I was not really thinking of canons so much.
I looked at the trailer that was linked (thanks to Nicholas' suggestion I got it to work).
After viewing it, I thought the movie was very sensational - and I don't nesessarily mean that in a bad way.
But what are we looking at when we see a movie such as this? We are seeing streaming "icons"! The most powerful teaching tool the church has ever had is that of Holy Icons, which are EQUAL to Holy Scripture. Thus, when I was at the house of a Roman Catholic friend, I saw on his refrigerator a picture of Christ crucified, and on His chest, was the stream of white representing the water which came forth as we see in so many Orthodox icons, but with one exception, it was on His left side and not on the right. I thought to myself, "how do I know His side was pierced on the right and not the Left?" It is only from the icons I know this! To tell you the truth, I never even bothered to look at Holy Scripture to see if the icons I have seen were correct - THEY MUST BE.
1) As a powerful teaching mechanism, images can be dangerous. Images such as these may seem pleasant and as an innocent amusement. But this is not a cartoon about snoopy or a movie on how the Titantic sunk! This is about Jesus Christ! By watching such a movie, we are circumventing the Churches teaching authority and choosing to subject ourselves to something totally unknown, and not only unknown, but which we know is wrong before we even seen it. And the media that is used here is completly contrary to the practice of the church...
2) Imagery is a powerful tool whereby we convey our ideas to each other, and which in some respects has the advantage of all other ways of communication. Words construct by reason an image we are reading about; but every person forms the image to himself in his own way: language is very imperfect: there are innumerable voids in our imagination as we read the Holy Gospel, because there are innumerable voids in the unimportant details given by Holy Scripture. In this one sense, it can be immediatly seen how icons are equal and the same as Holy Scripture, because there are innumerable voids in the details of a Holy Icon. Iconographers do not add anything to the images given by Holy Scripture, the same voids are present in both Scripture and in the iconography!
But a movie is quite the opposite. A movie conveys ideas of these things clearly, and without ambiguity; and in order to do so, hundreds of thousands of details must be fabricated to fill in the voids and entire "scenes" might be added that are not in Scripture, so much so, that the entire message is rendered a lie. And what a movie says everyone understands and only in the sense a single person intended it and interprested it.
For instance, in Matthew 26:30 the Holy Gospel says: "And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the Mount of Olives".
How wonderful! They sung a hymn! How will the movie show this? What hymn will it lie and say they sung?
3) Justin mentioned that he read "St. Nicodemo of the Holy Mountain - A handbook of Spiritual Counsel". Here this great Saint writes: "Gaurd your sense of vision well for it is more refined and knowledgable. ...And because sight is more beloved, the mind makes a deeper impression with its image upon the compass of the imagination. And because they are deeper they are also more difficult to wipe out....We can see this confirmed through our own experience, namely, that the other images that we have come to receive by the other senses, we can wipe out much more easily. But those images which we have impressed upon our imagination through our eyes, and curious eyes at that, we either cannot wipe them out at all or we can only after much time and great effort. Whether we are asleep or awake, they do not omit to attack us. In most cases they do not ceases to bother us. In short, we grow old with them and we die with them" (page 89)
When you consider with your imagination right now, the mistranslations, interprestation, and all manner of untold untruths in the movie, the above speaks for itself.
4) As with many of the errors of the Latins, they add one error which is commonly overlooked. They place to great an emphasis on the death and crucifixion of the Lord, and to little on the Ressurrection. This is why you will RARLEY see Orthodox crucifixes, but in a Latin Church you will almost always see them, as with their "stations of the Cross". So how powerful will the image of His Death and Crucifixion in a motion picture be on you? Will it forever have you thinking less of the Resurrection?
5) Anyone who has ever studied Holy Scripture knows that each sentence must be read over and over and studied. Each word is significant and perfect. There is nothing out of place or incorrect! A movie such as this devalues that personal experience which is experienced in a person heart with the Holy Spirit and places an excitable memory of emotion in its place.
What "Christian" rock is for the ears, this is for the eyes.
I can go on but I am short on time.