[Thorn]

I saw Dogma, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Clerks at HMV the other day for 50 bucks...
Gonna have to pick it up and watch Dogma again....
I still cant believe they had Alanis Morisette play God....

[an0n]

Overall I'd say Dogma had the best production and plot, Mallrats had the best 'cause and effect' and comedy, Chasing Amy had the best three-liner jokes and Clerks was just plain odd.

[Kazan]

i am not the slgithest bit interested in this waste of massive ammounts of time and money

[Thorn]

Originally posted by Kazan
i am not the slgithest bit interested in this waste of massive ammounts of time and money

Jesus Christ (no pun intended). This never ceases to amaze me. THEN WHY DID YOU POST GENIUS?

[HotSnoJ]

You do realize that its all in aramaic and you're going to have to read subtitles right?

Yes I'm quite aware of that. I think it's awesome. I'm even used to it to an extent because I watch subbed anime from Japan.

[Kazan]

Originally posted by Thorn

Jesus Christ (no pun intended). This never ceases to amaze me. THEN WHY DID YOU POST GENIUS?

because i am interested in this thread - but not the movie and i wished to express my disinterested in the movie

[AlGore]

This post reminded me of a few quotes over on www.bash.org

http://www.bash.org/?232554 is the first
http://www.bash.org/?234706 is the second

[HotSnoJ]

Crap, al gore is here, HLP's going to hell.

[Sandwich]

I hope they show the movie here. I know someone who was asked to join a preview of the movie a month back or something. His response to the question "Does it make the Jews look bad?" was: "It makes EVERYONE look bad."

In regards to anti-semetisim, people who want to find it will find it no matter what. Jesus was Jewish, but that doesn't matter to them. He willingly "went as a lamb to the slaughter", and even said "No man takes my life from me, I lay it down". But they ignore that, too.

Personally, I'd be perfectly happy to let the movie speak for itself. Of course I think everyone should go see it and judge for themselves, but I guess that's too much to expect.

Kazan, out of morbid curiosity, why are you interested in a thread about the movie and not in the movie itself?

[Kazan]

sand: to see your reactions to it - call it a social expiriement

[Sandwich]

Reactions to the movie, not the thread, I assume.

[Ace]

Originally posted by HotSnoJ
WOOHOOO! It's opening day here in ole' willmar MN! I can't wait 'til tonight when I can go see it!!


WOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! W00t^n

No offense but what's funny is I could have sworn it was you who made a post six months or so ago when the movie was first being announced that it was a "evil liberal Hollywood" portrayal, etc. Maybe it was Lib or someone else though. *shrug*

Anyway, I'll wait until it's out on DVD. It looks interesting, but not enough to see it in a theater.

[an0n]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but no-one speaks Aramaic.

It's a dead and lost language.

So what did they do, just have a wild stab at what the spoken language sounded like?

If so, that kinda defeats the point.

[AlGore]

Some of the original texts of the Bible are in Aramaic, I thought, and there are also written records in the language, so while it is a dead language since no one as a people actually speak it anymore, there are people that still know how the words would sound.

And as for Al Gore being here, I'm not the real Al Gore. He's an idiot.
And you going to hell, well, I guess that's between you and God, I shouldn't have much to sway you one way or the other.

[Kazan]

an0n: you can figure out how deadlanguages were pronounced - don't ask me how

[Stealth]

Originally posted by an0n
Correct me if I'm wrong, but no-one speaks Aramaic.

It's a dead and lost language.

So what did they do, just have a wild stab at what the spoken language sounded like?

If so, that kinda defeats the point.

no you dumass...

they did it to try to make the movie as original and true to how it really happened as humanly possible, which is why they didn't want to have some guy with an American accent talking for Jesus.

correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't that obvious?

[an0n]

............

First of all, never call me a dumbass.

Secondly, if they wanted it to be so true-to-life, why isn't Jesus black?

[Solatar]

I have a small nagging that this film was meant to capitalize on people's religious followings...

I'll wait until it's on TBS.

[Grey Wolf]

Well, taking into account the basic skin coloration of people of that area in that era, and excerpts from the Bible, Jesus would have a brown color to his skin (not as dark as peoples native to Africa, but definitely not the pale coloration often depicted in Biblical art), dark brown hair (as opposed to light brown, as is sometimes depicted), and short hair (this is shown by a question by one of the Apostles).

And the nails would have to go through the arm on the opposite site of the wrist from the hand, as it has been proven using cadavers that if the nails are in the hand, they'll just rip right through the flesh.

[an0n]

You can put the nail in the wrist where the two fore-arm ones meet.

And I feel I should point out that you're all quite ready to believe in immaculate conception, turning water to wine and him being ressurected from the dead but scoff at the possibility that God could've just decided he wanted a white son.