Thursday, May 25, 2006

Are you there God? It's me, Tom

How embarrassing is it that Ron Howard and Tom Hanks -- arguably two of the best in the game at their positions -- got together and managed to turn such a popular novel into such an awful movie?

The da Vinci Code currently sits at 23% on RottenTomatoes.com. For comparison's sake, the next three higher-rated movies are R.V., Hoot, and Phat Girlz.

Now I haven't actually seen the movie yet, so maybe I'm not fit to judge. But the consensus seems to be that the movie is just blah, so it probably wouldn't even be worth watching for the sake of ridicule.

Or is this actually a big conspiracy by the Catholic Church to downplay the movie so that no one goes to see it? Someone else go see it and let me know. If they'll let you....

2 comments:

Patterson said...

All I know dude, is that XMen III was okay, not great. Brett Ratner really blows, it missed Bryan Singer's penchant for character development, which was the real reason why the previous two scripts worked.

Andy said...

Yup, sounds about right. Well, Singer better kick ass with Superman to make up for dissing X-Men.