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Tag Archives: “The Internet”
The summer so far.
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Jon Hamm will direct Mad Men‘s season 5 premiere (in 2012).
Terrorist “pre-crime” detector field tested.
The wisdom of crowds is a dangerous, stupid thing.
Of course Annie Hardy has a tumblr.
Important news: Ciara likes being naked.
Michael Jackson’s daughter is going to be a star some day.
Idris Elba is so hot right now.
Pictures from here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Food prices will double by 2030.
Here’s that Jonathan Franzen link that every other fucker has posted somewhere on your facebook, tumblr, twitter, or whatever.
Copanhagen suborbitals upcoming launch attempt in June.
Kevin Fanning on the daily commute.
Read more about that terrible sounding Wonder Woman pilot.
To the blogger who thinks saying “fuck” means I’m dumb.
An excerpt from Mindy Kaling’s new book.
The Hangover Part II has to be the laziest fucking movie ever.
The gospel according to Bill Clinton.
In September, DC Comics will relaunch all their superhero titles with new #1s, other changes.
Here’s a wild new drug that you should surely know about: Oxi.
Michael Kupperman doing Mark Twain’s Autobiography.
Is Donald Sutherland the last person to join the cast of The Hunger Games or could there possibly be more?
Hip-hop loved Gil Scott-Heron.
A drug that could erase your memories of being afraid.
PBS website hacked with a story about Tupac still being alive.
…And I feel fine/No future for you!
Well, I guess the Rapture didn’t happen, huh? Not today, I guess. I mean, I’m still here. You’re reading this, so I guess you’re still here too, huh? The sad thing about “The Rapture” is that, well, besides it being a fictional event in a set of fables in a funny book of short stories about wizards and demons and old world customs, is that… well, I just don’t know anyone who would be going up in this fantastical sounding Rapture thing. It’s just for the good, right? Well, all the people I know are bad, bad people… And I guess I wouldn’t have it any other way.
from here.
Oh well, a shame. But I suppose the Internet will quickly find something else for itself to get excited about, right? But there’s still us and there’s tomorrow and a little more juice to be squeezed out of whatever could be “the future” and there’s whatever could possibly come with that…
Mad linkage:
Here’s 10 other recent predictions for the End Times that didn’t come true either.
German insurance firm held orgy to reward salesmen.
Learn how to tie your shoes right.
Quite possibly our first look at Tom Hardy as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises.
Kirk Cameron vs. Stephen Hawking.
Ricky Gervais on The Office‘s finale.
If you do go up in the Rapture, don’t worry, the atheists will take care of your pets… for a price.
An excerpt from Chris Adrian’s new novel.
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
by Beth Hoeckel, from here.
What really goes on in Area 51?
A volcano in Iceland called Grímsvötn has erupted.
Twitter shit about the Rapture from yesterday.
Inside the Robert Redford biography.
Stephen Fry joins The Hobbit.
New discovery about mosquitoes reveals why vampires will never exist.
Speaking of which, Joe Jackson is still a bloodsucking piece of shit.
from here.
“The future is already here… It’s just not even distributed.”
-William Gibson
David Lynch to release an album later this year.
The visual impact of gossip.
The story of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s doomed/failed/totally fucking crazy would be adaptation of Dune to become a documentary. Here’s Dan O’Bannon talking about it a little.
Related: the team up between Salvador Dali and Walt Disney.
Just checking: Still no Rapture, right? Whew.
NBC cancels Outsourced. Good.
The trailer for the new film by Miranda July.
Carrie is being remade and Stephen King suggests Lindsay Lohan for the lead.
from here.
This trailer/movie looks really terrible: Horrible Bosses.
This trailer looks so so, but the movie will probably suck: Another Earth.
It’s Pilot Season! Trailers for (just a few of the) new TV shows that were just picked up:
Awake. Which… looks good, looks interesting, but I just don’t see a TV show that I would follow/watch for years and years there. Funny how both it and Another Earth‘s trailer use that song by the Cinematic Orchestra.
