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BuBBa DRiFT
12-31-2007, 01:50 AM
Boring. Action was decent. Scenes werent scary or gory. Dont even know why it has a "R" Rating. Overall, make it a rental for when there is nothing else to see.

Deke
12-31-2007, 02:35 AM
Lol at "Requiem." I definitely feel like the writers just sat around one day and went through a list of cool sounding words to put on the end of the title.

BuBBa DRiFT
12-31-2007, 03:12 AM
Definitions of requiem on the Web:

* Generally speaking, a musical composition honoring the dead; more specially (1) the Roman Catholic Mass for the dead, or (2) other commemorative ...
www.wku.edu/~smithch/music/glossnew.htm

* a dirge or solemn chant
www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/4220/poevocab.html

* A version of the Mass to commemorate the dead.
www.musichappens.com/webschool/Analysis/glossary.htm

* A musical mass for the dead usually featuring vocalists, chorus and orchestra
library.thinkquest.org/J0112616/terms.html

* Any musical hymn, composition, or service for the dead
www.innvista.com/culture/religion/diction.htm

* Mass for the dead
www.best-classicalmusic.com/timeline/volume2/musical_glossary.htm

* Simply - the mass (communion service) for the dead. In music, it's the term for the setting of texts from that service to music. ...
www.musicworksathighworth.net/Glossary.htm

* dirge: a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
* a Mass celebrated for the dead
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

* The Requiem (from the Latin requiés, rest) or Requiem Mass, also known formally (in Latin) as the Missa pro defunctis or Missa defunctorum, is a liturgical service of the Roman Catholic Church as well as the Anglican "High" Church and certain Lutheran Churches in the United States. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem

* Requiem was an anarcho-punk/crust band featuring several former members of Catharsis. CrimethInc. released their album Storm Heaven in August 2005. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem (band)

* Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master (1992, ISBN 0-312-85168-5, TOR Books) is a retrospective on Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988), after his death, edited by Yoji Kondo.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem (book)

* Requiem (2006) is a German language film by Hans-Christian Schmid starring Sandra Hüller. The film has been promoted as a more truthful depiction of the real-life events of the exorcism of Anneliese Michel (September 21 1952 – July 1 1976), a German woman who was believed to have been ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem (film)

* Requiem is the seventh album by Bathory. It eshews the viking metal style of the three previous releases for a retro-thrash metal style that recalls many of the bands that influenced Bathory.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem (album)

* The Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi is a musical setting of the Roman Catholic funeral Mass (called the Requiem for the first word of the text, which begins Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, meaning, "Grant them eternal rest, O Lord" — see the entry at "Dies Irae") that was completed to mark the ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem (Verdi)

* Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem is a requiem mass written in memory of the composer's father, William Lloyd Webber, who died in 1982. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem (Webber)

* The Requiem Mass in D minor (K. 626) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in 1791. It was Mozart's last composition and is also perhaps one of his most powerful and recognised works, not only for its music, but also for the debate as to how much of the music Mozart managed to complete before ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem (Mozart)

* The Requiem by John Rutter is a musical setting of an adaptation of the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass, written in 1972. The piece is a very lyrical choral piece with an orchestral accompaniment. The piece contains many chord clusters and atonal chords that are very popular in modern choral music. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem (Rutter)

* Gabriel Fauré composed his Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 between 1877 and 1890. This choral–orchestral setting of the Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead is the best known of his large works. The most famous movement is the soprano aria Pie Jesu. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem (Fauré)

* The Grande Messe des morts, Op. 5 (or Requiem) by Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869) was composed in 1837. The Grande Messe des Morts is one of Berlioz's best-known works, with a tremendous orchestration of woodwind and brass instruments, including four antiphonal brass ensembles placed at the corners ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem (Berlioz)

* Requiem is the eleventh episode for the fifth season of the science fiction television show Sliders. While the Sliders relax in a garden waiting for the next slide, Rembrandt receives a message in his mind from former slider Wade.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem (Sliders)

* Released in 2005, Requiem is an album by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins. In this work, Jenkins interjects movements featuring Japanese haiku with those traditionally encountered in a Requiem Mass. At times, the Latin text is sung below the text of the haiku.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem (Jenkins)

* The Requiem, op. 9, by Maurice Duruflé was commissioned in 1947 by the French music publisher Durand and is written in memory of the composer's father. The work is for mixed choir with mezzo-soprano and baritone soloists. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem (Duruflé)

* The Requiem, by Johannes Ockeghem (c.1410 – 1497), is a polyphonic setting of the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass, the Missa pro defunctis, the mass for the dead. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem (Ockeghem)

* Requiem is an old style serif typeface designed by Jonathan Hoefler in 1992 for licensing by his own foundry Hoefler & Frere-Jones. The typeface takes inspiration from a set of inscriptional capitals found in Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi's 1523 writing manual, Il Modo de Temperare le Penne. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem (typeface)

* Requiem is a short story by Robert A. Heinlein, serving as a sequel to his short science fiction novel, The Man Who Sold the Moon , although it was in fact published several years earlier than that story. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem (short story)

* "Requiem" is episode 150 of The West Wing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem (The West Wing)

* Requiem is an album by Californian punk rock band, Bracket. It was released in February, 2006 on Takeover Records.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem (Bracket album)



Not a single one of these even connects with the movie in any way shape or form.

Grimm Reeper
12-31-2007, 06:01 AM
I was watching the streaming video and closed the window as soon as I lost interest, which had to be the first 6 mins.