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Checked out Mall Cop when I heard Adam Sandler produced it. He isn't a funny man, but he produced House Bunny, which was mildly funny. Surprised none of the Wayan brothers were tin it, since tpia liked it. Couldn't finish it though. Will see Inglorious Basterds this week. Haven't see a Tarantino movie since Death Proof. 
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My first good look at Damon's wife. Are those real? She looks older than he is.

Bet some Northern muslims are booking holidays to this paradise. Home away from home.

Man,my jaws are aching. I'm getting out of this section before I slump over and expire from laughter.

You don't, eh.Did you actually sit there hating the movie, and still watched it to the end? I'm so laughing here.Why didn't you leave? Have you seen Inglorious yet? I have friends who appear to see movies the nanosecond its out. One tells me Brad Pitt and Tarantino aren't a good fit.

Labour inducers LOL!
Una no go kill persin.

You could try Ghost of Girlfriends past or Mall Cop. They sound just dumb enough.
Looking to download Harry Potter and The Orphan. I'm in the 'Lagos' part of the year, so, theatres are out for now.

I have married brothers. We're an extremely close family. Still, my mom gave each one breathing space when they got married. I think the longest she's ever stayed in anyone's married home is a week. Her kids, son-in-law and daughters-in-laws are the ones who beg her not to leave. We wheedle and cajole and try to bribe her into staying longer. Sometimes it works, most times it doesn't. After raising and knowing and loving a son or daughter for three decades, its hard for any mother to let go. Mentally they recognise the child is grown and is married, emotionally its impossible to distance yourself, or stop worrying about your child,even if he's a hundred years old, he's still their 'baby'. And why not? So mothers must feel a little resentful of this new usurper who's claimed their son's affections, who's now the most important female in her son's life. Its only human. Sometimes they're immature in their resentment and act it out. Sometimes they're calm and don't show it and really try to get along. You can't see everything from just your perspective as the daughter-in-law. It helps to put yourself in her own shoes, and imagine your own relationship with your own son when he's grown and brings his fiancee. You'll want her to disappear like the nightmare she is! Admittedly mothers have a hard time adjusting to having a rival to their son 's affections; but men have a special bond with their mothers and no wife can take that away, nor expect him to.Mother and Wife are not competing relationships, and frankly neither is more important than the other; they're different relationships.

It doesn't help that some daughters in law, with misconceptions and stereotypes about 'wicked' in laws at the back of their minds, see everything their mother in law does as wicked. If their own mother did the same thing they would attach no special significance to it. They marry the guy and have an attitude, expecting him to drop his allegiance to everybody else, like he's her exclusive property, like the guy has been living in a vacuum and has no life and people who love him until she came along. So you have a daughter-in-law who wants all hands off her man, and a mother in law who's resentful of the new person, and trouble ensues.

Just realise everything is not about you and put yourself in the other perdson's shoes, whether you're the mother in law or the daughter in law. Anything new demands adjustment time, so you have to give the mother in law plenty of time to adjust to your presence. Gradually,as time passes, and if you aren't an asshole about it, she'll completely adjust and leave you be. This is not to say there are no boundaries. There are. Its your home, not hers. But she's a human being and she matters to your husband, and if you love him, she'll matter to you too.

Harry Potter? Better than Indiana Jones? Indie?

Na wah o. Slow roasted? Green wood? No religion should ever have secular power over people. Horror always ensues. We're people afterall. See what's happening in those fundamentalist moslem countries? See what Islam itself has turned into? Its retrogressing. Things were better a thousand years ago. Islamic scholarship was almost unmatched,especially in mathematics and philosophy, and Moslems were the epitome of the grace and mercy that their Catholic counterparts lacked. Islam wasn't even imposed on people they conquered. People were allowed to keep their religion if they chose, and moved about unmolested. The only thing was, if you aren't moslem, you were forbidden their holy cities like Bagdad. During the crusades, the moslems routed the unruly, mostly sadistic Christian invaders from Europe. But they did not kill or maltreat their European prisoners of war. On another crusade, when the Christian soldiers defeated the Moslems, they went a-killing, raping, looting,burning,all over the conqured moslem territories. Sanctioned by the pope, they committed actrocities so unbelievably sadisitc, so inhuman, you'll go cold with horror. Roman Catholic Christian history is the darkest and most shameful in Christianity. They apologise centuries later, when it no longer matters and no one cares anymore.Look how they colluded and sanctioned Nazi Germany. If you read up on their popes, they're some of the most horrible human beings on earth. They're enough to make you desert Christianity and run screaming to Satan.But I guess its all past. The perversion lives but its powerless now.

Nah. Who's in it and what's it about? Any good?

A movie lol
Saw a bit of the Reader. Of all the roles for which she was oscar-nominated she had to win for the least impressive. More impressed with her young consort's acting. He's very good.
Yeah, saw a little of Wrestler months ago. First time I'll see Rourke's face without some prosthetic to make it hideous, like Sin City,etc

Yeh. Someone who's seen it said it was just a filler until the final part is ready; that it was too long and it didn't have much substance; that it was about the teenage growing pains of the trio,etc. Gorgeous visuals though, I'm told.

