaders who killed me! Have any kind of resonances with y'all?