The lazy person claims, “There’s a lion out there! If I go outside, I might be killed" (Proverbs 22: 13 NLT) Lutheran pastor, husband, cat servant, Godzilla fan
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Few fantasy films have captured the return of hope as powerfully as this scene from Excalibur.
Percival has returned with the Holy Grail, Arthur has risen from his sickbed, and the land itself awakens with its king. As Arthur and his remaining knights ride to face Mordred, the barren countryside erupts into blossom and “O Fortuna” thunders over the charge.
It is pure Arthurian myth: shining armour, green light, falling petals and doomed heroes riding together one final time. Boorman takes the idea that the king and the land are one and turns it into one of the great fantasy sequences ever put on film.
Has any fantasy movie staged a better ride into battle?
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On 25 September 1066, Harold Godwineson defeated Harald, king of Norway, and his own brother Tostig in battle at Stamford Bridge. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says it was the second major battle in five days - and another was looming. Within weeks, Harold would die at Hastings.
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Just finished Dracula again. What a wonderful book. It's quite apparent why moderns & postmoderns hate it. The powers of evil are defeated by God working through the hands of good Christian men & women.
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Got a flu shot today & also got a kiss from the pharmacist.
Fortunately she happens to be my wife.
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Spider-Man Brand New Day got pushed out of my local theater so they can start showing Avengers Endgame Encore & a bunch of other crappy movies. That's sad. And I include Avengers in the crappy category.
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Today appears to be the last day Spider-Man Brand New Day is in the local theater. They've got a showing at 1600. Should I really go & see it for the 6th time or actually do some work today?
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I just watched/skimmed through a contemporary worship service of an LCMS congregation. Krusty says what I was thinking the whole time.
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As of today the mortgage on my house is paid off. Now my wife and I can start paying on other debt. And of course the property taxes will never go away. But still it’s good to have the house paid for.
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None of this ever would've happened if @HarperCollins had just kept the numbering of the Chronicles in the righteous & true publication order.
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I was already planning to not see the new Narnia movie before it was even announced. The last good Narnia visual media was the late 80s TV series. And before that the 1979 TV movie.
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Can't convince me it isn't deliberate. They know what Lewis' works have done in the past. They have to muddy or subvert the message because these books are feet in doorways to secret places in a child's heart and that can be used to save people. It did me.
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