Give me the pitch and I'll figure out how to make it. It might take me ten years with the final product being a 480p animation put together with Windows Movie Maker and MS Paint at 8fps with me doing all the voices, but I'll make it.

Like, my dude, if the essence of all evil has been locked up in a giant jar for 7 million years, I'd still say based on history that evil resides in the human heart, no matter how Lovecraftian the monster is!

...dive into the theological implications more than a priest being like "my god, we were lied to. the Catholic church wanted us to think evil was inside the human heart so we would more easily buy what they were selling"

I almost saw it yesterday, bc I've avoided it so much since it came out—I've read the plot synopses, the threads debating whether it's more straight-up scary or just upsetting in its depiction of grief—that now I need to see it just to overcome my fear of how bad it could be!

According to Wikipedia (see the 'outside France' heading) whether or not to "swing" (not technically swing, but very close to it) Bach music has been a matter of intense debate: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_i...

Not my best work, I know, but it was the first thing that came to mind

When you really need to poop but the service just started and you're the pastor

Maybe the gospel writers were like, "oh no! no one is going to believe everyone was confused by these parables when so many are explained and/or seem to have a relatively straightforward meaning! better throw in one that makes no sense just to be safe."

idk i'm just spitballing here

This is undeniably correct, although I do admire how they made it very good by introducing the cherry variant

Ironically, as a church organist, I am also curious about this (I don't pick the songs and I've been too lazy to inquire deeply those who do what their process is)

Checking out the rest of Billy Wilder's filmography after the 75th anniversary of Sunset Boulevard, or just a coincidence?

On the plus (??) side, maybe this will open up a way for people like me to better understand how preaching could perhaps be sacramental, simply by providing a negative counterexample

Not exactly *good*. Unique, I'll grant.

Was about to be amazed someone else saw George Lucas's not-entirely-good CGI jukebox musical about fairies that my girlfriend once had me watch; then realized you wrote "World," not "Magic"

Superman IV is rightfully trashed but Superman III is an unrecognized masterpiece that doesn't get recognized as such because it trades the grandeur of 1 for the comedy of Walk and Don't Walk lights physically fighting each other, here I stand