Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Some people are angry about the Da Vinci Code saying that its 'anti-Jesus', 'anti-Catholic' and 'anti-albino'. The most offensive thing about that movie is how bad it is. Does anyone remember a Chevy Chase/ Goldie Hawn movie called Foul Play? It too had to do with albinos and the Catholic Church, but was actually better... cause it was appropriately a comedy. Was this what Dan Brown was watching when he started to write this thing? The Da Vinci Code was funny, but I don't think it was meant to be. An example is the scene with the albino whipping himself with that dramatic music in the background. Maybe it was the music, maybe it was the guy's fake eyes and bleached hair but all together it just seemed a little forced and a little silly- like when directors put dwarves in dream sequences. I just kept thinking of Living in Oblivion. One good thing about the movie was the historical theories about Jesus' life, those were pretty interesting. Though I saw that in a movie before called the Last Temptation of Christ which was really good because Jesus was played by Willem Dafoe and had this great New York accent. But back to Da Vinci, Tom Hanks seemed to phone this one in, not that I blame him. He probably knew it wasn't going to be that good. I'm guessing next he'll be doing a sequel to Turner and Hooch. Audry Tautou was pretty good, being the first movie I've seen her in speaking English- not quite Amelie but she was okay. And one more thing about Da Vinci that made it suck- it was 2 1/2 hours long! I'd give it 1 1/2 out of 5 butters, it earned those mostly because of Audry Tautou, Jean Reno and the thought of Jesus having a wife and babies is kind of sweet.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wait, you are telling me the movie has a midget(little person) in it. Now I've got to see the movie. Bands need more cowbell and movies need more midgets. Or left handed eskimo albino lesbian midgets (Dead Milkmen if you can't place it right away).
As for the movie, people of the Catholic/Christian etc. faith and people with taste give the movie 2 thumbs down. That leaves the people I work with that are indifferent about religion and have no taste in movies.

11:22 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sorry, I was thinking all albinos are short. I got too excited to think there may be a midget in DaVinci code, like in Living in Oblivion and Foul Play. At least I remember one in Foul Play. If there was I would actually pay to see the movie.

8:51 PM  

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