In the Little Italy neighborhood here on Friday nights in July and August one of the restaurants uses it's parking lot and surround streets as an outdoor theatre. They have a projection screen on the side of the wall it uses to screen the movies. It's free, and they give free pop corn and you can bring your own food and beverages. Last night was The Da Vinci code.
I guess to give it a true review I would say in it's self it was probably an ok to good movie. The content of it is just not my cup of tea. I don't believe in the theory of Jesus and Mary Madgelane being married and having a child. The movie was at times confusing and hard to follow. Just like GF3 you flip flopped thinking who was good and evil. If the albino man was the good character after all that then that's just sad..haha. Was Sophie the holy grail, or the tomb Tom Hanks "discovers" at the end? It was also quit long. Just when you thought it was over another twist pops up. It was an enjoyable night in that we were veiwing outside in a nice setting. Sitting in a movie theatre and paying $10.00 to see it might have been different.
My problem with THE DA VINCI CODE, among other things, was:
(1) Ron Howard coasting. He knew he could shoot with the flair of a polaroid camera and still make hundreds of millions of bucks. Power to him I guess, loss of power to us.
(2) I never liked the whole concept of the Catholic Church or Opus Dei or whoever the fuck it was, that tried to kill Hanks and the girl.
Beth, tell me this girl. If some guy with a bad mullet told you that Jesus was married and had a kid, and that descendent IS the Holy Grail.....what would you do?
You wouldn't believe it. In fact, I can tell you right now, that the vast majority of the Catholic faithful wouldn't believe it either. With their power in their faith, they would tell Hanks to bugger off.
In other words, why would the Church be worried? They can call Hanks and the woman a pair of lunatics...and the faithful would follow.