What about Craig? I love him as Bond. I hope he's Bond till he's 100.

Oh? Who tendered the apology in the case of Salem? And just how long after the fact? Were any of the original people involved part of this potshumous apology tendering, or was it done on their behalf by better human beings long after the fact? And pointing out a posthumous apology is intended to do what? Make what happened go away?Make it OK in some way? In any case the practice wasn't on the gargantuan scale in the US. Europe had been at it for hundreds of years. I think they only managed to get rid of the Inquisition in Italy in the 19th century.  Salem was a slight case, compared to Europe.

Yeah JK. All that and much worse really happened.
Been eyeing The Reader. Skimmed through months ago. Might watch it now

Hehe. Both.

Really? How come its one of your interests? You're agnostic, right? Or atheist? As for religious history, its all written in blood. And most of these holy books seem to have a thing against women. You find the cultural attitudes and personal opinions of ancient times captured in holy books, and the present is molded to comform to the past. Look at the millions of women subjected to terrible lives under Islamic laws and holy books. The Hindu books commanded widows to be burnt to death over their husband's funeral pyre. The practice ended only relatively recently. And Christianity has a history as disgraceful as any other religion; women burned at the stake for centuries for witchcraft.  All it took is for one person to say You're a witch, and your fate is sealed. The witch's property is divided between the accuser and the church. She pays the costs of her trial, feeding and accomodation for her tortureres, she pays for the priests, and pays the executioner's fee. She pays for the rope if she's to be hanged. Children were burned as well. Since its a lucrative business,thousands went into the witchcraft accusation business. An individual may have up to 300 women burned.And this went on for centuries! If anyone even breathes that what the Church is doing might be wrong or call it the evil it is, they're burned as well. Imagine the terror people must have lived under all their lives. Often a husband would tell the Inquisition that his wife was asleep in his arms at the time the so-called witchcraft she was accussed of took place; they would inform him that she'd substituted a succubi in her likeness and that was what he held.
Its truly horrendous, Spiked.

spikedcylinder:
This is real interesting Max. . . . . my kindda stuff, not to be discussed on this thread though. I thought you were Roman Catholic?

I'm not Catholic. I am a Christian though,and pretty serious about it. Your kinda stuff? How do you mean?

Oh you know how things get personal in religious threads. Attacking your beliefs is attacking what defines you and no one likes that. Even Catholics and alien life forms like scientologists. I'm steering clear for now. The world's big enough for a billion beliefs. But I hate how supreme evil has long been perpertrated in the name of God. Who needs the devil for evil? Human beings are far more qualified.

JeSoul:
Perhaps I can convince you, a Roman Catholic priest is the main 'star' in the movie  

The dimpled, handsome, cross-waving variety with perfect teeth and hair?

agabaI23:
The case of Gloria Okun quickly comes to mind.

Who says he is dead assuming  they truely arrested him?
What police force will publicly annouce that they have killed a man in detention forcing people to believe he is killed by voluteering a free view of his body?
The guy could have been ferried away to Niger like DOE.Dead for where?

The Nigerian Police Force na.
I did wonder at that, though. Like, We have killed him, come and look at his body if you don't believe us. Why would you think you wouldn't be believed in the first place? Even some high ranking Govt official was quoted by Reuters saying, "He's dead. I have gone to look at the body."
Na dem sabi. Lunatics.

You don't spell out the rules before your electoral process began, and then you disqualify people who broke rules they did not know was in existence. There's a name for that sort of thing and its not nice. If they went campaigning its cos that's what people naturally do in elections. Since you didn't tell them not to beforehand you should merely have warned them to stop, and then lay out the rules. I took a look here because someone took the time to campaign; that means this really mattered to that person. You shouldn't just capriciously take it away from them. You let the votes decide.

Opinion paraded as fact is right. There was a segement where Judas was being touted as something other than the greedy, lying,back-stabbing ass he was. That the kiss was one of affection or something; He had no idea they were going to kill Christ, he didn't mean for it to go that far,ect. Right. What did he think they were going to do; give him a parking ticket? They sit in their offices, assume a professorial air, and say what was going on in Judas's mind two thousand years ago. Evidence? None. I found the history of the church far more intesting; the power struggles between Mary Madgalene and Peter after the death of their master. How the fact that women led churches in early times was rubbed out by the Roman Catholic church from the bible, and their onw opinions substituted for Holy Writ, how Madgalene was deliberately portrayed as a prostitute when she was no such thing, and held up in counterposition to their Virgin Mary as Saint Madgalene the Penitent. They removed this label in 1969, after centuries of calumny and deceit, but what's the point? If its in the Bible it has to be true; never mind that they tampered with its contents for hundreds of years. If not for Tyndale, we would not have access to even that,as we do now. Scripture was never intended for the masses. For his trouble Tyndale was hunted all over Europe, caught and executed by the 'Church'.

I'm reading accounts, right now, of the witch-burning trials conducted by the Inquisition. You will weep. The history of Roman Catholic Church shows it to be the very embodiment of evil and utter darkness in times past, of the worst aspects of human nature wielding manufactured 'divine' authority. I'll never get how adherents aren't embarrassed to be associated with it, but that's childhood religious conditioning for you.

