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Isn't Perfect Creature an allegorical Christian movie? I forget.
Yes o.Halle Berry. I was squirming in minutes,and couldn't finish the danged thing. Terrible movie.

I don't know the year this horror emerged but it's the worst thing I saw this year: A Perfect Stranger.

Good thingies I saw this year:
Pan's Labyrinth
Kungfu Panda
Iron Man
Dark Knight

Abi o.

@Vesc
Hiya back! How was vacation? Lemme see your tan.

No,Karma,I haven't seen Curse yet. I will tho.
Isn't Love in time of Cholera a novel by a nobel-prize winner? Had no idea it's been made into a movie, and a not-so-good one (?) at that.

Julia who?
Kidding.
Mebbe she's semi-retired or something. There aren't that many movies made just for her anymore. You know,stuff she fits in perfectly,things Pretty Womanish or My Best Friend's Weddingish. Maybe that's why she was in Closer and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, to break the America's comedy sweetheart rut.

Manchurian Candidate isn't a recent movie na. Lat time I saw him he was in some time-travel romance thingie with Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman. I didn't see Liev in CSI Las Vegas, and I'm a devoted fan of that deliciously gory spectacle. But I just started Season 7 on DVD,so mebbe he'll turn up later. I hope you don't mean he featured in ONE episode o!

@chris
Hmmm

@m_nwankwo
You're terribly kind. You know? Thank you.

LA Confidential is a superb movie. Are you sure The Quiet American surpasses it? Caine's performance was wonderfully understated, first rate, and the movie is good, but beat LA? That's a joke,right?

@olumide
The best thing about Tropic Thunder is the fake trailer featuring Robert Downey Jr and Tobey Maguire. Ben Stiller is hit or miss: he was hilarious in Zoolander, Duplex was a looooong yawn.

@Karma
What's Clerks about? I haven't heard about it. I love a good comedy. Who made it?

@iice
I didn't know Liev still made movies. I liked him but don't see much of him anymore. Except for that silly attempt with Julia Stiles at an OMEN remake. No one can touch that classic.

Tried to make this short.

Hybrid Theory-Linkin Park
Meteora- Linkin Park
Minutes to Midnight-Linkin Park
Ray of Light- Madonna
Both Sides- Phil Collins
Californication- Red Hot Chilli Peppers
The Best of Don Williams- Don Williams
KSA Old Wine Vintage Collection- King Sunny Ade
Gongo Aso- 9ice
Live at Leeds- The Who
Biggest Hits- Lighthouse Family
X&Y-Coldplay
Away from the Sun- 3 Doors Down
Graceland-Paul Simon
Talking Book/Songs in the Key of Life- Stevie Wonder
Nearer to Thee- Voice of the Cross
Best of Bob Marley- Bob Marley
20/20- George Benson
(All albums)- Fela Anikulapo Kuti
(Most records)- The Beatles
Simply the Best- Tina Turner
Bang Bang Bang- Tracy Chapman
Concert of the Age- Various Contemporary Christian Artists
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below- Outkast
Biggest Hits- Bruce Springsteen
Clapton Chronicles, The Best of Eric Clapton- Eric Clapton

@Kidgenious
Know what you mean about Carlos guitar-playing. He's earned a place amongst greats like Van Halen, Pete Townsend and Eric Clapton.
I just looove your list.

@chris
Ah, I get you now. You don't want emotions, you want incendiary rhetoric and scapel's edge intellectual arguments to persuade you into searching for God yourself. There's a debate,the Christians are losing, they simply aren't trying hard enough. Oh dear,whatever are we going to do? Chris's decision rests on whoever wins. 

You can tell I'm uninterested in the thread's debate. I'm interested in you,though,because we seemed to lose our religions at about the same time. You want guidance from men on where to look? So did I, at first. I began with the incomparable Aristotle, and was deeply submerged in my favourite Catholic of all time: Thomas Aquinas.I'm reading the minds of everybody now, from the Pythagorean school to Descartes to Jacquis Maritain to CS Lewis. No one has ever proven the existence or otherwise of God to anyone else but himself. I still think you should embark on a search yourself and arrive at your own conclusions. If you then decide there is no God, your agnosticism/atheism won't be the tattered but fashionably worn hand-me-downs one sees so much of. You won't be displaying,second-hand, other men's disbeliefs,just your own.

