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Orlando Bloom Crusades in 'Kingdom of Heaven'
Hollywood Confidential ^ | April 30th, 2005

Posted on 04/29/2005 1:00:01 PM PDT by missyme

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To: ReeseKev27

last time I checked, the crusades are over and there are no sides to BE on.....


141 posted on 04/29/2005 2:27:49 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (MikeinIraq in 2020!!)
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To: Borges

The problem is...I don't think he played the guy as a creep. I don't mind when a creep is played like a creep, but when creeps are glorified...well, the actor doesn't have to take the role. It's a moral choice.


144 posted on 04/29/2005 2:29:35 PM PDT by what's up
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To: Old Sarge
Orlando Bloom, on the set of "Lord of the Rings", was bashing my mission in Iraq.

Oh no, really? I'm sorry to hear that. I really liked him in that movie, and in Pirates of the Caribbean. Maybe he'll mature and reconsider...

145 posted on 04/29/2005 2:30:08 PM PDT by American Quilter
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To: Borges

How awful to be forced into that role and forced to talk about how awful that the eeeevil conservative "moralists" made Kinsey's life so miserable.

So sad that actors have to lie about their feelings for a person so that they can work.


146 posted on 04/29/2005 2:30:10 PM PDT by stands2reason (It's 2005, and two wrongs still don't make a right.)
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To: what's up

Good actors tend to gravitate to playing people completely unlike themselves as a professional challenge. I saw the movie and he was portrayed as a guy with a lot of personal problems.


147 posted on 04/29/2005 2:31:12 PM PDT by Borges
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To: stands2reason

What boils down to is you're thinking about this in terms of 'what moral effect will this film have on the general populace' as opposed to people who think of it in terms of 'this is an interesting story and a good role'.


149 posted on 04/29/2005 2:33:24 PM PDT by Borges
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To: ReeseKev27
Check out "The Siege of Firebase Gloria". Its a great movie with R. Lee Emery (sp?) and while it does show some drug use, I believe it's not a liberal Vietnam movie.
150 posted on 04/29/2005 2:33:33 PM PDT by A Texan (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: MikeinIraq
I doubt that's true. I really think you're equivocation of Christians with Muslims is not very thoughtful, not true, nor very historic.

My very liberal sister told me back in 1985, that Communism was just another form of Government..........she was and still is very ignorant about that. You seem to have bought into the view that all religions are equally corrupt and viscous. Comparing Muslim v. Christian in conquest and slaughter is simply not historically accurate at all.

151 posted on 04/29/2005 2:33:50 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Whatever...................................................................:-)
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To: Lakeshark

I think Sarge's point (and if it's not, it's mine) was that Hollywood in general is viscerally anti-American and viscerally anti-Christian and to expect that this movie is not skewed in its attempt to help the liberal cause is a bit naive

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No truer words have been spoken! The great irony is that the psuedo-intellectual actors (most of them only have a high school diploma) love misrepresenting history while lecturing to the rest of us poor slobs about how full of hate and ignorance we are for not worshipping there every qoute. Meanwhile, Hollywierd continues to slide into oblivion and is only capable of bringing in the teenage date crowd (got to take your girl somewhere on the weekend) for most of their propaganda movies:

The Alamo - Texas americans evil, mexican general who slaughters them good
King Arthur - Christian priests evil, pagan worshipping natives and arabic mercenaries good
Alexander the Great - Forget he kicked major butt and halted the Persian empire in its tracks before it could take over Europe, the most important thing is he was bisexual and therefore gay
Sin City - Canabalistic catholic priest evil, nazis and christians equivalent, sociopathic killers good
Kingdom of Heaven - Christians evil, Muslims good

Interesting pattern, and this is just a small sample, KOH will most likely bomb like the rest of them.


152 posted on 04/29/2005 2:33:52 PM PDT by Gen-X-Dad
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To: Dares of Phrygia

Oh, certainly. I'm not suggesting that the Church wasn't concerned by the schism with the East... I was just questioning Age of Reason's logic that they wanted the holy land in order to make themselves appear the legitimate church...


153 posted on 04/29/2005 2:33:56 PM PDT by LiveBait
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To: A Texan

A lot of people didn't notice that Ermey had a bit part in Apocalype Now! He's a great character.


155 posted on 04/29/2005 2:35:10 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Lakeshark

doubt all you like, but that is what I am seeing and I was just over in the ME for the past year. Historical information tends to support my assumption too.

Unless you can disprove that in anyway, I dont think you can say much.


156 posted on 04/29/2005 2:36:40 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (MikeinIraq in 2020!!)
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To: Old Sarge
I hate Hollywood.

You misspelled Hollyweird. ;^)

157 posted on 04/29/2005 2:36:57 PM PDT by Samwise (We apologize for the inconvenience.)
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To: Gen-X-Dad
Sin City was about nihilism. It was based on a group of equally nihilistic comic books. It doesn't really make sense to judge it morally anymore then it does to judge Tarantino's work morally (he had a hand in it as well).
158 posted on 04/29/2005 2:37:00 PM PDT by Borges
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To: missyme
>and religion itself (both Christianity and Islam) is reduced to little more than a source of fanaticism

Did the movie "Troy"
even mention the Greek gods
or that religion?!

159 posted on 04/29/2005 2:37:24 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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