Tonight I went to see The DaVinci Code in theatres. Spoilers are ahead. If you don’t want to be spoiled, go play elsewhere. If you’re ready for my totally biased and inaccurate ravings, please pull up a chair and scroll down.
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Ready? Excellent. Well, I’ve already read the book, but I won’t discuss the details that were different (mostly because I don’t notice those things 
). The beginning is noticeably different, however.
Overall the movie was okay; it wasn’t a bomb, but it wasn’t anything special either. I enjoyed the very end, the last scene. It’s quite potent and a fitting way to conclude. The middle was where it started to drag. I think that this movie will actually be better to watch at home, where I can pause and go get a cup of tea or something without missing any of the information.
The camera angles were weird. Although they were fine for parts of the movie, at times I felt that they didn’t work well.
The acting was, again, okay. Tom Hanks (Langdon) and Audrey Tautou (Sophie) were not as bad as some critics have claimed. I think that Hanks was trying a bit too hard; he seemed unsure of how to portray Langdon’s eloquent multi-fold revelations to Sophie. Tautou, whom I’ve never seen before, acquitted herself well. I think that she’s probably resembled her character more than any of the other actors in action and characterisation. On the flip side, Jean Reno (Fache) was a surprise! I did not imagine Fache to either look or act like that at all, but in the end, he was one of the three best actors in the movie! The other two were Jean-Yves Berteloot (Remy) and Ian McKellen (Teabing), who provided the exciting, flamboyant ingredient that Hanks and Tautou lacked.
It was an awfully long movie. The problem, like I mentioned above, was that there’s so much information to cover, history and backstory and stuff like that. There were a few moments when I was sitting in the theatre and feeling a bit restless. In a way, it was riveting, but it could use a pause button. 
Also, I succumbed to the evil corporate influence and bought the illustrated edition of Angels and Demons afterward. 
It was 25% off; I happened to have enough money on hand and it was right there in Shoppers Drug Mart, and it would ensure a pleasurable reading material for the long weekend.
I recommend that you see the movie, if only so that we can make Dan Brown enough money that he can retire in peace instead of making more movies. You’ll probably enjoy yourself if you keep in mind that a) Hollywood is greedy, 2) It’s fiction, and c) If you don’t do it, then you will be out of the loop. So go do it because it’s what the cool people are doing. You want to be cool, right?
Two more weeks until the Galactica season finale! (Just thought I’d throw that out there.)
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hey … yeah I read the book and really enjoyed it so I‘m planning on watching the movie this weekend. I’m kind of suprised that it is getting such negative reviews, because I figured if there‘d be one book that I could think of that would work good on screen, it would be the Da Vinci Code. I mean, it’s very visual and lotsof action. And I really liked the cast they had picked, especially Paul Bettany (but not so much Tom Hanks.)
Anyway, I‘m kind of disappointed too that so many reviews are negative because of what the BOOK is about, and not because of how well the film was done. But either way, I’ll have my chance to make up my mind about it soon enough.
I don’t think it was as bad as that review Dennis posted made it out to be.
I’ve never read the book, and I didn’t really plan to see the movie. But Saturday I checked it out with a friend and it was interesting.
I didn’t look to it as factual plot, but I looked at it as I would any other fictional movie.
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This review in the Detroit News the other day is pretty harsh. That kind of made up my mind about seeing it, as I won’t really feel like spending $9 to see a movie that I won’t enjoy. The fact that it’s blasphemous is kind of another reason, but not my entire excuse.
I saw MI3 yesterday, and it was pretty lame as well. For anyone reading this, don’t go see it in the theatres, wait for it on DVD.
Saturday, May 20, 2006 at 6:06 PM