Ah well. I'm going on and on.
No to Emily Rose. No means No!

I'm not watching that creepfest.

Archeology? I saw a documentary where archeologists and other experts not only reconstructed village life when Christ lived, they recreated the likely scenarios of his birth and the games he likely played with other kids growing up. I finally understood what the famous manger might actually be, since there were no inns in existence in those times,and travellers depended exclusively on people's hospitality. They even showed how traders selling grain would cheat the scales and rip off the dumb. The political tensionss, religious and cultural norms,etc. Recently watched the discovery, long ago, of one of the most elusive objects in the field; the tomb of an Egyptian child-pharaoh. Found by an Englishman obssessed from his youth with finding it, though the search had been on for centuries with no luck. He stumbled upon it accidentally, while digging for something else. Imagine how he must have felt. They tomb was crammed full of vast treasures in gold, lapis lazuli, ornaments in precious stones, including chariots, all for the king's comfort in his afterlife. Fascinating.I follow archeology, though not as keenly or madly as I follow say,quantum mechanics or cosmology. Any luck finding that 'lost' continent yet?

Golf? Count me out.

Soon, if not already.

vescucci:
Don't tell me make up can make Johnny Depp into that ogre like Dracula. Count Drakul looks way more satirical than that!

lol too much hint. All he seems to be about these days are roles weird and dracula. He needs to get away from Burton.

Funny enough, someone told me I'd 'like' The Orphan. Like I like any horror movie. But I knew what he meant- Its not frivolous; its good, possibly a work of cinematic art, like The Omen, I'd endure being scared half to death to for.
Have you been led to this one yet, JS? Na so-so horror film ya own curiosity dey carry you dey go look. Seriously though, what's the attraction? And don't say its the 'story' o, since there's mostly none to speak of. I think the last horror movie I saw was The Ring, but the kid in it irritated me too much for any real scares. How can you endure it?

Got the Emily Rose thing on DVD, but the atmosphere in the movie was so terrible I got the blue blazes out of there.

Guess who? Hint hint

Oh no. I haven't seen a movie in ages. I'm not up to date. Last thing I saw was Craig's Casino Royale days ago. The only movies I'm going to see in the coming weeks are Harry Potter, Inglorious Basterds and Avatar.

Maybe David Fincher too. He likes dark material. I saw the trailer and went, look how they've all grown! Still remember the 1st Potter movie. They were all babies.

The books are wayyyyy better. And if it had been an American production,the movies would have been fantastic. American filmmakers grasp all the subleties, the tones and nuances of reality, and they can render anything, however complex, on film. They're still the best filmmakers in the world. I guess they didn't dare place books that's become British symbols in the hands of Americans. I saw the trailer of this movie though, and I liked it. Definitely worth checking out.

JeSoul:
Come on now Max, you know that ain't true

SO true! You're ze horror movie buff. Knows all the tricks. Like turning the music off to smash that fear factor. You learned that accidentally too, I'm sure.

ThiefOfHearts:
Max, you too are required to see it. I kno it disappoints you that it doesnt star Eddie Murphy

Make una leave Eddie na. Shebi he was good, in the beginning. Coming to America is still one of the funniest movies ever. And his was the only acting in Dreamgirls. Don't get why Hudson got that oscar. I don't see what she did to earn it.

vescucci:
Max, art thou ignoring me?

Nay, of a truth. Why would you think that?

JeSoul:
And if I experience any sleeping disorders after that it will not be funny oh

Right. Like you're capable of sleeping disorders from a horror movie. You eat the stuff for lunch.
I liked Leary in the Thomas Crown Affair remake with Rene Russon and Brosnan. Haven't seen him around since.
Poor man's servant version lol! Has my vote for worst TV series on this planet and the next.

kadman:
Thank you,it's just a waste of disc space,I watched one episode and threw it away

Waste of disc space lol! I couldn't finish one episode. And the thing is still on. Some people must like it.
Oh man this is where I miss Gamine. Checking out the demos of the forthcoming Splinter Cell and God of War on PS3. I mean, Whoa man.

disturbed:
But a little snag though. I was expecting more action at the end. The way Dumbledore died was kinda too 'simple'. More shoulda happened.
Snape pronounced the killing curse and Dumbledore jus fell in slow motion. I was expecting more fire stuff.

Nice spoiler, man.

Been following the series. Even bought the PS games.The books are better. The movies are so very English. If this had been an American production,
Will check this instalment out. Anything has to be better than Legend of the Seeker.

Yeah. Oscar recognition would be better though. All she got was one crummy nomination for her portrayal of Tina Turner in that biopic. Some actors work half a lifetime before getting real recognition. Penn, one of the finest actors that ever walked the earth, got an oscar only in the last few years,while someone like Foxx strolls in and gets it at the start of his career. Not denying it wasn't a worthy performance; he was amazing. But any other actor on that list would have been great; say, Cheadle for Hotel Rwanda.
Trying to watch Legend of the Seeker. Its really terrible.