Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

Dolemite_the_Wiz writes "The BBC reports that Monty Python's 'Life of Brian' will be re-released, with the remaining Python troupe's full support, in US theaters next month. The Film's Distributor, Rainbow Film Company are marketing the film as an alternative to all the hype that Mel Gibson's film 'The Passion of the Christ' has generated. Trailers for the Film will begin running in theaters on Good Friday. Wait until Biggus Dickus hears about this!"

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what have the romans ever done for us??

[xao gypsie]

.....They brought us the aqueducts....

Re:what have the romans ever done for us??

[REBloomfield]

and the wine....

Re:what have the romans ever done for us??

[banzai51]

..and the roads. Those are pretty useful.

Re:what have the romans ever done for us??

[Mateito]

> Wine has been around at least since Noah who was
> the first to plant a vineyard.

Yeah, but he didn't have a lot of luck.

Probably through overwatering.

Re:what have the romans ever done for us??

[Anonymous Coward]

...exept for the aqueducts, wine, and roads, what have the romans ever done for us?

Re:what have the romans ever done for us??

[EnderWiggnz]

you know wha i love about pseudo-religious threads on slashdot?

the idiots out themselves.

sigh... yep - that historical character Noah was the first to make wine - whatever.

its not like the entire flood story was a rip of the Gilgamesh legend.

Re:what have the romans ever done for us??

[Punk Walrus]

Under what, look-and-feel? No, wait, that's altar boys. Never mind.

Re:what have the romans ever done for us??

[Anonymous Coward]

Yup -- plumbing -> lead contamination
wine -> alcholism / brain rot
roads -> globalization and outsourcing of IT jobs!

gotta luv them romans.

Re:what have the romans ever done for us??

[zerocool^]

Brought peace?

Re:what have the romans ever done for us??

[tilmanb]

Shut up!

Re:what have the romans ever done for us??

[falzer]

Sure, sure, but what have they done recently?

Re:what have the romans ever done for us??

[IceAgeComing]

I completely agree! All we ever do is talk, talk, talk. It's about time we get up and actually DO something!

Re:what have the romans ever done for us??

[Anonymous Coward]

God I love it when a joke comes together :D

Re Re Re released

[newt_sd]

I have never understood re-releasing something. Are us as consumers so stupid that half an ounce of added value (some crappy interview added to the DVD) is enough for us to run out and pay money for something that last week we could ..... pay money and buy?

Well at least this time its Monty Python and not season one of Designing Women or something worse if there is!!

Re:Re Re Re released

[SamSpectre]

Not sure if WANT to see Graham Chapman's full monty in larger than life size...

Re:Re Re Re released

[MalaclypseTheYounger]

anyway, point being... consumers aren't always logical.

Good evening.

The last scene was interesting from the point of view of a professional logician because it contained a number of logical fallacies; that is, invalid propositional constructions and syllogistic forms, of the type so often committed by my wife. "All wood burns," states Sir Bedevere. "Therefore," he concludes, "all that burns is wood." This is, of course, pure bullshit. Universal affirmatives can only be partially converted: all of Alma Cogan is dead, but only some of the class of dead people are Alma Cogan. "Oh yes," one would think.

However, my wife does not understand this necessary limitation of the conversion of a proposition; consequently, she does not understand me. For how can a woman expect to appreciate a professor of logic, if the simplest cloth-eared syllogism causes her to flounder.

For example, given the premise, "all fish live underwater" and "all mackerel are fish", my wife will conclude, not that "all mackerel live underwater", but that "if she buys kippers it will not rain", or that "trout live in trees", or even that "I do not love her any more." This she calls "using her intuition". I call it "crap", and it gets me very *irritated* because it is not logical.

"There will be no supper tonight," she will sometimes cry upon my return home. "Why not?" I will ask. "Because I have been screwing the milkman all day," she will say, quite oblivious of the howling error she has made. "But," I will wearily point out, "even given that the activities of screwing the milkman and getting supper are mutually exclusive, now that the screwing is over, surely then, supper may, logically, be got." "You don't love me any more," she will now often postulate. "If you did, you would give me one now and again, so that I would not have to rely on that rancid Pakistani for my orgasms." "I will give you one after you have got me my supper," I now usually scream, "but not before" -- as you understand, making her bang contingent on the arrival of my supper.

