Priest the movie

Priest is a 2011 American supernatural action film starring Paul Bettany as the title character. The film, directed by Scott Stewart, is based on the Korean comic of the same name. In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest (Bettany) lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece (Lily Collins) is kidnapped by vampires, the Priest breaks his vows to hunt them down. He is accompanied by the niece's boyfriend (Cam Gigandet), who is a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess (Maggie Q).[2]

The film first entered development in 2005, when Screen Gems bought the spec script by Cory Goodman. In 2006 Andrew Douglas was attached to direct and Gerard Butler was attached to star. They were eventually replaced by Stewart and Bettany in 2009 and filming started in Los Angeles, California, later in the year. The film changed release dates numerous times throughout 2010 and 2011. It was especially pushed back from 2010 to 2011 to convert the film from 2D to 3D. It was released in the United States and Canada on May 13, 2011.

Plot

In the future, the war between humans and vampires has devastated the world. The Church, the future incarnation of the Roman Catholic Church, created an elite spiritual warrior organization, dubbed "Priests", who were capable of slaying vampires. The majority of the vampires were killed while the remainder were placed in reservations. The Church created isolated, heavily guarded cities. No longer needing the Priests' services, and fearing their own weapon, the Church disbanded them. Outside the cities humans live outside the totalitarian control of the Church.

One day, an unnamed Priest was approached by Hicks, the sheriff of a nearby town. Hicks tells him that his brother Owen was mortally wounded, sister-in-law (and ex girlfriend), Shannon, were killed by vampires and Priest's niece, Lucy, was kidnapped. Hicks asks for Priest's assistance in tracking down Lucy. Priest goes against the wishes of Monsignor Orelas, the Church's leader, to do so. Monsignor Orelas then sends a group of four Priests led by Priestess to capture him and bring him back, dead or alive.

After saying goodbye to his dying brother, Priest and Hicks arrive at a human but vampire friendly reservation, where they discover that the vampires have taken shelter in Sola Mira. Sola Mira is a vampire hive where Priest lost several of his comrade Priests in a botched mission. There, they are joined by Priestess, who decides to help him because she is in love with him. The group discover that the vampires are using trains to travel, slowly amassing a new army and intending to attack the Priest's city and destroying the Church. They also discover that the inhabitants of Sola Mira had tunneled to the city of Jericho, where the other three Priests had been dispatched by Priestess.

Once in Jericho, the other three Priests are soon confronted by Black Hat, who was one of the Priests who was thought to have been killed in the botched mission at Sola Mira. Black Hat asks the three Priests to become one with the vampire family and kills them when they refuse, leaving their bodies to hang on crosses. Black Hat and his army of vampires then proceed to slaughter the entire town. After Priest, Priestess, and Hicks find the corpses of the three Priests, they discover Black Hat's trail and follow him, eventually catching up to his train along with the other vampires.

While Priestess plants a bomb on the railroad tracks in order to stop the train, Priest and Hicks board the train and confront Black Hat and the vampires and familiars (people infected with a pathogen that makes them subservient to the vampires). Black Hat overpowers both Priest and Hicks. Black Hat reveals that the vampire Queen gave him her blood, turning him into the first vampire-human hybrid. He asks Priest to join him. Priest refuses and fights Black Hat, who reveals the truth of Lucy's parentage to the girl. After the explosives are damaged in a fight with the familiars, Priestess straps the bomb to her motorcycle and crashes it into the train. The explosion kills the vampires and incinerates Black Hat, but Hicks, Priest, and Lucy are able to escape.

Priest returns to the city and confronts Monsignor Orelas, telling him of the burnt train containing the vampires' bodies, which he proves by throwing a vampire head onto the floor. Monsignor Orelas believes that the war is over and Priest's proof is trickery, Priest tells him that it's just beginning. Monsignor Orelas and Priest are at odds with each other when Priest leaves and Priest refuses to even listen to Monsignor Orelas as he walks out. Once he leaves the city and meets with Priestess, she reveals that the other Priests have been notified and will meet them at a rendezvous. Priest sets off into the sunset to later meet up with other priests.

