for class....
Is that your film horror class?
Actually, it's Film Violence. It is pretty horrific, though...
Yeah, I have no desire to see it.
It's actually really good, I am a big fan of Gibson as a director though, so maybe we are different in that way.
I can see that it might be technically well-executed - I don't have anything against Gibson as a director, I don't think. But personally, I find the whole premise - the desire to show Christ's suffering and death on screen - pretty revolting, not to mention theologically problematic. I don't care for watching ultra-violence or gore on screen, so I would avoid the film for that reason alone. I might see a violent or gory film if it was conveying something I felt was deeply interesting or truthful, but I don't see, from what I've read, that Gibson will be conveying that something for me. I have a good sense of Roman Catholic theology, and there's lots to read should I find that my knowledge of it is insufficient; I don't feel any need to see it gorily displayed for me on screen.
I'm not
against the film, per se, but I find it problematic personally, both according to my tastes as a film-viewer and as a (Reformed) Protestant. (As Steve points out in his
great post on The Reelists, it's bizarre that so many Protestants
have embraced the film.) If the gore doesn't bother you and/or if you have no particular theology, I can understand, I think, why you might appreciate it.