let's try this again: Da Vinci Code Poll

[Suzanne]

:confused:

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

i may even
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/her/AudreyS/autou.jpg
jerk off in the theater
:p

[Denia]

^^^
suit yourself

i'm watching it because i actually read the book... although your intentions sound delightful. have fun.

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

ur joking right
if you wanna read some good 'cabal'/grail related fiction
read Foucault's Pendulum

[Denia]

umm.. heard of it but i've never picked it up. maybe now i will.

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

umm.. heard of it but i've never picked it up. maybe now i will.
good
:D

[Suzanne]

ur joking right
if you wanna read some good 'cabal'/grail related fiction
read Foucault's Pendulum

oh, i'm sorry. that choice should have read:

"best book without pop-up pictures ever written!"

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

i assumed from the truly terrible excerpts from 'The Da Vinci Code'
that i have brought myself to read
that the actual book did have a pop ups

[Jim Rome]

i may even jerk off in the theater :p

Dear Robby,

Sounds GREAT!!! Can I cum along?!

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h46/vansmack_2006/peewee0.jpg

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

Dear Robby,

Sounds GREAT!!! Can I cum along?!

i will be in L.A. on Friday
how bout you pee wee?

[Jim Rome]

i will be in L.A. on Friday
how bout you pee wee?


Sure. I'll even bring you some of my friendship bracelets:

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h46/vansmack_2006/peeweebusted2.jpg

[Codreanu]

Pat Buchanan on The Da Vinci Code :)

Whose God may we mock?
Posted: May 16, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

If "such lies and errors had been directed at the Quran or the Holocaust," said Archbishop Angelo Amato, the Vatican's secretary for the congregation for the doctrine of the faith, "they would have justly provoked a world uprising."

The archbishop was speaking of "The Da Vinci Code," the Ron Howard film that debuts at Cannes and opens worldwide this week, and is expected to gross $500 million by summer's end.

The archbishop's point is undeniable. Blasphemous cartoons of the Prophet with a bomb in his turban, published a few months ago in a Danish newspaper and reprinted on the front pages of Europe's major papers, ignited demonstrations in Muslim communities across Europe and violent and deadly riots across the Islamic world.

Leaders friendly to the West, from Egypt to Afghanistan, felt compelled to denounce the cartoons, as did many in the West, as a provocation and insult to the faith of a billion people.

In the 1990s, the British novelist Salman Rushdie spent years in hiding after Ayatollah Khomeini issued a "fatwa" calling for his killing for publishing the blasphemous "Satanic Verses." In the 1970s, the film "Muhammad," starring Anthony Quinn, was pulled from many U.S. theaters after bomb threats. The film had offended Muslim faithful by showing the face of Muhammad.

Last February, British historian David Irving, whose books on World War II have sold in the millions, was convicted in an Austrian court of Holocaust denial and sentenced to three years in prison. His crime: In two speeches in Austria in 1989, Irving asserted there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. Though he recanted in court, it did not save him. Prosecutors felt his sentence was too light.

Karen Pollock of Great Britain's Holocaust Education Trust applauded the verdict: "Holocaust denial is anti-Semitism dressed up as intellectual debate. It should be regarded as such and treated as such."

In nine countries of Europe, Holocaust denial is a crime. In the United States, to deny the Holocaust happened or suggest that it has been exaggerated is not a crime, but marks one down as a social leper.

If you would know who wields cultural power, ask yourself: Whom is it impermissible to offend? Thus the hoopla attending the release of "The Da Vinci Code," based on the Dan Brown novel that has sold 7 million copies in the United States, tells us something about whose God it is permissible to mock and whose faith one is allowed to assault.

For what "The Da Vinci Code" says is that Roman Catholicism is a gigantic fraud, that the church has for centuries been perpetrating a monstrous hoax, duping hundreds of millions into believing something it knows is a bald-faced lie. At the novel's heart lies the contention that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married, that they had a daughter, that the Vatican has known this and been hiding the descendants of Jesus, that Opus Dei is a secret order whose agents will engage in murder to protect the secret.

Leonardo da Vinci's painting "The Last Supper" is said to hold the secret, as Jesus is portrayed touching the hand of the youngest apostle, John, who holds the place of honor at his side – and who is, on close inspection, Mary Magdalene.

In Catholic teaching and tradition, the Holy Grail is the chalice that contained the blood of Jesus. In the book, the Holy Grail is Mary Magdalene, carrying the flesh and blood of Jesus in her womb.

If "The Da Vinci Code" is based upon facts, no other conclusion follows than that to be a Catholic is either to be in on this fraud or to be the dupe of those perpetuating it. But if it is fiction, why would Hollywood put out so viciously anti-Catholic a film that can only have the effect of undermining the faith of millions of Christians?

Putting "The Da Vinci Code" on film, with what it alleges about the Catholic Church, is the moral equivalent of making a movie based on the "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and implying this is the truth about the Jewish plot to control the world. One imagines Ron Howard and Tom Hanks would take a pass on that script.

Like the "Hitler's Pope" smear of Pius XII, a man who did more than any other to save the Jews in World War II, "The Da Vinci Code" is a Big Lie that, though readily refuted by the facts, will be believed.

