Exactly--Audiences knew both movies would be more in love with their CGI effects than in Testament accuracy, and effects, frankly...we've seen. Text faithfulness, we haven't, and to take a breather long enough to concentrate on the ideas of the stories often requires a quality of being...
Translation: I think we're a good eight years past the point of thinking Passion made money because it was a "good movie". No one's that naive anymore. :rolleyes:
As for judging every single big-studio Biblical movie BY that standard, that's also a little difficult, since Passion was...
The reissue of Passion of the Christ, after it wasn't "nominated for an Oscar", there didn't turn out to be a good-vs-evil battle with Michael Moore, the Southern Baptists stopped chartering the school buses trying to ballot-stuff the numbers, and the Nativity Story proved that there wasn't a...
Yes, as one who remembers Blade Runner fatally confusing audiences in the theaters, I share the question: HAS Ridley Scott ever had a box-office hit since Alien? (Memory flagging a bit on Gladiator and Prometheus.)
Are we still expecting him to deliver "the next Blade Runner" after thirty-two...