TDVC vs. POTC

Here's a nice long un-ranty look at The Da Vinci Code (2006) vs. Passion of the Christ (2004), among other things.

"The Passion of the Christ was treated as a social problem – the biggest TV anti-Semitism story of that year – while The DaVinci Code was presented more often as an "intriguing" theory rather than threatening or offensive to Christians." Heh.

See, it's not even so much about "This movie says bad things about Christianity" as much as it is that part where everybody seems to be (Nathan Lane voice) ok with that.

Good grief, remember the outcry over Silence of the Lambs because the Big Bad (who was NOT Hannibal "Fava Beans" Lecter, btw) was GAY! It's a stereotype! You can't do that! What? Crazy monks that kill people? Oh sure, no problem.


I'm not saying we picket. I'm not saying we boycott (especially since most people will probably go see X3 this weekend anyway). But Mr. Howard, dude, do you realize what you just said about me? "Oh, well obviously it's not about you!" No? Who was it about?

Hey, lets make a movie where the origins of Christianity are proven beyond a shadow of a doubt and a bunch of Scientologists (in the movie we'll have to change them to Neo-Nazis, always gotta change stuff to Neo-Nazis, unless someone named Bauer is involved) start killing off the team that made this find. Maybe throw in a 1st century Jewish conspiracy for extra "flavor". In the end, after the last two characters (male and female, the ones on the team with the most favorable aesthetic properties) win through all of the Scientol- er, Neo-Nazi adversity, they finally make it to publish thier results. And all of the findings are suppressed by the Academic Community. Give it a Contact / Raiders of the Lost Ark kind of ending. We can cast Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. Isaac Hayes can make a cameo. I want to see THAT movie. Hey, it's just a page-turner of a romp.

I'm sure I'll go on to be cranky about other things (STAR WARS DVDS!). Well, ok, I'm sure I'll eventually come back to pretty much the same thing, just in different circumstance.

Oh! I just remembered, SWiMW bought me Black and Tan ice cream! To the pool!