It's Only A Movie

And if you look for the book in the bookstore, it will be under "FICTION" [img]graemlins/whatever.gif[/img]

Local Protests Planned For 'Da Vinci Code' Release

POSTED: 4:42 pm EDT May 17, 2006
UPDATED: 5:59 pm EDT May 17, 2006
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CINCINNATI -- Millions read the page-turner "The Da Vinci Code." Now the movie is sparking new discussions.
The Catholic Church has pointed out that the book and movie are works of fiction.
"The real concern from people who are protesting is that there will be misunderstandings of the fictitious narration that (author Dan) Brown has presented as fact," said Dennis O'Connor, of the Catholic Telegraph.
The book and movie include stories that Christ married Mary Magdalene, was not resurrected and therefore is not divine.

"I would hope if people have questions, they would come back to the Church," O'Connor said.
Before the movie hits the big screen, readers of The Catholic Telegraph will get a four-page insert explaining fact from fiction.
"What about Christ and celibacy? What about Christ and marriage? What are the facts about Mary Magdalene we know? What are the facts about Opus Dei?" O'Connor said.
Members of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property are staging protests across the country, including the Tri-State. Starting Friday, small groups will hold prayer vigils in front of movie theaters as many more flock inside.
The protestors say their vigil will be public response to public blasphemy. But the Archdiocese of Cincinnati is taking no official position and is using the movie as an opportunity to teach.

I'm not a relgious person, and anyone can go to any movie they want which makes this more pointless. These people will be protesting something that is allready advertised as a work of fiction. Will they be protesting all fictional movies? [img]graemlins/sure.gif[/img] If so, I suggest they set up a camp city outside every single movie complex in the world since that is pretty much the majority of films in general! [img]eek.gif[/img]

But we don't see Christians rioting, burning embassies, looting, issuing death threats like that other group did when it felt its "prophet" had been insulted. What is the name of it again, oh yeah the "Religion of Peace" [img]graemlins/whatever.gif[/img]

Oddly enough Tom Hanks look much younger in this film. He slimmed down and looks better than he has in a long time, based on the commercials I have seen him in for it.

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"I would hope if people have questions, they would come back to the Church," O'Connor said.
Before the movie hits the big screen, readers of The Catholic Telegraph will get a four-page insert explaining fact from fiction.
"What about Christ and celibacy? What about Christ and marriage? What are the facts about Mary Magdalene we know? What are the facts about Opus Dei?" O'Connor said.
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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">What about priests and little boys?

The cathloic church needs to look in the mirror.

The worst film I have seen in years, Utterly appaling acting from Hanks and the French bird, Ron Howard should of never of been able to go near this film.
The Catholic church must be rejoicing at this pathetic effort.

Is Ron howard Opus Dae??

I only "thank the Lord" I didnt do the "Cinema" thing. God bless the Russians and the whole Pirate dvd industry

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ June 07, 2006 08:40 AM: Message edited by: Sean Pa ]</font>

It had its redeeming moments, oh yes indeed it did.

Da Vinci was a great inventor:

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian inventor, artist, architect, and scientist. Da Vinci had an interest in engineering and made detailed sketches of:
the airplane
the helicopter and other flying machines
the parachute
the submarine
the armored car
the ballista (a giant crossbow)
rapid-fire guns, the centrifugal pump (designed to drain wet areas, like marshes)
ball bearings
contact lenses
the worm gear (a set of gears in which many teeth make contact at once, reducing the strain on the teeth, allowing more pressure to be put on the mechanism),
and many other incredible ideas that were centuries ahead of da Vinci's time.

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Originally posted by The Big Sexy:
Da Vinci was a great inventor:

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian inventor, artist, architect, and scientist. Da Vinci had an interest in engineering and made detailed sketches of:
the airplane
the helicopter and other flying machines
the parachute
the submarine
the armored car
the ballista (a giant crossbow)
rapid-fire guns, the centrifugal pump (designed to drain wet areas, like marshes)
ball bearings
contact lenses
the worm gear (a set of gears in which many teeth make contact at once, reducing the strain on the teeth, allowing more pressure to be put on the mechanism),
and many other incredible ideas that were centuries ahead of da Vinci's time.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">And an utterly superb Artist, a true visionary.
Shame of it is, I was so looking forward to this film, But it nothing but a straight copy from the book without the suspense or atmosphere.
What could of been, If ridley Scott had got hold of it [img]frown.gif[/img]

Still havent seen it.
I've heared mixed reviews of it though.
There's a few out right now that I want to see, just havent yet.

