Da Vinci Code

Well, I joined the couple of other people on the face of the earth and now have seen the movie of madness and anti-Christian efforts, so I'm told. Actually, it wasn't as nearly as bad as described, nor as good as the sales indicate. It followed the book sufficiently to give readers a view of the places and events described. It had pleasingly good actors in Tom and Audry, although they didn't have great chemistry. It was too fast at the beginning, did too much talking and not enough showing, and left out a bunch of detail. It was better than Cider House Rules movie compared to book version and much worse than any Lord of the Rings or Bourne series movies. It isn't going to be a great success, because other than seeing the interesting places, most likely nothing will motive the movie goer to watch it again. Better to re-read the book.

Most important, it didn't live up to all of the anti-Christain hype attributed to it. Actually, one of the major plot points in the movie depicted Tom as being quite devote when it mattered, when he was facing death. It did depict Audry as being in the lineage of Christ, but so unoffenceably it hardly was noticed. It fluffed away the Opus Dei connection to the point of the audience barely noticed the Catholic connection.

People hated The Passion of Christ movie and wanted this one to be worse for comparison. In truth, it appears to make the established church seem a bit foolish for all of their complaining about very little. The worst scenes were not of the alternate Christ revelation, which was the complaint focus, but of the flagulation by the Opus Dei monk. If any backlash could possibly occur about Opus Dei, it would be if in reality they actually do flagulation, it would seem to me to be a really good reason to oppose them as they engage in a very non-Christian activity, kind of on the line of killing females as witches. Jesus was tortured and killed as a substitute for Christians, which means this is taken care of. The very act of flagulation is an act of no faith in Jesus, not as an act of faith, as it seems to say Jesus's death wasn't good enough.

Anyway, I'm glad I went, just to prove to myself I can see such a debacle and not be shattered in my faith. I would say the movie, Office Space, was a worse slam on those would want to live a chaste life, although much more subtle.