Speaking of Christian movies, when I was in seminary I worked at a tiny rural church, and their library had a movie just called "Jesus." It was... I mean, it wasn't bad in the sense that anything stood out as atrocious, but it was just so boring. Like somebody had filmed the life of Jesus, cobbled together from the four Gospels but giving preference to Matthew, but done it as some sort of obligation rather than because they wanted to do it. I'm also still miffed because of how they handled the feeding of the 5000. Jesus is holding the five loaves and two fish, blesses it, smash cut and the food is overflowing out of his hands. I always loved that story because the miracle was subtle, this made it an obnoxious sort of magic trick.
I agree with you. Most Jesus movies are so lacking because filmmakers are afraid of adding something wrong to them. Jesus media needs to be character driven. That’s why I absolutely adore The Chosen.
