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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:19 pm Post subject: After 300... Paradise Lost? |
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http://imdb.com/title/tt0484138/
They seem to be making a movie based on Milton's Paradise Lost. Lucifer and the other fallen angels go all Rambo on the fancy pants arch angels. Could be cool.
The director, Scott Derrickson, seems to direct crap:
# The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
# Hellraiser: Inferno (2000) (V)
Still, cool idea. The fundies and Muslims will dump a load. |
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Bibbitybop

Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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The fundies and Muslims will dump a load. |
Fundamentalists shouldn't complain. Many fundies get their ideology from stories like Paradise Lost and Dante's Inferno. Read the Left Behind series and compare it to what is really in the Bible. Though the LB series is fiction, many people still follow its ideas. Many concepts of Satan are also derived from stories written after the Bible's time.
If they still want to complain, remind them they are lucky to practice their harmful religion in the USA. |
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Zoobot

Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:28 am Post subject: |
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This is going to be so predictable: Lucifer and his fallen angels are going to be hideous, disfigured, freakish, and ugly, and the angels of heaven are going to be aryan supermodels and buff, shirtless dudes.
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mithridates

Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:31 am Post subject: Re: After 300... Paradise Lost? |
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mindmetoo wrote: |
The fundies and Muslims will dump a load. |
How so? |
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mishlert

Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Location: On the 3rd rock from the sun
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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The director of 300, Zack Snyder is going to be making Watchmen, based on Alan Moore's graphic novel series of the same name. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:29 pm Post subject: Re: After 300... Paradise Lost? |
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mithridates wrote: |
mindmetoo wrote: |
The fundies and Muslims will dump a load. |
How so? |
Well, if I remember my D&D days, the fundies took particular offense to a game with "real" demons and devils. And more to the point, there was a big controversy about a Dragon magazine article that turned various "real" angels into D&D monsters. Fundies don't like the idea of people getting their freak on slaughtering arch angels 'n' crap. In Islam (which takes many of the angels from the bible), angels are an important article of faith. In many non-fundy christian traditions, there's no real overt dogma that compels belief in real actual angels, unlike the case of Islam. If you don't 100% believe in angels, you don't believe in Islam.
Anyway, a sword and sandals movie set in heaven that involves buzzing around "the holy presence" and maybe killing angels, might not sit well with some loud religious types. |
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