Critics Appear More Passionate About 'Judas'

[LynneSin]

Seems ABC is airing a more accurate description of their version of the Passion with the showing of 'Judas' tonight. Read some of the reviews from the critics.

http://www.imdb.com/StudioBrief/#8

Critics Appear More Passionate About 'Judas'


After collecting dust on ABC's shelves for more than two years, the network has decided to air the drama Judas tonight (Monday), presumably hoping that the gospel story will get a boost from the publicity surrounding Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. "Now ABC feels safe enough to release its quality-sapped product to a controversy-sapped nation, secure that while it may attract a few viewers, it probably won't attract many unhappy accusations," commented critic Matthew Gilbert in the Boston Globe. Indeed, Steve Johnson writes in the Chicago Tribune: "This is a hopeful story, and, hopefully, some of the people who see The Passion and take it as gospel will also see this and realize there are many ways to tell a biblical story." Critic Tom Shales in the Washington Post apparently considers Judas to be a vast improvement on Passion. "ABC's movie seems happily lacking in anti-Semitic aspersions. Writer Tom Fontana ... has Pontius Pilate's wife tell her husband ... 'Fix it so the Jews themselves are held responsible.' ... The Big Lie was born, and two millennia later, Gibson would find a way to recycle it and gross more than $200 million in the process. Surely his parking space in Hell has already been reserved."

[stopthegop]

1. trick is...The Passion is not anti-Semitic...

...if someone sees that in the movie it's because they want to...just an opportunity to show a movie they must not have liked much (it sat on the shelf for two years)

[H2O Man]

2. Speaking of Judas....

..reminds me of years ago, I had a conversation with Philip Berrigan; he explained to me his brother Daniel's thoughts that Judas was actually Jesus's best friend. But Judas confused the meaning of the mission. It was fascinating. Your quote from Abbie Hoffman also has me thinking of the good old days. "Barry Freed" was a friend and supporter of Tommy "the Rabbi" Trantino, of "Lock the Lock" fame. Ah, the good old days!