What Movies Have You Seen Lately?

Quote: odiousgambit

I finally saw "The Da Vinci Code"

It's probably worth seeing, although I had a lot of problems with it, partly because I know people and how so many will want to believe the premise of the story is true.

The improbability of the premise is exceeded by the sheer impossibility that two [later 3] insufferable klutzes could pull off all those narrow escapes. There are many, many plot holes. 'Hated it' reviews at IMDB are good. And if you are unable to guess what the surprise ending was going to be by the halfway point or so of the movie, just hang it up and check in to the impaired brain division of your local nursing home!

Some of what it theorizes is total BS, like what the 'holy grail really was', and it was necessary to create dubious multiple secret societies. Other things are interesting to learn. Of the latter, in particular it has to be correct that Da Vinci was up to something with the way one of the disciples is depicted in his 'last supper'. I had never given it much thought, nor studied the painting to begin with, but the effeminate nature of the depiction of 'the beloved disciple' is quite striking once you focus on it. I have to believe it is quite possible Da Vinci bought in to the idea that one of the disciples was Mary Magdalene - and that he believed this had been suppressed. Perhaps alternativley Da Vinci thought the disciple was what is now called a transgendered person; that he did not intend to portray the disciple as so effeminate seems the least likely possibility.

The movie only deserves a short review, but lastly ...

the codex solution is just 'total fail'

Someone who's job is to get people to use good passwords would have appreciate the irony of the password to the Brown-invented 'codex'. 5 random letters of the 26 letters of the alphabet does give over 11 million possibilities, but as the aforementioned specialists could all tell you, this is largely defeated if you use real words, there being approximately 1 million in English and less if you remove archaic words, not to mention words with more or less than 5 letters, etc, probably getting down to some thousands of possibilities if you use common 5 letter words. So, yes, Tom Hanks does solve it - making a connection to Isaac Newton and of all things the canard that his study of gravity was inspired by a falling apple. The irony that an old canard that is rotting with ancient and common fabrication was used by the king of Dubious Theory, Brown, is irony indeed.' Apple' , quite guessable indeed for someone making a Newton connection, solves the codex. And I bet any password specialists who have seen it, all reflected, no doubt, that this is just exactly how it can happen.

Quote: ams288

Quote: odiousgambit

I finally saw "The Da Vinci Code"

It's probably worth seeing, although I had a lot of problems with it, partly because I know people and how so many will want to believe the premise of the story is true.

The improbability of the premise is exceeded by the sheer impossibility that two [later 3] insufferable klutzes could pull off all those narrow escapes. There are many, many plot holes. 'Hated it' reviews at IMDB are good. And if you are unable to guess what the surprise ending was going to be by the halfway point or so of the movie, just hang it up and check in to the impaired brain division of your local nursing home!

Some of what it theorizes is total BS, like what the 'holy grail really was', and it was necessary to create dubious multiple secret societies. Other things are interesting to learn. Of the latter, in particular it has to be correct that Da Vinci was up to something with the way one of the disciples is depicted in his 'last supper'. I had never given it much thought, nor studied the painting to begin with, but the effeminate nature of the depiction of 'the beloved disciple' is quite striking once you focus on it. I have to believe it is quite possible Da Vinci bought in to the idea that one of the disciples was Mary Magdalene - and that he believed this had been suppressed. Perhaps alternativley Da Vinci thought the disciple was what is now called a transgendered person; that he did not intend to portray the disciple as so effeminate seems the least likely possibility.

The movie only deserves a short review, but lastly ...

the codex solution is just 'total fail'

Someone who's job is to get people to use good passwords would have appreciate the irony of the password to the Brown-invented 'codex'. 5 random letters of the 26 letters of the alphabet does give over 11 million possibilities, but as the aforementioned specialists could all tell you, this is largely defeated if you use real words, there being approximately 1 million in English and less if you remove archaic words, not to mention words with more or less than 5 letters, etc, probably getting down to some thousands of possibilities if you use common 5 letter words. So, yes, Tom Hanks does solve it - making a connection to Isaac Newton and of all things the canard that his study of gravity was inspired by a falling apple. The irony that an old canard that is rotting with ancient and common fabrication was used by the king of Dubious Theory, Brown, is irony indeed.' Apple' , quite guessable indeed for someone making a Newton connection, solves the codex. And I bet any password specialists who have seen it, all reflected, no doubt, that this is just exactly how it can happen.

I worked at a movie theater when The Da Vinci Code came out.

I remember everyone really looking forward to it, and it was supposed to be this huge hit. Then it came out, and everyone was like "meh."

Opening night there were some weirdos who came to protest the movie. What a sad life one must live in order to feel compelled to protest a movie at a movie theater.

Quote: terapined

Its a much better book then movie
I loved the book
I was really looking forward to the movie
My reaction after watching the movie, "meh"

Quote: ams288

I agree. I liked the book. Although I liked Angels and Demons (book) better.

I remember really looking forward to reading The Lost Symbol, and then when I did read it, it was so awful.

Apparently the movie people agreed with me, because they skipped right over it and adapted Inferno instead.

Quote: odiousgambit

The improbability of the premise

Quote: Evenbob

This is Spielberg's new movie? Really?
What's it about, just more CG nonsense.

Quote: terapined

I see Phil Robertson is promoting a film
Torchbearer
"When man stops believing in God, he'll believe in anything."

Hmm.
Isn't that backwards
Not logical
god is make believe fantasy
shouldn't the film tagline be
When a man believes in god, he'll believe anything
There we go, fixed and logical :-)

Quote: ams288

I worked at a movie theater for 5 years during high school and college.

I hated when the religious movies came out - they always brought out the weirdos.

There would always be many women with long braided hair down to their butts and long long denim skirts. It was like an episode of Sister Wives.