What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)

[GerateWohl 4,370]

14 minutes ago, filmmusic said:

 

A sanitized Hollywood version of the story of Christ.

Spectacular, but I personally think it relied much on unwanted scenes like the two battles with Barabbas, the Roman centurion etc..

I think I prefer The Greatest Story ever told, and certainly Jesus of Nazareth.

And of course, above all, I love The Passion of Christ, for the depiction of Christ's last hours. I couldn't understand in the other versions the degree of his martyrdom.

I still have The Last Temptation of Christ on my watch list. Never seen it.

[filmmusic 1,829]

Just now, GerateWohl said:

I still have The Last Temptation of Christ on my watch list. Never seen it.

Hmmmmm... I should watch that one too. I have it watched once many years ago and I don't remember anything.

Easter is coming here in Greece in one week or so, and I have started watching biblical and other related films.

[Jurassic Shark 12,076]

2 minutes ago, GerateWohl said:

I still have The Last Temptation of Christ on my watch list. Never seen it.

 

Haven't you been tempted?

[JTN 2,025]

4 minutes ago, GerateWohl said:

I still have The Last Temptation of Christ on my watch list. Never seen it.

I have and I was bored. I haven’t read Kazantzakis’ novel, but I plan to.

[filmmusic 1,829]

A related film, again based on a Kazantakis novel, is the 1957 film, He who must die.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050237/

[GerateWohl 4,370]

42 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

Haven't you been tempted?

Christ! No!

[JTN 2,025]

10 minutes ago, GerateWohl said:

Christ! No!

 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,533]

2 hours ago, filmmusic said:

 

 

Ah! "I was A Teenage Jesus" 

The film is less about Christ, and more about people's reaction to him. It concentrates on what's going on around Jesus, rather than his ministry.

I always find the last shot of the shadow making a cross on the beach, quite moving.

As far as fictionalised accounts of the life of Christ go, then JESUS OF NAZARETH is the gold standard.

THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST is a decent attempt to depict both the divine and the human sides of Jesus as two halves of the same whole, in a clumsy effort to have them in conflict with each other. Of course, regarding Jesus, both the book and the film miss the point by a country mile, but that's not the point. They point to the divine and the diabolic in all of us. The film still remains among Scorsese's finest.

 

[JTN 2,025]

2 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

The film still remains among Scorsese's finest.

And now he'll make a straight-up Jesus film, maybe to make up with the Catholic church for TLTOC.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,533]

Scorsese has nowt to apologize for, with THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. The Roman Catholic church is in the wrong, and it knows it 

[Sweeping Strings 2,363]

And as one the altar boys chorused 'Ain't that the truth'. 

[JTN 2,025]

The kind of movie you can’t remember five minutes after having seen it. 

[A24 4,336]

I remember that I did not switch it off. 

[JTN 2,025]

Yes, it was watchable, but totally forgettable. 

[Jurassic Shark 12,076]