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'Duh' Vinci Code
Bitched on: Thursday, May 18, 2006
Time: 5/18/2006 09:47:00 PM
To those big fans of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, save the trouble of leaving your house to watch the movie version.Time: 5/18/2006 09:47:00 PM
Instead I suggest you snuggle up in bed and read the book again.
Here's my verdict of the movie I have been waiting for years (yes years, ever since I first fell in love with the book, I knew they had to make a movie).
It was disappointingly rushed.
A lot of the nice informative bits from the book (like flashbacks from Robert Langdon's class about PHI and Amon Lisa) were not shown in the movie, sadly.
Not only that, many of the important conversations between the characters are missing.
So for Da Vinci Code Virgins like my friend Weiyong, its easy to get lost halfway in the movie.
I felt like I was just reading the summary on the back of the book cover instead of reading the contents.
Just 10 minutes into the movie, in comes Sophie Neveu.
10 minutes later, they are running across France.
The chemistry between Tom Hank's Langdon and Audrey Tautou's Sophie was hardly noticeable. It felt like there was no attraction at all.
To further add insult to injury, a lot of the other characters like Vernet, Collet and even Remy were not given their due recognition they so rightfully deserve in the movie.
The only character that I felt true to the book was Silas. He evoked both fear and pity in me. And he manages to scare the moviegoers not once but twice with his sudden entries. The two suckas I was seated between 'jumped' in their seats (and one of them was Weiyong... Lol).
Sir Ian Mckellen is a wonderful actor.
He was wonderfully convincing as the Grail-crazy British knight, Teabing.
But, there were some parts in the movie when I couldn't get the image of him as Magneto out of my mind... I was imagining him hovering with his crutches like what Magneto would do throughout the movie...
Churchgoers can rejoice cause there are major tweaks to Langdon's character. He is noticeably more religious (a Catholic, he says.... so unlike the book) and even argued with Teabing about the existance of the 'Holy Grail' at the Chateau Villette. You can tell that the movie is really trying hard to appease both the church and Dan Brown's fans.
However, the Bishop, Aringarosa, is somehow made more villainous in the movie than in the book. Strange...
Nevertheless, Dan Brown fans do not be disappointed cos somehow the movie stays true to book in many ways..
But my verdict, should you watch it?
Nah... read the book...
You won't miss much.
Here's something embarassing that happened to me that night after the preview screening of the movie.
Price for the two tickets to the movie: Free.
Queuing up in long snaking queue to go into the cinema theater, only to find it the wrong queue: Priceless
Taxi fare home after realising that there are no more trains that late: $15+++
Realising you only have $15 left and have to stop at a secluded bus stop in AYE expressway: Priceless
There are many things money can't buy, for everthing else, there's daddy...
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