Results tomorrow!

My NUS grades are coming out tomorrow and it totally blows. I mean, if I end up under probation, I'd just die. My mom'd definitely make me get a job and stuff. I hate working. :(

So someone said blogs should have reviews and such not speeches. But I still stand by Dr. Viggo's speech. That if you don't take an active role in politics or anything for that matter, you have no one to blame should you be governed by your inferiors. So I shall write a review on the last movie I caught. Which was Da Vinci Code with Flora.

First off, let me say how much the movie sucked. More so than the strongest industrial strength vacuum.

I'm a big fan of the "if you base your screenplay on something, don't make it crap" club. Brokeback Mountain was one such movie, it was easy for them because the story was so short. Pride and Prejudice couldn't compare because it sorely failed to live up to the TV version, not only due to the screenplay, but also weak acting. How Kiera got the Oscar's nom was beyond me. :| But the worst one was Mr. Darcy. No one can beat Colin Firth's Mr. Darcy :P Lord of the Rings didn't screw up not because of a great adaptation but because of good solid group acting and amazing CGI and of course eye candy :P You can like the gruffer filthier Dunedain or the more susceptible Boromir or the pretty elves, or cutesy hobbits, but there's something for everyone. Put it all together, I can almost forgive them for REMOVING MY FAVOURITE CHARACTERS FROM THE MOVIE. As you can see, I still have some issues. :P

So back to Da Vinci Code, from this point known as DVC. First off, I hate Tom Hanks. If it weren't Tom Hanks, I might forgive the film makers for some of it, but no, I can't. The only brightspot in the entire movie was Sir Ian the gay! :D Or Sir Ian McKellen a.k.a. Gandalf a.k.a. Magneto a.k.a. Sir Leigh Teabing. [no srsly, I call him that in a totally affectionate way because he's gay and an activist :P he supposedly even requested for a gay storyline for Magneto. apparently he was the only who read Marvel comics because the comics are so wrong. lol] His acting although great, couldn't save the show. Which was surprisingly ruined not by Tom Hanks, but by the writers.


*spoilers for the movie from hereon*


At first I thought the movie was being more controversial than the book, but then as the movie progressed, I realised that it was not so. The book never said who was wrong or right, it didn't point fingers at anyone. You could see that there was not one character who was truly evil or at fault. There was just different degrees of what you would do for what you believed in. For Sir Teabing, he believed in what he perceives as the truth and thinking the Priory betrayed the world at large, he took active steps to do what he thought the Priory was supposed to. Bishop Aringarosa was driven to desperation by the Vatican's choice to retract their support for the Opus Dei, took measures to try to save his religion. Silas's childhood marred his adulthood, his only friends the Bishop and his god. Not to say that any of it excuses murder, but it provides a reason for it. Nothing is ever clearcut in reality, but the movie tried to make it so, while the book acknowledges the blurry edges.

And that is essentially my main peeve with the movie. In trying to draw distinct lines, they demonised Bishop Aringarosa, Silas, Sir Teabing, Remy and the whole Council of Shadows. WTF was with that?! They're all just people who were driven by circumstances. I believe that everyone is essentially capable of murder. But most of us just never have to face circumstances which fling us head first into situations where we face morally challenging questions. And then they made Robert Langdon a hero way smarter than he was. This part I hate because of Tom Hanks. I mean, if it were someone else, I might not have minded as much. He never had eidetic memory, and Sophie was the one who figured out the "so dark the con of man" was an anagram. Or something. I quote from memory that she said "I missed the first 2, I wasn't about to miss this one"

And when Robert Langdon argued so heatedly with Sir Leigh Teabing I almost screamed oh for gods sake someone stick a sock in his mouth.

Also, the cinematography was bad, I mean, hello? the whole lights flaring fade off into random bits of the past? eew? the whole Silas's memory bit was like overexposure-city. Although young Silas is so cute. Can't say the same for Paul Bettany. Also, I don't wanna watch X3, I wanna watch X4 if there is one, or which ever one where there was Gambit :D I had a totally random dream with him in it just the other day, which made me wake up and go wtf?!

For full details on everything I hate about the movie, talk to Flora, I bitched every 5 minutes during the show :P

argh. the movie sucked balls. big time.