Best Jesus Movie: Vote For Your Favorite Jesus In Film (Round Three)

We have now reached the final four-round Best Jesus Movie bracket challenge. You have voted, commented and tweeted intensely over the past week to let us know your favorites are. The competition was really fierce in the second round with many close calls and only one landslide victory.

Now you have narrowed it down to four movies for the penultimate round. It has come down to "Jesus of Nazareth" vs. "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "The Passion of The Christ" vs. "Life of Brian." Which two movies will make it to the final round? You decide with your votes, comments and tweets.

What do you like about your favorite Jesus movies of the four below? Be sure to let us know in the comments. If your favorite Jesus movie did not make the bracket, tweet to @HuffPostRelig with the hashtag #bestjesusmovie. So far, you were sorely disappointed that we did not include "Gospel of John" (2003). At the end of the challenge, we will highlight one people's choice movie.

Voting for Round Three starts now, and closes on the 14th of Feb. at 5 p.m. EST. Scroll down to cast your votes now! Come back on the 16th of Feb. for a third round of voting.

Quick Poll

"Jesus of Nazareth" or "Jesus Christ Superstar"?

Jesus of Nazareth (1977)

Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)

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Quick Poll

"The Passion of the Christ" or "Life of Brian"?

The Passion of the Christ (2004)

Life of Brian (1979)

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Comments

[Caitlin Witte]

07:45 AM on 02/22/2012

Excited to see JCS make it this far! It has beautiful music and IMO is a beautiful, humanistic telling of the story of Jesus. One of the few pieces of Christian cinema that tugs on my agnostic heart strings. :)

[mozart63]

12:53 PM on 02/17/2012

Goooooo Passion of the Christ~

[JesusFilms101]

10:33 PM on 02/16/2012

Top Ten Jesus Films You've Never Seen!!
New blog series at JesusFilms101.com. Check it out!

http://jesusfilms101.com/?p=120

This is based on an article I did for catapult* Magazine:

https://www.catapultmagazine.com/ten-things-5/film-review/ten-jesus-films-youve-never-seen

My favorite was already eliminated. "The Last Temptation of Christ!" Come ON, people!! I'll be blogging about that one as well. Simply amazing.

[Fran Jaime]

01:16 AM on 02/16/2012

Love, love, love Jesus Christ Superstar and Life of Brian!

[sakurako]

11:05 AM on 02/15/2012

I could not sit through the passion of the christ. I left the movie theatre after 10 minutes or so. It was disgusting. However Jesus Christ Superstar is one of my favorite movies. Watch the scene of Mary magdalene and I don't know how to love him, and you have to see and laugh at King Herod's scene. The culmination with Judas and gorgeous angels is terrific.

[Li Hei Bao]

10:34 AM on 02/15/2012

The Life of Brian isn't about Jesus. Why is it in the running?

[Fran Jaime]

01:13 AM on 02/16/2012

It is indirectly.

[Ferdinand Berkhof]

01:49 AM on 02/15/2012

Best Jesus film: Dead Man Walking

[sakurako]

11:14 AM on 02/15/2012

Really excellent film about forgiveness! Only with prayer can we forgive and love others.

[nelandquinten]

10:52 PM on 02/14/2012

Am I seriously the only one who thinks of "The Making of... And God Spoke"??

[Boomerwoman]

09:25 PM on 02/14/2012

Jesus Christ Superstar.

[Jahnabi Barooah]

01:23 AM on 02/15/2012

Any particular reason why you really liked it?

[Boomerwoman]

11:35 AM on 02/15/2012

The music

[Robert Frano]

06:23 PM on 02/14/2012

The one thing I really admired about BOTH ‘The Passion Of The Christ’, (Mel Gibson's epic to religio-sexual themes & morals he himself DOESN'T practice, of late), is that, like ‘The Thin Red Line’ & ‘Saving Pvt. Ryan, (and HBOS’s ‘ROME’, ‘Spartacus’, etc.), it shows inter-personal & large-scale ‘combat’ for all the fun it is…
Or isn’t!

I’ll concede I’m ever-so-slightly prejudiced: although it would have been considered both tasteless & unprofessional, the last ambulance I crew-chief’d could have had 2,000 ‘bullets’ painted on the fender, in the same sense as a WW-2 B-17g had a ‘bomb’ silhouetted, near the nose art, for each mission!

[GhostOfFDR]

04:17 PM on 02/14/2012

I still don't understand why Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan and the Star Wars saga weren't included in the original brackets.

[GhostOfFDR]

04:18 PM on 02/14/2012

And the Omega Man, staring Charleton Heston as Jesus....

[rich3324]

04:09 PM on 02/14/2012

Always look on the bright side of life

[Is now]

04:01 PM on 02/14/2012

Robert Powell's performance as Christ in Jesus of Nazareth was excellent, but The Life of Brian accurately shows how easily fooled people are, so it gets my vote.

[Tray117]

03:31 PM on 02/14/2012

Passion of the Christ was disgusting. It should have been called the Two-hour Whoopass of the Christ. It plays like it was directed by Sam Peckinpah, slow-motion blood flying and flesh ripping. Eeeuuuwww!

[GhostOfFDR]

04:25 PM on 02/14/2012

Mel Gibson needed to show how evil Jews are, because his insane rantings to police officers weren't getting the message out.

It's like the Kazakhstan parts of "Borat," but it's not satire because Gibson believes it.

[Robert Frano]

06:32 PM on 02/14/2012

Re: "It plays like it was directed by Sam Peckinpah, etc." {Tray117}

What, did you expect the Romans would do a multi-trauma-diagnostic workup for each Crucifix-rider?
I read that, outside Masada, the Romans were crucifying 5,000 people/week!

Even the Catholic Church, no slouch when it comes to ‘torture for pleasure’ issues, estimates that 750,000 Christians were murdered in a (celluloid-free) multi-century snuff-epic!

...You know how the popes, in between burning men, woman, children & the womb-bound, hate competition!

[Zoltn Zadravecz]

02:17 PM on 02/14/2012

Best Jesus Movie: Favorite Jesus In Film Jesus of Nazareth (1977)

[Jahnabi Barooah]

01:23 AM on 02/15/2012

Any particular reasons? :)