Posted on 05/11/2006 2:24:48 PM PDT by freakboy
Hanks has not been in a decent movie since
'The Green Mile'
I got turned off on him when he started "issue" films like "Philadelphia".
He's pseudo-deep and pseudo-wholesome.
I kinda thought he did okay in Apollo 13 and Saving Private Ryan.
You're right, it's an absolute double-standard. That should be the basis for the uproar.
I have a hard time with people who are upset about the movie because some people, even Christians, will believe that this fictional account of Jesus is real. There are already many current myths about Jesus, and anyone who gets their information about Him from a movie is a ding-a-ling.
We can't wipe out ignorance, but we can stand up to the promotion of double-standards.
LOL!!
Another rant from a Hollywood Idiot. Especially when the promotional posters for the film state:
"DISCOVER THE TRUTH"
What a hippocrite.
A man named Pierre Plantard forged documents purporting that Jesus and Mary Magdalene has children whose descendants became the royal family of France. Plantard seeded various archives with these forgeries, then arranged for his cohorts to "discover" them. It was a hoax that forms the supposed "factual" basis for Brown's novel.
All of this is in the service of persuading people that Christian sexual morality is a lie, imposed on us power-mad, killjoy priests.
Boo Hoo Tom Hanks....
Wonder if Da Vinci will to better than Terminal?
I agree that the double standard is the issue here. Had a similar film been made about Islam, it would never see the light of day. As with the Danish cartoons, it would be supressed at the altar of "religious sensitivity". A sensitivity that appears to only be applicable to muslims.
Would you consider someone writing about John Wilkes Booth, two hundred years after Booth assassinated President Lincoln, claiming that Booth and Lincoln were in fact wonderfully close friends and that Lincoln asked Booth to assassinate him in order to end the Civil War and assure his place in American History as a revered figure, which he was not at that time, or would you rather read things written by people who were alive at the assignation, knew each man, and even perhaps witnessed the event, may have even been friends and/or family members, doctors, etc.?
That is the same "historical references" as defined by Brown.
I always kind of liked Tom Hanks. Now I think he's a piece of trash.
yes you are correct. he forged the "ancient" documents totally this all is known and admitted. But the author acts like it's true because well, he wants to make a gazillion dollars.
He's pseudo-fine, gonna blow my pseudo-mind!
I hear a Carla Thomas song in there somewhere.
-- Truman Capote
>>It's a damn good story and a lot of fun... all it is is
>>dialogue. That never hurts"
>What an incredibly stupid statement.
>Perhaps there should be an independent film that contains
>dialogue describing Mr. Hanks attempt at intercourse with an
>8 month old child? Surely such fiction would never hurt.
Thank you, for exploding a lie, in all of it's multicultural, diversity pushing, worthlessness.
A+. Head of the class.
Tell that to all the people prosecuted for "hate crimes".
Maybe that's "Claus Von Bulow"?
I hear a Carla Thomas song in there somewhere.
The Chiffons did that one. And George Harrison plagiarized them in My Sweet Lord.
"A sensitivity that appears to only be applicable to muslims."...........
.......and any other "people of color". Don't forget, Tammy Bruce, former head of NOW, was chastised by her fellow feminists for showing "racial insensitivity" when she organized a rally on behalf of battered women after OJ Simpson was aquitted.
If you're a person of color, you can kill your wife and beat the crap out of gays, and the feminists and gay rights activists won't say a word because you're already "oppressed" and therefore, cannot be an "oppressor".
That's Cultural Marxism 101.
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