Back in 2000, critically-acclaimed director Bryan Singer took on a rather punishing project. The director was to helm his first giant studio feature and it was unlike anything he had done previously. The Internet was flooded with talk and speculation that a director of Singer's caliber shouldn't be put in charge of such a gargantuan project and comic fanboys shuddered in their boots.
As the course of 2006 continues, we will see exactly one CGI-animated feature film being released every month.
The foundation of academia is debate, speculation, and interpretation. Why should we not apply this to man's greatest debate, religion?
The Da Vinci Code stars Tom Hanks as Professor Robert Langdon, a symbologist who is approached by a French police detective to come to the famed Louvre museum. It turns out that the curator of the museum has been murdered.
When I read novels, and I admit it's not that often, I have a habit of wondering who would best play the character on screen. Although I wasn't thinking Tom Hanks when I read The Da Vinci Code, Rob Schneider didn't come to mind either. Hanks fits the role of Robert Langdon just about right.
I am a huge fan of the disaster film genre.
This is neither a sequel to 1972's The Poseidon Adventure nor is it a re-make. It's more of a re-thinking. It is directed by a man who knows his way around water, Wolfgang Petersen, the same guy who brought us Das Boot and The Perfect Storm.
On the plus side, Poseidon gets right into the action.
Has there ever been a dreamy sports film about soccer? I can't seem to remember one unless you count Bend It like Beckham but that was about girls in an unprofessional league.
There have been more than a dozen Australian westerns and they always seem to have a central theme. The only difference with this film is that it's nastier, unapologetic, and definitely dirtier. No, not that kind of dirtier. The film is filthy and covered with grit and grime.
The dirt in this film seems to have a character of its own.
He goes by many names now.
Most are shameful and talk directly to his mental state, but Tom Cruise is in all sense of the word, an entertainer.
It's rare for a movie with this much advance publicity to live up to the hype, but you have done it.
I have always been a fan of yours. I mean, look at your resume: from Risky Business and Top Gun to Rain Man and Born on the 4th of July. I even know that you were born on the 3rd of July.
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