"Fahrenheit 9/11" unequivocally functioned as an artifact of the moment and a factor in a fiercely fought political campaign. As soon as that campaign concluded, the energy instantly leaked out of Michael Moore's effort to win major Oscar nominations, and his movie began to feel as dated, quaint and irrelevant as a faded bumper sticker from a losing cause. "The Passion of the Christ," on the other hand, still plays with the same fiery immediacy it brought to its explosive Ash Wednesday release. And it's easy to imagine church groups (and cinema students) still watching it with avid attention 50 years from now, much as "The Ten Commandments" has continued to draw eager audiences during periodic re-releases in the course of a half-century.He's right. F9/11 is already badly dated and basically irrelevant now that the election is over and Bush has won. Had the movie actually been significant enough to change the outcome of the election, it might have lived on as some sort of political artifact. Now it's destined for the $1 DVD pile at your nearest K-Mart.
The Passion will live on as long as their continue to be Christians on this earth (and for all you pre-Trib types, it might get some very interested viewing following the Rapture as well). You probably won't see it on TV each Easter as you now see The Ten Commandments (it's a little too violent and gory for today's broadcast television), but I imagine the DVD will get lots of use in churches and small groups all over the world.
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