I was not prepared for cheesy

Rating: 1/10 (22 May 2006)

I liked the book. Being a recovering catholic, I enjoyed looking at the Jesus story in a different way. I was looking forward to the movie, mainly because of the great locations the story unfolds in.
I also imagined the book being good movie material. When I read all the bad reviews, I told myself that most of the times good reviews are wrong. And how often did I end up seeing a movie because of some approving film critic and found the film disappointing and walked out of the theater convinced that this critic has been bought by the studio.
Heck, I wanted to see the movie, so I went to a matinée. There is a lot of things I do not understand . Does nobody looks at the movie after it is finished to see that certain things are not working? And maybe changes it then. Why does the main character always has to be a big star? I have nothing against Tom Hanks, but he did not convince me at all in that role. And why make a movie about the feminine power suppressed by the church and make the main female character weaker than it is written in the book? And there may be a lot of things which are wrong with the book, but it is an interesting read and it is certainly not cheesy. Especially at the end the movie was so cheesy that it made me gag.
And it was boring. There is no excuse for that movie to be boring. And I do not mind long. It is a complicated story to tell. But long and boring? I wanted to see the movie on the big screen. I like the big screen and there are movies which I saw in the theater and then bought the DVD and they had not the same impact on me at home. And why is the whole movie so gloomy and dark? This is not a gloomy and dark story. It is an exciting and colorful story. I regret that this movie is going to make so much money. It does not deserve it. After I came home from the movie I watched part of Oprah Winfrey's Legends Ball and she claimed that Jesus was there. Maybe she is a descendant of Jesus and Magdalena? Who knows?