Author Topic: best catholic movies? (Read 14965 times)

spouse of Jesus · « **Reply #5 on:** March 27, 2010, 08:12:25 PM »

One of Godfather movies is about John Paul I and his assisination. I wonder if it is a good movie.

Telesphorus · « **Reply #6 on:** March 27, 2010, 08:19:09 PM »

Quote from: spouse of Jesus

One of Godfather movies is about John Paul I and his assisination. I wonder if it is a good movie.

It's not. All three of the movies contain obscenity, but the third one is apparently not well liked either.

Ladislaus · « **Reply #7 on:** March 27, 2010, 08:22:59 PM »

I've always enjoyed the Warner Brothers The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952). They used to play it on Easter Sunday every year when I was a child, and I very much looked forward to watching it.

I also liked The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) because it almost prophetically foresaw a John Paul II-like papacy; it did, however, give undue sympathy to the modernists, so you have to take this one with a huge grain of salt.

And of course there's always The Passion of the Christ, but there are some things I don't care for in that movie.

Matthew · « **Reply #8 on:** March 27, 2010, 08:30:38 PM »

The Passion of the Christ, while a good movie in many ways, bowed a bit too much to Jєωιѕн sensibilities.

In other words, Mel had to compromise too much.

The movie could have been 1000X more powerful with a few scenes added that should have been there.

I attended a talk about the Oberramergau passion play (in Germany) done every 5 or 10 years. The Jews kept pushing for more and more changes -- I think they reduced the resurrection to a completely off-screen affair. The resurrection wasn't shown, but the character who played Jesus, dressed in white, appeared on stage at the end during the curtain call.

I can't give any other examples from memory, but the overall theme was that with every iteration of the play, the New Testament was more and more watered down. Give the Jews an inch, they'll take a mile. Sharks smell blood.

At any rate ,the Jews won't be satisfied with the New Testament until it's reduced to a blank page -- or a few pages from the тαℓмυd (God forbid!)

Matthew

gladius_veritatis · « **Reply #9 on:** March 27, 2010, 08:38:45 PM »

This is a great week to view TPoTC again, although I agree there some things that could have been added, omitted, etc. Overall, it is pretty powerful.