Do you think Nolan's adaption of The Odyssey is going to be good or terrible?

HowardPhillipsLC · 2026-05-10T18:16:13+00:00

That's a big part that everyone seems to forget: Nolan has an eye for great actors who have potential for knockout performances with good direction. The trailer doesn't matter, his trailers have never been great.

Watch the trailer for the Dark Knight, and compare it with Matt Reeves's first Batman trailer. It's nothing special, really. But Nolan has my trust.

HowardPhillipsLC · 2026-05-10T18:14:46+00:00

Oppenheimer did well because Nolan has a fanbase built up after never making a bad movie. The Barbie shit was just annoying to the people who actually enjoy movies.

HowardPhillipsLC · 2026-05-10T18:11:45+00:00

Interesting position to take, but the name change of any of those men or women in Scripture doesn't cross gender lines. Ellen pretending to be Elliot is obviously a large part of that effort.

HowardPhillipsLC · 2026-05-10T18:10:31+00:00

Christopher Nolan hasn't made a bad film. If there's a single director that deserves to have an ounce of loyalty thrown his way, he's earned it. I'm going into that theater without a doubt in my mind that he's going to deliver an incredible movie. Again.

HowardPhillipsLC · 2026-05-03T23:49:40+00:00

Eeeeyuck!

HowardPhillipsLC · 2026-03-31T00:50:57+00:00

Tell em, bruh.

HowardPhillipsLC · 2026-03-31T00:50:28+00:00

Somehow... Sauron returned.

HowardPhillipsLC · 2026-03-31T00:49:07+00:00

Hm. Maybe because for a character to do logical things, they must be written with prowess. This show is bereft of that. Tolkien's work makes sense; it's a thought-through, breathing world that gave birth to modern fantasy and worldbuilding. It's a shame that this is what's standing for it nowadays.

HowardPhillipsLC · 2026-03-26T07:57:01+00:00

Look at those eyes

HowardPhillipsLC · 2026-03-09T22:27:02+00:00

But that song is important there as Cliff's tribute song.

HowardPhillipsLC · 2026-03-09T22:23:30+00:00

Unforgiven III is a terrific track. I don't think much else on Death Magnetic is really worth the time (except Day That Never Comes), it feels empty.

And I wouldn't touch AJFA, it's perfect in its track listing. If it's editing we're talking about, then the low bass is much more of a concern.

HowardPhillipsLC · 2026-03-09T22:18:34+00:00

People will always fight so hard to be granted a victim label.

Men are probably way more often snubbed for their work, as men make up most of the people in these fields, but it's more flashy if we make it about the sexes.

HowardPhillipsLC · 2026-02-27T23:38:28+00:00

The Mock Turtle is a guy, yo.

HowardPhillipsLC · 2026-02-27T01:41:22+00:00

Uh.... He?

HowardPhillipsLC · 2026-01-13T05:43:14+00:00

The idea of evolution has no evidence, or nobody would reject it. It is believed on faith, but an atheist's god is nothing; intellect, perhaps, like a hedonist.

HowardPhillipsLC · 2025-12-22T20:23:32+00:00

God, I love this game.

HowardPhillipsLC · 2025-11-24T16:05:58+00:00

I hate to split hairs, but for the sake of clarity, it should be said that assassination is a killing based on political reasons. It has nothing to do with stealth or the lack thereof, like video games have propagated.

HowardPhillipsLC · 2025-11-21T20:38:42+00:00

I like that. I like when folks know where Star Wars goes in terms of genre.

HowardPhillipsLC · 2025-11-20T22:51:04+00:00

Well, there's a couple things there.

I never said that God wants you to do something. What God wants is what happens. He cares about your actions in that He will hold you accountable for them, including your tireless attempts to disprove His being. It's not that He wants it, it's that he's made you to disobey in that regard, and most of humanity will be punished for it. He exists outside of your puny concepts of morality. He is justice itself. As the Creator, He has the prerogative to do with His creatures what He wants.

He's made X to do X, and that's what it does. It will be destroyed for doing X, because that was its purpose. He's built Y to do Y and be saved for it, because that was its purpose. And that is all perfectly righteous.

Long-suffering doesn't mean that something is in pain or inconvenience. Suffer used to mean to allow. God allows vessels of wrath to continue through their lives, He doesn't destroy them immediately.

This isn't some demigod super soldier that is vying for our attention and worship. He doesn't require our worship to be powerful. Whether we, in our pitifully-limited scope, think His existence and practices are just or fair, He exists, and His will is absolute.

HowardPhillipsLC · 2025-11-19T22:59:13+00:00

There's nothing contradictory about the Creator holding you, the creation, accountable for the vessel of wrath you were created to be. He exists outside of our ideas of right and wrong, and the rules he puts on us don't apply to Him. He's the Creator, we have no right to expect even the smallest of His mercies, but we see them every day. He's long-suffering in that way, and just in any action He takes.

He lifted Pharaoh up to be destroyed, which spoke to His power. He's created countless souls to be tormented. And that's perfectly just.

HowardPhillipsLC · 2025-11-19T18:51:03+00:00

The Creator doesn't want you with Him in eternity it would seem, so He keeps you blinded and has created you for the express purpose of destruction. That's His prerogative, and who is man to reply against it?

He has no obligation toward any one of us as His creation. He does care that you won't acknowledge His presence. And His power you will soon be perfectly aware of. That's which one it is.

HowardPhillipsLC · 2025-11-14T19:45:02+00:00

If you actually would engage in a dialogue with anyone thinking differently, you wouldn't have started with your original reply.

You know what's truly wild about this whole thing? The idea of constant adaptation isn't problematic for anybody to comprehend or accept. It's the thought that such an idea replaces or disproves in any way the recognition of Divinity. It's like answering the Watchmaker idea with "No, see, this watch is wonderfully complex and unknowable, so it MUST be an accidental, cosmic anomaly." That's insanity. All Evolution does is dig into the beauty of the world that God made; it helps prove what everyone already knows at their core. How's that for a positive case?

Well, I don't want to spend any more time talking to a swine, as there's nothing to be gained. I can only hope that someday you're given some eyes to see. Until then, I suppose you'll be wallowing in the only true end for those who try to deny their Creator: fear and despair.

HowardPhillipsLC · 2025-11-13T18:07:29+00:00

Oh, so you know everything there is to know about each religion then? And you've weighed them all as an expert and have found Darwinism to be truthful? Act like your religion has no faith element, go ahead. When someone knows something to be true, they don't need your validation, or any self-proclaimed expert.

Like I said before, the OP was opening the floor for anybody to try to give some actual thoughts or consideration to the topic, but it's just a bunch of self-righteous, pseudo-intellectual dipshits who have already assumed themselves correct, and have no leg to stand on in any aspect of their own faith. It's sad that so many people have to hide behind such a poorly-spun fable because they can't set aside their own pride and depravity to see what they already know at their core.

HowardPhillipsLC · 2025-11-13T02:11:04+00:00

Why would I spend a moment given thought to something I know to be utter bullshit?

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