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Da Vinci Code movie bombs before media audience
Canada Free Press ^ | 5-18-06 | Father B.F. Heffernan

Posted on 05/18/2006 6:44:30 AM PDT by dynachrome

Cannes-Last night, Cannes Film Festival hosted the world premiere of The Da Vinci Code movie. Never was a debut so globally hyped. Never was a movie so awaited; never was excitement globally greater.

(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cannes; code; codeistoast; davinci; davincicode; movies; reviews
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Interesting column by someone who was at Cannes.
1 posted on 05/18/2006 6:44:34 AM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

Ishtar


2 posted on 05/18/2006 6:46:17 AM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
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To: dynachrome

Can you imagine all the panties in bundles if this movie portayed Mohammad in anything but a divine manner? I'm not just talking about those whacky muslims either.

My God....the worldwide jihad would be like armageddon.


3 posted on 05/18/2006 6:49:10 AM PDT by Fighting Irish
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To: Fighting Irish

[note to self: check spelling prior to hitting post icon]


4 posted on 05/18/2006 6:50:06 AM PDT by Fighting Irish
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To: dynachrome

I hear Tom Hank's mullet is to blame for the fiasko


5 posted on 05/18/2006 6:50:17 AM PDT by Kurt_Hectic (Trust only what you see, not what you hear)
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To: ChadGore

Heaven's Gate?


6 posted on 05/18/2006 6:50:24 AM PDT by mc5cents
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To: dynachrome
Everyone knows that the Da Vinci Code is really a comedy, except for Dan Brown, Ron Howard, and Tom Hanks.

When the most dramatic scene of the movie occurred in Cannes, the critics started laughing...

Some people take Jesus seriously.

Other people take the Hollyweird trio seriously -- Ron Howard, Tom Hanks, and Dan Brown... Maybe there is something in that Bevery Hills smog that we don't know about that gives these folks incredible visions of what reality really is...

Visit Hollyweird today...

7 posted on 05/18/2006 6:51:09 AM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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To: ChadGore

More like Willow, I'd say.


8 posted on 05/18/2006 6:51:35 AM PDT by william clark
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To: mc5cents

Took the words right outta my mouth.


9 posted on 05/18/2006 6:52:23 AM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: dynachrome

It's telling that they had to hedge their bets by casting a "box office draw"..Tom "Bosom Buddies"Hanks.


10 posted on 05/18/2006 6:52:58 AM PDT by SerpentDove (We will not stand by and allow politicians to destroy our country through open borders.)
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To: dynachrome

The review at Fox news was not bad for it.


11 posted on 05/18/2006 6:53:54 AM PDT by trashcanbred (Anti-social and anti-socialist)
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To: dynachrome

The review at Fox news was not bad for it.


12 posted on 05/18/2006 6:53:56 AM PDT by trashcanbred (Anti-social and anti-socialist)
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To: dynachrome

I seldom agree with the critics on a movie. I'll wait until the movie is released to the public before I decide if I'll watch it or not.


13 posted on 05/18/2006 6:54:38 AM PDT by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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To: dynachrome

It appears that the producers of the movie got a bit too dismissive of the strong negative Christian reaction to the movie, especially with Sony Pictures' refusal to run a disclaimer about the movie being a work of fiction.


14 posted on 05/18/2006 6:56:16 AM PDT by RayChuang88
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"The review at Fox news was not bad for it"


I will probably catch it on cable when it comes around. It looks like an imitation "Indiana Jones" to me.


15 posted on 05/18/2006 6:57:05 AM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: SerpentDove

More recently Tom "The Terminal" Hanks.


16 posted on 05/18/2006 6:57:10 AM PDT by uncitizen (" We are a nation of NATIVES")
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To: dynachrome

It sounds like movie-goers are going to find that the film insults them more than it insults Christians and Christianity. Suckers.


17 posted on 05/18/2006 6:57:57 AM PDT by Spiff ("They start yelling, 'Murderer!' 'Traitor!' They call me by name." - Gael Murphy, Code Pink leader)
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To: dynachrome
Most movie reviews are often subject to the critics expectations going in.

I remember when the original Blues Brothers movie came out, it got terrible reviews, I went to see it and I enjoyed it.

In contrast, the Blair Witch Project got rave reviews and it sucked so bad I wanted to sue somebody.
18 posted on 05/18/2006 6:59:05 AM PDT by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: dynachrome

Well let's see what the weekend box office comes out to. I'm predicting 50 or 60 million.


19 posted on 05/18/2006 6:59:27 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: trashcanbred

The Fox critic Roger Friedman is anti-Catholic and was one of the designated hitmen on Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ."


20 posted on 05/18/2006 6:59:32 AM PDT by jimbo123
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