Alcatraz. The latest from the J.J. Abrams camp… The 4400 meets Prison Break, featuring Sam Neill and Hurley from Lost. This looks ridiculous, and I’ll watch it and just hope that it’s not another letdown like Fringe.
Person Of Interest. Another from J. J. Abrams, although it seems like it’s mostly just his name on it and the real creative juice is from Jonathan Nolan, writer of The Dark Knight and brother of Christopher. Looks interesting-ish, but Jim Caviezel? Was that really necessary?
A trailer for the documentary on the showrunners of all your favorite TV shows.
And a nice guide to the shows that didn’t make it to the Fall 2011 season.
“The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.”
-Dennis Gabor
I had a dream a while back that the world was ending… It was an odd dream, but not a terrible one, I guess. It’s just not something you can prepare for, the end of the world. You can’t ever really be ready for it. You just gotta keep on living, don’t you? And loving and listening to music and dancing and pursuing impossible things and enjoying mundane moments and people and doing all kinds of stupid shit. Take things seriously but maybe enjoy the ridiculous things that surround you just a little bit more? I don’t want to tell you something terribly cliched, like… Live every moment like it’s your last!
No, don’t do that. You’ll probably hurt yourself trying to do that.
But maybe every once in a while, take a single moment and consider that it is your last moment on this beautiful, insane planet, and just really ponder that. And think about what you would do if it wasn’t. Beam yourself into the future and peek in on yourself and see what you’re up to. Take a vacation into the future and see who you are there. Interview yourself and find out what went right and wrong in your life in the moments/weeks/months/years between now and then, and take good notes. And when you come back to the present, remember that little trip. Remember that time you went to the future and appreciate that you’re back here, and now, and then go there again.
The anniversary of Bikini Atoll is coming up.
Chinese “dinosaur city” reshapes understanding of prehistoric era.
Brittany Julious is sexy.
The kind of guys who stay single?
The Cat Rapture for Caturday!
Neil Gaiman on Gene Wolf.
Grant Morrison to write a movie about dinosaurs vs. aliens, Barry Sonnenfield to direct.
from here.
RIP “Macho Man.”
The fashion of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Fleetwood Mac to reunite in time for the end of the world.
The never before seen original ending to Alexander Payne’s Election, which is much closer to the book’s ending.
I don’t think I’m all that crazy about these Odd Future guys.
Skeeter Davis and Henry Moore.
Tom Cruise is a lonely robot repairman.
from here.
How to survive a mass extinction.
Plot details from the upcoming Tim Burton/Johnny Depp big screen version of Dark Shadows.
Will the internet destroy academic freedom?
A history of bedwetting.
Bionic hands! The future is now!
A good prank for the Rapture.
Oh well, hopefully this one was good practice for the next time the world (supposedly) ends. Still plenty of time to get your Rapture Playlist just fucking perfect. No sleep til 2012!
The suburb of the soul.
Mad linkage:
It seems like the theme of Sunday’s Grammys were “I don’t know who this person is.”
The most British movie ever.
The oral history of Party Down.
The Machinist‘s Brad Anderson to adapt J.G. Ballard’s Concrete Island, starring Christian Bale.
Robots to get their own internet.
You can buy the new Radiohead album this Saturday!
PLAY The Great Gatsby for NES.
Sex, drugs, and cannibalism: the Chilean miners’ story.
Hello! And RIP Uncle Leo.
House group proposes shifting Earth science funds to manned spaceflight.
This guy will buy you breakfast if you can explain Lost to him.
The science of heartlessness.
Michel Gondry is adapting Philip K. Dick’s Ubik.
from here.
Michael Moorcock on J. G. Ballard.
Sarah Jessica Parker wants to do a Sex And The City 3 and she wants to do it just for Benjamin Light.
What makes black holes so black?
