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June 29

Visual Bible

There have been some movies made that use books of the Bible word for word as the script called The Visual Bible; I know they have made Matthew, Acts, John - are there any others? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.174.131.33 (talk) 02:50, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

You may find the article List of films based on the Bible an interesting starting point. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 03:10, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Visual Bible International, Inc. produced those movies. In 2004 one of their filings reported plans to start filming the Visual Bible Gospel of Mark in 2005. Unfortunately, by 2005 the company was placed in receivership. Their last filing was on March 31, 2005. The notice of receivership indicated that further inquiries should be directed to Luc Perron of Visual Bible. The Visual Bible website has an e-mail link to Luc Perron (lperron@visualbible.com). Since he has been with the company for years, he would be the one to ask about possible future releases. 152.16.16.75 (talk) 00:34, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Searching for a Japanese film and a Yugloslavia/Serbian/Bosnian/Croatian[...] one

I remember seeing parts of these movies years ago, and I'm searching the titles to see them in their entirety.

The first movie I'm searching for is about a Japanese man who has a teenage girl under his care and she wants to be a masseuse, so he fabricates a fake saloon in an abandonned factory and asks his friends to attend it as customers. I saw it on the Movie Network, and it was not dubbed, only subtitles.

The second movie takes place during the modern history of Yugoslavia from World War II to the conflicts in the 90s. The main protagonists are a father and his autistic/disconnected from reality/weird looking son who carries a pet monkey around. The son later commits suicide by hanging in a war-torn chapel, while his father is fighting in the war. I'm not sure, but I think that another scene takes place where a German airplane strafes their boat in the middle of a lake. In the end, the family is seen partying during a marriage while the land detaches itself from the mainland as a metaphor of the final peaceful separation of the Balkan states. Rachmaninov Khan (talk) 03:19, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

I think the first movie is Happy Times (not Japanese but Chinese though). The second one sounds like Underground (film). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.171.56.13 (talk) 10:29, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

My error, but both are the right answer. Thanks! Rachmaninov Khan (talk) 13:54, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Basketball at the Shrine Auditorium

The Shrine Auditorium article says basketball was once played there, apparently on the stage. Can anyone find a picture of basketball being played at the venue? -- Mwalcoff (talk) 04:56, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Megan Fox was a guy?

I read this surprising article. http://mhuy2x.net84.net/?p=347 Is it true? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.71.62.54 (talk) 11:22, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

gb2 /tv/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.91.128 (talk) 11:36, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

No. Livewireo (talk) 14:02, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

How can you say? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.71.62.54 (talk) 14:56, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

It is incumbent on the people on random blogs who make random claims to provide evidence for those claims. Personally I'm with most people here who are not interested in chasing down the truth of unlikely rumors like this. Tempshill (talk) 15:41, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it's true... she was a man when she was a tiny little sperm. She was hot back then and she is now don't you think.207.248.235.34 (talk) 17:12, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

I don't. Adam Bishop (talk) 19:11, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

great music

has someone composed better background score than that in the lord of the rings trilogy? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.193.228.46 (talk) 15:30, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

You must define what it means to be "better". This is a reference desk, not an opinion desk. As your question is currently phrased, you are merely asking for opinions. -- kainaw™ 15:38, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Academy Award for Best Original Music Score has a list of other scores considered good. Rmhermen (talk) 16:45, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

What the hell, I'll give an opinion. Erich Wolfgang Korngold's score for The Adventures of Robin Hood is the best of all. Whippersnappers who are unfamilaiar with anything predating the execrable LOTR films should confine themselves to posting on fanboy sites. Deor (talk) 04:51, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

I disagree, Deor. Whippersnappers who are unfamiliar with anything predating LOTR should indeed ask for advice here, where old and experienced fogies can educate them and point out wonderful composers such as Korngold (excellent choice) or other names listed under the link provided by Rmhermen. Fanboy sites will only re-confirm misguided preferences. (And I'll highlight Bernard Hermann and Nino Rota on that list, for another personal take). ---Sluzzelin talk 05:20, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

I'm reminded of a rant by Harlan Ellison, probably on the Scifi Channel (whose name they couldn't pay him enough to pronounce), which amounted to "Stay off my lawn and don't pretend to know jack about science fiction until you've read the stories that I loved when I was your age (most of which have been out of print since before you were born)." Or at least that's what I got out of it. —Tamfang (talk) 00:52, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

