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Hell in Fiction
Samson:
Hi Dawidos,
Yes, movie makers have quite an imagination, they take advantage of the popular tastes of movie goers, me included at times. I remember when I was younger watching the Omen movies, the Sentinel, the left behind series. I"ve probably seen most, if not all of these God verses the Devil type movies that were ever made. The funny thing is that the Devil seems to usually win in these Movies or is winning during most of movie, than with five minutes to go, the "good" wins out. It may sound strange, although they are just movies, sometimes they left me depressed. In the Omen Trilogy, the forces of good only do any winning with 5-10 minutes to go after the completion of three movies. I guess that's so the movie viewers are encouraged to see all three movies. Sam Neil who played Damien Thorn(The Anti Christ) turned out to be a pretty good Actor. I believe that was His first movie.
Carry On, Samson.
Dawidos:
Hi Samson. It's good to hear from you, you have always something interesting to be said. Yeah, I'm also upset that in many movies evil does many bad things and God, being very "absent", unconcerned, impassive, does nothing to stop it, though he could if he said a word. The another explanation could be that God because of his foreknowledge knows that everything will be alright in the end. Omen movies are very good horrors, lots of scary stuff, but I couldn't shake off a feeling that Anti-Christ was predestined to fail (he was born to deceive many, but destroyed in the end). Another movie, worthy of your attention, is End of Days with Arnold Schwarzenegger. In this motion picture Satan residing in human body teases the main hero, telling him that God doesn't care about manking, laughts at their suffering and observes everything to his amusement. It is implied that God gave Satan a chance to put the world under his rule, but he had to do it by the millenium. He failed and lost his opportunity, probably forever.
I think the best explanation of God's passive state is movie makers' attachment to the doctrine of free will. Man has free will, he can choose between good and evil, he can refuse to Satan on his own and shape the future of the world by his free-decisions.
Below the pictures of Satan from the movie
chav:
Hi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3gFIDiBq0E&feature=related
Dave
musicman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9HvtfCBtZc
Watch the first minute. By the way, the Title of this thread "Hell in Fiction" is rather redundant.
Shawn Fainn:
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You mean this movie with this scene Rawhead Rex. What is going on? Is it a demon from Hell and this...hmm..priest is his servant or what?
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I can't check the link, but that's probably it. If I remember correctly they either summoned a demonic beast or 'satan'. The beast made the priest submit to him (hmm.. irony), then baptised the priest with his urine.
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Please, tell me, do you really fight demons from Hell or just aliens from other realm in this game? I would like to try it :)
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Yeah, you start off on a military base on Mars where scientists are experimenting with dimensional travel. They open up a portal to Hell, the base is overrun with demons and you get the pleasure of fighting them all the way back to Hell to stop their invasion. :)
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