Zippa D Doodah
<font color=red>Suffering from Fairy Alienation.
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There that oughta do it for the scroll-overs. (Didya like the ^ and V used above?
) Anyhow, I just got back from a screening of the DaVinci Code. I wanted to see it early on because I knew inevitably someone would ask me my opinion of it. First, I really did enjoy reading the book. It was enjoyable and captured my attention. The movie, while faithful to the plot, does not catch the urgency of the book. Poor Tom Hanks seems so bored in this movie, as if there is nothing for him to do in most scenes. Jean Reno was particularly one-dimensional. Audrey Tautu (sp?) was mostly a prop. Ian McKellen did admirable work as Teabing -just like I pictured the character in the book.
Worst of all, the movie is unintentionally funny. Go ahead and try not to laugh when, toward the end of the film, Hanks delivers this big melodramatic, climactic line to Sophie. You may also find yourself giggling at the beginning of the movie when (off camera) an old man who is bleeding to death apparently runs about the Louvre writing messages, hanging a heavy painting on the wall, paints a pentagram on his naked body, and dies in one precise posture. Or you may think it funny when the heroine drives her car tiny backward in ways that defy the laws of physics (I chalk that one up to lazy editing). The mythology that seemed so cleverly conceived in the book proves kind of lame and silly in the movie.
I'm Zippa; that's my review; and I'm sticking to it.
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There that oughta do it for the scroll-overs. (Didya like the ^ and V used above?
) Anyhow, I just got back from a screening of the DaVinci Code. I wanted to see it early on because I knew inevitably someone would ask me my opinion of it. First, I really did enjoy reading the book. It was enjoyable and captured my attention. The movie, while faithful to the plot, does not catch the urgency of the book. Poor Tom Hanks seems so bored in this movie, as if there is nothing for him to do in most scenes. Jean Reno was particularly one-dimensional. Audrey Tautu (sp?) was mostly a prop. Ian McKellen did admirable work as Teabing -just like I pictured the character in the book.Worst of all, the movie is unintentionally funny. Go ahead and try not to laugh when, toward the end of the film, Hanks delivers this big melodramatic, climactic line to Sophie. You may also find yourself giggling at the beginning of the movie when (off camera) an old man who is bleeding to death apparently runs about the Louvre writing messages, hanging a heavy painting on the wall, paints a pentagram on his naked body, and dies in one precise posture. Or you may think it funny when the heroine drives her car tiny backward in ways that defy the laws of physics (I chalk that one up to lazy editing). The mythology that seemed so cleverly conceived in the book proves kind of lame and silly in the movie.
I'm Zippa; that's my review; and I'm sticking to it.
