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Originally Posted by drcruz
I don't think the negative reviews are from religious sources (aint-it-cool-news or darkhorizons are not exactly the center of Christian movie news). I think the negative reviews are based on the attention span of todays audience.
Of the reviews I've read, a lot of them complain about long dialog that explains what's going on (I'm the opposite - I love things explained and I hate plot holes). Todays audience doesn't want to be read to and seem to be MTV video type viewers. Case in point is that old classic "Who Done It" mysteries are not popular.
I love older classic mysteries where you have a group of murder suspects, everyone has a motive, everyone had oportunity to perform the crime and in the end the dective solves the crime and points out all the evidence HE saw through out the story.
Today you have the SUPRISE(!) / twist where the murdering character is someone WAY OUT in left field and the detective finds the evidence on accident. Today it seems to me if you have a more classic "Who Done It' the audience reactions is "I knew he was the one" followed by "What a stupid movie".
I don't like my detective finding stuff on "accident", I enjoy intellegent characters that "solve" problems. But that's just me.
I'm betting that I'll enjoy Da Vinci Code as an intellegent movie/"work of fiction" that requires actually sitting and paying attention to what is going on.
I'm Christian BTW and I don't see me changing my mind in the least if I watch this movie/work of fiction.
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I spoke with my wife earlier this morning after I posted and she had the exact same opinion; that the film actually required some thought and that was contradictory to many of todays' MTV 20 second attention span viewer.
Thankfully my 14 year old daughter loved the film and is having a hard time deciding which was better, the film or the book (she usually prefers the books for their details and expanded plot lines, vis' a vis the Harry Potter films). I'm so proud of her!!