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Post by ck100 on Jun 13, 2022 16:36:47 GMT
Tom Hanks Calls The Da Vinci Code Movie Series 'Hooey': 'That Was a Commercial Enterprise www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tom-hanks-calls-da-vinci-154424191.html"Tom Hanks is looking back on The Da Vinci Code as "delightful scavenger hunts that are about as accurate to history as the James Bond movies are to espionage." In a new interview with The New York Times, published Friday, the 65-year-old Academy Award winner said he's "not a cynic" when discussing history and his career — but when asked about whether he considered it cynical to make two sequels to 2006's The Da Vinci Code, he added, "God, that was a commercial enterprise. Yeah, those Robert Langdon sequels are hooey. The Da Vinci Code was hooey." "I mean, [author] Dan Brown, God bless him, says, 'Here is a sculpture in a place in Paris! No, it's way over there. See how a cross is formed on a map? Well, it's sort of a cross,' " Hanks continued. Of the books on which the film series is based, Hanks opined, "Those are delightful scavenger hunts that are about as accurate to history as the James Bond movies are to espionage." "But they're as cynical as a crossword puzzle," Hanks continued. "All we were doing is promising a diversion." And while he believes "There's nothing wrong with good commerce, provided it is good commerce," Hanks added, "By the time we made the third [film, Inferno], we proved that it wasn't such good commerce." At the end of the day, he's not complaining about having been part of the Ron Howard-directed mystery-thriller trilogy, which made close to $1.5 billion worldwide at the box office. "Let me tell you something else about The Da Vinci Code," Hanks said. "It was my 40th-something birthday. We were shooting in the Louvre at night. I changed my pants in front of the Mona Lisa! They brought me a birthday cake in the Grand Salon! Who gets to have that experience? Any cynicism there? Hell no!""
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Post by politicidal on Jun 13, 2022 16:46:14 GMT
I thought The Da Vinci Code was a bore. Angels & Demons was better but still took itself too seriously. The last one Inferno I enjoyed the most. It knew it was stupid and just had fun with it.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jun 13, 2022 16:49:56 GMT
I thought that the first two were fun.... after all ... who goes to these things expecting to see a documentary ? I have a free trial access to a channel with Inferno ... may give it a peek since politicidal kinda sorta liked it !
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 13, 2022 16:57:04 GMT
And what on earth is wrong with “delightful scavenger hunts that are about as accurate to history as the James Bond movies are to espionage”—or about “promising a diversion”? Those kinds of putdowns always baffle me; after all, many of the James Bond movies are great stories, regardless of unrealism.
I know people say the Da Vinci Code movie is boring, but I like it a lot: It has all of Dan Brown’s good puzzle plotting and none of his bad writing. The one I found dull is Inferno, though even that has the nice little clue about the jacket (which I picked up on, yet I didn’t put the pieces together).
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jun 13, 2022 16:58:35 GMT
I thought the movies where ok, far from great movies. but i have seen movies far worse.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Jun 13, 2022 17:50:02 GMT
He's right.
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Post by Cat on Jun 13, 2022 17:56:22 GMT
Whoa whoa whoa Tom Hanks, easy on the vulgar language. God, he's worse than Captain America with the swearing.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2022 18:16:56 GMT
I always thought Angels and Demons was a way better movie than it got credit for.
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Post by mgmarshall on Jun 13, 2022 18:41:15 GMT
He's not wrong.
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Post by msdemos on Jun 13, 2022 18:48:23 GMT
Yeah, I got dragged to the first Da Vinci Code movie by a friend, and couldn't wait for it to be over.......had never read the book, just couldn't get into it, and didn't care. Same with the Lord Of The Rings trilogy (accompanied my son to one of the movies, who read the books and LOVED all the movies), and one of the Harry Potter movies (again, with my son who read all the books, saw all the movies, and LOVED them all!)......I know, I know....... SACRILEGE !!Usually, even if I'm going to a movie I don't necessarily want to see I'll try, and usually succeed, in getting something out of it, since it REALLY is boring to sit in a movie theater for two hours and just not care at all about what is going on on the screen......but these are three of the (relatively) few examples of movies I did attend, but just couldn't get excited about seeing, AT ALL! SAVE FERRIS
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Post by ck100 on Jun 13, 2022 18:50:35 GMT
Tom Thanks defends Forrest Gump beating Pulp Fiction for Best Picture at The Oscars. screenrant.com/forrest-gump-pulp-fiction-best-picture-tom-hanks/"The problem with “Forrest Gump” is it made a billion dollars. If we’d just made a successful movie, Bob (Zemeckis) and I would have been geniuses. But because we made a wildly successful movie, we were diabolical geniuses. Is it a bad problem to have? No, but there’s books of the greatest movies of all time, and “Forrest Gump” doesn’t appear because, oh, it’s this sappy nostalgia fest. Every year there’s an article that goes, “The Movie That Should Have Won Best Picture” and it’s always “Pulp Fiction.” “Pulp Fiction” is a masterpiece without a doubt. Look, I don’t know, but there is a moment of undeniable heartbreaking humanity in “Forrest Gump” when Gary Sinise — he’s playing Lieutenant Dan — and his Asian wife walk up to our house on the day that Forrest and Jenny get married." Here Hanks of course refers to the movie’s famous “magic legs” moment where Forrest, who himself once wore "magic legs" due to a crooked spine, sees his amputee fellow soldier and friend Lieutenant Dan (Gary Sinise) with prosthetic limbs and can’t contain his happiness. According to Hanks, Forrest’s utterance of “magic legs” and “Lieutenant Dan” makes the audience “understand all they had been through and feel gratitude for every ounce of pain and tragedy that they survived.” He says this moment is some “intangible s—t” and “is not just running along to Duane Eddy’s ‘Rebel Rouser.’”"
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Post by lowtacks86 on Jun 13, 2022 19:00:11 GMT
I see he's embracing his inner boomer now
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jun 13, 2022 19:15:33 GMT
Whoa whoa whoa Tom Hanks, easy on the vulgar language. God, he's worse than Captain America with the swearing. I think he's officially "America's granddad".
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Post by spooner5020 on Jun 13, 2022 23:28:08 GMT
As someone who read the book, I thought it was fine. I actually really liked the book when I read it in middle school. Heck I think I even played the ps2 video game (did anyone else play that?).
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Post by politicidal on Jun 14, 2022 0:23:32 GMT
Whoa whoa whoa Tom Hanks, easy on the vulgar language. God, he's worse than Captain America with the swearing. Wait until you hear him in Saving Private Ryan.
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Post by sdrew13163 on Jun 14, 2022 0:32:40 GMT
Whoa whoa whoa Tom Hanks, easy on the vulgar language. God, he's worse than Captain America with the swearing. I think he's officially "America's granddad". Well - according to my dad’s old high school buddy on Facebook - Tom Hanks was executed at Guantanamo Bay in 2020 for pedophilia and he has a clone/CGI hybrid doing all of his work now! Bet none of you knew that little gem.
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Post by Cat on Jun 14, 2022 0:40:51 GMT
I think he's officially "America's granddad". Well - according to my dad’s old high school buddy on Facebook - Tom Hanks was executed at Guantanamo Bay in 2020 for pedophilia and he has a clone/CGI hybrid doing all of his work now! Bet none of you knew that little gem. I sure didn't. Boy the things you learn!
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