The Da vinci code

[Newdude]

OK i just saw this movie last night so this is what i think of it.

1. too long
2. some maybe true
3. mari magdelen shes such a Whor*
4. The girl is jesus's super great grand daughter so why can't she walk on water
5. I paid to much to see it
6. but i might go to see it again because i slept through some parts
7. .......
8. Tom hanks is such a good acter
9. thats it

[Stompwampa]

OK i just saw this movie last night so this is what i think of it.

1. too long
2. some maybe true
3. mari magdelen shes such a Whor*
4. The girl is jesus's super great grand daughter so why can't she walk on water
5. I paid to much to see it
6. but i might go to see it again because i slept through some parts
7. .......
8. Tom hanks is such a good acter
9. thats it

1. yes, it's too long
2. none of it is true...except perhaps the name of Jesus
3. Mary magdelon was not a prostitute (that was a different mary)
4. Jesus didn't have kids
5. Probably.
7. sure.
8. agreed
9. i'm done too.

[Dondrei]

I still have to read the book. I've actually seen the premise of the book before, it's nothing new. We have no way of knowing if Jesus had kids, it seems unlikely that the lineage would have survived 2,000 years - how many do? Even if he did and even if you think that the fact they were descended from him makes them special in some way, by now they'd only be about 1/2^60th Jesus.

I disagree about Tom Hanks being a good actor, he's had his moments (Forrest Gump for example) and certainly he has some skill but for the most part he acts exactly the same way in every movie.

[Gertlex]

I saw it friday with friends, having not read the books. It was modestly easy to follow (having some of it in captions, even if due to diff. languages being spoken, was helpful). It wasn't anything super special, but it had it's interesting moments... though wth was with those "visions" or whatever that Hanks had?

I haven't read the book either, though I do want to.

[Sir EvilFreeSmeg]

I"ll probably see it when one of the lodges plays it as a private screening. I'll be a Knight Templar by then so I'll get a good laugh out of it. Just liek I did with National Treasure.

[PatMaGroin]

I haven't read the book either, though I do want to.

Angels and Demons is better.

[DurfBarian]

I've heard the book is a hack job, and the rest of the guys books are even worse (belonging in the "wow this guy's stuff sells really well, let's buy all the crap manuscripts he has lying around in his den" category) so I'm not interested in it at all. Might see the movie on DVD one day.

I disagree about Tom Hanks being a good actor, he's had his moments (Forrest Gump for example) and certainly he has some skill but for the most part he acts exactly the same way in every movie.

Hah, that's because you never saw the master in his prime.

[Sir EvilFreeSmeg]

Durf, you have it wrong. Joe Vs. the Volcano was his prime

[DurfBarian]

My bad. Well, he could have a film prime and a TV prime, I guess.

[garion]

The Davinci Code is more of a mental thriller than an action movie. That worked in the book's favor, but film is a visual medium. Floating-anagram techniques borrowed from the spelling-bee documentary "Spellbound" aren't heart-pumping enough in a movie where characters furrow their brows or launch into mind-numbing flights of exposition. The movie is so nervous about offending anyone that it's hardly any fun. Hanks delivers a few solemn speeches meant to deflect criticism. Meanwhile, he and Tautou (They should have looked to Sophie Marceau isntead =P) barely hit it off. At least Mr. and Mrs. Smith got hot while doing their jobs.

It's impossible to talk about what happens in this movie without giving away the big secret...just know that a murder committed in the Louvre leads code expert Langdon (Hanks - whats with the hair?) and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu (Tautou - still say they should have grabbed Marceau) on a very long, very talkative treasure hunt for an object that will help them know whether Christianity is true or not. And the effect is like watching your grandmother put together a puzzle of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for two and half hours.

Bettany as the albino monk Silas who constantly jumps out of the shadows to stab people. Then he goes home, strips, and flogs himself, which is ufficiently weird amid the solemnity. And then when Sophie drives BACKWARDS to get away from some people who would like to kill them in the name of God. She does so like a French female Steve McQueen, dodging all sorts of death on wheels. I sat there thinking, "Well, she's Amelie, so of course that makes her magic."

So the take home message...."The Da Vinci Code" plays better on the page than the big screen,,,so grab the book and get ready for some real fun...and rent the movie afterwards, better yet...borrow the movie from a friend...=P