Movie thoughts

[mousme]

Went to see The Da Vinci Code with sandman7 because my work gave me two free passes. Otherwise I'd probably have given the whole thing a pass. I love going tp the movies with him: it's a hoot.

The movie is, well, not very exciting. It's reasonably faithful to the book, except that they made the lead female into an absolute idiot who can't figure out anything for herself. That annoyed me, especially since the story is theoretically about reclaiming the sacred feminine, blah blah blah.

Also, the fact that all the characters seem to be able to pontificate for hours on end while being pursued by people intent on either murdering or incarcerating them just blows my mind. Seriously, if you're being pursued by a murderous albino monk, is the uppermost thing in your mind going to be Da Vinci's use of symbology in his paintings to depict the sacred feminine? I know that if it were me, I'd be a gibbering wreck of fear, thinking pretty much only of how not to die.


Finished "Supersize Me" before the DVD player shat itself and died. That is a terrifying movie: everything you ever thought about McDonald's is not only true, it's worse than you thought.

Comments

[djs-specs.livejournal.com]

Dang, I was planning to go see it tomorrow. Guess my prediction about the movie adaptation (that it was going to be ultra-wordy and boring) was right. Ah well, maybe there's something else I can go see instead.

X-Men III in less than a week *squees*

[the-lich.livejournal.com]

I will probably have to see it soon. I am being sollicited by friends, relatives, friends of my relatives, stalkers and strangers that defy classification to see this film. I haven't read the book. I bought the book as gifts for two people but I have yet to read it. My strategy is this: I assume the movie will be so-so. I'll see the movie and think it's good. Then I'll read the book because that way I won't think the movie is crap. I already know what the book is about and the big secret and everything, thanks to merchandising, the only power in the universe to have supplanted the Force. So seeing the movie can't ruin the plot to the same extent TLC did for me. Stupid late night TV sessions...