Not as Bad as the Critics Led Me to Believe

[BigDun]

I'm watching The DaVinci Code and it's not so bad. Plus there is plenty of naked, self flagellating, albino scenes. How can you go wrong?

[Jessie]

I still haven't seen it.

Right now, at my house, Thank You for Smoking, The Killing Fields, and A Boy and his Dog are all sitting there, waiting for me to come watch them. Instead, I'm sitting at my brother's house, installing XP on a computer that he completely fucked up, stealing wireless from someone (thanks to swolt <3<3<3<3).

[VikingJuice]

I still haven't seen it.

Right now, at my house, Thank You for Smoking, The Killing Fields, and A Boy and his Dog are all sitting there, waiting for me to come watch them. Instead, I'm sitting at my brother's house, installing XP on a computer that he completely fucked up, stealing wireless from someone (thanks to swolt <3<3<3<3).

DaVinci Code was full of bogus history.  For example, a couple of the groups used to link "facts" to the case didn't even live in the same time period(500 years apart)  yet are "believed" to have conspired together.

Thank you for Smoking was funny and satyrical but very uneven.  There'll be really slow parts sandwhiched in between scenes that will almost make you wet yourself.

Killing Fields was good, but it's been so long, I have no comment other than it was really good and very serious.

A Boy and His Dog, Beefy and I rented that way back in college but we never got around to watching it.  It was one of those nights where you ambitiously leave the video store with 4 or 5 movies and only watch 2 or 3.

[Gamplayerx]

The Killing Fields is a great movie - but long and intense and not a whole lot of fun.  The DaVinci Code movie was more entertaining than the book - I expect movies to tie things up in nice packages - the book just gave up.

[Beefy]

I just watched that all the way through the other night.  It has some interesting and intriguing ideas.  Movies that wrap mysteries in with our past usually do.  I can understand why the book was popular, for the same reasons that National Treasure was popular.

But here's the thing - why was the pacing so lackadaisical?  Why was the acting so indifferent?  Where was the Ron Howard who directed A Beautiful Mind?  Where was the Tom Hanks who starred in Cast Away?  The movie was lifeless when it should have been alive and pulsating.

I can understand why people took issue with it.

[ReBurn]

Because it made baby Jesus cry?

[Alice]

I Thank You for Smoking.

[Jessie]

I Thank You for Smoking.

I thought it was ok, but not nearly what I expected. 

[Bennyhana]

I Thank You for Smoking.

I thought it was ok, but not nearly what I expected. 

What did you expect, and how did it differ?

[Jessie]

I Thank You for Smoking.

I thought it was ok, but not nearly what I expected. 

What did you expect, and how did it differ?

I expected it to be funnier than it was.

The Killing Fields was good, except the cheesy 80s horror music.