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Starts this weekend. Is anybody going to see it? Has anyone read the book? I have done neither. What is the big deal about it?
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The Da Vinci Code
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Read it, seeing it this weekend.
Breakfast at Tiffany's it ain't. But I enjoyed it, and I like Tom Hanks.
Breakfast at Tiffany's it ain't. But I enjoyed it, and I like Tom Hanks.
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Was thinking of going to see it. But will probably wait to get it from the library. Don't want to waste my money.
It's getting panned (Canned?) by the critics. Apparently it's even worse than the book ... somehow.
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It's getting panned (Canned?) by the critics. Apparently it's even worse than the book ... somehow.
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That's what I expected.
Stuff like that which gets overly popular always turns out to be drek.
Stuff like that which gets overly popular always turns out to be drek.
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Rottentomatoes review@ 17% Positive
Currently @ Rottentomatoes.com only 17% positive
out 59 reviewers !If you follow this website
which I do on regular basis thats pretty BAD :eusa_doh:
SC [huh]
PS Sir Ian's performance supposed to be best in the movie!
Currently @ Rottentomatoes.com only 17% positive
out 59 reviewers
!If you follow this websitewhich I do on regular basis thats pretty BAD :eusa_doh:
SC [huh]
PS Sir Ian's performance supposed to be best in the movie!
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I will wait for it to arrive on cable.
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Is Tom Cruise in it too?
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Nope. Just Tom Hanks.
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Darn!
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Maybe Dan Brown can write him into the sequel? [huh]
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Baron Kurtz said:
Inconcievable!
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Feraud said:
Sure! Of course.
Tom could make a very dramatic, action packed, crash landing in a captured alien space craft.
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Captured alien space craft? I thought that was his reality? That may make a good autobiographical movie about Tom Cruise.
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Maybe it's just my style...
... but I tend to withhold judgment on a movie (or other entertainment) until I've seen it for myself... going to a late afternoon showing. -- Z
... but I tend to withhold judgment on a movie (or other entertainment) until I've seen it for myself... going to a late afternoon showing. -- Z
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But it's directed by Ron Howard. That should make it pretty un-controversial...and probably boring.
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Please give us a review of the film!Zemke Fan said:
Thanks
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Just made a plan to see it tonight.
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scotrace said:
Well, that means you need to give us a review ...
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I wish I had read the book because everyone I know loved it somehow. I think all the controversy is overrated but whatever does it for you. I was driving past one of the local movie theaters and there were Catholic protestors along the road with signs and banners and pictures of Christ and everything. Crazy Catholics. (No offense) I'm going to see it tonight but I have a feeling I'll be disappointed. Highly anticipated movies like this are usually a let down because the hype is too big for the movie.
(No offense) I'm going to see it tonight but I have a feeling I'll be disappointed. Highly anticipated movies like this are usually a let down because the hype is too big for the movie.Flash Gordon
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I saw it at an 11:45 am show this morning.
It was okay. A little long, but it was nice to look at the Louvre, Audrey Tautou, London and Paris. I read the book when it first came out, so I don't remember if all the details were there, but it sure seemed like it. The critics were said to have guffawed out loud at a line spoken by Tom Hanks. I'm not sure which line it was, but there were a couple of clunkers. It MAY have been what Hanks says to Tautou at the end.
A little side note about the book:
I wrote a book about cigars about ten years ago that became pretty popular, and my literary agent Jake was Dan Brown's agent. So, Jake used to give me books by Brown when they first came out...long before he was a top-seller. He gave me "Angels and Demons" when it was published and I told him I liked it. I asked him if Brown was working on anything else and he said a similar book about the holy grail. When "The Da Vinci Code" came out, he gave me a copy over lunch. I looked inside and it was autographed to Jake. I asked him why he was giving it to me. He told me that he wasn't Dan's agent anymore, and he didn't want it. Now I tease Jake about the signed first-edition I have of the biggest-selling book ever, which at last look was going for over $1,000. He's never asked for it back. I wouldn't sell it, because telling the story is too much fun.
P.S. I liked "Angels and Demons" better.
It was okay. A little long, but it was nice to look at the Louvre, Audrey Tautou, London and Paris. I read the book when it first came out, so I don't remember if all the details were there, but it sure seemed like it. The critics were said to have guffawed out loud at a line spoken by Tom Hanks. I'm not sure which line it was, but there were a couple of clunkers. It MAY have been what Hanks says to Tautou at the end.
A little side note about the book:
I wrote a book about cigars about ten years ago that became pretty popular, and my literary agent Jake was Dan Brown's agent. So, Jake used to give me books by Brown when they first came out...long before he was a top-seller. He gave me "Angels and Demons" when it was published and I told him I liked it. I asked him if Brown was working on anything else and he said a similar book about the holy grail. When "The Da Vinci Code" came out, he gave me a copy over lunch. I looked inside and it was autographed to Jake. I asked him why he was giving it to me. He told me that he wasn't Dan's agent anymore, and he didn't want it. Now I tease Jake about the signed first-edition I have of the biggest-selling book ever, which at last look was going for over $1,000. He's never asked for it back. I wouldn't sell it, because telling the story is too much fun.
P.S. I liked "Angels and Demons" better.
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