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Religious trash
May. 21st, 2006 09:34 pmAgainst my better judgement, I went to see that hyped-up Dan Brown movie today. Well, I'd not used my Unlimited card for a while and needed to get my money's worth...
My overriding impression was: Is that it? Is that really what all the fuss is about?
It's supposedly a really close adaptation, but I can't say it's exactly inspired me to go and read the book. A bunch of recycled old religious conspiracy theories I've heard a dozen times before, and "twists" so insultingly obvious and clichéd I felt like groaning.
It was like Ron Howard took the detective bits from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, chucked out all the tanks and planes and Nazis and chase sequences and other cool stuff, then stretched out what was left to an agonisingly insipid 2½ hours. Dull, dull, dull, dull, dull.
I'm glad I went to see Silent Hill as well, which at least had the decency to:
a) come up with some new ways of doing old clichés; and
b) not be shit (despite being based on a video game).
It managed to make more or less the same points about religious subjugation and church-sanctioned murder as Da Vinci Code, only it made them far more succinctly. And it had the added bonuses of shambling hordes of the undead and a barbed-wire wielding demon! Nasty :o)
My overriding impression was: Is that it? Is that really what all the fuss is about?
It's supposedly a really close adaptation, but I can't say it's exactly inspired me to go and read the book. A bunch of recycled old religious conspiracy theories I've heard a dozen times before, and "twists" so insultingly obvious and clichéd I felt like groaning.
It was like Ron Howard took the detective bits from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, chucked out all the tanks and planes and Nazis and chase sequences and other cool stuff, then stretched out what was left to an agonisingly insipid 2½ hours. Dull, dull, dull, dull, dull.
I'm glad I went to see Silent Hill as well, which at least had the decency to:
a) come up with some new ways of doing old clichés; and
b) not be shit (despite being based on a video game).
It managed to make more or less the same points about religious subjugation and church-sanctioned murder as Da Vinci Code, only it made them far more succinctly. And it had the added bonuses of shambling hordes of the undead and a barbed-wire wielding demon! Nasty :o)
