Best Passion review to date:

[Dookus]

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Cinema/Content?oid=oid:54243

I guess like most people who just saw Passion of the Christ, the first thing I thought as I left the theater was, "Wow, those Roman dudes really beat the snot out of that hippie! They must have hated that freaking hippie!"

Also, I guess I wondered why the hell the were beating up the hippie, and what the hippie's deal was. See, there's no context to Passion: just straight-up flesh-ripping violence porn. If you want to see a naked guy get whipped, flogged and nailed, and you live in a community with limited access to gay leather magazines, then this is really the movie for you.

(snip)

Though, to be fair, Satan is played by a chick. But she's all made up to look like a dude, so I think she's supposed to be a dude. Anyway, she, or he, or maybe He, keeps showing up on the outskirts of the action, doing creepy things like cradling a midget in his/her/His arms. Because midgets are scary.

Or at least writer/director Mel Gibson must think so, because in another scene, Judas gets attacked by evil midgets. Why? I don't know. I guess it was cheaper than hiring actual demons.


More at the link above.

[Ilsa]

1. Favorite quote:

"Satan has gotta be everyone's favorite literary character. He rocks ... just ask everyone he's worked with, like Jimmy Page or Rob Halford or the RNC."

[DoNotRefill]

2. a guy reviewed it on NPR....

and called it "The Jesus Chainsaw Massacre." Now I've got to see it.

[blondeatlast]

3. Hah! But I still think I'll pass....

[DoNotRefill]

6. Give it a month....

and it'll be downloadable.

[blondeatlast]

8. Ahem, my hubby is from India. I'm sure he can get it now--

If I don't mind the blonde Afro sitting in front of me!

[Az]

9. A month?!

It already is. Its the 21st century. Ain't technology great?

[orwell]

4. Devil in Miss Jones

Of course the devil is a woman.

St. Mel wouldn't have it any other way...:puke:

O

[Fenris]

5. Here's what the occasionally lucid Christopher Hitchens says

And it's quite funny.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=13993739&method=full&siteid=50143

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. WOW he rips Mel a meteor crater!!! And... OMG IT'S NOT ONLY HIS DAD!

From the article -- interview MEL gave, not Hutton:
:wow:
"It also shows when he's off-screen. Invited by Peggy Noonan - a sympathetic conservative interviewer - in Reader's Digest to say what he thought of the Holocaust, Gibson replied with extreme cold-ness that a lot of people were killed in the Second World War and no doubt some of them were Jews."

[FloridaJudy]

7. This one:

Best capsule description: the Gospel According to the Marquis de Sade

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4338528/