Scorcese never directed a film called 'Jesus.' That was a 1979 picture (although I think there have been others but not theatrically released.) Scorcese directed 'The Last Temptation of Christ' which was fairly controversial in the 80's and an excellent film.

Note Gibson wasn't so accurate as to cast Arabs in the major roles. Lots of Slavs and Europeans which is about as accurate as, well, having everyone speak English.

Whoops, I didn't realize how that would be taken. I know perfectly well that Scorsese's film was called "The Last Temptation of Christ", I just put "Jesus" in quotation marks to show my disgust with that Scorsese's intrepretation of it.

Yes, I KNOW that the point of the movie was to highlight His humanity, but His weakness and confusion is stretched beyond the point of cinematic license. Except for maybe the absolute very end, I never once bought that Willem Dafoe was Christ.

And Gibson is trying to be "faithful" to the spirit of realism, not 100% accurate to every last bit of it. And it is worth pointing out that Caviezel is the most Semitic-looking Jesus yet.

Calm down, John. Calm down.

Geez. I got the quotes-Jesus, thing, Eric.

I still can't bring myself to see "the Last Temptation". I've never cared how mechanically good a film is. I don't see 'em because they're good; I see 'em because I want to derive some degree of fun or enjoyment.

CJA