Crystal Renn addresses her weight loss and maintaining plus-size model status.
The Criterion Collection is on Hulu Plus (and so is your mom).
Americans know so little about the bible.
James Van Der Beek to play himself on an ABC sitcom. Seriously.
Also: Aaron Sorkin to guest as himself on 30 Rock.
“We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind — mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer’s task is to invent the reality.”
-J. G. Ballard
The sun unleashed a huge solar flare towards the Earth.
CBS News’ Lara Logan hospitalized after sexual assault in Egypt.
Living towers made of humans.
Hans Zimmer promises that the score for The Dark Knight Rises will be both “epic” and “iconic.”
Also, 1 in 5 films coming out in 2011 will be sequels.
Click here to see the beginning of something wonderful.
Natalie Portman cries a lot.
Who makes shittier movies, Guy Ritchie or Zack Snyder?
by Jason Brockert, from here.
Pakistan issues arrest warrent for Pervez Musharraf.
There’s a DuckTales comic coming out. How awesome is that?
Twitter, translations, and the new geopolitics.
The Onion’s AV Club interviews PJ Harvey.
Look at the trailer for this Dead Island game. I know nothing about this game, but based on this trailer, I want to play the fuck out of it.
Why the Oscars snubbed Christopher Nolan.
You rock, rock.
from here.
Why I want to fuck J. G. Ballard.
Maria Bello a reasonable replacement for Helen Mirren in the unnecessary remake of Prime Suspect?
An underground village in France where people lived for hundreds of years.
Jeff Mangum is touring.
Billy Ray Cyrus blames the Devil and David Lynch for his problems.
Facebook’s growing web of frenemies.
Justina Bieber doesn’t believe in abortions, even in the case of rape. Man… whatever.
from here.
Michael Emerson to star in Person Of Interest, the CBS pilot from J.J. Abrams and Jonah Nolan about predicting/fighting future crime.
Pitchfork gave the new Mogwai album a 6.6.
Top 10 famous people who didn’t actually exist.
Donnie Darko‘s Richard Kelly to do a normal, traditional thriller next.
There’s a campaign to replace the N-word in Huckleberry Finn with “robot.”
“I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that’s my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.”
-J. G. Ballard
I like and respect Jill Thompson’s visual take on Wonder Woman.
Speaking of which, Adrianne Palicki is the new Wonder Woman (in that David E. Kelley TV pilot).
…and here is the audition tape for Tanit Phoenix, who didn’t get the role, that shows how obsessed the pilot script seems to be with breasts.
Iain Sinclair on J.G. Ballard’s favorite artwork.
The underage cast of MTV’s Skins pose in their skimpies in Elle. Now go crazy, people.
The age of consent around the world.
“The businessmen drink my blood just like the kids in art school said they would…”
The guy who was raised by cats.
Big Morning.
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from Three Word Phrase by Ryan Pequin, which is just awesome. Also not to be missed: This strip, which will just make your day.
The year is almost over.
Mad linkage:
Chuck Klosterman on Jonathan Franzen.
Mary-Kate Olsen and SUDDEN NUDITY.
“Reality A and Reality B” by Haruki Murakami.
The Onion AV Club interviews Charles Burns.
Aaron Sorkin on Sarah Palin’s reality TV show.
The Day looks interesting, but maybe I’m just a sucker for post apocalyptic post rock?
Thankfully Giada De Laurentiis is not fucking John Mayer.
Ken Burns hates reality TV.
They made a TV show out of Douglas Adam’s Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.
Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis to star as rival political candidates in a Jay Roach comedy.
Pictures in this post are originally from here, here, here, here, and here.
The 25 best children’s books of all time.
The real-life Swedish murder that inspired Stieg Larsson.
Watch James Franco as he makes out with himself in a mirror.
Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel to be called “Paradise.”
Inception in real time!
The MPAA has overturned it’s rating on Blue Valentine.