"God, you turn me on when you're angry, you ancient brute!" she now mysteriously deduces, forcing her sweetly throbbing tongue down my throat. "Fuck supper!" I now invariably conclude, throwing logic somewhat joyously to the four winds, and so we thrash about on our milk-stained floor, transported by animal passion, until we sink back, exhausted, onto the cartons of yoghurt.

I'm afraid I seem to have strayed somewhat from my original brief. But in a nutshell:

Sex is more fun than logic -- one cannot prove this, but it "is" in the same sense that Mount Everest "is", or that Alma Cogan "isn't".

Goodnight.

I'm Not the Massiah, I'm Not the Massiah!

[Yousef]

"Only the Real Massiah would deny his divinity!"

Gotta Love it!

Re:I'm Not the Massiah, I'm Not the Massiah!

[ZaMoose]

Perhaps he was attempting to use an English equivalent to the Hebrew word, which is pronounced sort of like "massheeoch".

Cue 400 posts of everyone's favourite bits...

[JosKarith]

My personal favourite - Brian: "You are all individuals" Crowd: "We are all individuals my lord" Lone voice from the back: "No I'm not!"

Can...not ....resist....

[kindbud]

We-wewease Bwian!!

one of the best lines ever written....

[corporatewhore]

is when John Cleese asks "How shall we f*ck off, Oh Lord ?"
Serioulsy, this one line and its context says more about religion turning into dogma than anything else I can think of...

Re:W00T

[mirko]

'Trolles Eunt Domus' ?
Somebody called the trolls they go the house ?
What's that supposed to mean ?
it means "Firstus postus".
-no it doesn't ! it'd be "trolli ite domum"
Now, write it out a hundred times. If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.

You're all different!

[T-Kir]

Yes! We're all different!"

I'm not different!

:)

Jesus has risen from the dead and wants REVENGE!

[Kris Thalamus]

If you like movies about re-animated corpses, you may also like the new version of Dawn of the Dead. Here is a review that compares the two films.

Re:Can't wait, seriously can't wait.

[REBloomfield]

CENTURION:
What's this, then? 'Romanes Eunt Domus'? 'People called Romanes they go the house'?
BRIAN:
It-- it says, 'Romans, go home'.
CENTURION:
No, it doesn't. What's Latin for 'Roman'? Come on!
BRIAN: Aah!
CENTURION: Come on!
BRIAN: 'R-- Romanus'?
CENTURION: Goes like...?
BRIAN: 'Annus'?
CENTURION: Vocative plural of 'annus' is...?
BRIAN: Eh. 'Anni'?
CENTURION: 'Romani'. 'Eunt'? What is 'eunt'?
BRIAN: 'Go'. Let--
CENTURION: Conjugate the verb 'to go'.
BRIAN: Uh. 'Ire'. Uh, 'eo'. 'Is'. 'It'. 'Imus'. 'Itis'. 'Eunt'.
CENTURION: So 'eunt' is...?
BRIAN: Ah, huh, third person plural, uh, present indicative. Uh, 'they go'.
CENTURION: But 'Romans, go home' is an order, so you must use the...?
BRIAN: The... imperative!
CENTURION:
Which is...?
BRIAN:
Umm! Oh. Oh. Um, 'i'. 'I'!
CENTURION:
How many Romans?
BRIAN:
Ah! 'I'-- Plural. Plural. 'Ite'. 'Ite'.
CENTURION:
'Ite'.
BRIAN:
Ah. Eh.
CENTURION:
'Domus'?
BRIAN:
Eh.
CENTURION:
Nominative?
BRIAN:
Oh.
CENTURION:
'Go home'? This is motion towards. Isn't it, boy?
BRIAN:
Ah. Ah, dative, sir! Ahh! No, not dative! Not the dative, sir! No! Ah! Oh, the... accusative! Accusative! Ah! 'Domum', sir! 'Ad domum'! Ah! Oooh! Ah!
CENTURION:
Except that 'domus' takes the...?
BRIAN:
The locative, sir!
CENTURION:
Which is...?!
BRIAN:
'Domum'.
CENTURION:
'Domum'.
BRIAN:
Aaah! Ah.
CENTURION:
'Um'. Understand?
BRIAN:
Yes, sir.
CENTURION:
Now, write it out a hundred times.
BRIAN:
Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir.
CENTURION:
Hail Caesar. If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.

