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OT: It's a BUST guys: DA VINCI
rtprod:
--- Quote from: vkm91941 on May 18, 2006, 12:51:35 pm ---NO disrespect intended rt but I rarely agree with critics...you say plodding, overlong, convoluted, unintentionally funny, self-important and boring.
Well this E*X*A*C*T*L*Y how I reacted to the book so sounds to me like Ron Howard and company did a bang up job with the material....what more can you ask. ::shrugs:: Rarely do books translate well to film unless there is an excellent screen writer. The HP series does it pretty well as does most of the Gresham novels but most disappoint mightly.
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Hi Vic,
I would have expected from screenwriter Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind) that this would have become exciting, inviting or engrossing -- not so. There is zero chemistry between the stars to carry the endless amounts of exposition which sound as if they are read, read, read for the film's first unbearable hour...
rt
Kelda:
--- Quote from: christopher_SLAYERS on May 18, 2006, 11:09:09 am ---See and I enjoyed it....it was a little slow at times I thought and VERY self important as you said but all in all I liked it...
But I also have a bit of a bias because of Tom Hanks/Ron Howard
I personally recommend....but then I'm not a critic so what do I know?
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How come you've seen it Chris? I thought it was out everywhere on Friday?
slayers_creek_oth:
--- Quote from: rtprod on May 18, 2006, 01:04:36 pm ---Hi Vic,
I would have expected from screenwriter Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind) that this would have become exciting, inviting or engrossing -- not so. There is zero chemistry between the stars to carry the endless amounts of exposition which sound as if they are read, read, read for the film's first unbearable hour...
rt
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Well I agree with the no chemistry thing......but to me it definetely wasn't enough to 'skip' the movie....
vkm91941:
Well honey, it seems pretty obivious that even an experience and capable screenwriter like Akiva Goldsman could not turn this sows ear into a silk purse. Especially hard when the source material is so convoluted and overly self important yet detailed enough that you must have all the back story to make any sense at all of the plot. I felt the same way about the Andrew Birkin screenplay of the Umberto Eco novel The Name of the Rose.
slayers_creek_oth:
--- Quote from: kelda_shelton on May 18, 2006, 01:12:51 pm ---How come you've seen it Chris? I thought it was out everywhere on Friday?
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I had to screen it this morning for work.....
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