The commentary that I've read about Tom Hanks' hair elsewhere has been priceless.
Anyway -- I liked the trailer. Visually, its stunning. I've never read the book, but the chances of me checking this out when it is released have substantially improved.
McKellan is probably the best casting in the film. Although after rereading the book recently I can certainly see Hanks as Langdon.
I notice they included a bit from after the "twist" in the book in the trailer too. Not that it really matters since most of the planet has read the book.
Anyways, the book is entertaining enough...even if it's a really basic story.
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Hanks looks like one of those creepy guys who is fifty but thinks he's still thirty and spends his days hanging around bars trying to pick up girls in their twenties.
That's a really great trailer as trailers go. I can pick out everyone of those scenes from the book too. If Howard did a great job of sticking to the book he'll end up with the same thing the book offered...a moderately enjoyable ride with a let down ending.
They should have made a movie about Angels and Demons...better story, less controversy.
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Hanks looks like one of those creepy guys who is fifty but thinks he's still thirty and spends his days hanging around bars trying to pick up girls in their twenties.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.
Just read the book a few weeks ago. I almost wish I hadn't so i could see it all play out for the first time on the big screen. Im sure it will make a killing at the box office.
Hanks looks like one of those creepy guys who is fifty but thinks he's still thirty and spends his days hanging around bars trying to pick up girls in their twenties.
Hanks looks like one of those creepy guys who is fifty but thinks he's still thirty and spends his days hanging around bars trying to pick up girls in their twenties.
*shudders* Please don't remind me they exist. I don't want to think of poor Tom that way. I grew up watching him.
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They should have made a movie about Angels and Demons...better story, less controversy.
I'm not familiar with that, but as to the Da Vinci Code... well, the controversy itself doesn't bother me. It's just that the idea seems kind of pointless. Whether one believes in Christ or not, he wouldn't have had kids on pure principle--huge can of worms there. Like whole religions based on his legitimate descendants claiming to be free of sin or claiming to be the way to heaven.
Why live so carefully and die for something in a horribly painful way on the basis that only belief in you can bring people to God, then allow huge amounts of room for people to jump into the picture saying, "and only I can bring you to Jesus, because I'm his 54th cousin's daughter's nephew's uncle twice removed! Here, drink some of my blood..."?
Plus, it's been debunked. The Grail thing was based on a mistranslation in the first place, for one thing. Might still be an interesting movie, though.
Yes, but it's based on reality. I can enjoy it as a story still, but it's like with the New World--I prefer my historical fiction to be historical. Meaning, no, Pocahontas and John Smith aren't lovers, she looks at him like a father, seeing as he's kinda old and, well, she hailed him as a father, historically. Why are they always lovers in fiction? Because saving someone's life is romantic? Well, realistically, sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's compelling in completely non-romantic ways. There is more to life than just people getting hit in the eye by a big pizza pie. There are better ways to flesh out a story than adding spoonfuls of flowery mush.
So most of the time I can overlook it when something just doesn't make sense, ignore things for the sake of a good plot, but I can't turn my brain off. It just doesn't give me that delicious Roman vivisection because the gods demand it feeling.
It's not about controversy. It's about what, in fiction, feels right to me. Don't you care about my feelings you selfish bastard?
(Being the new girl here and not yet establishing myself as a non-serious person I feel compelled to specify that I am totally, totally just kidding there and not to be taken seriously. Even a little. Am I allowed to say bastard as long as I don't mean it?)
Well, there's also "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" and "Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned" and other such works, as well as the legends in certain places. The children thing is a popular myth. Da Vinci is just the latest treatment of it, really. Not that that's a bad thing. Just, it makes sense to look into the idea. And the way I am, if I read something that I don't know the truth about, I get curious. So if I'd read Da Vinci Code unspoiled, lacking any information, I probably still would've investigated it myself.
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