Here's a page of Muslims doing that kind of thing regarding the Koran:
http://www.missionislam.com/science/book.htm

There are some people who just have one good story in them, and there's nothing wrong with that (unless you're that person and have to keep making a living)

The Bad Astronomer posted this link to the article:

http://www.empireonline.com/news/feed.asp?NID=27522

I've finally listened to the Star Trek commentary and looked over the boards, and had the thought... why not do an episode of the fan show Star Trek Phase II? Contrast low budget geek Trek to new big budget pop Trek. If you do the latest two parter Dorkman can comment on the love story

There are two steps to worshiping a god: first, does it exist, and second is it something I feel is worth worshiping? After all, if we find proof the old Mayan gods are real how many will be down to going back to human sacrifices? Personally I feel any being that condemns those who don't bow before it to be evil, be it god or man, but luckily so far nothing has passed the first test in my opinion.

To bring this back to movies, I LOVE the John Carpenter film Prince of Darkness, partly due to the premiss: what if God, creator of the universe, in fact existed in the anti-mater part of existence and thus what was good to him we'd see as evil? Talk about being screwed...

If the situation is you have a friend who just really wants to give his take on what he did for the movie... why not have a "very special episode" of Down in Front in addition to a regular Serenity commentary? Sort of a Rifftrax Presents or iRiff plus a Rifftrax Do a regular episode, then later have one or more of you do an episode with the guest focusing more on the VFX and post both at the same time. I like the idea of having a forum for crew to come out and talk about the finished project, but in ADDITION to the regular show... when possible

Hmm, is ZULU also a zombie movie?

Does your father know yet?

This was actually kind of done in the last TV series, Transformers Animated (3 seasons, came out after the movie but no link between the two). The Autobots Crash on Earth, reawaken eons later, and before leaving their ship disguise themselves as the first life forms they see... cars. They honestly didn't know intelligent organic life existed, and have been told to avoid contact with all organic life.

Great series, although the ending is rushed to finish the main plot once there would be no 4th season.

But that's exactly what happened during the war, and one reason the FBI sort of ignored the mafia for so long after the war. They used their contacts to help the US invasion of Sicily and Italy, especially after Italy surrendered and the Germans kept occupying the country. However, I'm not sure that info had been declassified when Rocketeer came out so it may just be a lucky coincidence

A movie popped into my head I haven't thought about in a long time: Outland, the 1981 Sean Connery film. Like with Alien I read the novelization long before actually seeing the movie, and always liked how it seemed to be set in the same universe as Alien (near future, "realistic" space tech, amoral corporation). For one, brief period I thought they were setting up some sort of shared universe idea but it seems to have just lasted two movies...

I can almost buy it if we assume there's only a few hundred Jedi in a universe of hundreds of inhabited worlds, if in fact that one building is really all the Jedi have so they are legend for most people. We the viewer spend every minute of all three films with a Jedi on screen so naturally our take is going to be Jedi centric. All that was needed was some outside context, which we didn't get from Lucas.