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Originally Posted by tristanrobin
The difference with Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" is that it was a LOUSY movie. It was little more than violence-porn with a religious cover to give it validation. I'm not against the movie because it was about Christ (I'm a Christian) - I'm against it because it's a lousy movie and the right wing Christian zealots in this country got all excited at the slow-motion flogging and blood oozing and made it earn a gazillion dollars.
His anti-semitic rant was illuminating because he had - for YEARS - stated that he disagreed with the stance of his father (a well-known Australian anti-semite and holocaust denier). Then his true feelings were revealed. As hypocrites tend to do - eventually they are unmasked.
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Woohoo!...An attack on "right wing Christians zealots" when Mel Gibson is mentioned!...
Like a moth to a flame...
Let's try this again...
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It earned $25 million per day in its first five days of release and in short order became the highest-grossing R-rated film ever made. In spite of the criticism, the movie grossed $611,899,420 worldwide ($370,782,930 in the US alone) and is currently the eleventh highest-grossing film and the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time.
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That's not "right wing Christian zealots"...