'Potential'
A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
How *is* The Da Vinci code? From hearing vague rumblings about the book, I get a feeling it's a slick piece of pretentious BS, but if it's a fun, readable BS, I may give it a try, just to see what all the brouhaha is about.
The snippets I managed to read were poorly-written crap. Like the worst sort of Mary Sue Story for Boys.
I get worried when all of my non-reader friends (the ones who won't read a book for years, then hand me Tuesdays with Morrie because it's sooooo good) not only have read The DaVinci Code but own it, and proclaim it the bestest book EVAH.
That said, it could be good but I haven't read it yet.
If you must read Dan Brown, read Angels and Demons. It is the first Robert Langdon story and "better" than The DaVinci Code. It kept me occupied flying home from Rhode Island.
The DaVinci Code reads as if it was written by someone who read way too many "How to Be a Best-Selling Author!" books.
Heh. So, the consensus is... hell, no?
'S OK. It's not as if my to-read-pile wasn't already approximating the dimension of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
The Parent Trap remake with Lindsay Lohan was much more fun and charming than the Freaky Friday remake, I thought. And yeah, I agree with P-C (I think he said it) that LL was a better "adult" than teen. And JLC was hilarious. But for a movie that was really quite short, it seemed to take a long time to get started...(my sister and I watched it off netflix on Monday)
Freaky Friday made a great plane movie, though. Much better than that awful movie with Sharon Stone and Dennis Quaid that was so boring I've forgotten the name of it...Cold Creek Manor. For a movie that was supposed to be suspenseful and mysterious, it completely lacked suspense or mystery.
Nova, I just now realised I put in the title of the wrong movie. Somehow I missed your post also correcting the award name.
What I meant to say -- JLC good, not great, LL really well done, still not great.
See, I've heard all about how badly written The Da Vinci Code is, but that's criticism of the prose. It could still make a fun movie, right?
No, the plot's dumb too. There's no characterisation, the conflicts are hackneyed, and the solutions not challenging.