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- #213680
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- Graduation Day
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- #213632
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- The Da Vinci Code Movie
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213632/action/topic#213632
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- #213248
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- Bond, James Bond
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213248/action/topic#213248
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- #213233
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- The Da Vinci Code Movie
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213233/action/topic#213233
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- #213226
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- Motivational poster maker
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213226/action/topic#213226
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- #213202
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- The Chronology of How My love for Lucas has fallen
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213202/action/topic#213202
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- #213192
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- The Da Vinci Code Movie
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213192/action/topic#213192
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- #213177
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- What scene in the (O-)OT do you hate/dislike the most?
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What do people feel about the "Wilhelm" scream? It's so iconic that it's used in a lot of different TV shows and movies now. It's not even an in-joke anymore. I kinda just roll my eyes now when I hear it.
I love the Wilhelm! For some reason, it always makes me laugh
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- #213166
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- The Da Vinci Code Movie
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213166/action/topic#213166
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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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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212768/action/topic#212768
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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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- #212759
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- Photography submit your pics!!!!!
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212759/action/topic#212759
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- #212715
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- Just Saw The Unaltered Trilogy For The First Time...
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212715/action/topic#212715
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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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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212710/action/topic#212710
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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:

...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.
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:

...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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- #212701
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- Myspace
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212701/action/topic#212701
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- #212699
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- 1997 & 2000 VHS Boxset Differences?
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212699/action/topic#212699
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*mumbles*yeah, and I've also got the 2004 DVDs too.....
But hey, at least I only own one SE incarnation! I don't even have the '97 versions!
Oh wait, I have Boba Feta/ Dark_Jedi's LD transfers of those. Never mind.
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- #212696
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- The Da Vinci Code Movie
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212696/action/topic#212696
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- #211675
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- The Da Vinci Code Movie
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211675/action/topic#211675
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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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- #211630
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- The Da Vinci Code Movie
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211630/action/topic#211630
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Oddly enough, both movies involved the Knights Templar. Is it some kind of unwritten rule that all movies involving the Knights Templar have to suck or something?
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- #211628
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- Should Lucus make 4,5 and 6 over?
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211628/action/topic#211628
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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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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211595/action/topic#211595
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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.
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- #211332
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- Nintendo Wii
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211332/action/topic#211332
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- #211323
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- YIYF's Long Bridge Club
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211323/action/topic#211323
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- #211296
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- Handsome Men
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211296/action/topic#211296
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Originally posted by: Shimraa
no i was talking about the otehr guy above. but yes orlando is strange as well, the long blond hair is confusing the only people i have ever seen with hair like that are good lookin blonds.
no i was talking about the otehr guy above. but yes orlando is strange as well, the long blond hair is confusing the only people i have ever seen with hair like that are good lookin blonds.
That's ocpmovie
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- #210341
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- Rankings
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/210341/action/topic#210341
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- #210340
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- Tourettes Guy
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/210340/action/topic#210340
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