TV/Movies Megathread

[Neil]

In Hollywood practicing Buddhism is pretty much like those frozen yogurt places and cupcake stands.  A fad.

still, not a theist

Eh... Buddhism has gods.  They just have a different name.  Either way it's not the strict materialism of an Atheist.

For the love of god, don't get Viking talking about religion.  Even if he's wrong, correcting him isn't worth the consequences.

[Ed Anger]

The Ten Commandments up to the intermission.  Don't anybody spoil this for me.  It's just getting good. :joos:

Seriously, a fucking amazing movie.  They just don't make these anymore.  A Noah movie?  Unsalable.  Evan Almighty?  WHERE DO I DELIVER YOUR CHECK, YOU GENIUS?

I guess the last gasp of the mass audience Biblical epic was either Prince of Egypt or The Passion of the Christ, and The Passion of the Christ... actually, I'd say about roughly as suitable for children as the G-rated Ten Commandments, which features child genocide in its first scene, then numerous murders, chattel slavery, industrial accidents involving an old woman almost getting crushed beneath a ten-ton stone block, at least one implicit suggestion of rape, numerous explicit suggestions of rape, torture, mass human misery, and in the next part child genocide again.

Also, I love love love love the credits--"based upon the HOLY SCRIPTURES and other ancient and modern writings."  Classic.

And Charlton Heston?  Has there ever been a brighter star to grace our silver screens?  Outstanding.

Now wash it down with BEN HUR.

[jimmy olsen]

In Hollywood practicing Buddhism is pretty much like those frozen yogurt places and cupcake stands.  A fad.

still, not a theist

A devout practitioner of Mahayana Buddhism is certainly a theist by an conventional definition of the term. 

[Josquius]

The buddhism fad was yeaaaaarrrrrrrs ago.

[garbon]

I'm also a bit baffled how it's always the open atheists who end up playing god in movies.

Alanis played God and she isn't really an atheist.

Personal life

Morissette was raised in a devout Roman Catholic family, and now practices Buddhism.[citation needed]

So, yeah, her to.

(and if you are going to argue that being a Buddhist means she isn't an atheist you are wrong, If necessary I'll quote the Dali Lama at you)

I think her religious beliefs are a bit more complex than that. When I saw her speak last fall, she spoke several times about God though referred to her as a she.

[Martinus]

I'm also a bit baffled how it's always the open atheists who end up playing god in movies.

Why is that baffling? I would imagine playing god would seem either sacrilegous/blasphemous (if that was their own god) or heretical/idol-worshipping (if it was someone else's god) to many religious people.

[lustindarkness]

OZ the Great & Powerful, good movie, well done, liked it a lot.

To those talking shit about the Fast and Furius movies a few pages back. They are entertaining movies, not works of art.

[CountDeMoney]

To those talking shit about the Fast and Furius movies a few pages back. They are entertaining movies, not works of art.

Vin Diesel is an abomination that must be stopped.  Same goes for destroying American muscle cars, a precious and increasingly rare resource that needs to be preserved.

[garbon]

To those talking shit about the Fast and Furius movies a few pages back. They are entertaining movies, not works of art.

So double fail as they also fail to entertain?

[11B4V]

To those talking shit about the Fast and Furius movies a few pages back. They are entertaining movies, not works of art.

Vin Diesel is an abomination that must be stopped.  Same goes for destroying American muscle cars, a precious and increasingly rare resource that needs to be preserved.

That is reason enough.

[lustindarkness]

The new Fast and Furious 6 movie trailer shows a Cuda, I sure hope they do not destroy it.

[Queequeg]

So, yeah, her to.

(and if you are going to argue that being a Buddhist means she isn't an atheist you are wrong, If necessary I'll quote
the Dali Lama at you)

You're an idiot. The Dalai Lama doesn't repesent 10% of the Mahayana Buddhist population.

[viper37]

To those talking shit about the Fast and Furius movies a few pages back. They are entertaining movies, not works of art.

So double fail as they also fail to entertain?

I was entertained.

[CountDeMoney]

I realize most of you hateful anti-religious types that read too much in college like to fling pooh at great length over any discussion involving religion, but this is the TVMovies thread.

[Tonitrus]

I didn't see what happened in the recent Walking Dead as that big of a shock, after all [spoiler]Merle was bound to go out sooner or later, and he got in much more a blaze of glory than I would have anticipated.  Daryl is going on a Governor-manhunt for sure, tho.[/spoiler]