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Toy Story will no doubt oust Alice in Wonderland from that position. Sadly, I really don't see Inception making as much money as either films.

Lol, Rhino.

@Nuclearboy, I'm tempted to digress but I'll not. I admit that the idea of one as three is easier for me to swallow than three in one. Let me just ask in lieu of your analogy that, is it not conceivable that God might be a 'quadranity' or 'decinity' or even an 'infinity' as He might well have countless manifestations? Bear in mind that prior to Jesus' arrival on earth the idea of a trinity was not in existence as far as the Jewish people are concerned anyway. What evidence do we have that God's manifestations are strictly these three? (and one might say two for God, the father is hardly one of the manifestations). From your analogy, even though I concede that you drafted it on the spur of the moment and is not so admissible, makes it seem as though it is the manner in which God chooses to communicate with us that is the trinity. Is this correct?

Reading back, someone, I think Noetic, said scripture has always pointed to the existence of this trinity. I don't know if that's true but if it seems as though, I'm pretty sure the people of those times never interpreted it that way. Someone also said Jesus was in essence the Yahweh of old. Ah, many so called "sophisticated Christians" will sharply disagree with that.

I saw the A-Team too today. Considering that I was expecting to be let down, this movie was a pleasant surprise. Reminded me of Die Hard 4 in the way the fun never let up. Suitably funny and action packed. I rate it 8.5 outta 10.

God in heaven

Everybody knows what directors do. And Lord knows I am always more willing to give the director the lion’s share of credit when a good film is made. A director suffers my wrath when a bad one is made too. A director has some say in how almost everything is run and thus rightfully is cussed or praised for how a movie turns out. But one would be really unfair not to acknowledge that many many other things make up a good movie. A director says he or she is satisfied with the job that other people do, (actors mainly but there are a lotta others) but those jobs HAVE to be done well and THEY deserve credit more than the director. This will begin a series of weekly Vescucci’s Behind The Sceners starting with the directors that are MORE than directors; directors who not merely interpret or adapt someone else’s idea into film but actually conceive of things themselves. This is dedicated to the directors who are innovators but only in one guise: The Story/Concept.

What follows is a list of a nine Directors/Writers in the order of least deserving to most deserving, a countdown if you like, with why I think they are in the place that they are. Remember, this is Vescucci’s List and not in any way authoritative so quell your dismay if you disagree with this boy.

9. Tyler Perry
Directed: Madea Goes To Jail. Diary of a Mad Black Woman. Madea’s Family Reunion. Yada yada yada
Wrote: Madea Goes to Jail, Why Did I Get Married. Bla bla bla

Personally, I hate this dude. Some people like him. Some don’t care enough to care. I think his appeal to the black audience is unappealing and perhaps he thinks he’s a beacon for black people but he actually makes black people look stupid in my opinion and the few films that are supposed to be serious just look pretentious. He’s made like two films that I can’t say I hate terribly but seeing him in Star Trek almost spoiled the movie for me. But all the beef aside, he cannot be ignored by the sheer amount of films he has conceptualized even though I think they are recycled garbage. I can convince myself that I’m objective and you can be sure that things can only get better with this countdown. Lol.

8. Brad Bird
Directed: Ratatouille, The Incredibles, The Iron Giant
Wrote: Ratatouille, The Incredibles.

I love this guy. Not literally but close. To hell with it, I love this guy. For now he occupies this not so great spot but it is only because he has a career ahead of him. An impressive rise he’s had too. I read about him years back and he’s another reason to believe that dreams come true. The handsome man has a great future and I envision him to be CEO of Pixar Studios one day. The Incredibles was just incredible and Ratatouille shows why I think dreams come true. Truly magical in the best of Pixar tradition. If Prez can do it, why can’t he? No, I’m not gay!

7. The Farrelly Brothers
Directed: There's Something About Mary. Osmosis Jones. Me, Myself and Irene. Dumb and Dumber. Shallow Hal.
Wrote: Me, Myself and Irene. Dumb and Dumber. Shallow Hal

Once sensational but arguably not that relevant now that everybody makes movies left, right and centre. But for my money, they’re masters of light comedy that seem to actually make you become a little retarded. You get so retarded you don’t mind all the retardation in their films. With all the comedy, they manage to teach you some lessons along the way. There’s Something About Mary, though not entirely their idea, is a classic. Osmosis Jones was a favourite of mine for a very long time. I guess it still is.

6. Christopher Nolan.
Directed: The Dark Knight. Inception. Memento. The Prestige. Batman Begins. Insomnia.
Wrote: Memento. Inception (Anything he does with his brother Jonathan is the same with him jare).

