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I was reading about The Last Temptation of Christ today, which I've never seen, but it piques my interest.  Scorcese is working on another religious film now.  He also did that one a couple of years ago about the priests with Adam Driver.  I never saw that one either.

I also have wanted, but haven't seen The Passion of the Christ.

I do like a Rom Com that's pretty religious called "Keeping the Faith"...wasn't great or anything.
And there's a movie called Millions that I like a lot that isn't specifically about religion, but it's about kids and imagining stuff and one of them is very interest in Saints, so it plays a big part of the movie.

I've also less interested in a movie from a few years ago called Noah.   But I'd give it a shot I guess.

Anyone seen any of this stuff enough to recommend?

The Passion of the Christ was good

The Ten Commandments is a classic

The Righteous Gemstones is a mini series that's pretty funny, adult humor.

The prince of Egypt is a cartoon about Moses and the Pharoh it was okay.

Life of Brian counts as a religious movie, it's good monte python humor.

Bruce Almighty / Evan Almighty are okay for family comedies.

The Exorcist

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The Passion of the Christ is very good, gripping movie.  It's not in english so you are reading subtitles but it's not that distracting, you just have to watch it like you're in a theater where people are not talking and distracting you.  Mel Gibson directed it and got a lot of backlash because some Jewish organizations said it unfairly portrayed Jews.

Son of God was one I watched that doesn't seem to get much attention.  I enjoyed it.

Subtitles are no problem for me.  I watch with subtitles on even when I watch stuff in English.

And I'm not trying to stray from controversy -- It's actually what draws me to the films in the first place.   I'm not a religious guy.  I don't believe any of this stuff, movie or not -- but I do like stories.  I consider this stuff similar to how I'd approach historical fiction. 

Probably my favorite movie that involves religion is Kingdom of Heaven, about the crusades and the old conflict between Christians an Muslims.

Starz has American Gods as a series that's obviously religiously based .. it's interesting

Are you  current? I paused the latest season and am not sure if I am going back. It has losr something it seems.

As of right now, American Gods is cancelled.

I've been waiting for someone to say Religulous.

I'm an Atheist, but that movie was hit and miss for me.  I think that I'm probably not the audience, so I didn't need to be converted.

My favorite stuff in that film was the Judaism stuff.

Same here, it was pretty much "preaching to the choir" (pun intended) for me since I was already an atheist.  But it kind of made me feel a little a little more secure in feeling totally disgusted by organized religion. 

As an atheist, what makes you want to watch religious films?

I am not into getting preached at, so I'm not in it for that, but I realize that religion of all types is an important part of the overall human experience.  I'm interested in the Passion of the Christ the same way I'm interested in The Iliad.  I think the stories are interesting -- I like historical fiction, in general.

And I also like movies that show me sides of life of which I'm not a part.

It might make me sound dim, but I like Westerns a lot, but have no interest in being a Cowboy or anything that goes along with it.  It's the same idea.

The Passion of the Christ is a Biblical account of Jesus' death. I'm not sure how well it will translate or be entertaining to someone who doesn't follow Him although it is kind of intense if I remember correctly. They are in the process of making the resurrection movie ala Passion of the Christ 2 now.

2 Passion 2 Christ

I never really got that about the Jews. The Bible clearly explains that Christ had to be sacrificed and die because of us. I killed Christ. You killed Christ and so on. The Jewish leaders and Pontius Pilate were just the instruments of His death. Jesus acknowledged Judas' betrayal before he went to betray Him, and even stopped Peter from using his sword to defend Him all the while explaining He could stop this if he really wanted to.

Mathew 26:52 “Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him. “For all who draw the sword will die by the sword. 53 Are you not aware that I can call on My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels? 54 But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”

I wonder why Jesus only rated 12 legions of angels...was there a staffing shortage in heaven at the time? Did God want to keep the amount of overtime down?

Enquiring agnostic minds want to know...

I understand this interpretation, but like any movie about a subject like this, there are multiple source materials, historical record, and artistic license, as well.  With the bible, now you're dealing with translation not only across languages, but across eras.  It doesn't necessarily have to be a shot for shot slave to the bible, either.  You have wiggle room to tell the parts of the story that aren't included, or pick and choose what works for whatever themes you're trying to get across.

I'm not going to get into the nitty gritty here about source materials and historical records (or lack thereof) .. I will just say that having watched the passion of the christ years ago .. cinematically it's little more than snuff pornography. I do appreciate some old school gun totin' NRA president 10 commandments tho.

Example of that translation effect... The miracle of Jesus "walking on the water" wasn't actually a miracle at all. In that time, the phrase "walk on the water" literally meant to walk along the shore...

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