Posted on 05/17/2006 7:36:12 AM PDT by street_lawyer
Jeers, hisses and laughter was not "Canned", and what must have been a real disappointment for Tom Hanks who always looks surprised because of his facelift.
The movie "The DaVinci Code", which is based upon a fictional story about how Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had a child, takes two and a half hours to finish, but only thirty minutes to put a number of the audience to sleep, only to be awakened by laughter, where laughter is not appropriate or planned.
According to reports some people walked out during the movie's closing minutes, and when the credits rolled there were catcalls, whistles and hisses.
For information on this subject read: The DaVinci Delusion That Cannot Be Ignored
LOL! Good one.
Didn't help that Ian whats his name, mentioned on a talk show thread that the Bible should be classified as fiction.
There are plenty of elements in H'wood who wanted this thing to succeed. The fact that it is being so universally panned means that it must be a real stinker.
Why didn't you post a spoiler alert?!?!?!
I mean, that is such a shocking twist for Hollywood, I cannot imagine the genius mind who would have come up with such an unorthodox plot device.
Oh, and I broke my sarcasm detector with this post.
You're wrong. They're trying to repress this movie because the powers that be know that the truth, that Tom Hanks is really a wooden actor who has very little range, would devistate the order. So they have to hide it away, but Ron Howard knows the truth, so he's leaving little clues in the publicity and if you figure it out, you will be able to discover the truth.
Now, my sarcasm detector has caught fire.
(Okay, maybe by the end of the year.)
Disney/Pixar's "Cars" will have much better numbers, and a couple more summer films will most likely do better than DVC.
Just my predictions.
TS
Whew! Looks like "Code" is a real dog. Thank goodness no one helped the producers generate scads of unwarranted and free publicity by hysterically drumming up a bunch of hype.
Oh, wait.
Well, at least it's still a dog.
The whole thing is hype.
l o l
The tomatometer on rottentomatoes rates it as zero. This is the lowest rating I've ever seen there. Of course they only have 6 reviews in so far; when more reviewers get to it it will undoubtedly go up since some one will like it.
What was funny I assume was the plot, the depiction of events and the melodrama. It was not supposed to be funny.
After all, it's been 34 years since this slightly-more popular movie (even had a couple sequels, I hear), and folks still don't assume I'm mobbed up. Well, most folks, anyway. :-)
Check this thread which is a duplicate. There is even more here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1633988/posts
LOL! ....It's all beginning to come together...
As of this posting, the rating is up to a robust 6%. One good review from the New York Post of all places. I was actually planning to see this movie with my friends this weekend but now I'm having second thoughts. The Variety review is right that the book is very cinematic and I figured this was a sure thing, now I've lost faith in Hanks, whose films have never disappointed me once.
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