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Monday, May 22, 2006

so dark the con of man

Yesterday, the house went to watch The Da Vinci Code. I have to say that this has got to be one of the most highly anticipated movie of the year, besides the coming X-Men 3: The Last Stand.


It was so freaking hard to get the tickets. There was a show at 3.40pm, thus we left the house at 2.40pm to get the tickets. Still we didn't manage to get them. The next show was at 6.30pm and we hurriedly bought them. Some of us continued walking around in the mall.

At 5.30pm, we went to the cinema hoping that we could enter and have a seat. But to our surprise, other people were already waiting, and we were not allowed to enter first. Someone triggered the kiasu-ism, and everyone just rushed forward to the ticket-guy to wait. We were allowed into the theatres area, but still had to queue. This was the first time I had to do so in the many times I catched at movie at this cinema.

It was just madness. At this point, I have to mention that the reason why everyone is so on the edge, is because it's free-seating in here. So everyone just wants a better seat. This kind of happened when I watched HP & TGOF; we resorted to sitting at the very front row. Anyway, we got good seats this time..

Now on to the show.. TDVC wasn't a bad show, nor was it a super awesome show. There were some scenes in the movie that wasn't in the book; two very obvious ones that I caught, while some other subtle changes. But still, it managed to have some humour in this whole fictional Christianity-related plot. The bad reviews from others must have been due to two reason:
1) Backlashing from the group of people related, or
2) Under-appreciation due to lack of understanding of the plot, since there are flashbacks and complicating explanations of the events by actors and actresses that either have French or British accents.

From the start, it was like a wild rollercoaster ride. Very quick-paced and exciting. The acting by Tom Hanks as damed symbologist Robert Langdon, Audrey Tautou as police cryptologist Sophie Neveu, and especially Ian McKellen as the Holy Grail fanatic Sir Leigh Teabing, fitted the movie. Action-&-Adventure movies aren't usually about the acting, right?

I was a teeny bit disappointed with the show, but I know it is hard to script a book into a movie, especially one that requires so much understanding, explanation, and images to support it. So, you either embrace it, or hate it.