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On 2/18/2006 1:22 PM McGrandpa brightened our day with:
> "Inglo" <ioo@??.¿¿¿> wrote in message 
> news:LOGJf.34835$H71.4826@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
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>> On 2/17/2006 7:45 PM pop brightened our day with:
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>>> It was more like doom-3 than the original doom
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>> Yeah but Doom 3 was still scary, and still had hell.  I'd like to see a 
>> movie other than South Park that actually shows hell.  Did anybody here 
>> see Constantine? There's something about the whole, albeit cliched 
>> depiction of hell with all the symbolism and candles and stuff that gets 
>> to me through my catholic upbringing.   I will absolutely never forget the 
>> summer I spent at a camp run by this monastic order where this freaky camp 
>> counselor read to us from Dante's Inferno every night after lights out, I 
>> think I was 11. Scarred for life.
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>> Steve ¤»Inglo«¤
>> www.inglostadt.com
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> Didn't see Constantine.  I have seen a few "hell" related flicks.   There 
> are lots of 'B' budget variations on the theme.   After a bit of thought, 
> almost all that I've seen seem to have a (so-called) catholic hell theme. 
> The one that I've seen the entire series to that kinda breaks the mold is 
> the Hellraiser movies.   Yeah, it's still in the 'catholic hell theme', but 
> with a decidedly Franciscan (dark ages) flavor.   Have you seen these Inglo? 
> It's a strong and loooong story.  I think there are four, maybe five now. 
> Jaws gave me nightmares.  So did these for a while.  Even Nighmare On Elm 
> Streets  Freddy Kruger is a bad apple out of hell.
> Doom3 was scary, but at a deep level for me.  Seeing the woman lying on the 
> floor, dying.... and the Lost Soul rips out of her head... that one got to 
> me.  The movie Doom had the right 'entry level' creatures.  For the wrong 
> reasons.  The story was changed fundamentally.  Call it 'Doom Lite', if you 
> will.
> McG. 
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I saw the first Hellraiser movie at a drive-in a long time ago.  I seem 
to remember that as being mostly S&M, kinky sex stuff in a demonic kind 
of way.
 From what I've read Constantine is not supposed to be that good of a 
movie but the visuals are supposed to be disturbing and scary.  With the 
level of CG sophistication nowadays I think hell would be an interesting 
thing to depict in a movie.   If you did hell right you'd end up with a 
NC-17 rating though.  
The scariest part of Doom 3 for me was fairly early when you walk into 
an office to get a pda and it's covered with blood and pentagrams and 
has candles burning, as soon as you pick up the pda, the cackling 
starts.  Up until that point I'd been playing D3 late at night with all 
the lights out.  What's I find interesting is that none of that stuff 
should really have an effect on me any more, I don't believe in any of 
it, yet it does.  On the other hand a game like F.E.A.R., which was 
spooky enough, didn't come close to evoking the kind of response from me 
that Doom 3 did. 

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answers which might be wrong"

						Richard P. Feynman

Steve ¤»Inglo«¤
www.inglostadt.com