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People need to treat this as entertainment.....not fact. It’s like watching a movie about WWII and knowing it’s all fiction. Someday, these people will say that Star Wars was history. Maybe we should start saying the Mickey Mouse is actually historical.
I enjoyed the book “The DaVinci Code” as an interesting fiction, but the movie was just awful: Tom Hanks and that female lead were like cardboard cutouts, and it was boring.
I was watching a special on the History Channel this weekend where Tom Hanks, of all people, was trying to sell the “meticulously researched” Dan Brown version of the Church v. the Illuminati. It screened like one giant plug for the movie.
We get it Brown - you hate Catholicism. Can’t wait for your next “meticulously researched” novel that distorts facts and steals sources.
The History Channel over the weekend did not do a good job either as they spent two hours showing the “facts” vs “fiction” in the movie.
I’m pretty sure that the setting is supposed to be an alternate reality but I may be mistaken. Unfortunately, there are idiot liberals who will treat it like fact. They cannot tell the difference between fantasy and reality.
Hanks has BAD hair. That dye job is atrocious! The girls is a skank!
Everybody knows Hollywood is really controlled by the Stonecutters (Who made Steve Gutenberg a Star?)
Well, the book may well be stupid and the film stupider, but they can be looked at as entertainment not factual. I found the DaVinci Code rather fun to watch. Had a lot of twists and turns that were interesting, especially the ending. I KNOW Jesus and Mary Magdelene weren’t married or had children so I wasn’t influenced by the movie spiritually. And that’s what matters. I won’t lose my faith because of any of these movies.
I watched two shows over then weekend that discussed the movie:the History Channel and the Discovery Channel. The History Channel’s two hours was barely watchable. I found myself channel surfing during the “obigiatory secret conspiracy organizations have got to be true” portions. At least they had good representatives from the Catholic Church giving rebuttal.
The Discovery Channel’s one hour show was excellent. It combined religion, political and art historians which examined the claims in the book and movie. It debunked all of the secret conspiracies with historical facts, little things like an oblisk being put in one location 17 years before Bernini was born or that the “west wind” placque being imbedded in St. Peter’s Square 150 years after Bernini died along with 7 other placques showing the major directions of the compass. It also showed how the directions that the book claims some of the statues were pointing are 90 degrees or more off from the actual direction.
My recommendation: Watch the Discovery Channel show about the movie and skip the History Channel show. The Discovery Channel show also provides an excellent historical commentary about Bernini’s sculptures.
The At the Movies guys said skip it.
The movie got two thumbs down by my wife and I. Rogue priest plot, hit man, blaming the Illuminati, etc. etc.. Seen better.
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it has COMPLETE synopsis of all the hollywood movies.
it is a simple plot summary so you can save your money and MORE PRECIOUS TIME from being wasted on drek.
Heh, the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Dan Brown is a very angry alter boy.
If you saw Tom Hanks on Letterman HE KNEW how bad the movie was and was hoping for a major outcry from the Catholic Church to give this ‘dog’ some buzz and possibly sell more tickets.
Just saw the movie today. Even though it was very unrealistic in many ways, it wasn’t overtly anti-catholic. It portrayed the church as conflicted but not necessary as bad. For the most part it was a good movie. Much better than the first one.
Satan is VERY Happy with Dan Brown and Ron Howard.