I know I won't stop HATING organised religion. Pentecostals with their control-freak pastors, screaming Die! die! at everything, seeing witches in children, so much hate and paranoia and vengefulness you wonder how they can stand it.  Catholic Popes insisting every sperm is sacred,none of the little suckers must be left out in the cold,all must find a home,hat in hand,like little Orhan Annie. Attributing divinity to Mary and formally dedicating the world to whatever they saw at Fatima, like the world was theirs to give away,gift-wrapped. Coming up with a well-intentioned but arbitrary and absurd list of new sins to guilt themselves back into relevance in the lives of diminishing faithfuls. New SINS? My mind boggled. Having wandered about quite a bit and been awed by chapels and cathedrals and attended mass and listened to boys' choirs so indescribably beautiful you'll think your soul has left your body, I couldn't help wondering how they could know so much beauty and be missing so many essential parts. I'll never return to insidious organised religion in any form,but I will search until I find. And I have absolutely no doubt I will find: Everything or Nothing.

Perhaps I am emotional. Perhaps I should give you  thundering theologically and intellectually sound arguments. But I mentioned I discovered I really didn't know as much as I thought, and you'll notice I post less and less here; there seemed little point. I'm embroiled in my own turmoil,in looking for my own answers,because 'God' is an intensely individual question.It's too important for other people to answer.

I can't give you the arguments you want, but  I do urge you again to attempt an original search yourself.

I believe this is purgatory
This implies purgatory
You already have your answer, that if such a place exists there isn't scripture that teaches it outright, and not enough to prop it up so it doesn't fall. Biblical verses generally don't imply. They speak. A verse talks about 'testing a man's work by fire', a verse that could easily mean any number of things,and you hinge something as doctrinally detailed a teaching as purgatory on that.

Purgatory isn't for sinners then,it's for Christians who are in a state of ungrace when they die, and are unfit to enter heaven immediately. So men intecede for them, and their ungrace gradually diminishes until they're fit to enter heaven. Perhaps it's there and perhaps it's not. The quoted bible verses obviously hasn't convinced anyone purgatory exists excepr those who already believe in the existence of the place.

Oladeegbu certainly has more interesting things to say. Intriguing list.

Awwwww
Look at Shmoo
Now that's something I haven't seen in ages.
He's adorable.

Finally! Someone who remembers Shmoo!

@chris
Spirituality? Hell, I don't know. I know I meant God. I haven't any of these boxes people put such things in,neatly labelled.All there are are questions questions questions: The scary thing is,when you search something is always to be found, when you pray something always answers-How do you know who you've found? How does he/she/ it prove himself? Should I pray? Why? How? Do I say, "Hallowed be thy name?", can I say "God, you were a real asshole today"? What responsiblities does he owe me? Owe mankind? What things are God's fault? Men made guns. Men made bombs. Men make war. People starve because a president has weighed things in the scale and has decided holding on to power justifies millions starving. People meet in secret then go out and kill hundreds of people in a town like Jos. People pull triggers and slit throats. How is God responsible for those things?Why do people say, God you're doing a really bad job,when people do evil of their own volition? How is God accountable for what we do to ourselves?

Why do things you believe tend to happen? Do our thoughts have some kind of energy that interact with unseen energies in the universe? Are there other dimensions superimposed on this one? Questions questions questions. I've mine. You've yours.I sometimes come across you asking someone who believes to define his or her God and explain why they believe. You're no atheist. I'm saying: find your answers yourself. You HAVE to define what you're looking for first? I assumed if it wasn't defined, it at least had a label:God. Why do you find definitions necessary;aren't they merely other people's ideas of what God is? Use those if you feel you must, but why the hell do you need it? I don't get that. But perhaps I don't need to.

