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The hate for endless drives makes me spam instead of loading the car
Saw The DaVinci Code yesterday.
First of all, I didn't actually hate the book, like so many people seem to do. It wasn't great, but it had the whole treasure hunt plot I really like. Characters taking over 10 pages to realize something is just mirror writing is stupid, but all in all it was a nice book to read on a plane or train.
How they managed to make the movie this boring is beyond me. The treasure hunt is such a perfect thing to be brought to the screen. But no, exposition, exposition, exposition (Though Ian McKellen was cool). This is supposed to be a popcorn movie. I don't need the random flashbacks to vaguely allude to the backstory of the killer. It's a crazy, radical catholic, albino monk, killing people. For this kind of movie, that's enough for me.
But at least they toned down the bit about the sacred female. Still not enough, but at least I didn't feel the need to scream "I get it! have a womb. I'm oh so very special. And sacred. And a goddess. I really get it, now can we please get back to the plot?" at the screen.
And the big scary secret is even less dramatic in a movie than in the book.
OH NOES! Jesus had kids! The world as we know it will end!
*dramatic pause*
*no one in the cinema even recognizes this was supposed to be a dramatic revelation*
*dramatic pause goes on*
*people start to whisper about unnecessary lengths in the movie until the pause is finally over*
I never got why I should care about that at all. Or why it was supposedly this huge shock when the book came out. In his time, chances are that Jesus was probably a grandfather at 30. So what? Why should it change anyone's world if Jesus and his merry men fathered a hundred bastards while wandering around?
And it's not as if these theories were exactly new, I've been told.
I just don't get it. But I don't get religion anyway, so it's not as if that's in any way remarkable
And someone needs to explain to me why blood lines that are centuries old always seem to be in danger of dying out, not forming a thousand new branches like any genealogical tree would suggest. Ok, hunted down and persecuted by the church. But did no generation ever have more than one surviving child?
The one thing the movie made me want to do is to get back there and walk in Roslin Glen again. It's very pretty.
And now, I prepare for the trip down to Frankfurt. Someone invent beaming. Now. Please.
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The film wasn't really bad, but I don't understand the hype about it...
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I don't really get it either. But I suppose it's because if Jesus had needs, fell in love and had kids like a normal person that turns him into just that: A normal person. Not the son of god.
Also, if Jesus had kids and left the christians to be led by his wife instead of Paul it makes the Pope redundant and it possibly makes the church (catholic and protestant) redundant. Which means nothing but loss of power and lots and lots of money. And wat would the christian belief system be without the hate for women?
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But a few of the kids and the wife might have been female. And that's bad.
Ahhh. I get it now ;)
Ich sage mir immer, als ungetaufter Heide - wie ich es bin - muss man die Kirche nicht verstehen *g*
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It's just the kind of movie I wouldn't buy the DVD but if it were on the TV I would't turn it off. Not bad, but not really good either.
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*nods nods nods* I liked it... it's my new TO-FALL-ASLEEP audio book. After listening to all the HP audio books for several years this one makes a nice change.
I'm not sure I want to watch the movie though. I will ponder a bit more if it's worth spending € 8,-- on it.
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I guess there is the book very American, because they believe that shit way more, why we don't really have that many religoius freaks running around.
And someone needs to explain to me why blood lines that a centuries old always seem to be in danger of dying out, not forming a thousand new branches like any genealogical tree would suggest. Ok, hunted down and persecuted by the church. But did no generation ever have more than one surviving child?
Yep, I agree.
I don't know if you read Anne Rice, but in the book to "Queen of the Damned" there is this huge family, one vampire keepts track of.
She had a daugther thousends of years ago, and this huge family is what came from that, and it is pointed out that the family still is much bigger, because the official track record is only about the children of the females, because only there it can be really sure that they are from that bloodline
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"YESHUA! What are you teaching your grandchildren NOW?"
" Nothing, Moriah! "
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Bwahahahahaha! This made me laugh and laugh and laugh!
I haven't seen the film yet, but I agree with your take on the book. I think Brown is actually a bit of a hack writer, but I liked the treasure hunt plot. (Have you seen "National Treasure?" I bet you'd like that film, too). But the stuff about Mary and it rocking the world . . . *yawn* Honestly? I think that Brown's version is probably true - I hope it is, actually, because it make a lot more sense to me than to think that Mary was some hooker groupie hanging around all the time. But all the fuss? Ah well. Even my grandmother wouldn't read the book, because she thought she'd find it too disturbing (because of the Mary thing; not anything else).
Also . . . It's an crazy, radical catholic, albino monk, killing people. For this kind of movie, that's enough for me.
*more laughing* WORD!
:D
Maybe I will go see the film this weekend.
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If I want to be entertained by a movie, I don't ask for much more than that *g*
(And hey, this movie has a hunt for clues through the Louvre, just for this it's worth to see ;) [But maybe I should warn you. The scenes where Silas chastens himself? Those are graphic.])
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See, that's exactly the way I am with films. And I sometimes get annoyed by people who get so high and mighty about criticising films that aren't "deep" or "profound" or "artistic" or whatever. Hey, sure - for people who want more of a mental interaction with film, that's great. Watch art films and knock yourself out. But don't look down on the rest of us who just want to be entertained without having to give it a lot of thought. I watch films as a form of "escape" - I read plenty of non-fiction and do all sorts of other things to stimulate myself mentally. I don't need that from movies, too. :D
Regarding the hunt for clues through the Louvre - I think that was the reason I liked the book as much as I did. I was well aware that perhaps it wasn't the best-written work ever, but it took me back to the Louvre, and to London, and to Roslyn Chapel - all places I've visited and loved. How could I NOT enjoy it? (Same is true of "Angels and Demons," too - I got to go on a happy romp through Rome). :)