With all the ROTS hype this week, a little break from that.
1 posted on
05/20/2005 7:07:23 PM PDT by
Rummyfan
To: Pokey78
2 posted on
05/20/2005 7:13:42 PM PDT by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan; Constitution Day
She thinks nothing of riding out into the desert, dropping her veil and shagging like a minx. Coffee, meet sinuses.
To: Rummyfan
All shots report hit...target destroyed!
4 posted on
05/20/2005 7:35:58 PM PDT by
Slings and Arrows
("Robert Byrd:He may have 'gone under the water,' but the preacher didn't hold him down long enough.")
To: Rummyfan
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.
5 posted on
05/20/2005 7:36:17 PM PDT by
deadmuas
To: Rummyfan
7 posted on
05/20/2005 7:41:09 PM PDT by
SkyPilot
To: Rummyfan
Hold that thought, because certainly nobody held it in 1187 Good slam from Steyn.
8 posted on
05/20/2005 7:42:54 PM PDT by
SIDENET
(the epicenter of digital snarkiness)
To: Rummyfan
What sarcasm and wit!! Steyn has penned the best review yet.
10 posted on
05/20/2005 7:48:05 PM PDT by
dennisw
(He writes everything's been returned which was owed...)
To: Rummyfan
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".)
11 posted on
05/20/2005 7:51:04 PM PDT by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Rummyfan
I figured. I'll wait till it comes out on DVD and ... probably still skip it.
12 posted on
05/20/2005 7:56:07 PM PDT by
wizardoz
(Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they AREN'T out to get you.)
To: Rummyfan
Sir Norman Wisdom (check availability) Guffaw
14 posted on
05/20/2005 8:14:06 PM PDT by
deadmuas
To: Rummyfan
Sir Norman
15 posted on
05/20/2005 8:16:10 PM PDT by
deadmuas
To: Rummyfan
Im not really into movies.After reading this, me either.
To: Rummyfan
This peice of crap movie will hit DVD with dull thud.
17 posted on
05/20/2005 8:31:14 PM PDT by
Bullish
To: Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
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 weve been faxing the cave for two months and he still wont play ball, lets make do with Ghassan Massoud, whos 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.
20 posted on
05/20/2005 9:16:51 PM PDT by
swilhelm73
(Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. --Lord Acton)
To: Rummyfan
"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!"
To: Rummyfan
*snort*
*chortle*
*lol*
*LOL AGAIN*
Bump!
24 posted on
05/21/2005 2:22:18 AM PDT by
Watery Tart
(Let the troof be toad. ®)
To: Rummyfan
Steyn is a master s
wordsman, 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."
25 posted on
05/21/2005 2:53:55 AM PDT by
guitfiddlist
(When the 'Rats break out switchblades, it's no time to invoke Robert's Rules.)
To: Rummyfan
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.
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