Posted by P Pron on 10/22/06 00:49

mo wrote:
|| "Rolo Tomassi" <abc@defgco.kr> wrote in message
|| news:mTw_g.39423$r61.275@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
||| Bob Adams wrote:
|||| I've just watched the dvd of the Da Vinci Code and as a fan of the
|||| book I have to say that both Ron Howard and Tom Hanks have managed
|||| to totally destroy one of the greatest books of the 21st century.
|||| If it was possible to totally miss the point of the most obvious
|||| plot changes of this story more than this couple did, then I do
|||| not wish to ever view the result the winning output.
||||
|||| Discuss.
||||
|||| PS. Do not purchase this DVD!
|||
||| I found Angels and Demons to be more engrossing although I did find
||| DaVinci un-put-downable. Thought the film was always going to
||| dissappoint and I wasn't wrong.
|||
||| Rolo
|||
||
|| A and D and Da Vinci are very similar IMO.
||
|| Da Vinci was always going to be a disappointment - it needed to be a
|| 5 hour film to be thorough - Howard didn't even make it interesting
|| at 2 hours. I probably would have found it more interesting if I
|| didn't know what was gonna happen mind!

I enjoyed the book, but I think Gareth's reply is the best reaction to the
notion that it is one of the greatest of the last six years... I don't think
it qualifies, even by weight...

Just about everything is wrong with the movie, IMO.

I never thought Tom Hanks should have been cast, but had high hopes of
Audrey Tautou, who should have been ideal. As it turned out, they were both
completely bland. And the movie was both too short and too long - condensed
so as to be virtually incomprehensible to anyone who wasn't throughly
familiar with the book, but still as boring as hell, with those weird
holodeck-style SFX that were supposed to illustrate Hanks puzzling out the
clues. It was almost like watching a presentation of highlights of the real
movie.

I think a friend of mine had the best idea when they announced the casting -
she wanted Mark Harmon (Chicago Hope), in a three-evening Hallmark
miniseries. I think he would have been good - although I would still give
Audrey Tautou a chance - so long as she promised to pretend she was playing
Amelie....

What will they do with A & D?
paul

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