Posted on 05/19/2006 6:28:58 PM PDT by rhema
Well, Bill Clinton was paying rapt attention, anyway.
Excellent review.
For this movie, I had a different noun in mind: soporific.
I am a conservative, practicing Catholic, and my wife and I plan to see the movie this weekend. My brother is a conservative Catholic priest, and he looks forward to seeing it. I enjoy fiction, in books and movies. That's what this is, as well as good, old fashioned entertainment. I suggest you stop taking life so seriously. Relax, it's, A MOVIE!! Everyone, see this movie!! It should be as much fun as the book!
The novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand was once asked why she primarily wrote fiction, instead of works of philosophy. Rand explained that it's far easier to convey ideas through fiction than non-fiction -- witness Dante's The Divine Comedy, witness Uncle Tom's Cabin, witness Ben-Hur, The Screwtape Letters and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Novels and films aren't footnoted. The author or screenwriter can create a thoroughly convincing universe that powerfully projects his message. From The Birth of a Nation and Triumph of The Will to Thelma and Louise and Brokeback Mountain, films have told us how to think about the world around us.
This is for all of the "It's only Fiction, get over it!" crowd out there.
I wouldn't doubt it. The aesthete in me is sort of pleased that a work of fiction, albeit one as trashy as this, is generating so much serious discussion about the effect that Art has on a culture. Maybe it will drive others to write their own pulp thrillers with a Biblical point of view. Something about the rapture perhaps and those who would be left behind...
If you are a practicing Catholic, why would you go see a movie that blasphemes our Lord?
My wife bought me the Angels and Demons audiobook for a long trip. It was putrid.
I didn't get past page 86 of The Da Vinci Code.
No more Dan Brown for me!
Yep. Thanks. I am taking my entire Catholic family. My kids loved the book. They know fact from fiction, at their young age. Apparently, some people never "get it."
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I glanced at The Da Vinci Code in a book store just to gauge the prose. I was duly confronted with setences like "She was so surprised that she made a call from her cellular phone." He's a terrible writer.
It's a turkey, actually, about 80 percent of whose reviews are redolent with adjectives like "ponderous, pompous, tendentious, laughable." Even the liberal Minneapolis Star Tribune critic panned it.
I do enjoy life so much that I'll probably see a film I can giggle about this weekend: Over the Hedge. Its lack of pretension will make it far more palatable than a snore-fest like Da Vinci Code.
Because I do not think that it blasphemes our Lord. That's it! Because you are so upset, I now plan to take my family and my kids, AND THEIR FRIENDS to the movie. All Catholic school kids. All exposed to the movie. THE HORROR!!
Oh geez, not this nonsense again....
Hey, I've got two words that will make Feder's head spin around...
HARRY POTTER
Thank you for posting that. I haven't read anything by Don Feder for far too long a time, and that was excellent. His assessment of "The Code" as a terrible piece of literature was spot on, but I particularly loved this line:
"This would be amusing, were it not so disgusting. Jews daily pray for the rebuilding of the Holy Temple. For what -- so men can "experience the divine" by getting a little nookie?"
Dante and Milton, move over.
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