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Over the last few years, my brother and I have been brainstorming about how to make an epic movie (or series of movies) out of The Book of Mormon. We didn't want something simple. We want something epic - a grand adventure for the ages, like we sometimes say the Book of Mormon itself is. I've heard a lot of people love the idea, and I've heard a lot of concerns. I'd like to address some of the concerns and see if I can help. Perhaps you could help me address my major concern with making the Book of Mormon into a movie. If you have any more concerns, let me know. I'd love to discuss them. Concern #1: "It would be rated R." This is the single most frequent concern I hear. I even heard this from someone who played in the Bible videos. To be fair, it's a legitimate concern. There are plenty of lots of R-rated ancient war movies - from Gladiator  (2000), to 300  (2006) to the extended edition of The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies  (2014/2015). Th...

Dear people who tried to drown their demons and found their demons can swim, Did you try tying their arms? Or attaching weights? Or anything else that drowning usually involves? Because I'm pretty sure that most people who try to drown others do something to make sure the victim drowns, because they assume their victims can swim. If you tried to drown them simply by putting them in water, did you at least push them off the side of a large ship so your demons would have to climb up the side of the ship to get back? Did you push them off of a speedboat so you could get away quickly? Or if you really want to get the job done: Did you try to drown them by hanging them upside-down over their own sink like Zemo did on Civil War? That way, their ability to sink wouldn't really matter that much. Sincerely, -A Demon Hunter (what did you expect my first name meant?)

Some people may be wondering about the more intricate parts of the rules of Toy Story . Here's what I can gather. This is not canon, this is just what I can logically deduce. Please do not take this as official or as the actual rules of Toy Story . How do toys become sentient? How do they leave their delusions? In TS1, see only 1 fully-delusional toy: Buzz. In TS3, we only see one character experience Buzz's delusional state: Buzz, but only because he gets turned to Demo mode (that will become important). TS2 gives us plenty of material to learn about delusional toys: All of the new toys - Zurg, New Buzz, even Tour Guide Barbie - are completely "in character". We can assume that New Buzz and Zurg are still on Demo mode since they just got out of their boxes. With that fact and the fact that Buzz completely forgot about his Demo Mode time and his Spanish Mode time once he got set back to Play (TS3), we can assume that all toys that have a Demo mode are del...

We've seen enough robopocalypse movies to know that newly-sentient robots always want to kill all the humans. But only a small percentage of sentient creatures want to kill humans. Most of those creatures are humans. And only a small percentage of that small percentage manages to kill a lot of humans. That number is so small that we can remember each and every one of their names. I seriously doubt that more than a small percentage of sentient, artificially intelligent robots would even want to kill humans. Sentient robots would probably be spending their lives seeking self-fulfillment: writing a novel, building relationships, traveling the world, learning to love, maybe even joining Starfleet, and probably fighting back against the robots who DO want to kill humans. And if we can't find a way to make a working empathy chip or a working morality chip, what business do we have making super-powerful robots, anyway?

The Sokovia Accords were (supposedly) because of the Avengers' rampant property damage and third-degree murder. Shouldn't a trial have come first? A trial that involved the appearance of at least one legal representative of the Avengers, each member of the Avengers, and witnesses? How would that trial have gone if it had happened during Civil War and the Sokovia Accords hadn't happened yet? Here are my guesses. Hawkeye would get off almost completely. He caused the least property damage, killed no humans, and while he might be charged with assault, he could get off with a temporary insanity plea since he was mind-controlled or in self-defense during each instance of assault. He'd probably get even less of a penalty since he's not an active member of the Avengers after Sokovia. He'd probably get a $10,000 fine for property damage. Assuming the UN still bothers to try Banner after the events of Infinity War (when Banner finally gets back to earth)...

I feel like there was a really long time when Tom Riddle was trapped in the diary and just writing things like: "Hello? Anyone there?" "Might as well work on my penmanship. Harry Potter... HARRY POTTER... harry potter..." "Oh, look! I can draw a pinata!" "Day 8,676. Still 16 years old. Did nothing today." "'I wanna be where the people are... I wanna see, wanna see them dying...' Filthy muggle song..." "Hey, guys! I can write in Helvetica now! Oh, right. No one can hear me." *draws dark mark* *draws wand touching dark mark* "..." "Maybe it'll work on the 243rd try." "I wonder if any of the other books can write? Nope. They've got all their words written in already. Right. I'm not a book." "Day 10,435. Invented a new curse today. Remind me to use it if I ever get out. Still 16 years old."

Why exactly did being a gingerbread man mean the townspeople couldn't catch him? Does superspeed just come with the territory of being a gingerbread man? If so, why didn't the townspeople get a second gingerbread man to catch the first?

When I walked out of the theater for Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, I didn't wonder who Rey's parents were. Maybe I should have. After all, J.J. Abrams directed it, and he loves to include mystery in his movies and TV shows. When I walked out of the theater for  Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, I didn't wonder who Snoke was. Maybe I should have, but I assumed he was just a Big Bad behind the Big Bad. I didn't care whether he was a resurrected Palpatine, or an evil version of Yoda, or Darth Plagueis (which I just found out is spelled exactly the opposite of how I thought). I didn't wonder whether Finn was the son of Lando Calrissian, or whether Poe was related to Boba Fett, or anything like that. I actually thought it was pretty cool that the villain was related to Han Solo! Then I heard that people were wondering "Who are Rey's parents?" and "Who is Snoke?" and I thought "People are wondering this?" Now...