Bebe Zeva’s account of her relationship with Carles/”Hipster Runoff” seems “fascinating” and “insightful” and “not at all made up.”
7 scenes from The Walking Dead comic that should’ve ended up in the TV show.
Umberto Eco on WikiLeaks.
The most racist commercial ever is hilarious.
Ah, 2010, we hardly knew ye, you came and went, and now the end of you is almost upon us…
The Goddamn Batman.
from here.
From the internet:
RIP Leslie Nielsen.
RIP Irvin Kershner.
Your 2010 holiday gift shopping sorted.
Here’s something you clearly (don’t) need: pocket chainsaw.
The top 5 most shocking things about WikiLeaks.
“Vladimir Putin is Batman and Dmitry Medvedev is Robin.”
Celebrities quitting twitter for charity.
from here.
This Spider-Man musical sounds like just the kind of crazy train wreck that you want it to be.
Here’s what Christopher Nolan thinks of your Inception fan theories.
Natalie Portman, Halle Berry, and Tom Hanks to star in the Wachowskis’ version of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas?
Actor decapitates own mother in Masonic attack inspired by The Matrix.
The bad sex in fiction awards!
Fox Nation reprints anti-Obama article from The Onion, doesn’t mention (or possibly realize) that it’s a joke.
Music by David Lynch.
Previously on Counterforce.
An interview with Jorge Luis Borges.
from here.
This is just weird: Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal.
From 1993: The future of the internet!
David Foster, from 1998: “I’m not a journalist and I don’t pretend to be one.”
from here.
Klaxons “Twin Flames.”
The little white lies of online dating revealed.
Is this the year that we make contact? Maybe.
Doctor Doom vs. Doctor Who.
Are we about to be inundated with a wave of movie versions of the works of Haruki Murakami?
Batman and Robin investigate “The Carbon Copy Crimes.”
from here.
D. J. Caruso on why he quit the Y The Last Man movie. Wants to make it a TV show instead, huh? Someone owes me a check. You fuckers.
Suck on this: Animated Southland Tales prequel.
How does Commissioner Gordon really feel about Batman?
Do women avoid talking to their fathers because of evolution?
Edgar Allan Bro.
Hercule Poirot kitties. LOL.
from here.
Shocking link between people who like Batman and people who like pornography.
How to survive a mass extinction.
A Spanish woman claims that she owns the Sun and you can bet your ass she wants you to pay her for its usage.
from here.
Into the woods.
The patient labyrinth.
Mad linkage:
Are “masters of the universe” born or bred?
Weezer offered $10 million to split up.
Natalie Portman to offer “gratuitous nudity” in what is not but certainly sounds like it would be a sequel to Pineapple Express.
(But that still doesn’t tell us who she’s fucking these days, does it?)
The musical farewell to Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse.
from here.
Angelina Jolie’s Bosnian rape romance.
The 17 differences between the East Coast and West Coast versions of the live 30 Rock episode.
Making sense of The Shallows.
Aaron Sorkin responds to a blog commenter about The Social Network‘s misogyny.
Best Coast and Deerhoof to guest on the new Go! Team album.
Who is the biggest drunk on Mad Men?
Look at this fucking article about hipsters.
“A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.”
-Jorge Luis Borges, from Dreamtigers.
The Soviets’ secret, failed moon program.
Those lovable scamps in ICP are actually hardcore Christians. Whatever.
Brett Ratner and Eddie Murphy.
Remember the Singularity? Shocking news: It may not be coming after all.
You have the right to go topless.
Don’t forget that Mad Men‘s season finale is tomorrow night!
from here.
A reminder that those World Of Warcraft nerds are still fucking perverts.
One-way mirrors and social media “stalking.”
Of course one of the 33 Chilean miners was having an affair!
Hollywood needs to turn towards Warren Ellis and Grant Morrison.
The ballad of Mick and Keith.
Chaos reigns.
Antichrist, 2009, directed by Lars Von Trier, and starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe.