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I know this isn't Fark but....

[bloggins02]

... SUMMON BEVETS!

Aliens

[Decaff]

The film includes a brief alien abduction, which should mean its even more suited to the good old USA that it was when first released. Religion and Aliens - should appeal to virtually everyone there.

There IS a God!

[pestie]

This proves it - there is a God! I've got a beef with the Catholic church these days. They stole my girlfriend, goddammit. Seriously. I was dating this great woman (bisexual, ex-stripper, rabidly anti-religion, thought for herself) who had a little problem with depression and phobia and found that prayer was the only thing that helped. So she turned back to the Catholic religion in which she was raised and kicked my ass to the curb! So I did the only sensible thing I could - blamed the Catholic church. First the Inquisition, then Galileo, then this business of protecting paedophile priests and now they freakin' steal my girlfriend! Bastards! This Passion of Christ movie has gotten entirely too much publicity lately and it's about time someone countered with an accurate portrayal of the life of Jesus Harold Christ. Amen!

Re:Jesus has risen from the dead and wants REVENGE

[Chalybeous]

Y'know, I think Jesus had one hell of a lag problem. It took him three days to re-spawn...

Shoe or gourd?

[Junior J. Junior III]

I'm so confused, with all these movies about Christ that are out now, should I be following the shoe? Or the gourd?

Re:Can't wait, seriously can't wait.

[R2.0]

I first saw this movie in high school when I was taking latin, taught by a nun.

I was the only one curled up in a tight little ball suffocating from my own laughter at the thought of Sister Perpetua threatening to cut my balls off if I missed a pop quiz,

An OOP question

[los furtive]

Did Jesus extend God, or did he just implement a Goldlike interface?

Re:An OOP question

[happyfrogcow]

what kind of crazy destructor would Jesus have? something that destroys him, but then calls a different constructor of his same type that casts him to a type Spirit from a type Messiah? Or would the destructor create a different instance of Jesus alltogether?

weird wild stuff.

'wolf nipple chips! get em while they're hot!'

Re:An OOP question

[pleumann]

He can't be a descendant. God implements the Singleton pattern to ensure there are no duplicates of him. Since Singleton, if properly implemented (and I think we can surely assume that God's implementations are always flawless), also extends to subclasses, there could be no instance of Jesus, even if the class were declarable. So it may be best to assume that God is also a final class.

I'd say Jesus uses the Proxy pattern to give people some sort of limited access to God by delegation. You could also see him as the stub object used to invoke a remote procedure call on God. Despite the seemingly matching name, Jesus does not implement the Visitor pattern. See the GOF book.

Note that, even without Jesus, you can always initiate a client-server-communication with God bthrough a special form of message passing called "praying". Fun is, most people never get an acknowledge for the messages they've send, let alone a response.

Very rarely people get messages from God without sending Him a message first. To do this, you need to implement the Prophet interface and register with God as an Observer.

Re:An OOP question

[Fjord]

Fun is, most people never get an acknowledge for the messages they've send, let alone a response.

This is fine. His omniscience provides guaranteed delivery, but you have to accept that the message is asyncronous and may not be acted upon based upon God's will.

Re:Good idea !!!

[Kris Thalamus]

Jesus had a father who was a god and a mother who was mortal, just like Hercules did. I think that Jesus should be considered a half-god like Hercules was. Hercules could probably beat Jesus in a fight- I mean, you couldn't kill Hercules just by nailing him to a wooden cross.

Antisemitism complaints?

[WormholeFiend]

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Original Tagline still fits

[jagilbertvt]

See the movie that's controversial, sacrilegious, and blasphemous. But if that's not playing, see The Life of Brian.

My kids...

[trentfoley]

I have two boys, 9 and 6, that stumbled across my old Monty Python videotapes. I played "Holy Grail" for them and they were in stitches. I played "Life of Brian", and not suprisingly, the more sophisticated content was so over their heads that they didn't enjoy it. I played "Meaning of Life" and they were just plain confused, but laughing.

