good times!

Check out this video. The man is hilarious.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=827006316&n=2

The Da Vinci Code

So how is it really?

Well. It's a great read. Not the greatest by any means. There are much better books out there (including 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time', which is Fantastic) but it makes for a very entertaining couple of evenings or mornings or whenever you happen to do your reading. What could be better than the image conjoured up by a car chase through Paris in a SmartCar? And of course, it's all true because it's in a painting. yes yes. Leonardo kind of implied it centuries later so it must be true.

For more information, refer to the article here: http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/newsletter/2003/nov7.html

So what about the film? Well, it's laughably bad. The script contains lines that, in a book, just about hang, but on film they sound horrible, and in credit to it's stars, are undoubtably impossable to act. One of the key scenes in one of London's oldest library (from where we get the brilliant line; 'I need to find a library, and fast') is axed in favour of meeting some guy on the bus with a WAP phone. They missed out a whole criptex and a key charicter at the end, some of the books most enjoyable moments (particularly the altarboy scene in temple church) and all compassion for silas are lost, along with some other charicter development, with the misplaced and badly done flashbacks. The flashback of them getting off the plane, whilst good in the book, dosn't work on film and the reveal of the bad guy is drawn out and for me, just didn't work.

On the other hand, the camerawork is fantastic, and the music was very good. One of the worst bits of the book involving a mirror and some backwards writing was cut down to more sensible length, but these do little to salvage a film that should have been a lot better.