Here’s a few selected comments left on the page for the film’s trailer at YouTube…
“I really want to see this, it looks interesting……….”
“I’m looking forward to see it 
“
“Pessimo gusto artistico..pessima interpretazione… mi aspettavo molto di piu’… troppo satico trama banale fatta la risposta a tutto cio’ è la semplicità e quindi…in fondo non c’è niente da capire oltre alla storia stessa che è riuscita a mala pena a spiegarsi attraverso quel povero e scarso linguaggio cinematografico… si vede il cinema danese come qualcosa di futuristico di innovativo…io vedo tutto cio’ solo come un obbiettivo non del tutto raggiunto.”
“Look’s crap” and “Look’s boring.”
“Um. Gross. Willem dafoe should never fornicate.”
“What is this movie about? Is the woman the anitchrist or the guy?”
“I think that antichrist is something being deep inside our nature that makes all of us to live in pain, grief, despair, fear, – to hate one another and to hate ourself…”
“LOL that’s deep. Agreed.”
“Theory: You’re an idiot.”
“Theory: your theory is correct.”
“Looks retarded. And are they doing it in the woods at the end?”
“I was fortunate enough to see this movie, it’s pretty good.”
“Yes, you people go watch your nice love films with the happy ending and then cry cause your life is pathetic… Art is not for everybody… Thanks, Satan!”
“Terrible movie. Why cant anyone produce a real movie with a real story? As for sex scenes in movies, that is so 1980′s. Nobody puts sex scenes in movies anymore, or even tits. Its retarted. If I want to see a sex scene ill just watch a porno.”
Editor’s note: You’d be amazed at how many typos or simple grammatical errors I’ve corrected so far, especially since I have too hard of a time just copying and pasting it that way. However, some of these things I will leave as the original comment’s author intended though. To do otherwise might prove to be, ahem, retarted.
“McAmerica is no longer a true Western Nation, since most of it is now produced in China. McAmerica, made in China. Now available at Walmart.”
“What a pithy and educated depiction, you must have escaped the pervasive westernizer gew gaw that transmits from the peak of the Washington monument and tranquilizes the sheepish populace into a Dorito-stained stupor. or at the very least, you’re certainly smarter having never been around it. in Mohamed’s name we praise peace, love, and understanding.”
Editor’s note: In the previous comment, that commenter was replying to another commenter whose screen name was a play on Mohamed, but I changed it.
“American movie goers are so dumb, all studios have to produce these days is REMAKES. ‘Duuuurgh dis a good movie. better dis time coz they dun took out most of da talkin and put in more cgi duuuurgh nukes.’”
“Hey man… hey… fuck you, okay!?”
“…in places like France, Spain, Italy the culture is to enjoy life. To spend forever at lunch, to sit in the sun discussing politics or history, to go to markets and street fairs. They go to Bistros, Cafes, Pubs. In America they go to Walmart. They go to Macdonald’s. They go to CVS to pick up medication to relieve the McBlockage their diet has produced in their colon.
Contemporary Americans don’t value life, or art, or culture. They value money. Contemporary American cinema reflects this.
It’s a sweeping generalization sure, but the fact remains American cinema has taking a creative nose dive over the past ten years.
Something you brits may not know, but Americans are utterly obsessed with making money. They value their bank accounts more than anything else. This is why America’s economy is so large, but quality of life is so utterly appalling. They work hard, then sit. They buy cheap, and dispose of it. Big is better. The word ‘quality’ doesn’t exist in American dictionaries.”
“I’m American and I have to agree with you 100%. This doesn’t mean I hate Americans or am an asshole but I fully believe that most Americans are slaves to the money and the wrong idea of enjoying life’s riches. Work, then sit and overeat and watch stupid reality television that glorifies violence and idiocy. Creativity and the love of the world is missing from most Americans nowadays so why would American cinema even try to make these creative artistic movies when they raise us on violent pure shit.”
