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#213233
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The Da Vinci Code Movie
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At my school, which is also on the grounds of St. Bernard Abbey, one of the priests there faced sexual misconduct accusations, but everyone who's ever known him knows it's bullshit, because A) he's just not the type of person that would do that, and B) he's been wheelchair-bound/bed-ridden for most of his life. So when you hear about all these charges, ya kinda have to stop and wonder about just how many of them are true.
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#213166
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The Da Vinci Code Movie
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donno if its quite that dramatic, i.e. the monostaries keeping record and thus without them we wouldnt have the written word. you forget about the role of ireland in the dark ages, and europe isnt the only place in the work that was civilized, in fact after the fall of rome all of europe was like a backwater area to the world, europe was like the 3rd world, now one went there and no one cared. the centers of the world were china, india and the middle east.


I didn't say the ENTIRE written word, but without those monasteries (and yes, a good many of them were in Ireland), we wouldn't have such writings as The Bible, "Beowulf", "The Canterbury Tales", "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", and other pieces of literature to that effect. That's why if you read Beowulf, you will see references to both Christianity and such pagan ideas as "wyrd", which more or less means "fate". This is because (and this is the current hypothesis, mind you) the original story was pagan, and when it was copied copied by the monks, the Christian elements were added.
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#212768
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The Da Vinci Code Movie
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See, the thing is, the whole Catholic monarchy thing may have been a problem in the past, but in the modern age when a good many people have no respect for organized religion, the Church really doesn't have the power to do anything. I hear people say things about no agreeing with the papacy and things like that, and I stop and think, "Wait, when was the last time the papacy really DID anything? Vatican II in the 60s?!"

When talking about the "real" Christians, also don't forget the monks and nuns who go about preaching and doing charity and missionary work. I believe those are just as important as the "lay folks".

Another thing I learned this past year at school is that if it weren't for the Church in the Middle Ages (monasteries more specifically), a lot of our classic literature, and quite possibly our written language, would have been lost, because the monks were the only people that copied books and manuscripts until the printing press came around.

And lastly, ADM:
(insert Jack Nicholson voice here) he ... was the #1 ... guyyyyy


That made me chuckle.

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#212715
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Just Saw The Unaltered Trilogy For The First Time...
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I know exactly where you're coming from, Darth_Evil. I'm 17, and it frustrates me when people tell me how great the 2005 King Kong is, and when I bring up the 1933 Kong (which I love), they go "OLD ONE SUX, LOL!!!11!1".

And yeah, same with Star Wars. My friends think I'm stupid just because I didn't like Episode III (or the other two for that matter).

Come to think of it, they think I'm stupid just because I thought "Da Vinci Code" was lame. Eh, who cares, I'm the one that's trying to make movies for a living one day, not them.
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#212710
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The Da Vinci Code Movie
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My point is, is that somehow we've gotten to the point where we must respect the Muslims and other religions, but it is cool and ok to bash the Christians. We must respect African American's, but it is cool and ok to bash white people. We must respect women, but it is cool and ok to bash men.

I've often wondered about this myself. It's like when I hear people complain that freedom of speech in this country is becoming a lot less free, and I can't help but think "People bash the President, the government, religion, and Lord knows what else, and you say we're LESS free?!"

What you said reminded me of this article I read not that long ago:

From The Best Page in the Universe


The label "African American" is the dumbest, most persistently used phrase in our vernacular. Every time you call someone an "African American," you're making at least two assumptions about the person:

1. That the person is an American. For example, if you saw this guy walking along on a street, you would probably think:

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/images/african_american_lol2.jpg

...which is fine, except for one small detail: this man is British, which makes you a presumptuous cock.

2. That the person is African (because it's inconceivable that black people could come from Haiti, India, Trinidad, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Australia, or Jamaica). Nevermind that; BLACK PEOPLE ONLY COME FROM AFRICA.

Not to mention that every time you give a black person the distinction of being "African American" out of a mixed group, you're making an assumption about an entire continent; not everyone from Africa is black. I guarantee all you politically correct morons out there have never called a white person an African American. Of course you could avoid all these problems by using the same standards on blacks as you would on whites by simply assuming that all whites are from Africa just as you do for all blacks, but that might be too forward, and in a polite society like ours, people would be all too pleased to point out which of the 192 countries you didn't guess they were actually from.
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#212696
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The Da Vinci Code Movie
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Yeah, but the thing is, that comparison doesn't work because the story of Christ hasn't changed a whole heck of a lot in the last 2000 years. The gospels were written within a century after his death, and Church Tradition has held other teachings over time, very few of them having any significant changes. Church customs and things of that nature have had significant changes, but the actual doctrine and central beliefs surrounding Christ have changed very little.
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#211675
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The Da Vinci Code Movie
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[movie reference] Nanner is not coming on anything! [/movie reference]

Seriously though, Chalts, I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree on National Treasure. I thought that one was a turd. It was sort of like a half-ass Indiana Jones rip-off.

And speaking of indy rip-offs, there was a shameless one in Da Vinci Code near the beginning, where Silas smashes through the floor of a cathedral with a metal post. Sound familiar?
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#211628
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Should Lucus make 4,5 and 6 over?
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Makes me really, really hate the stupid backflip that Tyrannus did in III. I wanted so badly to cut that out of my edit, but it wouldn't explain how he got from point A to point B.


Easy.

-Shot of Tyranus walking up to railing.

-Cut to close-up of Anakin or other character on other side of room, with some rustling sounds.

-Cut to shot of Tyranus on the ground.

Ba-da-bing. There ya go!


And yeah, Lucas remaking the OT is the dumbest idea in the history of bad ideas. It's almost as bad as someone remaking, say..... "The Omen"!

Oh, wait.........
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#211595
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The Da Vinci Code Movie
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I really, really, REALLY hope the book was better than the movie. I have yet to read the book, but after seeing the movie, I don't know if I want to.

This movie was.........well, for lack of better words, stupid. And I was reminded very much of National Treasure.

The acting was flat (except for Sir Ian McKellan, of course), the dialogue was dull, and the movie itself boring. And I don't get bored by movies easily, first of all. I don't need lots of action in a movie for me to enjoy it. But this one was just......dull.

Not to mention that the plot itself was prepposterous. I actually laughed at the whole Last Supper painting revelation scene. But then again, that's just me.

Even though I say this movie is stupid though, I love it. I love it in the same way I love "Plan 9 from Outer Space"; it's so bad, so preposterous, so stupid, that I can't help but love it.