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Visual Bible - Matthew
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| Part No: | B0002UBX54 |
| Manufacturer: | GNN International Corp. and Visual Bible, LLC |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.5 / 5.0 |
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Experience The Visual Bible's Matthew. This powerful and entertaining film is taken word for word from the text of the New International Version translation. This multi-million dollar production appeals to all ages, and it offers educational, spiritual and entertainment value. "The goal of The Visual Bible is to put the entire Bible on film using only Scripture to tell the story." Filmed on location in Tunisia, Morocco and South Africa, Matthew features a cast of thousands, historically accurate costuming and award-winning directing. The film stars Emmy award-winning actor Richard Kiley as Matthew, and introduces Bruce Marchiano as Jesus.
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| Excellent move of the Bible story Gospel of Matthew. This helps a person understand The Truth/Gospel. Prompt delivery |
| Horrible acting and direction | 2008-12-28 | 2 / 5 |
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Such high hopes after seeing Gospel According to John, this effort is very disappointing. The acting is horrible horrible horrible and awful after that.
Bruce Marchiano treats the role of Jesus like Jesus was an entertainer on a stage or a stand up comedian, not actually relating to people. After performing some miracles, he looks as if he is about to yell "Ta Da!!!!" or maybe thrust his hands in the air and run around the field like he just scored a touchdown or something. When he delivers his lines, he pauses at really awkward moments, as if he is trying to remember his lines, and rapid fire delivers them at other times when he should pause. He whispers to the Jewish authorities 'you brood of vipers' and "you hypocrites" and smiles when he's chastising the towns for not repenting in which he did his miracles. He actually delivers some sermons with his hand on his hip, and other times dumps water on an onlooker. They have him joyfully smiling to the point of his voice breaking in 16:23 when he says to Peter "get behind me Satan" and throughout 16:26 - 28 during the "What profits a man if he loses his soul" speech while his disciples are straightfaced and somber. Ugh. HORRIBLE ACTING.
The way the movie cuts between first and 3rd persons in the form of an older Matthew narrating the story to his children and Jesus acting it out...it's just plain awkward timing a lot of the time. The narration during the acting out of Jesus: "He said", "They said" etc is also distracting because it doesn't flow with the scene. The musical soundtrack is really bad too.
My conclusion is that this movie did not enhance my understanding of the Gospel in any way. I actually felt repulsed and did not trust the words coming out of this portrayal of Jesus due the horrible acting. I've tried to watch this a couple of times, and each time I just couldn't wait until it was over and I LOVE Matthew's Gospel! This is so different from the "Gospel of John" video from the same makers. It is way better to read this Gospel than view it here.
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| Visual Bible Matthew | 2008-12-24 | 5 / 5 |
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| It's a beautiful production which needs to be shared. You get a different picture of a very human Jesus. Own this and decided to give this to each of our children/grandchildren as a gift. |
| Gospel of Matthew | 2008-11-23 | 5 / 5 |
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| Excellent presentation of the life of Jesus as presented by the Apostle Matthew. This well acted and directed video demostrated great visuals and settings to assist in the presentation of the New International Version of the scripture. The use of story-telling and drama brings new insights to the familiar message and the enhancement of the message is not dimished by the acting, actors or modern portral. The difficult Passion scenes were tastefully and effectively presented without undo violence and graffic images. The portrayal of the Transfiguration, resurrection and many miracles were well handled and appropriately believeable without special effects. Well done and highly recommend this treatement of the scripture for both education and inspiration. |
| The best one of the visual Bibles | 2008-10-11 | 5 / 5 |
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I don't know why people like The gospel of John better. I never had. Matthew is so much better. I saw an edited version of Matthew on tbn in '94 and thought it was great. and bought the 4 tape vhs in '96. and got the dvd in 2000. Matthew portrayel of Jesus was unlike any portrayel I ever saw before. from his tender compassion to jolly sense of humor to his serious side. Bruce does a great job of acting. A must see.
but when John came out in '03, it wasn't anything like Matthew. I was highly disappointed. He wasn't half as jolly as Bruce. I guess I was expecting something like Matthew. |
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