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[nausicaa83]

Just came back from seeing the Da Vinci Code, and it's almost 1 am, so I'll be brief: I LIKED IT! I can't believe I actually said that, but I did! The first part was boring, but since when Ian McKellen appeared, it was really really good! All that fake-historical crap I couldn't stand in the book was cut and polished, and even all those idiocies that were left were perfectly acceptable in a movie (as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, for example. You could never stand it in a book, but as a movie it's great!). The cast was obviously perfect, and bonus points for Paul Bettany (oh-my-gawd I was moved, oh-my-gawd look at me with those beautiful blue eyes too!) and Ian McKellen, all his perfomance had all this tongue-in-cheek feeling, as if he was playing in secret with the audience, and it was great to see how everyone was immediately captivated by him, we didn't miss a second, a frown, a smile, everyone was just looking at him. Great! Audrey was lovely, and she even looked believable (in the book, I just wanted to slap her and Robert for being two fat idiots). And Tom Hanks was a great Robert Langdon, he even looked... smart! The real Robert Langdon is a pure idiot (a seven-year-old could arrive at Mary's grave years before him), but Tom made him look believable too. Good job! It's true the dialogues didn't sound at all as real dialogues (I mean, real history professor would never say all that bullshit, using those words, and quoting those "historical" facts), but as a movie, and an adventure movie, you could buy it. Even the Last Dinner part was good (oh my, I just saw Tom Hanks and Ian McKellen in the same scene! I can die happy). And last but not least, Jean Reno. Wow. He took the most useless character ever written, and gave him personality. Hats off. Oh, and let's not forget another important character: Hans Zimmer's soundtrack. It was so powerfully blended in the scenes, it was another character of the movie!

Er, in the end I wasn't brief at all. But after all this is the first time I think a book is crap and the movie is good. So let's celebrate with a good 8/10 for Ron Howard and his movie! ;)

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[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

I thought it did drag in every spot, and I found it so boring because it always took me 20 seconds to get the answers to all the puzzles, while the main character, who's supposed to be a professor, took 3 chapters each. Luckly in the movie they cut the most embarassing ones, as Robert and the Master taking four pages to recognize Leonardo's backwards writing, while mistaking it for... hebrew writing?? What?? They also keep one magic cilinder, cause more than one was really too much to handle. Anyway, besides that, it was really funny, and full of suspence and great actors, so don't miss it! I hope you'll be able to see it in a cinema, because it's so beautiful to see on the big screen (dark lights, such an interesting cinematography...).