I'm not sure why, but I find this Good Will Hunting - the Eff'n Short Version funny. It's about a minute-and-a-half of all the 'f-ck' words that are used in the movie.

(Not safe for work, not for kids.)

Just finished watching "Deathwatch" a low-budget British war/horror movie. Overall it wasn't too bad. Not the greatest, naturally, but watchable. (And for a low budget horror movie, I didn't laugh all that often, which is usually a good sign.)

The Plot: World War One, the Western Front, the British Y company survives a battle and end up in a forward German trench. There, they capture a German soldier, but soon realize that the Germans aren't their enemy here - rather, something unnatural and evil lurks in the mud.

I spent three days and I could only get 50 minutes into this movie. Anyone remember it?
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It's about a kid who gets beaten up and left for dead, but his non corporeal is hanging around in limbo until he dies. So he tries to get people to find his body before he dies 'for real.'

The problem I had with this movie is that two-thirds of the way through I really didn't care if Nick lived or died. I had no emotional connection to this character. And this may be because he had no emotional connection to the other characters.

In Raider of the Lost Arc we had snakes.

In Temple of Doom we had nasty, crunchy bugs.

In The Last Crusade we had rats.

What's going to be the creature in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?

When I first heard about Apocalypto it was advertised as a movie about the end of the Mayan civilization. Because of crop failures the Mayan king (and his priests, I'll assume) believe their gods wanted sacrifices, so jungle villages are ransacked and destroyed to capture men for human sacrifice to appease thier gods. And while it's true that the last five minutes of the movie have the Spanish fleet arriving, the movie as a whole wasn't about that.

It was a love story.

With the Da Vinci Code movie out in theaters, it's time for me to give my thoughts concerning this whole 'controversy.' (For the record, I've not read the book nor seen the movie; my thoughts are more about the controversy itself.)

In the story, Dan Brown says that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalen in direct opposition to Church teaching. Catholic leaders, then, began to denounce Brown and the book. Blasphemy, you see. Groups like Opus Dei, which is part of the stories conspiracy, and even Albinos (the antagonist is one) along with the Catholic Church (or certain members, I don't think the Vatican denounced it officially) wanted either boycotts of the movie or a disclaimer at the beginning of the movie saying that the story was fiction.

To Opus Dei: if you weren't such a secret society, then your group wouldn't have made sense in the book. To Albinos: one bad albino in a story doesn't make all albinos bad. To the Catholic Church: what are you afraid of?

So what is the Catholic Church afraid of? Simple. Questions.

Questions like: What if there's more to the gospel then we've been told?