Louve it or hate it?
I went to see The Da Vinci Code last night and I got to tell ya the movie's biggest mistake was it's director. I found the bad direction the hardest part of the movie. I think the story holds up, even with all the exposition.
My biggest complaint would be how unbalanced the film is. Weird shots of people in mirrors then the camera swings around the subject to reveal there location. Fast cuts between people talking. You know it reminded me of John Carpenter. Who once said, the hardest thing about movie making was trying to "make...people standing around talking interesting." You have at any one time 3 people standing around talking to each other in The Da Vinci Code. What I don't understand is, the topics they are talking about, art, religion, myth and history, is coming at you so fast you need to stay focused to keep with the story. The direction doesn't support that.
In other words, the story was interesting but the director kept distracting me with his directing!
Ian Mckellen was wonderful and I liked Tom Hanks portrayal of Proff. Robert Langdon. I thought he found some good character in a poorly written character for the screen. Audrey Tautou has big eyes and has more to do by the end of the film. Unfortunately for her she has to suffer through ALOT of bad dialogue. I really disliked Paul Bettany as Silas. He was to broad for me. The character was blank to me and I really hated seeing the contacts in his eyes. But that was not his fault. I give the movie a B-
I loved Over the Hedge. All the actors in it made me laugh and I tell you the golden boy of Hollywood right now is Steve Carell. He makes everything he touches good. In Over the Hedge he plays the amped up rodent named Hammy. The character steels the movie for me. The film has a lot of "kid humor" and some of the support characters are written with some obvious jokes but for the most part Carell and Garry Shandling who plays Verne hold the film together. Bruce Willis as RJ is good just...well, Eh. It's Bruce not the film that I don't like in this particular instance. I give it an A-
Finally, for all you Star Trek fans Paramount is selling is all. They are holding a huge auction and getting rid of everything Star Trek. Kinda like what you mom did when you went to college. Read the whole story here. You can find the auction here.
My biggest complaint would be how unbalanced the film is. Weird shots of people in mirrors then the camera swings around the subject to reveal there location. Fast cuts between people talking. You know it reminded me of John Carpenter. Who once said, the hardest thing about movie making was trying to "make...people standing around talking interesting." You have at any one time 3 people standing around talking to each other in The Da Vinci Code. What I don't understand is, the topics they are talking about, art, religion, myth and history, is coming at you so fast you need to stay focused to keep with the story. The direction doesn't support that.
In other words, the story was interesting but the director kept distracting me with his directing!
Ian Mckellen was wonderful and I liked Tom Hanks portrayal of Proff. Robert Langdon. I thought he found some good character in a poorly written character for the screen. Audrey Tautou has big eyes and has more to do by the end of the film. Unfortunately for her she has to suffer through ALOT of bad dialogue. I really disliked Paul Bettany as Silas. He was to broad for me. The character was blank to me and I really hated seeing the contacts in his eyes. But that was not his fault. I give the movie a B-
I loved Over the Hedge. All the actors in it made me laugh and I tell you the golden boy of Hollywood right now is Steve Carell. He makes everything he touches good. In Over the Hedge he plays the amped up rodent named Hammy. The character steels the movie for me. The film has a lot of "kid humor" and some of the support characters are written with some obvious jokes but for the most part Carell and Garry Shandling who plays Verne hold the film together. Bruce Willis as RJ is good just...well, Eh. It's Bruce not the film that I don't like in this particular instance. I give it an A-
Finally, for all you Star Trek fans Paramount is selling is all. They are holding a huge auction and getting rid of everything Star Trek. Kinda like what you mom did when you went to college. Read the whole story here. You can find the auction here.
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