Obviously it was a good film. It was different from the other two major Jesus films because it focused a LOT on Jesus' humanity and the miracles he did. Maybe too much, IMO. I feel at times it even denied Christ's divinity, in it's attempt to make Jesus more human.
The huge Jesus movie in the 70's - Jesus of Nazareth focused more on the scripture readings and what not. And The Passion i think most closely followed Catholic doctrine. But that's just it.
Not everyone is Catholic, so everyone is going to take things differently. I'm only speaking from the Catholic perspective.
The Jesus in the miniseries spent a good bit of the time never being certain of what he was called to do! Which to me was ludicrous, because he was JESUS. I mean, he KNEW what his calling was. There was no wishy washiness, LOL.
They also focused way too much on Jesus' uncertainty towards Mary Magdalene (including conflicted feelings). I mean, hey who am I to know what Jesus was thinking, right? But I would have preferred to believe that Jesus never had a relationship with her beyond that of what was in the scriptures.
I also feel (going back to jumping over the divinity of Christ) that when he died, the movie focused on he fact that he died "to prove God's love" and not for our sins and to open heaven for us. Again, just a gripe because I'm Catholic. I'm not deeply educated on the beliefs of other denominations.
A few other small things:
The death of Jesus was rushed in this movie, IMO.
When he healed the leper, the man needed help walking. I think Jesus cured people completely, and there wouldn't have been need for that.
And I think that it took me awhile to get into Jeremy in the role, though at the end he had won me over anyway, lol
There's more, but without getting into deep religious discussion it's not necessary. Like I said at the beginning of the post, it's still worth watching.
After all the complaining I did, I STILL liked it, LOL!
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