TV/Movies Megathread

[11B4V]

In Time (2011).  What if Andrew Niccol remade his early masterpiece Gattaca, and it wasn't very good?

It was alright. Not worth 10 paragraphs thinking about though.

Same, it was just OK.

[Darth Wagtaros]

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)

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

[Viking]

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

still, not a theist

[11B4V]

Anyone following Grant vs. Lee or To Appomattox mini series due out this year. Some of the actor chioces....

[Ideologue]

In Time (2011).  What if Andrew Niccol remade his early masterpiece Gattaca, and it wasn't very good?

It was alright. Not worth 10 paragraphs thinking about though.

Andrew Niccol turning in a film of mediocrity instead of an A+ wondermovie, especially upon return to the genre that made him, is worth thinking about at length.  I mean, I didn't make any comparisons in the write-up, because it's been so long since I've seen it, but even S1m0ne was much better.

It's even more relevant, because The Host comes out Friday.  I'm hoping In Time was the fluke, not the new baseline for Niccol's second decade making movies.

[dps]

You'll vote for anybody who looks good on tv and hasn't said or done anything of consequence.

That explains pretty much every US President of my lifetime except Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and maybe Bush the Elder.

[Razgovory]

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.

[HVC]

Gotta say I didn't see that coming on the walking dead.

[Viking]

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.

I know I shouldn't but seriously, you neither know what Buddhism is or a Bodhisattva is they are not gods, they are enlightened souls, they are more like the Operating Thetans of scientology than objects of apotheosis. Secondly Atheism only says anything about a deity, nothing else, you don't need to be a materialist to be an atheist, but it helps.

[Ideologue]

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.

[Eddie Teach]

Buddhism doesn't just mean one thing. Some buddhists are definitely theists, some probably not.

[Ideologue]

Buddhism doesn't just mean one thing. Some buddhists are definitely theists, some probably not.

I think Moses could kick any given Buddhist's ass.

[Eddie Teach]

Moses Malone? Probably.

[Razgovory]

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.

I know I shouldn't but seriously, you neither know what Buddhism is or a Bodhisattva is they are not gods, they are enlightened souls, they are more like the Operating Thetans of scientology than objects of apotheosis. Secondly Atheism only says anything about a deity, nothing else, you don't need to be a materialist to be an atheist, but it helps.

If you want to consider the veneration and propitiation of powerful supernatural beings that were often worshiped as gods, (for example Hercules http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%C5%8D  or Indra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Aakra_%28Buddhism%29 . prior to Buddhism inline with atheism, you go ahead.

[CountDeMoney]

Gotta say I didn't see that coming on the walking dead.

Yeah, that was certainly a role reversal out of left field.