Ugh.... it ... was... so.... BORING.

Rating: 1/10 (22 May 2006)

Standing in line for any of the Star Wars prequels, a car driving by might yell; "Get a life!", as I jokingly yelled out of the car at the sting of protesters in front of where we tried to see The DaVinci Code. See, in line for Star Wars, we were gathered in common appreciation, not common disdain or ignorance. There have been many movies I find offensive, but no group ever is boycotting them, or causing some controversy... everything offends someone, and I was offended by The DaVinci Code myself, for being BORING. We got to the box office, and it was sold out, every screen that it was on in our suburban mega-super-whatever plex, plus the IMAX attached and lost in some small corner of this small city of a theater. Just as we were leaving the parking lot to find a different theater, the protesters were leaving... I said to one; "Don't leave now, it's sold out..." "That's why we're leaving." The other theater had no protesters, and no crowd... The friend I went with is from a devout Catholic family and his mother loved the book. He saw nothing to be spiritually offended by probably because it was a movie the waste is that people allowed themselves to get upset by such a bad movie. I haven't read the book, for all I know the filmmakers may have thought the story was a pile of crud. Take all the Jesus you want, and religion out of the movie, and it's still a pile of crud Why? Two hours of ruminative reaction shots, about some secrets that everyone nods because every character knew it already and it was all kicked off by a murder where you'd think there might have been a security camera. Probably wouldn't have thought of that, if it hadn't been so long.