The Passion of the Christ: please help me

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
  why would he want to create a perfect cosmos?  again, as posted above, god, as creator, is above all human logic and explanation.  he does as he sees fit, for whatever reason.  

Why did HE create an imperfect one, then?  
 
 Why the need to create anything, anyhow?
 
 Why does God feel this burning need-to-create, anyway?  I think HE might benefit from psychoanalysis..?

[lionforce5]

ABORTIONS FOR ALL!

[Frank Gallagher]

Originally posted by elj:
   

Originally posted by O'Mankie:
  How can you say it's "factual" when the whole bible crap is fiction anyway?

There are more secular sources backing up that there really was a person named Jesus then there is confirming there was someone named Oliver Cromwell. [/b]

I know there was a bloke named Jesus, he used to cut our grass when we lived in Wheaton.

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by L. O. Cutionist:
 
 Why the need to create anything, anyhow?
 
 Why does God feel this burning need-to-create, anyway?  I think HE might benefit from psychoanalysis..?

why the need to create anything?  why does an author need to create a story, why does a musician need to create music, why does the painter need to create a painting?  creating life is what god does, and let's humans screw it up however they see fit.

[Frank Gallagher]

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
   

Originally posted by L. O. Cutionist:
 
 Why the need to create anything, anyhow?
 
 Why does God feel this burning need-to-create, anyway?  I think HE might benefit from psychoanalysis..?

why the need to create anything?  why does an author need to create a story, why does a musician need to create music, why does the painter need to create a painting?  creating life is what god does, and let's humans screw it up however they see fit. [/b]

So like the musician sometimes smashes his/her instrument on stage, the tortured painter destroys their own work and writer tears up their work and starts from scratch....God destroys life (tsunami) once in a while, I think I'm beginning to understand it all now.
 
 BTW. on the subject of over-hyped movies....is it just me and my wife who think "Lost in translation" was a load of shite? Or were we lost in the translation of lost in translation? It seems to me the whole movie was basically taking the piss out of the Japanese, which was moderately funny for, what....3 minutes? We didn't even make it to the end of the movie.

[markie]

Originally posted by O'Mankie:
  BTW. on the subject of over-hyped movies....is it just me and my wife who think "Lost in translation" was a load of shite?  

No, not just you at all.
 
 Although Scarlet is pretty so it was not a complete loss.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I hated Lost in Translation, I think my wife liked it.
 
 Scarlet does nothing for me. I think she is dating that turd Jared Leto. So that lowers her a couple of notches right there.

[lionforce5]

Lost in Translation had some good moments that were ruined by Sofia Coppola's reliance on Japanese stereotypes to illustrate the culture.  The argument could be made that since both of the characters were more or lest outcasts in Japan that this was a reasonable thing to do, but I think she could've done better.
 
 Scarlett Johansson was the one redeeming quality of Ghost World, gave a good performance in Lost in Translation and The Man Who Wasn't There, and I've heard was excellent in Girl With The Pearl Earring.  Forgiving her turn in Eight Legged Freaks, I generally like her work.

[BookerT]

yeah, how sad is it that scarlett is dating that fool? someone needs to give her a copy of  this. i still love her. altho i agree lost in translation wasn't all that. it was pretty, but pretty pointless.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I though Thora Birch and Steve Buschemi were the redeeming qualities of Ghost World, not to mention the script and directing. Scarlet Johansen? Blah.
 
 

Originally posted by j_lee:
  Lost in Translation had some good moments that were ruined by Sofia Coppola's reliance on Japanese stereotypes to illustrate the culture.  The argument could be made that since both of the characters were more or lest outcasts in Japan that this was a reasonable thing to do, but I think she could've done better.
 
 Scarlett Johansson was the one redeeming quality of Ghost World, gave a good performance in Lost in Translation and The Man Who Wasn't There, and I've heard was excellent in Girl With The Pearl Earring.  Forgiving her turn in Eight Legged Freaks, I generally like her work.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  I though Thora Birch and Steve Buschemi were the redeeming qualities of Ghost World, not to mention the script and directing. Scarlet Johansen? Blah.

agreed

[Celeste]

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  I hated Lost in Translation, I think my wife liked it.
 
 Scarlet does nothing for me. I think she is dating that turd Jared Leto. So that lowers her a couple of notches right there.

No I didn't. You're thinking of Garden State.

[markie]

I know someone who thinks Jared Leto is rather hot. He was purdy in fight club, before the beating.
 
 Who would have thought Rhett and Ratio cination had the same taste in women?
 
 I quite liked Ghost world. I have not disliked a Scarlet movie yet, although I have not seen 8 legged....

[lionforce5]

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  I though Thora Birch and Steve Buschemi were the redeeming qualities of Ghost World, not to mention the script and directing. Scarlet Johansen? Blah.
 

What can I say?  I didn't like Ghost World.  The movie is, for the most part, so wrapped up in being jaded and anti-establishment that the characters seemed hollow.  Enid tries to rebel  but is ultimately just an onscreen cliche of every too-cool-for-that art student.  If I want to experience that I can do it at any local university.

[hitman]

Originally posted by Bags:
   

Originally posted by hitman:
 ...when even JC had Mary Magdalene.

WHAT?  You're crazy...you're buying in to that DH Lawrence/Martin Scorsese lunacy. [/b]

No...not really...but what are you buying into???