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Re: Re: Very nice review... (Reply to this comment)
by chelledun
Don't need lighters...we have music video style laser lights shooting around :).
I just got home from seeing the movie and found it to be mediocre. It entertained me, though, so I can't really complain too much!
Michelle
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May 19 '06
7:59 pm PDT
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by mothra3
I can allow that Brown is a wax zombie, but who's doing the ghost writing?
(I said: I know you're incorrigible, but I don't take you for a grump.)
You replied:
You're a rare one, good sir. When I compile a volume of Critical Acclaim for Søren Rask, that'll be on the first page.
Well, you see, curmudgeon would work beautifully, except you don't strike me as old enough to be a curmudgeon. Grumpy is too smurfish for you.
And as for the Vitruvian Man, do you think your hair is long enough? With your sprightly curmudgeon-ness, I'm sure you can manage the scowl...
now atheist and... um... theist (I use this term as I am unaware of your exact religious alignment) can occupy the same comment section without throwing any cyber-punches.
It's true, I'm a g-d papist, Soren. But I don't take my pablum from Benny's good hand, I graduated from the high chair long ago.
But theist sounds fine to me...my "scriptures" include Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas... (Sorry, Luther, the Bible alone doesn't cut it.) I happened to be lucky enough to happen upon the best philosophy course in the Western World during college, taught by (of all things) a Catholic priest. This was one of those rare humans who exude wisdom--as cheesy as that may sound. You know how when you meet someone and all you have to do is look at them, and you can just tell they're sharper than Poe's pendulum? That accident was probably what put me down my theist path rather than your a-theist path.
Ok, enough. Thanks for taking the time to comment, I always enjoy hearing from fellow curmudgeons.
the moth
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May 18 '06
8:02 pm PDT
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by mothra3
Who is heralding this book as a historically valid text? That frightens me. I mean, it's fun, it's interesting in a head-scratching sort of way, but anyone who's got any cultural savvy can see the fancy painted scrims here.
It's a neat idea, sure, but if you read any of Dan Brown's other books, you'll find he's a formula guy: take canned plot, add a few fresh and saucy details, simmer for at least 50 (? I forget how many...) brief chapters until book collapses on itself and any readers with a clue about how things really work (all .025% of us?) laugh their heads off...voila, New York Times Bestseller. Seriously, every book is exactly the same (that is, the three I read before I got sick of the canned plot...)!
And as for you, Soren, I know you're incorrigible, but I don't take you for a grump.
God-wads: those people who take themselves (in their displaced-self-righteous-fanaticism) waaaaaay too seriously. We're talking like the 11th/12th century Crusaders here: "GOD WILLS IT!!!" God wills what? That you die like idiots in the sand? OK, well, if you insist...
Now there's a group that needed an eject button! But who needs an H for heretic? It's an anachronistic term if ever there was one. How about just B for buttheads?
You and I may come from different sides of the religious spectrum, but we seem to be pretty much in agreement!
the moth
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May 18 '06
5:59 pm PDT
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Re: Very nice review... (Reply to this comment)
by mothra3
Hi Michelle,
I can't decide whether I want to see it or not...I sort of liked the book, even though the reasoning drove me nuts sometimes. It's a good thing I can think for myself, eh? Just think what jeopardy my soul might be in if I believed everything I read in splashy pop novels!
Of course, given the reviews, it sounds like a crashing bore. I'll probably wait till it comes out on video.
So do you guys fire up your lighters occasionally at church when the rock band really gets you goin? Sounds pretty wild.
Thanks for the r/r/c and hope you enjoy the movie tomorrow night!
the moth
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May 18 '06
5:37 pm PDT
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Very nice review... (Reply to this comment)
by chelledun
I'm a huge movie lover and I can't WAIT to see the film. I've already got my tickets for the 7:00 p.m. show tomorrow!
I agree that the reaction here is all wrong. My Christian church is actually doing a Da Vinci Code themed series, complete with a guy crashing through the ceiling in a black suit to steal a fake Mona Lisa painting. We tend to be on the liberal side, as indicated by the giant music-video style screens and rock band.
A movie is a movie, and this looks like a great one. Nice piece.
Michelle
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May 18 '06
4:34 pm PDT
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