lianne-I've been carrying around Angels & Demons with me for weeks--still hoping to have time to read again.
The movie was good and I had no idea it lasted for hours.) I did, however, feel like the previews lasted for hours.
Re: the 2-minute trailer for "World Trade Center:"
TOO SOON!!!!!
I had tears rolling down my face from the very beginning and I relived every horrible moment of how I was feeling on September 11: Shock, Horror, Fear and devasting pain over all those lives lost in an instant of insanity and how it feels to have your 13-year-old son look up at you and ask, "Mom, will I have to go to war?"--And I was across the continent.
Here's my take on the poor reviews for Da Vinci Code:
This is a good movie. Even when you know what's going to happen next. The problem is really that it was over-hyped. Because the book was such a phenomenon, people expected the blockbuster book to be a mega-blockbuster movie. Didn't happen.
Ian McKellan is so overused I didn't see him as Teabing, but as McKellan playing Teabing. I kept wondering "What happened to Gandolf. When did he turn so bad?" And I half expected him to add "sexual orientation" when he started on the list of minorities who would be "saved" by the revelation of "the secret."
Tom Hanks--maybe because I haven't seen him for awhile--was Langdon, not Tom.
But the other character whom I had a problem with was Alfred Molina. His role as Aringosa was well played, but it was too close to another role he played of a man obsessed, possessed and a little too strident in the name of his religion.
I kept thinking I was watching "Chocolat" all over again too and was looking for a glimpse of the beautiful Johnny Depp.
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lianne-I've been carrying around Angels & Demons with me for weeks--still hoping to have time to read again.
The movie was good and I had no idea it lasted for hours.) I did, however, feel like the previews lasted for hours.
Re: the 2-minute trailer for "World Trade Center:"
TOO SOON!!!!!
I had tears rolling down my face from the very beginning and I relived every horrible moment of how I was feeling on September 11: Shock, Horror, Fear and devasting pain over all those lives lost in an instant of insanity and how it feels to have your 13-year-old son look up at you and ask, "Mom, will I have to go to war?"--And I was across the continent.
Here's my take on the poor reviews for Da Vinci Code:
This is a good movie. Even when you know what's going to happen next. The problem is really that it was over-hyped. Because the book was such a phenomenon, people expected the blockbuster book to be a mega-blockbuster movie. Didn't happen.
But it was still a good movie.
Oh and there's this:
Ian McKellan is so overused I didn't see him as Teabing, but as McKellan playing Teabing. I kept wondering "What happened to Gandolf. When did he turn so bad?" And I half expected him to add "sexual orientation" when he started on the list of minorities who would be "saved" by the revelation of "the secret."
Tom Hanks--maybe because I haven't seen him for awhile--was Langdon, not Tom.
But the other character whom I had a problem with was Alfred Molina. His role as Aringosa was well played, but it was too close to another role he played of a man obsessed, possessed and a little too strident in the name of his religion.
I kept thinking I was watching "Chocolat" all over again too and was looking for a glimpse of the beautiful Johnny Depp.
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