I’m going to see it on Thursday. I’ve read nothing but horrible things about it. I can’t believe how much bad press it’s getting. I’ll have a review up on Friday.
Yeah, it sounds like the Cannes screening for critics was kind of bad with the audience laughing in places that really shouldn’t be laughed at. Have you read the book at all? It’s sitting on my kitchen counter right now but I don’t know if I’m even going to try it.
Yeah, it sounds like the Cannes screening for critics was kind of bad with the audience laughing in places that really shouldn’t be laughed at. Have you read the book at all? It’s sitting on my kitchen counter right now but I don’t know if I’m even going to try it.
I read this as It’s sitting on my kitchen counter right now but I don’t know if I’m even going to fry it.
I’m going to see it on Thursday. I’ve read nothing but horrible things about it. I can’t believe how much bad press it’s getting. I’ll have a review up on Friday.
I believe we’re entering the phase we like to call “critical backlash.” The Da Vinci Code phenomenon has gone on for so long that critics, who (rightly) believe the book just isn’t that special, are just waiting for a chance to rip the movie to shreds.
I’m sure the movie’s OK, but if A.O. Scott is to be believed, it sounds like it’s a little too full of its own importance… when really it’s just pulp fiction tarted up in shoddy scholarship.
Can you tell where I fall on the like/dislike spectrum? :)
I’m going to see it on Thursday. I’ve read nothing but horrible things about it. I can’t believe how much bad press it’s getting. I’ll have a review up on Friday.
I believe we’re entering the phase we like to call “critical backlash.” The Da Vinci Code phenomenon has gone on for so long that critics, who (rightly) believe the book just isn’t that special, are just waiting for a chance to rip the movie to shreds.
I’m sure the movie’s OK, but if A.O. Scott is to be believed, it sounds like it’s a little too full of its own importance… when really it’s just pulp fiction tarted up in shoddy scholarship.
Can you tell where I fall on the like/dislike spectrum? :)
Oh the book is totally pulp fiction tarted up. The movie should be a fun fast ride and not take itself too seriously. The book doesn’t.
I’m going to see it on Thursday. I’ve read nothing but horrible things about it. I can’t believe how much bad press it’s getting. I’ll have a review up on Friday.
I believe we’re entering the phase we like to call “critical backlash.” The Da Vinci Code phenomenon has gone on for so long that critics, who (rightly) believe the book just isn’t that special, are just waiting for a chance to rip the movie to shreds.
I’m sure the movie’s OK, but if A.O. Scott is to be believed, it sounds like it’s a little too full of its own importance… when really it’s just pulp fiction tarted up in shoddy scholarship.
Can you tell where I fall on the like/dislike spectrum? :)
Oh the book is totally pulp fiction tarted up. The movie should be a fun fast ride and not take itself too seriously. The book doesn’t.
It seems like just about everyone has read the book.
The wife and I saw it over the weekend, and yeah, it’s just kind of… dull. Not a terrible movie, and Sir Ian McKellan is always awesome, but the movie just didn’t seem to have any momentum. Plus, I thought it was really lazy of Opie to use the exact same “things that are significant in this series of letters will LIGHT UP” trick that he used in A BEAUTIFUL MIND. I actually thought the girl was quite dull, and couldn’t believe it later when my wife told me it was the actress from AMILE. She was wonderful in AMILE, but here she seemed uninteresting.