But given that,er, spirituality,is a life-long and constantly shifting journey I'm continually amazed at people here who have reached their journey's end and apparently have all the answers and know everything for sure.

Oh.
Ah.
Ew.
Knocked Up and 40-year old virgin I've seen, ane they aren't my kind of comedy. Too vulgar. I don't mind vulgarity if the movie's really funny, like Scary Movie 1, but those aren't all that funny.
Kung-fu Hustle 2? He's madly talented. He doesn't need to get on the part 2,part 3 bandwagon until he bores people to death. Though I can't imagine that guy boring anyone. A comic genius, really.

I think License to kill and Living Daylights.

CJ7.
I like the guy a lot, so I will be seeing it.
Green Hornet? Seth Rogan? I'm drawing blanks. What are those?

Odd thing is, I see Lady's point. And Bastage's. When what you believe, which defines you in very fundamental ways, has long been determined by other men,when your faith and your God has been clumsily laid out by other people and  experienced second-hand for years, there is nothing more daunting,scarier and more refreshing than searching for the truth yourself, and making that truth your own,because what you find of God by yourself can never be taken away from you.

Davidylan's journey is different from Lady's which is different from Bastage which is different from Chris's (who is very like me and is searching,but wants God  to be found[i] for[/i] him, in the definitions of people who believe, and the rationalisations of those who don't.) We may find God in different ways but mere semantics doesn't invalidate that journey, and there is no reason why someone's experience and definition of God should be the same as another's. Some people do create God in their own image. But believing in God is such an intensely individual quest that it's possible there are as many definitions of God as there are people who know him. He may be different things to different people. Like the story of the three blind men who feel different parts of an elephant, and come up with dissimilar ideas of what an elephant is like, and argue,each absolutely convinced he's right.

Bastage believes in Christ,but doesn't like the Old Testament God. Er, he isn't very likeable (We judge him by human standards because we don't have any other standards by which to filter his actions). He sees the Bible as the handiwork of men and so riddled with error. He says I like Jesus but given that you can't believe everything you read in the Bible, the portrayal of God is incomplete.

Who is to say the God defined in the Bible,whose traits vary,isn't merely how the men who wrote those books experienced  God? What's wrong with defining what God is to you? If,in your journey, He exhibits a particular biblical trait, say anger or jealousy, then those traits are true and you may agree with the Biblical writer and other people who define God as jealous. If he doesn't exhibit jealousy, then for you, it isn't true of God. Our journeys are different. I think.  No reason why God should adhere strictly to some formula of being, and accomodate anyone's preconceived notions of what he should be like.

It's his realism that's his appeal. He's 21st century Bond, the franchise's response to real-world terrorists who aren't interested in smirking with you over champagne while they conveniently give you the perfect op to use MI6's latest Villain Take-Down gadget. His movies are endorsement-heavy ( Ford and Ericcson) but good. What do they need gadgets for?

Timothy Dalton? Ah. You haven't come across George Lazenby yet then. He's so awful Dalton's like the epitome of spyhood beside him. Watch On Her Majesty's Secreet Service and see how the worst Bond ever ruined a perfectly good movie with his bumbling,fake Bondishness. If you can stand ze horror!

D1Kelevra, I laughed my head off at your post o!
Hai!
Wetin Smallville Clark Kent do una sef? If he's not gay or woman-cowardly he is impotent. Na wah o. Make una leave the guy, ah beg.

I don't why he slept with Strawberry Fields. I think he seduced her to gain time, since she was hell bent on returning him to the office and he was hellbent on going nowhere. Besides, what's a Bond movie without Bond shagging at least one chick? If he hadn't slept with someone Bond fans might riot.

tpia:
In any case, this verse says let your women keep silence. ie the Corinthian women, since the letter was addressed to the Corinthian church.


It doesnt say let all women everywhere keep silence in the churches.

Perfection.