“Wow… How pretentious of you to make such a wide generalization of American culture. Art is meant to make you feel something… Whether thats fear, love, disgust… All acceptable and sought for reactions. This film isn’t targeted towards mainstream audiences, so some people can’t connect with the style of film… Just the reality of the world we live in.”
“You’re calling ME pretentious? What about Hollywood? The primary source of American film culture? American film studios pump out movies so dumbed down that a mentally handicapped chimpanzee would be disappointed by lack of mental stimulation.
They’re well aware of how closed minded American movie goers are, and tailor films accordingly. Here’s what the average American says about ‘Art’.
‘Art’s fer fags n Euroqueers, freedom.’”
“Admittedly American films are often without intellectual content. But in my opinion European films head to the other direction, they try to hard to appear sophisticated that the storyline and character development of their movies suffer.”
“European films don’t have the same budgets, so they have to rely on (real or imaged) intellect. They very often seek to explore human nature, which from a cynical Europeans pov is a very disturbing subject.
Like you said, stories and character development are often lacking.
But we can say the same about Hollywood. Brits make some good films. Depressing as they are.”
“You are fully (aw)are I assume that Lars Von Trier isn’t British and that the entire cannon of British cinema is not ‘depressing?’”
“CHAOS 4EVA!”
“It’s surely a bit ridiculous to say America is incapable of making good or, perhaps more importantly, worthwhile films. Just as it is equally ridiculous to say that all European/British films are ‘depressing.’”
Editor’s note: We’ll leave it up to you whether or not you think that British films are depressing.
“this movie sucks big time!!! i saw this movie in the theathre, and in the end everybody looked at each other with a look “WTF?!” this movie is a waste of your time!! I could’ve done it so much better, but noooooooo lars von trier is soooooooooooo special….i hate that stupid c*nt for making me spend my money on that movie!!”
“Bet over half the people talking shit about this film have simply read up the synopsis on wikipedia and made a decision on that basis. I saw it last week and quite enjoyed it, sure its nothing spectacular, but worth a watch in my opinion, intro is awesome heartwrenching watching the little boy fall to his death.”
“Lars Von Trier is a garbage director but this movie looks interesting……. Yes, America is getting there asses handed to them in the horror genre nowadays but still have more great horror films then any country. As of right now, the best horror movies are coming out of Europe, especially France with Inside and Martyrs which is the ultimate feel bad movie and in my top 10. The Nightmare On Elm Street remake is another example of America kicking itself in the face. why fix something that isnt broke?”
“‘still have more great horror films then any country As of right now.’
Um… Japan? You know, the country where at least 50% of American horror movies are ripped from. The Ring, The Grudge, Pulse, Dark Water… etc.”
“I don’t know. When I think horror movies, I think Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Freddy Kruger, It, Pet Cemetary, Psycho, Evil Dead, The Shining, Leppricon, Friday The 13th, Night Of The Living Dead, Dawn Of The Dead, Amytivill Horror, The Exorcist, and The Omen.
Editor’s note: I do believe that he of course meant Pet Semetary, Leprechaun, and The Amityville Horror.
“Every single one of those films was made during or before the 1980s. Save ‘IT’, I think that was made in 91, still 18 years ago. Thanks for proving my point. American horror is truly a thing of the past.”
“Great movie. Choice labia snippage. LOL!”
“This film was disturbing but fantastic at the same time.”
“What The Fuck Is Wrong With This Movie.”"Is that William Defoe talking?”
“Yep, it’s him.”
“Why don’t they just get the fuck out of the woods?”
“LMFAO, I could make a WAY better antichrist movie then this piece of shit.”
“Isnt that the green goblin? hahahaha.”
“kk There is a scene where she snips her clit off lol. And she also like if i remember hits his nuts with a board and then like jerks him off, and he cums blood. LOL.”
“Thumbs up if you found Willem Defoe’s pendulous ballsack hypnotic…”
“I didn’t get what this film was about. The acting was still great though.”