By the way, I'd like to add this image to the article on Korngold (and maybe replace the one of Max Reinhardt). Does anyone know when the picture was taken, or how old he is? I couldn't find any information at this LOC link either. ---Sluzzelin talk 11:58, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

It's in the link Rmhermen gave - and it won an Oscar - but I award special mention to John Williams' score for Schindler's List. For a moody evocation of Jewishness, it has few peers. -- JackofOz (talk) 20:53, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

The question reminds me of an award-nominated short story by George Alec Effinger: "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything" (1984). People from the stars come to Earth and freely share their technology, but they're a bit irritating with their unshakable opinions. They make the Sahara bloom – with hollyhocks, because hollyhocks are the best flower. They mention in passing that a certain movie score (I wish I could remember which) is indisputably humanity's best music. And so on. —Tamfang (talk) 17:49, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Quantum of Solace video game

What are the differences between the PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and PC versions of the Quantum of Solace video game? David Pro (talk) 15:54, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Both IGN Insider and Lensoftruth.com [1] do head to head comparisons of videos on different platforms. --70.167.58.6 (talk) 16:01, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Anime based on Journey to the West

Hi. I would like to know the name of an anime that I saw when I was a kid. I'm not sure if it was a series or a movie or ova or whatever. I can only recall very few and vague information about it because it was a long time ago, this is what I remember:

-It is based in Journey to the West (no, it's not dragonball) -The main character is a kid, I think he has red hair -he flies in a cloud and has a staff that enlarges -His best friend is a fat guy -He meets a green or blue guy that looks like a super sayan trunks that has the ability to throw spikes from his body. -He meets another guy, well, they are group of four in total the main characters. -They seem to be part of a space-police unit. -The final boss is extremely powerful, I think he even transforms a couple of times. -The might be space-police unit fights several powerful aliens trough the movie/episode.

I can't recall any more details, I've searched about animes that are related with the Journey to the West story but I haven't found anyone similar.

I have allready checked this list on wikipedia List of media adaptations of Journey to the West#Comics, manga and anime, that's why I'm asking here because no one of the series listed is like the one I'm telling. Here the main character is a kid with red/brown hair in form of an onion (like those troll toys). He is indeed a kid, not a monkey, not a tall man or teenager, I don't remember if he has a tail, I remember that he has big eyes in a costume somewhat similar of Son Goku from Dragonball, I think it's even red. Maybe I'm wrong and the main characters aren't with a space police unit, maybe they are just bounty hunters, I'm not sure. The best friend of the main character is a fat small guy with a clumsy look, I think he also has a flying cloud. Another scene I remember is the suposed final boss giving electric shocks with some kind of tentacles to the main characters. Does anybody have a clue on what anime or ova could it be???????????????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.248.235.34 (talk) 17:05, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Monkey Typhoon? The main character has red hair. [2]. Oda Mari (talk) 15:59, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi Oda Mari, thanks but that's not the anime I was looking for. I searched for more details about it and I found that it is not a series, It might be a movie or tv special. The only thing I have found so far was a question in yahoo answers asking the same thing as me and the guy that posted that said the fat guy (the friend of the main character) had a large round nose. The drawings are also old so it might have been made in the 80's, maybe I'm wrong and it's not even japanese but I remember the style of drawings of the characters and they seem like manga, and the battles resemble japanese animes not american cartoons. 207.248.235.34 (talk) 16:53, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

The Japanese animes based on 'Journey to the west' in the '80s that I could found are [3], [4], [5], and [6]. Oda Mari (talk) 07:31, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi there Oda Mari, sadly none of those were the anime I'm looking for, I'm sure the main character is not a monkey, he has human form and it's a movie (maybe mini series). If I could see just one image I would recognize them instantly. The main character has a red hair in form of an onion, he has big eyes (bigger than the common eyes in anime)and wears red clothes similar of son goku from dragonball. The staff that enlarges was used either by him or by his fat friend and he also rides either a kyntoun or a magic carpet. 207.248.235.34 (talk) 15:47, 3 July 2009 (UTC)