Curse of the Golden Flower. I think I may have it at home somewhere. Will check it out.
After I'm done with Bruce Lee. Kung-Fu thursday.
Ya-ow!
Ka-pow!
Eeeiii-yah!

Which reminds me. That mad Stephen Chow who made Shaolin Soccer and Kung-fu Hustle, isn't he making movies anymore?

No I haven't seen the curse of the golden flower. Title sounds like something Jet Li would do. Or the Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon girl, the one who leaps off the mountain at the end. I forget her name. Is it good?
Hmm. Definitely checking out The Orphanage. PAN's score was great. It should have won the oscar for that. But after being cheated at Best Foreign Language I guess they may strip it of score too. Asses.

Ja, Vesc. I used to see you.
What's up with the next few days?
I've a project with a deadline, and it is so eating into my me time.

The Cave Man

Atom Ant! Donaremu you get long memory o.

Terrahawks! I'd forgotten that one. Zelda and "The despicable Ni-ne-steinnnn."
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Shmoo
Roger Ramjet
Arthur's camelot (the one with the dumb Launcelot,the witches and the endless exploding apples)
Dynomutt ,Dog Wonder (with Blue Falcon)
But my absolute favourite childhood thingie was The Muppet Show. Hai! Amazing.

Why say she was jailed whne she wasn't? She paid fine and she's home free.
The presiding magistrate is a bastard.
She killed a human being, and he thinks the punishment for that is 100k? That's how much the doc's life was worth? The man's family shoul deal with this lady, and file civil charges.

@Sisi
I liked Lagaan o. Wetin do am?
I love Amir Khan too, and prefer him to SRK. But then I'm watching SRK in movies like Don and Kal Ho Naa Ho and realise I like him too.
Yes I've seen Dilwale. You absolutely got it; it's wonderful.
Seen this Amir Khan movie, Rang De Basanti? I thought it was pretty good.

Lagaan
Kal Ho Naa Ho
Khabi Kushi Khabi Gham
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Dhoom 2
Don
Salaam Namastey
Fanaa
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna
Om Shanti Om
Water
Munna Bhai MBBS
Kaho Na Pyaar Hai
Krrish
Ghazab
Yeh Vada Raha

Sisi Jinx! Hai! Let's hope the Vatican forgives you o. Wicked goil.

I'm really sorry. You must be going through hell. But you've gotten some great advice here. They said examine the reasons you want her back, and do some soul searching of your own. Don't pursue her out of some knee-jerk reaction to her leaving,but because you really love her and are willing to work through this her. You must have been really horrible to her,because our women usually don't leave their marriages this way.But your reaction to not having kids is understandable, and you seem a good and responsible person.  If you really love her you'll likely have her back.Wives know the real deal and respond to it.

Women who'd been written off medically, do go ahead to have babies. Someone was telling me a true story yesterday of a lady in Abuja who couldn't conceive for years. She never gave up. Last month she gave birth to quadruplets. Doctors don't have the final word on who will have kids and who will not.

Babies are babies, and they are abandoned in droves everyday,helpless day-old infants. Consider adopting,if it's in your philosophy, and NEVER give up on having biological ones of your own.
Take heart.

The senor,he ees makin de joke?
A Fish Called Wanda
The Bitch called Demi?
It's really pretty funny.
But mebbe I'm wrong.

How did he save a life, the tourist made like John Maclaine?How o?
The best actor of all time? Bruce Willis?
Vesc, how've you been?
Karma, this movie has joined my major Oscar peeves. I'm mollified it won cine,makeup and art direction, but then all I can think is, is that bloody all? It should've gotten[i] at least[/i] a nomination for best screenplay and won in other categories,like score and directing. Yes. It's fantastically assured directing. Man, what a movie.

Match Point.

I thought Rhys Meyers miscast. The plot is somewhat predictable, and these brits don't know the meaning of subtle. But it was okay.It felt like a montage of movies I'd seen before.

@spikyn
The steamy side of Bond,with Daniel Craig?
Heaven.