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oh no it's davinci code week

Huntster, there is a big difference between seeing something obvious about the way that you are thinking based on your posts, and claiming a paranormal ability.

I don't have to be psychic to see that you will call someone a liar only because they have disagreed with you about god. Particularly when yanit's meaning was obvious. Ken's completely right - you called her a liar because she disagrees with you about god.

Or are you claiming that the sarcasm wasn't obvious?
 
slingblade said:
I would think it'd be a good idea for Christ to have been married and have had a child or three or whatever. If God's going to come to Earth to be human and share the experience, shouldn't he get the deluxe package? Don't you miss a lot of the human experience without at least falling in love? I guess you could give the whole kid thing a miss, but love...you gotta know love or you just aren't people.

IMO, of course.

If I were Christian, I'd want my god to have a taste of all the big things down here, at the least. So I can't figure out why the possibility or suggestion of Jesus being married is a problem to start with. That is what's irritating some people, isn't it? The suggestion Jesus might have "done it?" If so, that's kind of sad.
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And that is the real threat represented by the book. It shows that belief in Christianity has fallen in the US to the point that you can write a mega-bestseller by asking "wouldn't it be cool if God were a bit more...normal?" Of course, you have to wrap it in some good, but easy to understand, writing, and throw in some car chases, but that's what the book is about.
 
Well...according to the receipts...

The Passion took in just under $84 million in it's first 3 day weekend. Add 4 million to that to adjust to today's dollars...and another 4 million because there are more people in the country today than there were 2 years ago. :) That's 92 million dollars.

The Da Vinci Code took in $77 million dollars in it's first weekend, forgetting the adjustments the Passion did a little better....with the adjustments the Passion did about 15 percent better.

But the Da Vinci Code has made an absolute killing in Europe. Which is to be expected, as the typical European Christian is less religious, doesn't attend church, more skeptical and cynical about dogma/faith.

But anyways, the Da Vinci Code did significantly better in this country than I thought. I do think it won't have the staying power of the Passion, which grossed a total of $370 million in its run. Da Vinci code...maybe between 200 and 250 million? But it'll get 3 times that in the rest of the world.

-Elliot
 
elliotfc said:
But anyways, the Da Vinci Code did significantly better in this country than I thought. I do think it won't have the staying power of the Passion, which grossed a total of $370 million in its run. Da Vinci code...maybe between 200 and 250 million? But it'll get 3 times that in the rest of the world.

-Elliot
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I wouldn't count on it. Reports are that the DVC is a real barker. There was a letter in today's paper saying that three quarters of the way through the movie the audience were all praying ... for it to end.

Perhaps the good initial business was due to the excellent publicity supplied to it by the Christian churches.
 
Robin said:
I wouldn't count on it. Reports are that the DVC is a real barker. There was a letter in today's paper saying that three quarters of the way through the movie the audience were all praying ... for it to end.

Perhaps the good initial business was due to the excellent publicity supplied to it by the Christian churches.
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imdb.com gives it a 6.0 rating...33% of voters give it a 10, 16% a 1....

Doing the math...I'll exclude all of the 10s, and all of the 1s...
We're up to a 6.4? That doesn't make sense...
Oh wait...the imdb.com rating doesn't match up with their calculated arithmeitc mean...da fug?

Well, anyways, 6.0 rating is pretty decent for a movie. Night of the Comet has a 6.0 rating and that movie is fookin amazing!

From what I've been told by people who've seen it, the dialogue is painful at times, and the movie is too damn long, but you can say that for most of the movies that are released these days!

-Elliot
 
Rotten Tomatoes gives it a score of 22%, meaning that out of 160 reviews, only 35 were positive. Of the "Cream of the Crop" reviews, those in major publications, the rating was only 9%. The average rating was 4.8/10 meaning that individual scores of reviews were normalized to ten and averaged, for example, a reviewer who used a five star system would have given it two and-a-half stars.

So it would be fair to say that it is almost universally regarded is an average to below average movie. Quite a disappointment for the viewer who expected better with all the things going for it, but not as bad for the studio who mostly cares about dollars. But these days, the real measure of a movie's profitability comes when it is released for sales and rentals, and that is where the substandard reviews, both by newspapers and word of mouth, will really kill DVC.
 
