I would say Michelle Bachmann's husband needs a strong leather daddy role model in his life to teach him humility and submission and the meaning of true manhood.  God just can't cut the mustard.

I think that Moore's character and Bening's character should get *some* credit for instilling confidence in their kids; all that Ruffalo's character instilled in them was his, erm, genetic material.  Ditto for Moore's character starting her business; she had done that before she met him.  He didn't hire her to…

Yes, going ass to ass … the most popular homosexual sex act.  (I'm trying to figure out what it even means.)

"unique only to Pentangle" means the opposite of what I think you were aiming for.  It's like saying "that's funny only to you."  Take out the "only" and it should work better.

Yeah, that really offended me, because it's said of every fucking gay film that comes down the pike, along with "it's not really about being gay, it's *universal*…"  Back to The Children's Hour in 1961 at least.

Right, like that's something never before seen in the universe.  But I don't consider these guys hot either.

I think you could make a case that Obama is stupid.  You know the joke definition of insanity as doing the same thing over and over again yet expecting different results?  I'd call that stupidity, not insanity, and it certainly describes Obama.

No commercial potential.  Now, the way to make money would be more blockbusters that can be rereleased with small digitally-generated differences each time, thus causing fans to clog teh Intertoobz with arguments about the purity of the original experience that is being trompled on … then you'd have a moneymaker.

That works both ways, of course.  Christianity is a lifestyle choice, so if someone argues against inclusion of sexual orientation in civil-rights legislation because it's a lifestyle choice, I point out that that argument would require removing religion from such laws.  Most people I talk to seem to believe that the…

"As long as Religion claims the ground of discourse outside the empirical, then what's the problem?"

I would prefer to call Willow "Star Wars based on the book by J.R.R. Tolkien, with Val Kilmer playing Han Solo."

In that case, even if the movie is made, you don't have to see it.

Didn't her sister already do that?

I think it would be possible in principle to make a decent movie of The Man in the High Castle, which is still the only Dick book I actually like.  But this is Hollywood, so I'd prefer it didn't happen.  It would be expensive to recreate the period, so the first false step would be to update it, and it would all be…

You're right to point out that lots of dreck was also written by Christians, but you missed the more important point: English literature belongs to the period after England became Christianized, so Armed and Enovated's claim is circular.  The larger part of the Bible is non-Christian, and then there are the Homeric…

"The greatest works of literature ever conceived have strong Christian themes and values at their very core."  Those that were written in Christian cultures, yes: this is a tautological claim.  It's not true of works of literature from Greek and Roman antiquity, just to stick with works you might have heard of.  It's…

One easy (if snotty, but not necessarily inaccurate) answer to that would be that Christianity *doesn't* impact the lives of the faithful.  Another would be that there have been such portrayals in recent film — The Tree of Life is one, and I've seen reviews of others that I can't recall offhand.  Other people can…

I'm just a bit confused.  The indie films mentioned in this article all seem to be targeting "evangelical" Christianity, which is just one branch of Christianity, though a significant one in the US.  But the author asks "Are indie films unfair to Christianity?" — as though evangelical Christianity equaled…