Posted on 05/17/2006 2:34:55 PM PDT by Carling
Early critics seemed happy to try to break "The Da Vinci Code."
Reaction ranged from halfhearted admiration to boredom to derision among journalists at the first press screening of the Ron Howard-Tom Hanks blockbuster in waiting, premiering Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival and opening worldwide through Friday.
"`Da Vinci' never rises to the level of a guilty pleasure. Too much guilt. Not enough pleasure," wrote critic Kirk Honeycutt in the trade paper The Hollywood Reporter.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Opie gone bad.
I'm actually looking forward to the movie. Good book. If I go, that will be two movies that I paid for this year, World's Fastest Indian and Da Vinci Code.
I hope you found the book a comedy, because reading the AP article, it appears that critics were literally LOL at the absurdity of what they saw on screen.
My choices too right after I see the latest "Chain Saw" movie and buy a DVD of "Beavis & Butthead".
I found the book quite interesting. I mean c'mon people are just overracting to it, its FICTION. Some people just take things to seriously.
Already got Beavis and Butthead... huh huh... huh huh huh.. ;)
Little Richie Cunningham grows up to be a commie liberal. The Fonz would be greatly disappointed.
I think the critics are understating the sheer awfulness of this movie. We'll know over the weekend.
When 'Battlefield Earth" came out, we were sitting in a movie theatre watching the trailers for the movie and a girl stood up and shouted that it was the single worst movie she had ever seen and to not waste our money. May have the same thing happen again.
Most OVERRATED work of tripe since "The Celestine Prophecy."
You must not read very many books.
Must be pretty good if these bozos don't like it.
Hey now, we all have our tastes.
Gee, imagine that. All that handwringing for nothing.
LOL...Opie sure has...poor mislead Ron Howard. He needs our prayers....this brown fella has got heaps of coals on his head now Opie has. ;o(
Ron Howard's movies are generally disliked by the better film critics.
Exactly, I enjoyed the read, so did the rest of the family. It's a work of fiction, interspersed with some historical references and supposition, just like a work of fiction is supposed to be. Don't really care what the author is espousing as FACT, it was fun to read as a thriller.
Will I see the movie? Probably not, I'll wait for the DVD in a few weeks...my kid works at the video store, I'll get it for nothing.
Actually, it got the wife and I talking and we came to the conclusion that NOBODY KNOWS exactly what went on at that time, with Jesus and Mary Mag. etc...we have some written stories that we all believe and support our faith...but...He was a special man, who would deny that being married and having a child IS POSSIBLE!?
Torch!
I disagree, I read a lot (45 minute one way on the train) it IS a good read.
If you read "Angels & Demons", the first book featuring Robert Langdn, it had very similar characters doing very similar things. Also, Dan Brown has a definite mad-on for the Catholic Church, esp. in A&D
On the other hand, The Da Vinci Code lays out a preposterous conspiracy theory, which Dan Brown first maintained was true, then has backed down to 'it's just a novel'.
It's turns out that a British Moslem is the financier/broker behind the funding to make this $100 million plus movie and makes his money re-packaging this with British government tax credits for movie making. Did his motive include the attempt to discredit Jesus and Christianity?
The Catholics are making themselves look foolish by organizing a boycott. We may be getting the best outcome: a ponderous, bloated, over-serious, non-thrilling thriller of movie dies at the box office due to audience indifference. It'll be this decades Ishtar.
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