I'm going by the regular cut and there it really seemed like the Christians were just itching for their wise king to die so they could get a war started. The templar guys are depicted as the dominant faction and comments that the allies of the main character make implies that their way is pretty much the norm in the holy landCowabungaa said:I've mentioned it in other threads, but I felt that the scene where the assistant got killed in Jurassic World was pure cruelty for the sake of it. I got real uncomfortable watching that, it was so pointlessly mean.
It's also what turned me off on Elfenlied when I saw its first episode. Notably when that random secretary or something got her head twisted off and used as a meatshield. I then turned off the show and never looked back.
Oh and 12 Years A Slave reveled a bit too much in its physical torture as well if you ask me. An excellent movie otherwise.
Really? I can only think of one small batch of Christian characters being villanous, and that's the main Templar guys. That bishop was just cowardly which is a different beast entirely. All the other Christian characters, from Liam Neeson's band at the beginning to Jeremy Iron's character and of course the main character, were all pretty awesome. If anything I felt that the movie was real clear in its message that only a minority of Christian crusaders were real "murder all infidel Muslims" type people and that the most of 'em just wanted everyone to live together and somewhat get along.Hades said:A similar complaint can be made at the Kingdom of Heaven. That movie just HATES the Christians. If a crusader isn't a time traveling atheist then he's going to be depicted as a terrible person who just can't wait to kill all Muslims and flaunts all the laws of god when not doing that. When the movie runs out of Templars to bully it just mutates a Bishop who offered to ransom himself for the common men into someone who wants to flee Jerusalem at the first sign of trouble and just abandon all the citizens to their fate.
Mind you, this is going on the Director's Cut. Aka the only cut worth watching. It's been ages since I've watched the theatrical release, I won't be surprised if they fucked around with the characterizations there.
I wouldn't include the main character as an awesome Christian because he's not Christian. He's a time traveling Atheist and so are the ones who agree with him that ''war for religion is bad bro''.