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. . . the Screenit.com review of “The Passion of the Christ” is now online. As always, these fair-minded people walk you through the movie pretty much, well, blow by blow. Here is part of the summary:
And this just in from Box Office Mojo. The Passion opened bigger than anyone expected, at least in comments released to the public.
Oh my. The following paragraphs from a new report by Variety are just what the mainstream media want to hear right now.
Friends, we are not the only people trying to carry on with daily life in the midst of the Passion ink flood. Other professionals are hard at work.
The overload continues. I am now officially having trouble separating the good articles from the bad articles, in part because my own view of the film is quite complex.
Surely it says something about the Passion media storm that even the folks at E! Online News are being driven to dig out some sources in havens of mainstream faith such as Grand Rapids, Mich.
A confession from Tmatt: I am recieving so many URLs today about “The Passion of the Christ” that I do not even have time to read half of the stories. The other irony is that I am trying to read them while trying to get my own mind clear enough to write my own column for this week — about one angle (among 1,000s) about this story.
It’s a rare thing to watch a journalist stick his pen directly into a vein and say precisely what he is thinking, but I suspect that is what San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford did a few days ago with his amazing rant titled “Is Your Religion Unsanitary? Is God telling you to love war? Loathe gays? Restrict women? Join the godless throngs now!”
