[Rummyfan]

With all the ROTS hype this week, a little break from that.

[Rummyfan]

Ping again!

[martin_fierro]

She thinks nothing of riding out into the desert, dropping her veil and shagging like a minx.

Coffee, meet sinuses.

[Slings and Arrows]

All shots report hit...target destroyed!

[deadmuas]

I lasted until about 1/2 way thru then walked out thinking I will get to see the action part on DVD. If I never see Bloom act again it will be oo soon, he should have done what Mel did and used unknown actors.

[SkyPilot]

bump

[SIDENET]

Hold that thought, because certainly nobody held it in 1187

Good slam from Steyn.

[dennisw]

What sarcasm and wit!! Steyn has penned the best review yet.

[goldstategop]

Secular liberals are estranged from religion. The movie may have a medieval look to it - but it does NOT have a medieval feel to it. In the Middle Ages, faith was the center of every one's life from birth to death. Even secular literature is theocentric in the sense that people are living and acting out their faith in the every day world. Its a world that's long gone but Hollywood is not one to capture it for modern movie goers. Enlightened individuals no longer think much of or about religion - if they think about it at all. To rephrase a cliche, there's no Heaven in Ridley Scott's Kingdom!

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[wizardoz]

I figured. I'll wait till it comes out on DVD and ... probably still skip it.

[deadmuas]

Sir Norman Wisdom (check availability)

Guffaw

[deadmuas]

Sir Norman

[Last Dakotan]

‘I’m not really into movies.’

After reading this, me either.

[Bullish]

This peice of crap movie will hit DVD with dull thud.

[Frank_2001]

Great article!

[swilhelm73]

Oh, and who do we get for Saladin? We need someone cool, measured, wise — not like these religious-right moral-majority nuts on the Christian side. Someone tall, dark and handsome. Hey, how about Osama bin Laden? Oh, okay, if we’ve been faxing the cave for two months and he still won’t play ball, let’s make do with Ghassan Massoud, who’s a close enough Osama bin Ladalike, at least in the long shots.

Of course Saladin *was* a religious fanatic. He followed in the footsteps of Nur-ad-Din and Zengi in using jihad to unify the fractured Muslim states in the near east to re-re-conquer the Levant.

Saladin's brilliance was in keeping the mass murder and mass enslavement comparitively low to reduce the scale of European intervention.

It was after all not even the Muslim conquest of the Christian Holy Land that brought about the Crusades, but what the Fatamids were doing to pilgrims and Latin Christians there.*

*And the Byzantine Emperor's request for help of course.

[Roscoe Karns]

"I'd feel better about this Crusade if the men under my command were not such homophobic swine."
"And not a pro-choicer among them, M'lord!"

[Watery Tart]

*snort*

*chortle*

*lol*

*LOL AGAIN*

Bump!

[guitfiddlist]

Steyn is a master swordsman, deftly slicing the Ludicrous to shreds. He's dead on target with this ridiculous Hollywood practice of transporting "progressivism" back into ages when they would have laughed themselves silly at the stupidity that it is and has always been, if they could even understand this braindead philosophy in the first place.

Reminds me of a Shakespeare play I saw when I first got to the Bay area, put on by local community college students. Although the dialog was faithful to the word, I couldn't help but hearing, "Perchance, dude, I can catch some Z's and snag a dream or two."

[samtheman]

‘I put no stock in religion.’ Eight centuries ago,

Eight centuries ago, people didn't put stock in religion, they put stock in god. Religion wasn't a category --- like on a directory of a mall, where the shoe stores are grouped together, and the restaurants --- but what people were. Everyone was "religious". God was an underlying assumption of life that virtually everyone accepted, the best, the worst, and the vast middle. For the hollyweirds to miss the point of history so completely...well, that's what hollyweirds do... miss the point.