I did not go to see "The Passion of the Christ" and still have no desire to view it. In today's LA Times, their film critic Tim Rutten, has a rant on why the media has not reopened the discussion of the movie given the recent anti-Semitic tirade by Mel Gibson when he was stopped for suspected drunk driving. This quote summarizes why I am glad I made that decision:

When it was released..., there were some who argued that, apart from its lurid sadomasochistic aura -- critic Leon Wieseltier called it "a sacred snuff film" - Gibson's narrative was studded with the kinds of anti-Semitic caricatures once associated with medieval passion plays.

I do not enjoy going to see films based on murder and violence because I do not want those images in my memory. I do not need to watch this movie to know "Christ died for me." That is not where my faith journey is taking me.