Maybe after a few more years of Catholic school, my sons will appreciate the brilliance of "Life of Brian". For now, "Holy Grail" is the hit.

The last time we watched it, my 9 year old son answered the question, "What is the capital of Assyria?". "Nineva, you dolt!" he exclaimed. He smiled and smugly looked up to me and said, "I googled it. I don't want to be blasted off of some bridge." That's my boy.

Re:People called Roman, they go towards the house?

[CaptainBaz]

As a thinking Christian...

an awful lot of people believe things without fully thinking them through

. Looks like it's true - you guys really don't get irony...

Re:When it was originally released...

[kin_korn_karn]

the stick in the ass is a sacrament of all Christian faiths. When your head's in the water they shove it in.

Re:What have the Americans done for us ?

[Anonymous Coward]

You say with pride that you US Americans invented:
1. The airplane
2. High rise buildings

Interesting. It would seem you are responsible for 9-11 yourselves. You invented the dangerous building type and the effective weapon against them.

Re:Good idea !!!

[Inuchance]

Jesus had a father who was a god and a mother who was mortal, just like Hercules did. I think that Jesus should be considered a half-god like Hercules was. Hercules could probably beat Jesus in a fight- I mean, you couldn't kill Hercules just by nailing him to a wooden cross.

Maybe, but then God would kick Zeus's ass.

Re:When it was originally released...

[dangermouse]

***Spoiler***

I think that after a couple thousand years you can stop worrying about spoilers.

Re:Jesus had to die

[Kris Thalamus]

Jesus had the power to bring himself down from the cross, but he GAVE his life up out of love for you and me, so that we may all be saved.

Hmm... interesting. So, this must be an early example of suicide by police.

Re:Good idea !!!

[corbettw]

Hercules could probably beat Jesus in a fight

Naa, Jesus would just walk out onto a lake and taunt Hercules until he had a heart attack. Or maybe turn all the water in Hercules' blood into wine, making him die from alcohol poisoning (though he was a Greek, so probably had a pretty high tolerance for wine).

Re:Good idea !!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Naa, Jesus would just walk out onto a lake and taunt Hercules until he had a heart attack.

Wouldn't the holes in Jesus' feet cause him to sink?

Re:A bomb? What are you giving him a bomb for?

[poot_rootbeer]

Who needs to SEE the movie? Just read the Slashot comments here, we'll eventually recite the entire script...

Re:Dear Jesus-Freak

[fenix down]

God's been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

Let me generalize your message

[Valdrax]

I've never understood this.

You're a [member of some group]. [One that doesn't meet my hateful stereotype], even. Congrats.

Why should that make you, and every other [person who I will mockingly name by the way they claim to violate my preconceived notions of your group], [do something that matches my stereotype for you], [do something else that matches a stereotype] ([example other group "you people" all fit into], usually), or [do something ignorant that yet again matches a stereotype (and I will ellucidate further a description of my bias against you)]?

There doesn't seem to be [any reason or source material for you all acting like], so [why do you all act alike]?

Free (as in beer) slogan suggestion..

[McNally]

Free slogan suggestion for the distributors:

"If you see only one crucifixion movie this year.."

Re:Good idea !!!

[squidfood]

Personally I'd go with Rabbi

Apologies to the Daily Show...

[GPLDAN]

Jon Stewart's joke from the Daily Show...

"So, this week's box office reciepts show that 'Dawn of the Dead' has unseated 'Passion of the Christ' as the #1 movie in America. Lesson? One person rising from the dead...good. Lots of people rising from the dead...better."

Re:Good idea !!!

[ChuyMatt]

Sorry, but, as reported in the song, Westly Willis kicked his ass. Rather badly too. but what _can_ you do against a 7 foot, 300 lb. schizophrenic man?

I love The life of Brian, but...

[SnakeNuts]

They should re-release Jesus Christ Superstar. And as I'm listening to the soundtrack right now, I can say that is the only reason for me: the sheer beauty of the production. I get chills every time I hear or see the movie. I'm not a believer myself (although I was raised a catholic) but this movie/musical just connects with me on all levels.

I'll go back to sobbing to the soundtrack now...