A 3-D CGI cinema experience, $300 billion dollar budget, and 3 hours of “revolutionary, Hollywood-blockbuster, visual eye-candy…” well, here are three reasons why I think Avatar was a bad movie. (And further, that it was deceptively bad, because it looked so good): 1. It is anti-human. (forget mere claims of anti-American, anti-military)2. It offers no […]
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John’s Summer Pedantriactivity
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Jun 2009
Peter asked me to do this, so forgive the length. Here is a pedantic activity with which I while away the wee weeks in woebegone Irving, Texas. I am working on a small project examining various methods of biblical exegesis. I am focusing on the Psalms. The project basically compares various exegetical methods, and I […]
