Recent content by RJMooreII

Blah blah blah, the Bible isn't that special. I also don't give a damn, because it's just a book.

Reading people who know what they're talking about. You don't have to know Greek to know about problems in various translations. Texts are not magical and mysterious just because they're written in another language. Likewise, Walter Kaufmann does some of the best if not the best translation of...

The KJV is problematic. First of all it comes from a corrupt Byzantine manuscript. Secondly it's overly literal. Third, it's in such archaic English it leads people to make all sorts of strange mistakes in understanding. Still, it's better than that apologetic hack job the NIV. The best you can...

A ceramic plate will stop a .223 or 7.62x39 round, and probably a .308. It will not stop a 7.92x54 or a .338. It's reasonable to move around in if you're fit, but so is plate armor. The problem with plate armor is more how hot it gets than how much it weighs. You can dance in good plate armor...

Dachs: Artistic license is not the same thing as arbitrarily screwing around with things to make it fit some lame-ass Matrix-300 vibe. Or perhaps the answer would be that the latter are artists with bad taste and only half a brain.

The part I really liked in the story was the spatial distortion in Rlyeh. The best part about Cthulhu himself is his shifting and spatially distorted self. An octopus-dragon-man is only the most trivial part of Cthulu's awesomeness.

It might be satirical on action as a genre, but the main thrust Verhoven wants to put into the movie is literal - a corrupt alliance between state and business which produces rampant criminality as an excuse to feed an expanded and fascistic law enforcement. I am pretty much certain this is what...

Eye witnesses are the worst possible form of evidence and information. Human beings almost inevitable distort things, especially if they're directly involved in an intense event. We know far more about many things in the ancient world than the ancients did, because we dig up their bones and use...

Why do they do this crap? I swear, I never much liked most movies or shows to begin with but the older I get the more I begin to despise the hacks behind it. It's like they're all half-wits with no taste. Even the normal plebians are getting sick of their formulaic crap.

Robocop does have a plot, it's about corrupt government-business dealings and the way that 'law enforcement' creates crime. Told through the story of a cybernetic history professor with a machine pistol. And, yes, Robocop totally overdoes the EVUL CORPORATION theme, but that's because Verhoven...

Let's imagine you can somehow organize Phalanx armored in top of the line high-impact plastic with steel inserts and a stab/cut resistant fiber body suit and a transparent face mask. Imagine their spears are made of the same thing, with metal filaments for rigidity and balance and a tungsten...

I know that Robocop is one of my favorite movies of all time, and that I don't even like anything else he made.

Plot is the only reason I watch a movie. Even if it's a crazy plot (like Commando), there has to be some sense to it. Sometimes a movie will be that magic blend of terrible that makes it awesome, but usually it's just terrible. I've never been able to finish the movie. The acting was terrible...

No, I haven't seen Cadfael.

He was in Gladiator, too; probably an homage to I, Claudius and his stage work as Augustus Caesar.