Something that pisses me off.

[apocalypsos]

Last year, when "The Pianist" came out and everyone was pouncing on Roman Polanski, I said I was going to see the movie regardless of the schmuck who made it and judge it on its own merits. I now own a copy on DVD, as it was one of my favorite five movies from last year.

According to that reasoning, Mel Gibson being a homophobic asshat is no reason for me not to see "The Passion of the Christ".















Dear principles,

Fuck you.

Sincerely,

Me.

Comments

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

I guess you'll have to pull a right-winger and be a hypocrite.

[azurelunatic]

This is what illegally downloading it is for.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Illegally downloading the story of Christ.

I wonder if there's a very special level of Hell for people like that. *is hopeful*

[azurelunatic]

You mean like, "with Mel Gibson for eternity"?

[doqz.livejournal.com]

Leaving aside Mel, what is it about the movie that screams out to you that "I MUST see this!" ? I can get the same amount of chopped off extremities and death from torture out of Braveheart for half the cost. (Shop smart. Shop S-Mart, check aisle three for crucifixitions now half off only till labor day. Don't forget the complementary Impale Your Own Heretic Home Game Kit. Batteries and Martin Luther not included.)

Personally I am staying the hell away, especially after those lightening strikes' stories. With my record going to that premiere would be roughly equivalent to mooning St. Peter and spray painting the pearly gates with suras from Koran or something.

Nah.

I am going to do my nyah-nyahing from the the safety of my beautiful home with its luxurious lightening rod.

(except now I have an indellible and highly unsettling image of Mohammad in a low-rider, drive-painting Heaven. "Come on out, ese! I'll do you, like I did the Zorohastrians!")

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Nothing more than a few good reviews, at this point, not to mention the sick curiosity factor. Considering the way Mel's hoarding the thing, you'd think he wants to keep from revealing the surprise ending where Jesus's father turns out to be the milkman.

And then of course, there's always brushing up on my high school Aramaic. Plus, God knows I haven't been struck by lightning for blasphemy in ages.

[doqz.livejournal.com]

Well, thanks for RUINING it for me!

You go to hell! You go to hell and you die!!

I may be missing something...

[seferin.livejournal.com]

The Pianist was how one man survived the Holocaust.

The Passion is apparently how the Jews killed Jesus.

One is about how a man survived evil. Another is a religious belief that an entire religion is evil.

Perhaps THAT is why?

[wufeidragon.livejournal.com]

Homophobic, antisemetic asshat. You can't forget that.

[muffytaj.livejournal.com]

I have a reason! *bounces up and down like Zippo*

Because the movie sucks arse. According to the reviews I've seen. Not just the director, but the movie itself.

I'd rather spend my time upside down in a bathtub than watch a sucky movie made by a sucky person wwho makes sucky decisions.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but sometimes watching a sucky movie is fun. You haven't lived until you've rented "House of 1000 Corpses" and MSTed your way through it.

*gasps*

MSTing "The Passion of the Christ"?! If that doesn't get me into Hell, nothing will!

[muffytaj.livejournal.com]

Bring along some friends and be really noisy in the theatre! That way you'll die before someone tries to redeem you!

Just make sure to sit next to the ones clutching bibles and sweating freely.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I sometimes see movies done by freaks and weirdos. I just make sure I don't PAY for them. (I.E. library renting).

Sadly, I saw Seventh Gate before figuring this out. Not only did Polanski produce it, it just was a plain goddamned bad movie

[laughingrat.livejournal.com]

A homophobic anti-Semitic misogynist asshat, to boot.

Go you! Sometimes you just have to tell your principles where to step off.

[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

Waitaminute. You mean Riggs and Murtaugh aren't sleeping together? Max Rockatansky wasn't driven 'Mad' by the fact that his boyfriend the Rooster was roasted while driving away from a woman? There was no Eighteenth-Century Manlust going on between Benjamin Martin and Tavington? William Wallace was never his Uncle Argyll's catamite?

Gosh. It seems I've misunderstood his entire oeuvre.