Rivers of Living Water

by Ruel Guerrero on Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 2:41pm

David said he longed for the presence of God; he thirsted for God's presence as a deer pants for water in a thirsty land. But Jesus said that if we drink of Him (the Living Water) we will never thirst.

Sounds like a conflict here. David lived in the Old Covenant when the Holy Spirit had not yet been given to all. But Jesus speaks of the New Covenant when the Holy Spirit is given to all who believe in Jesus.

When we receive the Holy Spirit, we receive the Living Water. We no longer thirst because the Lord is always with us. He flows from within us like rivers of living water.

None of us is a conduit of the River bringing water to His children. Every child of God has within him, the River of Life. Out of every follower of Jesus and child of God flows rivers of living water. We just need to bring others to that River and when they drink of it once, they will never thirst again. Rivers of living water will flow from within them too.

Original 1943 BATMAN serials. #1 The Electrical Brain

3days ago

It’s already a Friday. The week is almost over. Being busy really makes time moves faster. I hope we get our salary tonight. I’m hoping to buy some stuffs. I rendered overtime work last night for about an hour. That’s a start. I hope to continue up to next week. Been busy all morning again today. I hope I can sustain such momentum here. I really enjoy my time here. There’s practically no stress on my part. Although, it seems some guys are making fun of me. I feel old.

I think I’ll lay low for a while. I really want to buy a new DC comic TPB. Sigh. It’s been years since I bought something new. I hope to be able to go to Power Books or Druid’s Keep to buy some stuffs one day.

I do like to get a hold of some stuffs I neglected to get or I’ll have to buy a laptop to download everything from Torrents. I do like to treat the kids out this weekend. Inah’s tonsil is swollen and she’s currently in medications. She almost collapsed yesterday. Doc Marg said that it’s because of lack of oxygen. It’s a miracle her food intake is normal. Most people with tonsils that swollen can’t eat properly according to her. She told me she weighs about 75 kilos now. She’s probably as heavy as me. I wonder how much I weigh now. It’s been more than a month since I worked here and I feel my pants are getting tighter on the waist. I doubled my Metformin intake since yesterday just to stay even. I wonder how that will affect me.

I need to go online tonight. I’ve some stuffs to write about. Yesterday was probably the last one I have articles for.

I hope this time I’ll be blessed enough to earn more with this company I’m in.

We plan to save money starting this month. I hope we can do that.

Lunch time’s over. Going for a nap

Started this afternoon with a cup of cappuccino. This is my 2^nd cup for the day. Done with my daily routine and am just waiting for the some stuffs to do. The day is half done and I’m eagerly awaiting dismissal time. I got my salary today. January is practically half done. Man, 2 weeks of the new year is almost over. I’m not getting bored or anything like the time I was with ETDV. That place was stressful. Tomorrow will be a breeze. The weekend beckons again. I hope to go somewhere this weekend.

I read my musings for the year 2001. LOL, I got no blog during those times! Too bad the years 2004 onward files were corrupted.

It’s already 2pm. 1 hr to go before the afternoon break.

I hope I can use the email tomorrow when they do maintenance work for the system here at the plant. The day is almost done. With 22 minutes before the break this afternoon, time will move like a walk in the park.

It’s 2:47. It’s only 17 minutes before the afternoon break. My head is aching like hell. I think it’s time to stop drinking coffee today.

Spent P30 on snacks today. Sigh. Getting fat again somehow.

There’s this march with some union workers from Nestle outside the plant. I wonder if they’re still employees here.

Less than an hour to go before I go home today. I want to treat the kids to a pizza pie again. I feel tired. I took half of my medicine for high BP. My head was aching earlier this afternoon. I think it was too much coffee.

I want to buy 2 controllers for our play station 2 today. Sigh.

Logging off.

Reflections on my birthday

When I was younger, we celebrate my birthday with my sister’s. We have the same birth month although 6 days apart. Every year we celebrate together. My younger brother celebrates alone. I, on the other hand, like my 2 kids celebrate jointly. It’s been a long time since I celebrated my birthday. We didn’t celebrate it for years since my sister died in 1989. I felt really alone all these years. Sometimes it seems like we can’t move on. I loved my sister so much. This coming Sunday she’ll be celebrating her 42nd birthday had she lived. My mom will always be sad and lonely with the fact that her daughter died before her. My dad will always be in denial that she misses her so much.