Ah. The rave of the moment. This fella suffers from the same disease as brad Bird and that is newness. He has all the makings of a true great, but he isn’t there yet. A fan of noir (like me) with a few refreshing twists for the 21st century. Memento has a cult following. Hopefully Inception bags him the ever elusive Oscar, though I personally don’t think it deserves an Oscar for best director. He shoulda won for TDK. And TDK shoulda won other things. But with this guy you feel it is coming. I pray he works with Leonardo again when the times comes so that my joy will be complete.

5. James Cameron
Directed: The Terminator. Terminator 2; Judgement Day. Avatar. Aliens. Titanic. True Lies
Wrote: The Terminator. Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Avatar

Midas with a Midas touch. Setting a record three times and breaking two of them and with Avatar 2 being planned, who knows what will happen. Call it hype or whatever but his genius shines through. Either of Avatar or Terminator is worthy of making him great since they are his concepts. His concepts are not just constricted to tidy stories but breakthrough visuals. The old man seems like a recluse to me and his reputation precedes him because he is never where his reputation is. He sends his reputation to cover for him instead.

4. Quentin Tarantino.
Directed: Inglorious Basterds. Kill Bill vols. I & II. Reservoir Dogs. Pulp Fiction. Death Proof.
Wrote: Inglorious Basterds. Kill Bill vols. I & II. Reservoir Dogs. Pulp Fiction. Death Proof.

So young and has achieved so much. He looks like I could kick his ass with both arms tied behind my back but his deliciously violent mind will kick an army of mine (and I have a mean mind). I was beginning to think one might get tired of all the small scaled themes of his movies before he graced us with Inglorious Basterds. I hope he deviates a little and gets due recognition. The Academy is a sumbitch club. He loves Steven Spielberg. Good man.

3. M. Night Shyamalan.
Directed: The Sixth Sense. The Village. The Happening. The Last Air Bender. Lady In the Water. Unbreakable. Signs
Wrote: The Sixth Sense. The Happening. Lady in the Water. The Village. Signs. Unbreakable

I’m beginning to fear for this guy. He has a truly unique mind. Has an unnatural penchant for the inexplicable. Sometimes he pulls it off so well. Sometimes something fails him and he comes off like he’s trying to hard to impress and awe. Sometimes he really is trying too hard to impress and awe. Sometimes, it gets so bad you think someone locked up the real Shyamalan and an impostor made the film. I saw The Last Air Bender and though not so terrible as people make it seem, it certainly wasn’t great. But if the guy makes fifty stupid films till he retires, it couldn’t cancel out the pure awesomeness of The Sixth Sense and to a lesser degree, Unbreakable, The Village and Lady in the Water. Uncelebrated fella I think he is. Needs to find his mojo back quick.

2. The Coen Brothers
Directed: O' Brother, Where Art Thou. Burn After Reading. Fargo. The Big Lebowski. The Ladykillers. No Country For Old Men. A Serious Man
Wrote: O' Brother Where Art Thou. Burn After Reading. Fargo. The Big Lebowski. A Serious Man

Unbelievable dudes. Absolutely unassuming and I don’t know how they do it. Grand masters of black comedy/humor. I’ve not seen a bad movie that they made. It seems not to exist anyway. A thing I’ve noticed is that almost all their movies get recognized by The Academy and rightfully so for a change. They are just delightful and I don’t have the words to describe how much I love The Ladykillers. Talk about getting into character. Oscar laden thankfully they are.

1. Woody Allen
Directed: about a million films of which Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a recent and charming addition
Wrote: another million plus one films

Here is your champion. Probably as underwhelming as the beginning of this countdown but I no send you o. This dude deserves it tenfold. Probably the busiest human being in showbiz and he can do it all, Act, direct, produce, write, EVERYTHING. I’ll end this thing like Inception. Too tired to do a proper hyping. Maybe I'll come modify later.

Men, I don tire. This is hard work. More next week. Falls down and dies

Aww, you people are breaking DS' heart.

I never really knew that Nuclearboy was a trinitarian. Nice to know. Allow me to ask: have you attained that plane of intuitive understanding of the trinity be it by yourself or with the help of the Holy Spirit? C. S. Lewis tried to explain it as what we'd make of a three dimensional figure provided we were mere lines, i.e. one dimensional. Do you just know and can't explain it, know and can or really don't know but trust God that it is true?

How can you say you saw someone when you don't even know what he looks like? Because Renaissance artists decided he had long hair and a small beard makes him so?

Igbayi laaro

This thread is becoming hilarious

Shouldn't there be only one Christianity and other things either NOT Christianity because of the magnitude of their deviation and other things still Christianity because of the flimsiness of their deviations?

I won't speak for a JW but I imagine they'll say they are the true Christians and the rest are followers of Christendom. They'll tell you there is a BIG difference.

Parachute - Cheryl Crow

The saga (debacle) ends

Impossible - Shontelle

Maybe he is joking

You! Wetin you dey do for here? Post more abeg and enter 30000 before iice, lol. Abi una wan enter am together?

