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Originally Posted by Gn2Dlnd
If you're in this movie, don't touch Richard Dreyfuss' ankle. It is a mindless killing machine.
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Well, darn it, now I'm curious...
We saw 'Da Vinci' last night. I liked it. Not a lot, but I liked it. I certainly didn't hate it.
The pacing was a little slow in places (especially towards the end) but I thought it was a good adaptation of the book. This is going to sound weird but like 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' everything in this movie was exactly how I pictured it in my mind. (Except for Tom Hanks. I was picturing Russell Crowe.) Paul Bettany was cool. He was one hot albino monk.
There was a scene where Tom Hanks and Ian McKellan are arguing about grail lore and I totally didn't buy Hanks in that scene. He seemed too sheepish compared to Sir Ian, he needed to up his character's status a little.
Needless to say, I loved my Ian in this film. He's such a great actor.
I'm not sure why it got slammed by the critics. I don't think it deserved the 16% it got on rottentomatoes.com.
During our showing there were no protesters.
Boxofficemojo.com said that 'DVC' made 30 mil on Friday. That's really good. I think this movie is going to do well. It may drop off next weekend with 'X-men 3' coming out, but I don't think that it'll be considered a bomb at all.
As a side note to my customer service issues with AMC, when we used our coupons for the free small items at the concession stand, the person behind the counter misread the coupons. The coupons stated that you could use these tickets towards credit for a large. She ended up giving us large items without asking us for the difference in cash. Even after we corrected her, she still said we were wrong. So we took the items without much protest. So, cashier incompetence does pay off in the customer's favor every now and then.
