Mai72
Lifer
- Sep 12, 2012
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This isn't a movie for everyone. It's exhausting, it's full of really despicable people, and it's mighty depressing. But the acting is so terrific, the roles so strong, that you don't want to miss it.
To be fair: since we don't know anything factual about this event, you could film 3 space aliens engaging a brown turnip in debate whilst it is suspended over a dunk tank of boiling water and claim that it is just an accurate depiction of Christ's execution.
Personally, I watched about 20 minutes of Mel's anti-semitic tirade and changed the channel. Shame, because Mel has made some awesome flicks. Personally, I see no value in defining Christ by the way he died rather than the way he lived. The craziest and most deplorable of Christians seem to put great value in this part of the story, in my experience, and it always makes me wonder.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - 6/10
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - 6/10
Ugh, the highly unnecessary trilogy is over.
$20 to see the last one in IMAX 3D was not the smartest use of money, but friends were going and had an extra ticket...
I absolutely loved Lord of the Rings, and pretty much every single thing that was awesome about that trilogy seemed to have been left out of the Hobbit ones.
Because Prometheus was full of plot holes galore, it didn't feel complete. Plot holes is just the tip of the iceberg. I love Ridley Scott as well but there's just so much wrong with that movie.
Is there a better actor on our particular planet than Meryl Streep?
Defiance 6/10 boring
Argo 8/10 good effortby everyone involved.
The last movie I saw starring her was "The Iron Lady." Enjoyed it thoroughly. She was great.Is there a better actor on our particular planet than Meryl Streep?
I am glad the series is over and hope Peter Jackson moves away from Tolkien.
In case you didn't know, they place such great emphasis because, for whatever reason, us sinners could only be "saved" because God lived as the only sinless man and suffered / died / went to hell on behalf of all us sinners.
Juliette Lewis can play anything from a boozy, ditzy, oversexed twerp to another boozy, ditzy, oversexed twerp. I love her anyway!
Is that worth 8/10, though? I can't disagree on the directing, but the characters and story were too unreal. Or, is it that people in California really are as crazy as the rest of us like to think they are?Palo Alto - 8/10
Gia Coppola can direct, too, it appears![]()
Agreed. I caught it on TV again, this weekend. An awesome-bad movie, it is.Underworld: Awakening - 7/10
Underworld series is a guilty pleasure for me. I blissfully ignore the faults in them and just strap in for the ride.
Sure, but you are missing something pretty big. Jews and Hebrews needed innocent sacrificial lambs and doves and such to atone for their individual sins long before Jesus was a thing and Christians do not believe that you have truly accepted Jesus' atonement if you believe you can go on freely sinning and just ask for forgiveness. There is a distinct difference between repenting simply asking for forgiveness once the dirty deed has been done. Guess which one Christianity expects?Right; and this totally ignores all of his supposed teachings. Passion plays became popular in the middle ages because life just flat out sucked--and I believe this was the same time that heavy emphasis was first placed on the role of Jews in the trial and execution; fear of Jews being quite high in the 13th-14th centuries.
focusing on the violence and death as a means of salvation is tantamount to accepting that you are excused for anything you may do in life, as long as you just pray and ask for forgiveness.
Forget all the years of the dude's preaching--might as well whitewash it. Torture Porn and religion are an interesting combo to be sure, but I think pointing out to those that truly believe the veracity of what they are watching is mostly a late-period interpretation of an event, influenced entirely by contemporary fears and politics, would simply be over their heads.
My Cousin Vinny - 8.5/10 (Encore Classics)
Pretty damn good. MT was hawt.
One of my all time favorites. :thumbsup:
I probably never watched the whole thing start-to-finish before. I've probably only seen parts of it -- edited for TV (ugh).
Watched standard def() but still wide-screen
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