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"The city that he builds shall bear my name. The woman that he loves shall bear my child. So it shall be written. So it shall be done."

Gary Busey Predator 2 Maria Conchita Alonso

The Last Action Hero

That is it

Independence Day Mary McDonnell Dances With Wolves

Rocky, I would love for you to be right and for me to be wrong on this one, but if history has taught us anything, it's that a fringe religious group or idea can indeed flourish beyond reason. Look at the Mormons. On paper, there's no way the LDS church succeeds. But it did. Likewise with the Watchtower Society, which shattered into more splinters than a woodchipping factory yet grew by leaps and bounds decades after it was thoroughly discredited. Yeah, technology is better today. But technology works both ways -- it gives crackpots a new method to spread their word.

After learning that fairy tale characters are real and that he holds the key to breaking them out of a curse, a member of a temporal integrity security agency goes back to the past to set things right.

Sigh. Fine. Some Like It Hot Dog: The Movie Not to be confused with the novel.

Daredevil Michael Clarke Duncan The Green Mile

There were three critical threads. The first was a PFAL review that tried to explore all the issues raised by the class. Jerry Barrax gets full credit for starting that one. I came up with the other two: The Blue Book Review was a walk through The Bible Tells Me So, from my perspective. I don't even agree (today) with everything I wrote in that thread (14 or so years ago). But the central idea -- looking at everything and deciding thoughtfully what is right and what is wrong -- is still a good one. The last one was Actual Errors in PFAL, the ultimate exercise in nitpicking that only existed to prove one single point, namely, that PFAL and other writings of VPW do not live up to their own requirements for what it means for something to be God-breathed. Today, I would probably not participate in any of those threads, much less start two of them.

Al Pacino The Godfather James Caan

You really like that movie, don't you?

Steve Martin Father of the Bride Martin Short

Just got to thinking the other day about the guy who faked sign language next to Obama and all those other speakers at the Mandela memorial celebration this week. All sorts of hand movements pretending to be interpreting what the speaker was saying. But the reality was he was "speaking" nonsense. It wasn't a language. I'm not aware of how many forms of sign language there are, but it's pretty clear he wasn't "speaking" any. Hey, maybe he was free gesticulating -- you know, making hand movements in some long-forgotten form of sign language no longer in use today. That doesn't negate it as a language. Prove he wasn't signing a real language! Go on, prove it! Just... on my mind.

TWI never had a lasting effect on culture. It barely had an effect on American religious history. It was a failed cult movement. If you compare Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses and the Mormon church to TWI in terms of their impact to TWI, 70+ years into their history, it's no contest. The average person knows who those people are. The average person has never heard of TWI. At all. TWI doesn't even rise to the level of being disrespected by American culture, because to be disrespected, you first have to be acknowledged, and TWI has barely been acknowledged. It could still reignite, of course. But at the moment, its influence on culture is as significant as The Neverending Story II's influence on cinema.

The Postman Will Patton Remember the Titans ;)

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Dead Man Walking Sean Penn Mystic River

Medicine Man for All Seasons

He found the cuah for blahnd faith and he losht it!

A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and a publishing tycoon with an inflated sense of self-importance and a longing for his childhood sled.

Adam Sandler Click Christopher Walken

"Kill the spare!"

"Mum sent me a dress!" "Well, it does match your eyes. Is there a bonnet?"

Charlie Sheen Platoon Johnny Depp