I disagree. Even if you're not religious, crusifixion and flogging is still a historical fact. Just because its about the cornerstone of someone's faith is the reason people discount it as a film, especially the way the church took it as somekind of religious piece and made people, even children see it as something that they had to see. I wasn't a big fan, but it's still just a movie with some artistic merit. And because it caused such a sensation, earned so much money and was made by Gibson, people are so quick to criticize it as trash (or hail it as something that's more than what it is.) Luckily for him, the negative reaction worked as much for the film as the positive. What I would do to sell out my religion for as much money...Hardly no one else is making contemporary movies with more interesting settings, movies are so bland and so much the same these days. I welcome a little change now and again. I know that the new movie wont be a serious movie about a day in a life of a Mayan... it'll have a dramatic storyline that's probably typically Hollywood. At least we won't see two other projects like it, competing to be released earlier than the other.