Bill Pullman! HISS!

Nihilanth

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Nihilanth
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Hey, I just saw this on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0403795/

Now, I don't watch much TV. In fact, if it's not on Adult Swim, chances are it'll cause me to fly into a rage and destroy six city blocks before I'm brought down. So this is news to me, so can anyone tell me what the deal with this is? And did anyone see that other horrible Bill Pullman movie, "Frailty"? Not to ruin the ending for those who haven't, but it's definitely the worst part of that movie. Is this going to be like that, the veiled "wacko Christians are right" and all?
Goddamn fundies hijacking out entertainment...you know what would make an awesome movie? Same premise as this one, only at the end the scientist goes "Wait...this can all be explained by cold weather fronts and mass hysteria!"
 
What? Bill PAxton? PAXTON? *Looks it up on IMDB.* Well, sir, you've caught me. My hat is off to you. Of course, now I'll have to kill you...can't have word of this getting around.

I dunno, maybe I'm just freaking out over nothing (since, if I hadn't seen it on IMDB I wouldn't have even known the show existed), but the show seems to be just another Left Behind/let's celebrate how great it'll be when God kills all you atheists/Jews/other Christians we don't like sop to those crazy people preaching in barns. And why are we making TV for them? They can't afford one, and they think it's all evil anyway!
 
Nihilanth said:
What? Bill PAxton? PAXTON? *Looks it up on IMDB.* Well, sir, you've caught me. My hat is off to you. Of course, now I'll have to kill you...can't have word of this getting around.
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Now, now, calm down take your meds... or I'll have to send Freeman over to beat you over the head again with a crowbar.

// Above is a Half-Life reference, see Nil's location
 
Yeah, right, like THAT'S gonna work again. You know the glowing blue sparks that were my only weakness? Yeah, I keep them in a safe deposit box at the bank now. And as soon as they make a titanium helmet big enough for my grossly huge, hydracephalic head, the earth will be MINE!
 
I'm sorry, Nil, but IllegalArgument is in the pay (and under the protection) of the Illuminati, who just happen to own the bank you put your sparks in. If you go and check, I believe you'll find that those glowing blue sparks are on a holiday. :)
 
What? NNNNOOOO!!! I knew I shouldn't have trusted my money to Fnord International Banking!
Well, that's okay. I had a good run. I've got plenty of good memories. My first home run, my first kiss, the first time I strapped a mind control device on a Vortigon and forced him to fry several of his hideous lizard friends, the first time I ripped open the very fabric of space-time and allowed by minions to run rampant in the unsuspecting otherworld...all good times.
 
Set just before the start of Armageddon, the series will follow two central characters, a physicist and a nun, who are racing against the clock to see if the end of the world apocalypse can be averted. Bill Pullman plays Dr. Richard Massey, a Harvard professor whose daughter is murdered by satanists while McElhone stars as a nun who recruits Massey to help investigate whether what's told in the Book of Revelations is starting to come true. Seltzer and Polone with executive produce the project along with Pariah Television's Vivian Cannon and Jessika Borsiczky.
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Nuns, physicists, satanists - what's not to like?



Anyway, if you really want to watch something called Revelations, watch this instead:
Revelations

To paraphrase the reviewer:
"If I had to find out if a person is good or bad, I would let them watch this and ask if he or she liked it."

Amen to that.
 
jmercer said:
I'm sorry, Nil, but IllegalArgument is in the pay (and under the protection) of the Illuminati, who just happen to own the bank you put your sparks in. If you go and check, I believe you'll find that those glowing blue sparks are on a holiday. :)
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Shush now, that was supposed to be a surprise.

My employers will not be happy.

// Where's my grey suit?
 
IllegalArgument said:
Shush now, that was supposed to be a surprise.

My employers will not be happy.

// Where's my grey suit?
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It's irrelevant, now, my friend. We are the MiB, and our helicopters are unstoppable. Grey is so... 2000. :D
 
Nihilanth said:
What? Bill PAxton? PAXTON? *Looks it up on IMDB.* Well, sir, you've caught me. My hat is off to you. Of course, now I'll have to kill you...can't have word of this getting around.

I dunno, maybe I'm just freaking out over nothing (since, if I hadn't seen it on IMDB I wouldn't have even known the show existed), but the show seems to be just another Left Behind/let's celebrate how great it'll be when God kills all you atheists/Jews/other Christians we don't like sop to those crazy people preaching in barns. And why are we making TV for them? They can't afford one, and they think it's all evil anyway!
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I have heard reports that the Christian fundamentalists are actually criticising this show as being biblically inaccurate.
 
Gr8wight said:
I have heard reports that the Christian fundamentalists are actually criticising this show as being biblically inaccurate.
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I've heard about that too.

Honestly, it's not Christianity or even Fundie Christians "taking over" anything -- fear sells, and people fear The End of the Worldâ„¢ quite a bit. Armageddon's a big seller lately.

It's all about the bottom line. They don't care about what tripe they're broadcasting as long as it brings in more money. :nope:
 
Gr8wight said:
I have heard reports that the Christian fundamentalists are actually criticising this show as being biblically inaccurate.
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The Bible is biblically inaccurate.
 
Nihilanth said:
... Is this going to be like that, the veiled "wacko Christians are right" and all?
Goddamn fundies hijacking out entertainment...
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I liked this movie. You did realize that it was presented as fiction, right? Who would watch that and conclude it's saying "wacko Christians are right" anyway? Only wacko Christians. And I'm not going to let them dictate my entertainment, either by disdain or by affection.
 
Hadn't seen this thread, but I saw a few minutes of the movie while channel surfing last night. I stopped because I saw Pullman's face, as the doctor meeting the nun for the first time. When I saw the title "Revelations" flash on the screen just before the doctor was lecturing a classroom about how the Biblical plagues have a perfectly normal scientifical explanation so you shouldn't believe in all that bible stuff.... well, I decided I knew where this was going and shut it off.

Coincidentally, I think there was another movie this week on one of the broadcast networks, featuring a woman in a persistent vegetative state who suddenly starts speaking biblical texts. I think it's supposed to be from one of those execrable "Left Behind" books.

Edited to add: This may be the same movie actually. I heard about the woman in the PVS from another forum, I think I heard it was on NBC, and when channel surfing I thought I was watching the SciFi channel so I didn't connect up the two. That would be a relief if two different channels didn't decide to show two different biblical end-of-world movies in the same week.

Ordinarily this stuff doesn't bug me and I can treat it as entertainment, but my country is in the hands of people who believe we are living in the End Times and that their duty as good Wacko Christians is to hurry them along.
 
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