Da Vinci Code
Well, we went to see the Da Vinci Code and now I'm really...tired. I don't know what to say about it without spoiling it for people. It's much like The Crying Game: do you know "The Secret"? With The Crying Game, I knew the secret a long time before I saw the movie...and so did the guy in the movie, probably. I mean, he had to have known when he met her, right?
I didn't have any problems with the casting. Paul Bettany (from A Beautiful Mind, also Jennifer Connelly's husband in real life) is a great albino psycho. Audrey Tautou was peaceful, serene and French, as usual; Tom Hanks was, as always, the "good guy". D read somewhere that no matter what kind of character Tom Hanks plays, audiences will like him. He's inherently likable, or something.
The movie was too long. As for the theory behind it, I'll say this: maybe some would say the Catholic explanation is a little too pat; but the alternative theory is a little too crazy. I don't think paintings hold religious secrets, necessarily. Da Vinci could have been bored. He could have thought it was fun to put Jesus and Mary Magdalene in matching colors. You just never know.
When the ticket machine spat out our tickets, it gave us an extra one, at the child's price. So D went downstairs to try to give it to whoever lost it. Then a man offered him $200 for our tickets! D said, "I'd like to, but my wife is upstairs." We had to sit three rows back from the screen...the theater was packed.
I didn't have any problems with the casting. Paul Bettany (from A Beautiful Mind, also Jennifer Connelly's husband in real life) is a great albino psycho. Audrey Tautou was peaceful, serene and French, as usual; Tom Hanks was, as always, the "good guy". D read somewhere that no matter what kind of character Tom Hanks plays, audiences will like him. He's inherently likable, or something.
The movie was too long. As for the theory behind it, I'll say this: maybe some would say the Catholic explanation is a little too pat; but the alternative theory is a little too crazy. I don't think paintings hold religious secrets, necessarily. Da Vinci could have been bored. He could have thought it was fun to put Jesus and Mary Magdalene in matching colors. You just never know.
When the ticket machine spat out our tickets, it gave us an extra one, at the child's price. So D went downstairs to try to give it to whoever lost it. Then a man offered him $200 for our tickets! D said, "I'd like to, but my wife is upstairs." We had to sit three rows back from the screen...the theater was packed.
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I've been meaning to read the book but have never gotten around to it and don't want to watch the movie until I've read the book. So I've done the next best thing. I've convinced my mother that we should listen to the book on tape on the way back to TX. I got it last night. We also got one entitled, 'Saving Grace' I think. Should be interesting. She wanted me to get Dr. Phil's finding your right love or some crap... lol. I told her I didn't want our trip turning into a therapy session.
I enjoyed the book as fun thriller. It was fast-paced.
I've heard that the reviews weren't that good for the movie and that the movie was too long - just like you said, but I think I'll see it anyway.
BTW, I agree with you...I don't care for Dr. Phil at all.
As for myself, I don't get all the controversy. It's just a book. People are making something out of nothing IMHO.
I'd also be the same as lostintx. I would have taken the money. lol
I don't have a stance on Dr. Phil yet. I have some books on the shelf of his but I have yet to really pick them up and read them.
I just told DH about some man offering you $200 for the tix and he was all, "They didn't take the money?"
I can't wait to see it--even if I'm not that thrilled about Tom Hanks being the main character. While I like him, I just don't see him in a role like this. I wish it had gone to someone less well-known....
I liked the movie for the most part, except it annoyed me that Robert Langdon got to make all the big discoveries himself...I mean, Sophie was supposed to be the cryptex (sp?) expert. It seemed kind of sexist to me, especially in a movie that's supposedly about the female divine.
Tom Hanks is NOT Robert Langdon (I had a rant about this a while back on my blog!)
But it sounds as though DVC is doing much better than MI3 already ;)
Then again with the Sixth Sense as soon as I heard there was a surprise ending I was able to guess what the surprise was just from the previews (the only of M. Night Shyamalan's movies to actually "surprise" me was Unbreakable), so I've got a bad history with "surprise" or "twist" endings.
That always happens when a book-based movie comes out...