Paul

Figured we might need a topic for Paul

Looks good. Shaun Of The Dead guy is in it. I might go see it.

Eh. Simon Pegg was in Run Fat Boy Run and I didn't think that was much good. (How do you screw up a movie with Simon Pegg and Dylan Moran in it?! How?!)

But I'll give Paul a shot.

It was okay, with a few decent nerd jokes, especially in the end.

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Origonal topic.

Yeah. It's probably better to have a topic without the sneering quote marks in the title though.

Didn't expect all that much of this, though I do like both Nick Frost and Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead is hands down one of the best British films in decades). I was impressed, it's a great film, though I can see why people wouldn't like it.

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I thought it was great. A little unoriginal, maybe.

I didn't expect much from it from the start. Those trailers and ads really didn't make it seem appealing in the least.

Ruining everything forever.

Genuinely fun, but nothing too new. Also, its heavy-handed, single-point atheist theory was tiresome at all points of the film.

edited 27th Mar '11 8:51:47 AM by Barcode711

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I didn't see it like that at all. I feel that the subplot was more of a criticism of closed-mindedness and religious fundamentalists who feel they are holier than thou and more important than everyone else. Also, one would probably expect an alien to look down on this (since they would know more about religion and science and what not due to their years of survival).

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Don't bother. You can't win against these people.

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People who don't like anvilicious films?

I was joking*

, and the film wasn't anvilicious about it. Paul is opinionated, but that's just his personal opinion. The others are extreme nerds: they have faith in Science, possibly to an irrational degree. Makes perfect sense that they'd act like that.

Also, it's really weird that Paul would react so strongly to religion: usually that sort of reaction only comes from people who have been brought up on religion and then at some point stopped believing, and felt betrayed and cheated. That, and it's also weird that he doesn't comment on the history of religion and superstition in his own world(s?). Finally, some Christians believe in there being only one Earth, but Muslims, for example, believe in the plurality of worlds, and have absolutely no problem with the idea that God may have created more life elsewhere.

I'd be curious about a story of Aliens in an Islamic setting.

edited 9th Apr '12 4:09:56 AM by TheHandle

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