OT: Hit Movies that Blow Chunks - Page 5

Baron Munchausen · #41 October 7th, 2003, 11:05 PM

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Originally posted by Starhawk:
Yeah he was a preist....and what is Romanocentric?

Roman Catholic priests are (supposed to be) celibate. Anglican/Episcopalian priests are not. They can marry. I think 'Eastern Orthodox' priests can also. By assuming that a 'priest' must be a Roman Catholic priest you are being 'Romanocentric'.

[ October 07, 2003, 22:06: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

ZeroAdunn · #42 October 8th, 2003, 08:37 AM

Wow, I liked most of the movies listed here. I geuss I just have a bad taste in movies.

The only one I really have to agree with strongly is "The Postman" Which is sad, because it was based on such a good book. They cut out everything! Changed the whole story, and the ending (god aweful) They cut out the squire of sugarloaf mountain!!! He was a pivitol character! The problem is they took the main character and tried to make him something greater then he was. Arrgghhh! What's worse, they didn't even do a good job of making a completely different story, like with starship troopers, they just sort of meandered about doing nothing. And that ending, eck.

As for just about anything based on a true story: Men of Honor, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Airplane!

Of course, I am probably the only person to utter the phrase, "Oh my god, that movie is so terrible! I love it!

Starhawk · #43 October 8th, 2003, 12:46 PM

Oh and another movie that SUCKED was "LOST IN SPACE" I mean it was oooooookay if you let it grow on you but paying to see it was such a waste.

Okay well the term Preist is restricted to catholics (cept for eastern orthodox) Other denominations refer to them usually as follows:

Baptists: Preacher
Others: Minister

Thus the good ol' joke "A preist, a rabbi and a minister walk into a bar." ("Preist= Catholic, Rabbi= Jewish, Minister=Christian.)

There yah go :-)

And even if he was an "orthodox" preist he shouldn't be nailing someone after knowing her for all of one hour

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[ October 08, 2003, 11:47: Message edited by: Starhawk ]

dogscoff · #44 October 8th, 2003, 02:08 PM

What about vicars? Where do they fit in?

As for Lost in Space... so many plot holes I can't even be bothered to explain them. In fact i think I need to watch it again just to remind myself how bad it is.

Baron Munchausen · #45 October 8th, 2003, 09:47 PM

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
What about vicars? Where do they fit in?

As for Lost in Space... so many plot holes I can't even be bothered to explain them. In fact i think I need to watch it again just to remind myself how bad it is.

oh... my... god... they exported Lost in Space to other countries? It's a true wonder that we have -- erm, had -- any credibility left in the world even prior to the Shrub presidency.

Season one isn't so bad, but two and three are surreal in their awfulness. Have you seen 'The Great Vegetable Rebellion'???

Starhawk · #46 October 8th, 2003, 11:51 PM

We were talking about the 1997 movie....I think it was 97?

Loser · #47 October 9th, 2003, 12:06 AM

*LOST IN SPACE SPOILER*
Like it matters, but anyway...

At that moment in the film when the spaceship is destroyed and (almost) everybody dies there was a brief silence. It was just a couple of seconds, but the whole theater was quite for long enough for me to to stand up and cheer.

When I sat back down a friend hit me. All in all I think I won.

Loser · #48 October 9th, 2003, 01:27 AM

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Originally posted by Starhawk:
Okay well the term Preist is restricted to catholics (cept for eastern orthodox)

No, looks like the Anglicans do, indeed, call their clergy priests.

Also, though most Catholics are not aware, there are other non-protestant Christian churches, all of which predate the historical foundation of the Catholic church. That is, the adoption of Christianity as the State Religion of Rome.

These would be, among others, the Coptic Church, the Armenian Church, and the Jacobite Church. All of these have priests and bishops as well.

Erax · #49 October 9th, 2003, 09:59 PM

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Oh... my... god... they exported Lost in Space to other countries? It's a true wonder that we have -- erm, had -- any credibility left in the world even prior to the Shrub presidency.

Baron, you'd be surprised. We got all the Irwin Allen series down here. Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, Time Tunnel, Voyage Beneath the Sea (some of these names may be off because I know them by their names in Portuguese), all of which I watched as a kid. We got just about every series that ever was on American television, from the Muppets to Dallas, except the Brady Bunch and Beaver.

Most of the stuff produced from the 90s onwards, like Buffy or Babylon V, is only available on cable though. And cable is still expensive - not horrendously expensive as it was a few years ago, but still expensive - so I don't have it.

Heh, if you had inserted some subliminal pro-American propaganda into those shows back then, you'd have taken over the world without even trying.

TerranC · #50 October 9th, 2003, 11:30 PM

I was so disappointed by Lost in Space...

But then again, Wing Commander came pretty close...

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