Looks Like We Can Forget the Oscar Nominations. . .
. . . for The Da Vinci Code. The consensus: too long, laughably pretentious and boring. Even critcics who made no secret of their disdain for Christianity and the Catholic Church in particular didn’t like the film (Check out Richard Corliss’ review in Time, or Owen Gleiberman’s review for Entertainment Weekly here). And audiences are no happier — a 6.2 rating on imdb.com. Keep in mind that open-night audiences are usually the ones most eager to see a film: in this case, that would be all the fans of the book. Happily, while we can probably still expect a huge opening weekend, the movie won’t be around long. The influence of the book, unfortunately, may go on and on.
I’m off very shortly to join the “Othercott” brigade with a friend, at the AMC theater in Times Square. We’re going to see the very well-reviewed Over the Hedge. (Saturday afternoon and a family film? Bound to be huge crowds). It will be interesting to find out how many other people are there for the same purpose we are. Whatever happens, we’ll probably have a much better time than the people suffering through the DVC.
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