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WWJE?
By beth | February 25, 2008
As you know, each month, I host a film/food event wherein guests bring foods and/or beverages to fit with a theme, and we watch a movie together befitting the same theme. Well, Saturday night was “What Would Jesus Eat?” You see, several years ago, before I lived in Raleigh and went to my church, my church made these videos from an old Jesus movie. Basically, they’ve just taken all the sound out of four different scenes and dubbed in new (hilarious) conversations. Apparently, they still get emails from folks all the world over, either telling us that these videos are the greatest things ever created, or that we’re all going to hell for our brazen blaspheming.
Anyhoe, Jill was in “the dollar spot” at Target a while back, and she came across a DVD of the nativity story. Well, down in the corner of the cover, there was this itty bitty picture of a man who was obviously playing Jesus, and as soon as she saw him, she knew. She knew that this was THE Jesus of “The Jesus Videos.” There was no denying it. So of course we had to make a film/food night out of it. Ergo, “WWJE?”
I personally believe that Jesus would love him some vegan maple walnut muffins, so that’s what I made. There were a lot of veggies and hummus, some chips, and even some Krispy Kreme donuts. I think he’d have chowed down on all of it.
The movie was…awful. It was very strange and very old, and it claimed to have been adapted from an “original story” by the Reverend John something-or-other. I really hate to break it to the good Reverend, but I think the story had already been told before he came along.
What made it so awful, though, were the actors. Consider such emotionless, deadpan deliveries as that of Peter, when told by our Lord that he would thrice deny Him. “no lord no” was all we got. Or the tragic mispronunciation of pretty much every non-English word or name. Our favorite: Longinus, pronounced /long-jai-nus/. Uhh…yeah.
Let’s just say I don’t recommend adding this one to your Netflix queue.
Topics: friends, "celebrities", food, movies/TV/video |
February 25th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Would Jesus eat Ho-Hos? After all, you are all Hoes. Or is that too cannibalistic?