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13 years ago @ http://wardrobedoor.bl... - Where is Jesus in The ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Yeah, that was a big complain I had with the hunger games when I reviewed it. Religion is too absent which is tragic because had they included it, it would have smoothed over many plot holes.

As far as culture on the whole... yeah, it's done its best to kick religious folk out and we've been too happy to leave.

13 years ago @ http://wardrobedoor.bl... - \"Christianity is a cr... · 0 replies · +1 points

Heh, a new form of the pascal's wager perhaps?

Maybe it is a crutch. And maybe you (hypothetical atheist) don't need it, but how do you know others don't? Maybe some do. In which case, it's considered pretty cruel to kick the crutch out from under an injured or lame man who does.

I'll have to remember that.

13 years ago @ http://wardrobedoor.bl... - 5 appalling facts abou... · 1 reply · +1 points

Read the post (and comments) here: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wwjtd/2013/04/kermit...

Apparently the answer is... yes. =(

13 years ago @ http://wardrobedoor.bl... - Why The Wardrobe Door? · 1 reply · +1 points

Heh, amazing how much we sound alike.

I was wanting to talk to you about Dr Who as I just recently watched a lot of it for the first time and there's lots to like... but some stuff I'm not liking as well. Whenever you're able, just drop me an email. (I think you should be able to get it from my profile in your blogging settings)

Heck, once I go through your archives, I might even reference some of your posts.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Futurama' Vol. 6' Blu... · 0 replies · +1 points

I did laugh some in movie 4 when the feministas got "the maximum sentence for running over the headless body of a vice president."

I think it was like... 2-4 weeks.

The show's dancing a line, but I don't think it's quite crossed it. If anything, I think they may have been trying to avoid some of the humor that would make them dated (like politics). I think they learned a lesson from "300 smackers".

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Nick Swardson: 'Born' ... · 0 replies · +3 points

Can't improve on what Furious D pointed out:Can't improve on what Furious D pointed out:
http://dknowsall.blogspot.com/2011/09/hollywood-b...
Bucky Larson fails because it crosses "the bay line".

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - University Professor C... · 0 replies · +2 points

Nah, quote from the movie:

"I aim to misbehave."

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Cowboys & Aliens' Rev... · 0 replies · +3 points

Nah, see I disagree.

The movie was pretty much perfectly designed. Trying to do much more with the story would have overwhelmed the structure the movie established and ruined the whole thing (examples: Transformers 2, AvP). Classic iconic movies are often those that keep things simple, but work the hell out of the basics.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Hollywood Reporter: 'C... · 0 replies · +6 points

Yesterday in the comments, someone quoted someone who said something the effect of “angst is much easier to write than nobility.” And this is very, very true. The same is true with sincerity over irony and inspirational over nihilism.

I'm also reminded of a passage from one of Lewis' Screwtape Letters.

"The general rule which we have now pretty well established among them is that in all experiences which can make them happier or better only the physical facts are “real,” while the spiritual elements are “subjective”; in all experiences which can discourage or corrupt them the spiritual elements are the main reality and to ignore them is to be an escapist. ...The hatefulness of a hated person is “real” – in hatred you see men as they are, you are disillusioned; but the loveliness of a loved person is merely a subjective haze concealing a “real” core of sexual appetite or economic association."

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Dark Knight Rises' Te... · 0 replies · +1 points

Can't we all just get beyond Thunderdome?

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