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Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

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There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

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Everybody saw this coming.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Trump makes a mockery of the legal system and cowardly judges just sit back and let him.

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Elections aren’t won by handwringing, cowering, and/or bashing your own candidates.

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The new republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

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I am pretty sure Katy Tur wasn’t always such a bootlicking sycophant.

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It’s the corruption, stupid.

When the time comes to make an endorsement, the pain of NYT editors will be palpable as they reluctantly whisper “Biden.”

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  3. 3.

    Dave Munger

    I don’t think I can watch anything set in Medieval times anymore, they go so far out of their way to be so aggressively non-Medieval in every way. It’s like the end of one of Steve Martin’s Theodoric of York sketches. “Perhaps one day women will be treated as equals, and there will be a… a… SEPERATION of Church and State…”. Heard a speech from the movie on E! or something last night, the hero’s a PoMo Agnostic Relativist or something. He’s basically exhorting all his troops about how the teritory they’re fighting for isn’t really holy. I have yet to fully absorb how much it would suck for a guy in that position to actually do that, and is it too much to ask the filmakers to remember that this guy is supposed to be a Medieval European? I’m starting to think that LA people genuinely believe that all people, at all times, were exactly like them.

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    The Disembodied Voice

    The real problem is there’s simply too many of these sorts of movies. Big huge hundred-thousand man armies were cool at first but they’re no substitute for a decent plot and characters.

    That said, I heard it was good. These new historical epics tend to be hit-and-miss. Gladiator was excellent, Troy was decent, The Last Samurai was good in some places, poor in others, Alexander was bad, and King Arthur ought to have earned Fuqua the death penalty for crimes against humanity.

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    Fargus

    Nah, Orlando Bloom is definitely an agnostic in the movie. He claims to have been abandoned by God, and he leads not for the cross, but for the people living in Jerusalem.

    I like this movie more and more the more articles I read by the religious right about it. They’re fuming.

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    Mason

    I’ve heard a lot of bad things about this movie, but I can’t believe that one of my favorite directors would have botched it that badly…

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    The Disenfrachised Voter

    “Nah, Orlando Bloom is definitely an agnostic in the movie. He claims to have been abandoned by God, and he leads not for the cross, but for the people living in Jerusalem.”

    How can he be an agnostic if he believes God has abandoned him. Agnostics suspend judgement on whether there is a God or not. If Bloom believes God has abandoned him then he isn’t an agnostic.

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    profbacon

    He wasn’t in Blackhawk Down very long due to his character getting a Neck injury. If you wanna watch somehing really moving, I would recommend “Going Upriver: The Long War of John F. Kerry”. Just check it out

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    Caley

    I loved Kingdom of Heaven! He didn’t have a sword in Black Hawk Down, Wilde, or his movie “HAVEN” (isn’t out yet) or elizabeth town (in about 1/3 of a year)

    KoH was definately his best movie so far (acting wise)

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