“I can see judging from the comments that this trailer has just created a majority of douchbags.”
“Stop fucking spamming the comments with your boring shit. JUST SHUTUP.
Anyway, can someone tell me what the underlying themes or messages this film is meant to have? I’ve been reading up alot about it lately and I’m not sure whether I want to pay to watch a lady cut her clitoris off if none of the film has any relevance or point…”
“What’s with the hands coming out beneath the tree? Can someone explain?”
“BORING” and also “Creepy.”
“NO FUCKING WAY!!! WHY DID I WATCH THIS… EW EW EW EW EW EW.”
“It’s not porn until you touch yourself.”
“‘Nature is Satan’s church.” An interesting statement…”
“I wouldn’t agree with that. Nature is the most beautiful thing.”
“I know, i never said I agreed with it. In fact I disagree, but interesting.”
“The idea of ‘nature being the devil’s church’ is taken from the greek god Pan. He was a satyr, half man, half goat and lascivious, who had horns on his head (i.e. the image of the Christian devil). The trailer doesn’t explain much about the movie’s plot though.”
“What happens in the woods, stays in da woods.”
“THIS COMMENT PAGE IS FULL OF PEOPLE WHO ACT LIKE THEY ARE SMART AND KNOW WHAT THE FUCK THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT WHEN IN REALITY THEY ARE FUCKING STUPID.”
“hell yea i agree with u”
“Does this statement apply to you too, then?”
“No I’m not trying to act like a genius. Just someone who’s pissed off.”
“And now your one of them…plus you went and made it all caps to show just how pissed off you really are, but no one cares.”
“And I’m being told this by an idiot who doesn’t know the difference between ‘your’ and ‘your’e.’”
“Kickass movie.”
“It’s amazing the stories girls make up for a shag in the woods.”
“From the trailer, it looks like candy for aged degenerates. It could have a story but I’m sure that it is lost somewhere between the stressed visual effects and skin slapping. Yeah, just like any typical Hollywood plots.”
“This move scared the hell out of me, but it’s also one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. I can see where some people wouldn’t like it, but it’s raw and it’s honest.”
“Poor Jesus…….. I bet his asking WTF i sthis shit?”
“A hyper-intellectual making horror movies for intellectuals – not quite the widest target audience. The only reason why people hate this movie is – they don’t understand it. I don’t get how this thing got into mainstream.”
“Lars Von Trier is not an intellectual. He’s Danish. Don’t let the foreign accent intimidate you, small fry.”
“I’m worried about the way it’s filmed. Looks documentary, and documentary related filming techic… IS NOT ENTERTAINING!”
“BUT WHAY THE HELL IS THE MOVIE CALLED “ANTICHRIST” IF IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT. I DON’T GET IT!!!!!!!”
“Does the movie have to do anything with the title? If yes let me know. Or else I don’t want to watch.”
“Does it not portray the metaphor for witch craft? And therefore the title refers to the woman?
There is a painfully obvious bible metaphor in the forest of ‘eden’ and her book is called gynocide, which is a term coined by Mary Daly to make reference to the abnormally high amount of women murdered in early modern Europe for being witches.
That’s my take on the film.”
“What the fuck this is a fucked up movie?”
“I DO LOVE INDEPENDENT AND ODD MOVIES, BUT PLEASE SOMEBODY EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT THE HELL IS THIS ONE ABOUT!!!!! IT’S BEEN A WEEK SINCE I SAW IT AND I CAN’T UNDERSTAND IT NO MATTER HOW HARD I TRY!!!!!! PLEASE ANYONE EXPLAIN TO ME, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“There can’t be an antichrist because there was no christ, nor a god.”
“You’re an idiot.”
“You’re the idiot if you believe all of that bullshit.”
“Liberal troll.”
“fuck u bitch.”
“i aint no bitch troll. whateva, i do wat i want!”
