Mel Gibson's Christkillers (R) ...

Richard Romeo romeocheeseburger at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 27 14:18:06 CST 2004


to sorta quote mr gaddis (AFOHO):

the red in the father, son, holy ghost

sorta the reaction one has seeing ethel rosenberg
praying for roy cohn's soul in angels in america

yechh....

think i need a shot of Paul Bowles right about now



--- Dave Monroe <monrobotics at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Jews, hell, if there's a Roman Anti-Defamation
> League
> out there, they oughtta get their lawyers cracking
> on
> this.  The Romans here, by the way, have Italian
> accents, breaking the longstanding tradition, all
> movie Romans (Kirk Douglas excepted) are British. 
> Brutal, esp. when you think aboput Jim Caviezel
> having
> to spent days, weeks, months of shooting under teh
> hot
> sun encrusted with red-food-coloring-dyed corn syrup
> or whatever.  Features much postscriptural
> apocrypha,
> plus the single creepiest Satan shot since The
> Exorcist.  Otherwise, replete with all the recent
> cliches of the genre: long sky shots, slow motion,
> golden-lit flashbacks, vaguely Middle-Eastern
> "world"
> (read, Orientalist) music soundtrack, whatever
> beards
> yr current hirsute hipsters are wearing, et al.  But
> you gotta love a Biblical epic that comes with a
> parental guidance warning.  Not quite "Biblical" as
> in
> "as in Biblical," but ...
> 
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