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[lotesse]

I heard an interview on npr last night with Hans Zimmer, who's doing the score for The DaVinci Code. The universe is conspiring to make me interested in this movie.

It's a horrid, horrid book. Brown is a dreadful stylist and not oo good with the characters either. (Excellent takedown of the earliest bits of leaden prose here.)

But but but...Ian McKellan and Paul Bettany and Zimmer sounded so coherent and interesting. And the music--or the few samples that I heard--was genuinely lovely in a sort of Palestrina-style way, and I'm a sucker for Palestrina. I am excited for this movie. Dear god, why do I have to be excited for this movie? The premise is so utterly silly.

I'm still really just seeing it for Ian.

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[tiamatschild.livejournal.com]

Dad was listening to it on tape in the car for Mom and turned it off after I spent a good solid ten minutes snarking the prose in a car chase.

(THREE PARAGRAPHS on how hot the heroine is, in the middle of a CAR CHASE.)

...Shit. Sir Ian's innit?

...*will be seeing it, then*

*dang it all*

[lotesse]

Yeah, he's the groovy old knight dude.

And the ending? With the omg she's the offspring of Jeebus? How blatantly Mary Sue can you get? It's almost bad-good, but not quite.