Movie Review: "The daVinci Code"
Welcome, everyone to my first ever movie review. The snazzy pic seen to the right was taken by Courtney and her snazzy Treo 650. Zach has one too; they seem awfully complicated but that's what the kids like nowadays, so I go with the times. Anyways, this past Sunday I and Courtney ventured to the not-so-newly-renovated Kerasotes ShowPlace East for a viewing of the long-anticipated cinematic rendition of "The DaVinci Code" starring Tom Hanks and some girl whose name I don't remember.
Hanks plays a fairly genius man who teaches at Harvard and studies the meaning of symbols...which works out quite nicely as he uses his intellect and "A Beautiful Mind"-like abilities to solve various riddles that inevitably lead us to the discovery of the true location of the remains of Jesus' wife, Mary Magdalene.
So let's just go ahead and address the issues surrounding this film. I was talking to Brian on the phone the other day and he asked me what I thought of the movie. I told him that I thoroughly enjoyed it, although I anticipated the Christian community (of which I belong) to have a conniption fit. And personally I find it to be quite silly and childish. The book is fiction, the movie is fiction. Fiction means not real. Just as Brian was saying, it's kind of like watching "Independence Day." Everyone loved the movie, but very few people really believe in the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. It's hard enough to find intelligent terrestrial life! But what I'm getting at is that if someone wants to make a movie where Jesus prances around in a hula skirt with coconut shells on his man boobs, then more power to them. Just realize that it's merely a byproduct of human imagination, roll with it, and have fun.
All in all, I give this movie three diamonds <> <> <>. Hopefully I'm going to be able to come up with a much better system such as three monkeys or three tricycles, but for now, we just will have to work with the diamonds. The movie managed to keep my A.D.D. under control for the entire 2 hours and 20 minutes, and there were a variety of accents used to keep the brain active to understand what's being said. Also, for the literate, there are subtitles when people are speaking Latin, French and Spanish, which is an added bonus.
Ok, I hope you've enjoyed my first movie review. Obviously, if you want a synopsis and want to do know if it's suitable for children and how many times the "F" word was said, I'll need to refer you to an alternate source. Have a great day, everyone. Stay tuned also for my Netflix reviews which will include movies as well as TV shows....I know, you just can't possibly wait for the day. Ciao.
posted by Jeff @ 2:02 PM
3 Comments:
Thanks for the review. I thought that because the movie is based on a fiction book, the debate was silly. That is until my World Religions class that I am taking right now. I have learned that at least one religion really thinks that Jesus was married, and that the Christian community has simply found a way to cover up the truth about the marriage. Another religion believes that had Jesus not been "murdered" (their term, not mine), he would have married. Both religions stress the importance of marriage and childbearing. Now I'm thinking that the debate isn't so childish because more than 50,000 people of these religions really think that Jesus was/should have married. Have a great day!
Fascinating...Now we know who to refer to for all our world religions inquiries. Perhaps the folks who run "jeff's blog" will consider adding a segment for Whitney's monthly thoughts. I'll run it by the Board of Directors and see what they say.
you know, you should be able to change your diamonds to stars if you find a good html code and put it in the html section of your composition (i can walk you through it). i can't believe you liked that movie...it was BORING....
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