“No way in the world Jesus will arrive on August 14, 2014. You would know that if you are a true Christian.
‘No man will know the date or hour of the end times.’
-Revelation… I forgot what verse exactly… I will have to look it up.”
“…LOL. Define a true Christian. But you are right.”
“The only True possible antiChrist is the Christ himself…. just not his Good side. Instead of Mercy he will be Revenge to those who dont Know he is Mercy.”
“Yeah, could be, but it could also be that a book written by nomadic desert goat herders who thought the earth was flat… just isn’t true.”
“This film might as well be a violent porno.”
“I just finished watching this movie….and it is the most GRAPHIC, BIZARRE, CRINGE-WORTHY film I’ve ever seen in my life. There is so much sex in this film and it’s not the least bit pleasurable to watch. Be cautious when watching this movie…”
“It fucking made me gag when she smashed the guys balls with a wooden block and made him ejaculate blood.”
“Eat shit and die and include spoilers next time.”
“I find this Ironic considering Defoe played Jesus. (an Ax wielding Jesus.)”
“Where did you get the axe from?”
“I feel a bit of William Blake like art in the tree-copulation scene.”
“Epic!”
“Nature may inspire ideas, but it is logic and reason that shape and critique our perceptions of nature. Having an idea is not the same as logic. Logic & reason are not measurable by natural means. Just because our minds exist in a physical body doesn’t make the things we think of physically real. Logic could exist without nature. But nature is constructed and depends on logical laws. It cannot exist without them, and therefore it cannot itself have created it. Logic must preexist nature.”
“Sorry, but you’re so wrong it’s funny. If one is constrained by logic, then one is surely not omnipotent. If god created all things, surely he created the laws of logic, and therefore he can bend those laws at will.
Of course being that you’re a mentally ill religious lunatic, you’ll just attempt to twist my ‘logic’ to fit your own deluded view of existence. Sometimes I pity you religious nuts…but most of the time I just laugh at you.”
“DAMN NATURE YOU SCARY!”
“If God exists – he would either:
A. Tell us he exists – by appearing in person when we reach age of reason and tell us what the FUCK is up. Or in some other shape or form influence all of the humanity and inform us – BIBLE, QURAN and SHIT don’t count.
B. Make sure we never suspect shit and would deny our mind to understand such things as god.
There is no shit in middle of – Some believe and some don’t. Since it is not A or B, he simply does not exist.”
“Oh look ANOTHER religion fight on youtube. WHAT ARE THE ODDS?”
“I know, right. I was expecting comments about the movie.”
My favorite:
“FUCK THE ILLUMINATI!”
“God forgive your sins & open your eyes to the truth. =)”
“What ‘sins?’ Because we have ‘penises’ and ‘vaginas’ is thinking about sex ‘satanic?’ Because we think that there ‘is no such thing as good religion’ is satanic too ? What do you think; were you ‘created by god’ or ‘born from mother and father?’”
“Don’t you have any respect for a person’s beliefs?”
“No, I don’t.”
“Where can I download this online for free?”
Editor’s note: There are a lot of arguments on this comments thread trying to rehash a lot of the same logical exercises to either prove or disprove the existence of a God or a creator or whatever. The term “four sided triangle” gets thrown around a lot, it seems.
“I thought this movie was absolutely great until the gore porn started. It makes me feel like a lost a friend. It was THIS close to being a psychological horror masterpiece, and then BAM. Bleeding penis.”
“ha ha ha…. Stupid stuff. People having sex among dead bodies! Big deal…. Trying so hard to look evil. Evil is within each and every individual already…. Can’t go looking for it among scary stuff. Seen how it comes out when you start getting jealous of someone’s promotion? Or somethin like that…. There’s evil right there! Control your own…”
“It’s just a film, dude.”
And last but certainly not least:
“This movie is just a plain awesome peace of Art!
Lars did great on that one, the most epic art piece I have seen in many months!
Very twisted and nerf wrecking tho.”