Cant wait to see Cars! [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] [img]cool.gif[/img]

Hold on, Reason....for all of Leonardo's greatness, he was no Milo Rambaldi.....

And my man Sean Pa used the phrase "God bless the Russians." Love it. LOVE IT.

Didn't see DaVinci Code, but I am hoping to see X-Men.

MILO Giacomo RAMBALDI
b. 1444 - d. 1496

Prophet and Seer...Psychic and Alchemist

Born in Parma in 1444, Rambaldi was educated by monks of the Vespertine order, and until the age of 12, was self-employed as a painter, sculptor and student of the arts. Introduced to Cardinal Alexander of the Roman Catholic church, during his travels to Rome at the age of 18, he was retained privately as architect, consultant and prophet, when Alexander became Pope in 1492.

Despite this benefactor's wishes to see Rambaldi prosper, during his lifetime Rambaldi and his works receded from visibility by commandment of Archdeacon Claudio Vespertini, who feared the revolutionary implications of technologies defined in Rambaldi's belief system, and sought to have Rambaldi's works contained and eventually eliminated. He conflicted with Alexander VI on this one matter; a moot point at the time of the Pope's passing in 1503.

Vespertini commanded that the name Rambaldi be "washed" from all monuments and edifices throughout the period of 1470 to 1496, at which time he ordered that the Pope's engineer be excommunicated for heresy, his workshop in Rome be destroyed, and that he be sentenced to death by flame, upon Rambaldi's declaration that science would someday allow us to know God.

Milo Rambaldi died a lonely man, in the Winter of 1496. He had no surviving spouse or heir.

Shortly after Rambaldi's demise, a second, "secret workshop" was discovered, in San Lazzaro, and was systematically torn apart by agents of the Vatican. In a movement to discredit his work and influence, plans and sketches were sold and traded for next to nothing by mandate during a private auction.

Since the 15th century, traces of Rambaldi's enigmatic work have turned up in various places around Italy, France, parts of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and even a museum warehouse in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1921. The design directive for many of these drawings remains unclear to this day, and has even inspired some impressive forgeries.

Rambaldi is said to have preceded the digital information age by implication of an illustrated "machine code" language as early as 1489, through the introduction of cryptic algorithms (eg, compression) around his use of pre-binary 1's and 0's. Many of his drawings and documentation are written in multiple languages ranging from Italian and Demotic hybrids, to elusive mixtures of symbols (pre-masonic cipher encryptions).

Rambaldi created the earliest known watermark on all of his papers, known as the "eye" of Rambaldi, and which show up to the naked eye only when held to black light. His waterpapers were all hand-made and of a unique polymer fiber (similar to onion skin), and possessing a consistency that has lived and aged well-beyond its era, and in under (oftentimes) adverse storage conditions. His watermark (the eye "<o>") is so far the only test of accuracy against the slew of falsifications and forgeries, which have also arisen in a revisionist era, culminating with several prime examples of digital piracy. So far there have been 102 known forgeries in balance to the total of 22 known and documented sketches.


Documents interpreting Rambaldi's designs and teachings were highly sought-after during the Third Reich, during Adolf Hitler's paranoid scavenger hunt for occult and theoretical knowledge. During this period, the epithet "Nostravinci" became part of the fuhrer's private lexicon -- a personalized short-hand for the name Rambaldi, in auctioneering circles where the desire for the seer's work still proved competitive.

Rambaldi's works are still, to this day, formally unpublished, due to a consistent international ban on the name Rambaldi, its fascistic legacy, and especially its lack of visibility; it has been alleged that a conspiracy of containment precedes many of these twentieth-century discoveries, even that the knowledge contained under private sanctioning of his documents remains under the firm "hand" of the Trilateral Commission.

In 1988, a rudimentary schematic unearthed in one private collector's home in Brazil, indicated on the back, a diagramme for a transportable vocal communicator revealed the design and workings of contemporary cellular phone technologies.

Since March of 2001, (KDir Classifications Director) Olgi C. Krystovnich (b. 1964, Russian historian and cryptologist) happened upon one of Rambaldi's earliest designs, ca. 1460, located and released from a personal collection in Madrid. In this drawing, she identified a prototype that reflected the properties and composition of a 20th century transistor design.

The remainder of Rambaldi's oeuvre remains forgotten, and much of it has been destroyed, with much uncertainty remaining as to how many notebooks he might have filled during the fifty-four years of his life.

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<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ June 07, 2006 01:27 PM: Message edited by: The Big Sexy ]</font>