Well I actually saw it last night. I have to say it wasn't bad. Of course, I had the benefit of not having read the book, so all the plot twists caught me by surprise. Well, that is actually not true. One thing I noticed was that it was very predictable, at least as to who was a good guy and who was a bad guy. Yes, the holes in the plot were big enough to drive an armored car through, but it was exciting enough.
The most stupid hole was this one.
Sophie was supposedly the last descendant of Jesus, yet she had a grandmother and presumably other family. The thing about descendants is that they tend to increase over time. And of course, if they were trying to kill all the descendants and they knew Sophie was a descendant, how did her grandmother manage to be alive? Was Sophie her only surviving grandchild? She had no nieces or cousins or anything else? They'd all be descendants of Jesus too.

I'd give it three to three and a half out of five stars.
 
Roboramma said:
Huntster, there is a big difference between seeing something obvious about the way that you are thinking based on your posts, and claiming a paranormal ability.

I don't have to be psychic to see that you will call someone a liar only because they have disagreed with you about god.
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That's correct. You'd have to be reading things into my intent and statements.

...Particularly when yanit's meaning was obvious. Ken's completely right - you called her a liar because she disagrees with you about god.
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Nope. I returned sarcasm and venom:

Originally Posted by yanit :
Oh right, I forgot; religious zealots don't recognise sarcasm because they take everything literally. Whoops.
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Yeah. I forgot, too; anti-religious zealots can't speak anything close to truth/accuracy, because everything they utter is a lie or sarcasm.

Whoops..........
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...Or are you claiming that the sarcasm wasn't obvious?
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I was hoping the sarcasm was painfully obvious.
 
Da Vinci Code is probably more entertaining than the fiction it's based on. The bible is rather boring.
 
Tricky said:
I'd give it three to three and a half out of five stars.
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I disagree. I thought it was pretty good, but on the whole, extremely watered down (except for silas).

First of all, if this plot were real, why would everyone involved be incompetent old men and housewives? Did you see the members of the priory? WTF. I would expect two armies of combat and espionage experts to be warring with each other, not a lone insane albino versus a bunch of geriatrics.

Second, the soundtrack is awesome (expected, since it was done by the demi-god Hans Zimmer). However, why on earth is there a movie with a Hans Zimmer soundtrack that doesn't involve serious danger, action, and ass-kicking? Somehow we went from the likes of "Broken Arrow," "Crimson Tide," "Last Samurai," and "Batman Begins" to "the Davinci Code."

Joey Cusack was in the wrong movie -- lets take him out of "A History of Violence" and give him to the priory of scion as a bodyguard for the guardians. Then we would be talking a decent movie.
 
thaiboxerken said:
Da Vinci Code is probably more entertaining than the fiction it's based on. The bible is rather boring.
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I disagree. If you made a move based on the bible with a Hans Zimmer soundtrack and good stunt actors, it would be pretty sweet. And of course, god would need to be played by Ian McClellan, since god is pretty much a blend of gandalf and magneto anyway.
 
thaiboxerken said:
Da Vinci Code is probably more entertaining than the fiction it's based on. The bible is rather boring.
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I think your book review is lacking.

The Bible is the most amazing collection of stories I've ever read. I especially enjoy the "Books of Wisdom".

You might try to read these books independent of the others. Maybe you'll get a clue.
 
Huntster said:
The Bible is the most amazing collection of stories I've ever read. I especially enjoy the "Books of Wisdom".
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Hunster you contradict yourself, who claims to not be interested in fiction...

I think if you read MORE fiction instead of limiting yourself to your Holy Bible, you would find much better collections (and stories with much more moral themes, btw).
 
Huntster said:
Almost another sig line there, partner.
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I am always more right than your god. Heck, your god can't even answer simple questions. Hell, I'm stronger than your god. Your god can't even lift an ounce. I'm more powerful than your god. Your god is a weak and pathetic being, your god is a coward.
 
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