Ah, you don't like food? I thoroughly enjoyed Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. All the way sef. Astro Boy was one I didn't like that much. Ripping off Robot Boy of Cartoon Network is not classy at all. I don't want to consider it to be the other way round. Not the worst but not great.

I forgot to say that Dreamworks did very well with How to Train Your Dragon (not to mention the ubiquitous Shrek). But that apparition called Aliens versus Monsters. By all means check out Surf's Up and tell me what you think. It is veeeeeeeeery underrated in my opinion.

It seems all an animation needs is a good story and imagination. I'll be checking out Despicable Me soon.

Lol, Obinna. I give up

Lol, Book of Eli haters. It was great if you were religious but it is crap if you're not. Finito.

Toy Story was emotional but it didn't make me cry, of course not. But it was emotional and anyone who can't relate to the story has never had to move on from a good thing. It's B&W.

Dreamworks suck at animations but it is not so much sucking as having such a high standard in Pixar to compare with. Sony did Surf's Up which is one of my absolute favourites. Check it out

How're you Idehn?

I like your objections and I agree. Your surmise tows the same kind of reasoning that makes me reject the thought of the Holy Spirit as an entity separate from God and worthy of worship. It is not worthy of special mention in my opinion. We don't worship God's Will for instance. Or His love.

I accept that saying God exists outside of time is misleading. Inasmuch as time ceases to exist once everything stops moving, this condition is certainly not the case and if on another dimension God is present in such a universe where everything is in an absolute stand still and at -273^oC as we know, it would also mean God was in a state of stasis and of what use would be His existence then? Nothing much.

So in light of this, permit me to rephrase and say what I really mean. God exists within all times. Time therefore doesn't constrain Him. Lol. Sounds even more preposterous, no? I've been tinkering with this idea for a long time. I've believed in parallel universes for some ridiculous reason a long time. Maybe a part of me thinks it's elegant and I just wanna believe it. Not that I believe they tangibly exist (though I don't rule it out) but I think God perceives them as a grand master sees his thinking lines in chess, only God's are infinite or as many as is possible which is actually finite but inconceivably plentiful. And God's thinking lines are real.

Let me describe this another way. Schrodinger introduced a way of thinking where reality is dependent on what we observe and not what is. Let me put my twist on it so that it'll be easy to follow. If a referee tosses a coin, it is only when he removes his hand and we see whether it's heads or tails do we actually know if it is heads or tail. Fair enough right? But Schrodinger proposes that prior to disclosure (in this case, the referee opening up his palm) all the possibilities are happening all at once. In this case, it is heads AND tails It all depends on the observer. In God's case, I think both possibilities present themselves.

Another example. Computers interpret information as a bunch of 1s and 0s. Before information arrives, the computer sorts of asks yes or no questions and the answer determines whether you have a 1 or a 0 entry and that is information. God's answers are always every answer that can be.

The only problem these analogies present is that which of God's realities are we? The real one or a thinking line? People who say that the things that a spirit being thinks of becomes real in a dimension or is created there will have even more trouble for all God's thoughts would constitute an infinite amount of parallel universes.

If you don't understand what I've written, I congratulate you because I don't think I do either 

The idea for films like Cats & Dogs, Alvin & the chipmunks, G-Force are meant to be showcased only once. The moment we see a sequel, we're bored to death.

My thoughts on Inception. I'm flabberwhelmed. It takes the sayings 'perception is key' and 'don't fall asleep' to a whole new level. Who says the mind is a terrible thing to waste? Let it waste o. Especially those genius ones. The mind much too dangerous to be let run amok.

I must admit the plot is very labyrinthine but we were given ample warning. Everyone knew things would get really warped indeed.

The acting isn't the best I've seen but stellar performances are not required for this kinda film. That Juno girl did good though. I think she'd make a better Bella than that Kristen Whatsherface. The only problem I had is with the overly simplistic and almost ridiculous technology for the mind networking. Haba. The whole thing can be carried by a pregnant woman. Not good though I see how mobility is necessary. Another thing is that I don't think Leo's character would be safe from the U.S. even if he went to hide under Atlas' armpit. Those skills are beyond any one man. The ending was not too surprising for me. I won't say some other stuff so that I won't spoil the movie for others. I will watch the film again. Something I NEVER do.

Aww, I miss me my Shakespeare

If I may, Ms. Salt learnt from you! That's some covert ish. Now I have inspiration to write that my thing

Ah. E be like say I've been hasty here. I will definitely check it out before people start to hype it and piss me off

Hans is the only composer I can recognise. Other scores I like and check em up but this Hans fella is really leviathan.

Ijaw_chic, where you been? I might see Salt soon too but I'll wait for more reviews cuz the material seems tired to me

@Obinna, lol. I guess she really is the only one who says jinkies. I can see without my glasses though

@teeluv, where you been too? No vex but I'll be seeing many movies in the next few days. Better up your game or get beat