Birthdays are both happy and sad at the same time. Happy for the moment that another year has been added in your life and sad knowing that you grow more older by the day.

in reflecting on my life these past few years, it’s been a blessing so far. God never seem to abandon us no matter what the circumstances we’re in.

I’m not alone in celebrating my birthday. I have my family and friends. All loved by me.

Another year has passed and this new one is looking brighter.

My Wednesday

It’s already a Wednesday already. The week is almost half done. Time really flies when you’re so busy. There are really lots to do here. Although my position as project clerk is very routine. All I do is read and list the readings on the meters of every pump, machine and equipment here at the plant. We measure water, air, steam and fuel for most part of the day. No wonder these contractual will have their contracts at an end soon, they’re doing nothing. If the bosses looked for their output then they’re in a bind. Sigh.

Now we’re talking bad movies here. This is the life here. Once your routine’s done then you’re on standby for any task given to you. Reminds me so much of my old job at TNC. The problem there was I really don’t have the stomach to follow the over righteous boss I have. That’s why I availed early retirement there. I still have a loan with LCN though amounting to P17K. Sigh.

My emails are being recorded. Firewall all around.

They’re just playing here. Sigh. It’s just a bit now before we eat lunch. We eat lunch around 11am so basically we’re on break till about 12:30pm or even 1pm. That’s life here at the plant. Work’s not that stressful.

I got my taste of my overtime form being crumpled. Sigh. This is the 1st time I had that experience in any office I ever worked with. One of the weirdest things ever in my career. Damn. I feel so stupid. This is all because of erasures. This is all like a joke to them. I feel something very depressing coming.

It’s all in a day’s work. I guess I have to live with it.

Lunch time is upon me so I guess that’s it for my AM report.

Well it’s my break time and I want to sleep this off. I’m going to have my nap now. I just woke up. I let ERR sign again my DTR. Now all I have to do is wait for ABO again so I can have him sign this one. Sigh.

It’s the start of week 1 since Monday and already it’s half done.

I miss my days in Makati only because I miss my friends. We constantly call each other almost every day and we see each other weekly if we really want to. I miss those days in starbucks doing nothing but talking DC and Marvel comic books. Those days seem so long behind me now. Gradually we became friends not just in comic books but in life as well.

It’s 2pm and I don’t have anything to do but prepare for tomorrow’s routine.

The contractual workers are complaining about their take home pay. Comparing with other’s pay. Same old habit of employees from every office I worked in. They’re gonna die of envy. I hope to earn more.

Breaktime’s over now. All I’m gonna do is wait for 4:30pm for dismissal time.

2011 the start of a new decade

Well, 2010 is but a memory. 2011 is now. I can’t believe it’s been a decade since Y2K. A lot has happened in 10 years. Although amazingly we only have 2 presidents during this decade, 3 if you count ERAP. I had 3 job changes during this decade. I met a lot of people thru the DC message boards this decade. Facebook, plurk, twitter and all them social media appeared like mushrooms during the last 10 years.

The kids have grown so much during the last 10 years. My eldest is about to graduate high school. It makes me feel old. Comics have grown during the last decade. The Philippines seem to have fallen backwards during the last 9 years before P-Noy took the presidency.

Japanese, Chinese and Korean culture has swept the country by storm in this last 10 years making the Filipino culture almost unknown to most of the Filipino people. Churches have flourished and have divided also. It was about 10 years ago that my family transferred to the vineyard and about 6 years later gone to do house churches. I also appeared on TV during this decade. My feature in 700 club Asia seem to be replaying over and over the last 6 years I think. My dad has shifted religion from Christianity to the more legalistic Jewish traditions. My mom aged horribly during this last decade. I was diagnosed with diabetes 3 years ago, now I’m in medication ever since.

My kids were elementary and now high school during this decade. My kids won’t win any loyalty awards since they had different schools during their high school life.

Well, a new year means new hope. I’m no believer in new year resolutions because often than not it isn’t really followed. It’s like broken promises.

I think this year will be a good year for us, unlike the last 2 years where we really struggled in every aspect of our lives. This year shows promise.

Welcome 2011.