But that it will be a box-office smash, that it is the subject of lavish praise in the press, that it is the best-selling novel of the 21st century, tells us we live not just in a post-Christian era, but in an anti-Catholic culture not worth defending or saving, for it is truly satanic.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50221

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

i bet pats a blast to go drinkin with
even if your a jew

[Codreanu]

i bet pats a blast to go drinkin with
even if your a jew
Oh yeah? Joseph Mccarthy could have drunk him under the table!
Pat: "No Commies under here!" *hic* :p

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

joe could drink it was said
but pat can fight they say
i think his lezbo sister can kick both theirs asses though
:)

[Suzanne]

does anyone remember the good old days when Pat ran for public office and people steered clear of him because he thought it was a good idea to build a giant wall around the southern border and send troops to patrol it to keep the Mexicans out?

[Codreanu]

does anyone remember the good old days when Pat ran for public office and people steered clear of him because he thought it was a good idea to build a giant wall around the southern border and send troops to patrol it to keep the Mexicans out?
Yeah, a 2,000 mi. fence across the U.S.-Mexican border is a wet-dream of Paleo-Cons. I, for one, voted for Pat, and would've loved an isolationist policy with troops securing our own borders for a change.

Anyway, I just finished reading about the farcical reception given The Da Vinci Code at Cannes... :)

JEERING, LAUGHTER AT 'DA VINCI' -- CANNES CRITICS LEFT COLD

Critics cruxcify 'Da Vinci Code' in Cannes
May 16 8:42 PM US/Eastern

The most hotly-awaited movie of the year "The Da Vinci Code" failed to crack an audience of movie critics here at a sneak preview ahead of Wednesday's opening of the Cannes Film Festival.

Several whistles instead of applause were all that greeted the end of Ron Howard's 125-million-dollar film, and worse than that, the 2,000-strong audience even burst out laughing at the movie's key moment.

"I didn't like it very much. I thought it was almost as bad as the book. Tom Hanks was a zombie, thank goodness for Ian McKellen. It was overplayed, there was too much music and it was much too grandiose," said Peter Brunette, critic for the US daily The Boston Globe.

The film version of Dan Brown's mega-best selling book premieres in Cannes on Wednesday before going on worldwide release on Friday. It stars Tom Hanks as symbologist Robert Langdon, called in after the curator of the Louvre is found murdered, his body splayed out covered in symbols.

Langdon and French police cryptologist Sophie Neveu, played by French actress Audrey Tautou, find themselves ensnared in a mystifying hunt to track down the murderer and solve a 2,000-year-old riddle.

The book has already sold some 50 million copies worldwide, been translated into 44 languages and spawned a spin-off tourist industry as well as whipping up a controversy. All ingredients to ensure that it will undoubtedly draw the crowds.

The greatest controversy has been stirred by the book's central theme that Jesus Christ married and had children whose descendants still survive today.

Thus book's detractors will no doubt be comforted to hear that when Hanks reveals who is supposedly the last surviving descendant of Jesus, the Cannes audience couldn't hold back their laughter.

"At the high point, there was laughter among the journalists. Not loud laughs, but a snicker and I think that says it all," said Gerson Da Cunha from The Times of India.

Other critics said the two and a half hour film was confusing to those who hadn't read the book.

"People were confused, there was no applause, just silence," said Margherita Ferrandino from the Italian television Rai 3.

"I have only read half the book, and then I got bored. It's terrible," she added.

"It was really disappointing. The dialogue was cheesy. The acting wasn't too bad, but the film is not as good as the book," added Lina Hamchaoui, from British radio IRN.

Despite being filmed against the backdrop of some of Paris' and London's most impressive and historic buildings -- Howard was even given unprecedented permission to film inside the Louvre -- the film fails to convince, becoming more of a drama-documentary with its overuse of historic flashbacks and other devices to tell the tale.

Hanks seems to get bogged down in the interminable dialogue, whereas Tautou, so brilliant in "Amelie", fails to make an impression.

British actor Sir Ian McKellan however received plaudits for his portrayal of Holy Grail expert Sir Leigh Teabing, playing his role with the right amount of wit and humour.

And Paul Bettany is suitably menacing as a self-flagellating albino monk on a mission to kill.

The film was due to open the 59th Cannes Film Festival later Wednesday, before the real competition gets underway on Thursday, with 20 films competing this year for the coveted Palme d'Or.

[Sami]

anything with hype is annoying hehe

[Suzanne]

Yeah, a 2,000 mi. fence across the U.S.-Mexican border is a wet-dream of Paleo-Cons. I, for one, voted for Pat, and would've loved an isolationist policy with troops securing our own borders for a change.

Anyway, I just finished reading about the farcical reception given The Da Vinci Code at Cannes... :)

JEERING, LAUGHTER AT 'DA VINCI' -- CANNES CRITICS LEFT COLD


Last night i was at a friend's house and she was telling me that she got a TB test.

I asked what that was about.

They're now making all foreign-born individuals have one. Doesn't matter that she was born in Canada and lived in this country since she was 1 year old. She had to have one.

I made the comment about this being the beginning of rounding up all the foreigners and putting them in the gulag, but now that I think about it, maybe they want to test to see which ones are healthy enough to help construct this massive wall on the border. :rolleyes:

As for the DaVinci code, did you REALLY expect the critics to be bowled over by it? They were probably waiting for their chance to make potshots at a really crappy book.

yes, i read the book. Dan Brown is a really lucky guy.

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

personally i like tacos, like alot
:cool: