To my knowledge, the only thing good about the movie Howard the Duck is that it was the first movie-date for me and my wife.
Now another Howard, Ron, directs the movie adaptation of Dan Brown’s bestseller.
Tonight’s opening at the film festival reads like The Producers gone right.
Wouldn’t it be great, really, if the movie flopped? Now that’s a novel idea!
Not holding my breath, but here’s what I mean …
HT: Dawn
HT: Drudge
Pat Buchanan on Da Movie:
Putting “The Da Vinci Code” on film, with what it alleges about the Catholic Church, is the moral equivalent of making a movie based on the “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and implying this is the truth about the Jewish plot to control the world. One imagines Ron Howard and Tom Hanks would take a pass on that script.
Like the “Hitler’s Pope” smear of Pius XII, a man who did more than any other to save the Jews in World War II, “The Da Vinci Code” is a Big Lie that, though readily refuted by the facts, will be believed.
But that it will be a box-office smash, that it is the subject of lavish praise in the press, that it is the best-selling novel of the 21st century, tells us we live not just in a post-Christian era, but in an anti-Catholic culture not worth defending or saving, for it is truly satanic.
HT: News Forum
Thanks to dnb Productions, I have a new PR pic for the book campaign.
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Speaking of pics …
Here’s one of the raising of the Cross on the site of the new building for
St Anthony Church in Spring this past Saturday.
Today, grabbing a bite to eat in a food court, I passed by a kiosk selling snarky “Christian” t-shirts. I was too flabbergasted to pause. Besides, I was dressed as a priest and, gosh, it was just sooo, so, uhll …
From memory …
One shirt had a huge cross on it with the caption, “I killed your God.” (I didn’t get to read further.)
One said (I kid you not): “Get Stoned Like Paul”
One even read:
“Heavy Drinker – John 7:37”
[Which reads: On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and proclaimed, “If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink.”]
“When you put on a Christian T-shirt, hat, hoodie, beanie or whatever, you make yourself a walking, talking billboard for Christ.” Read more.
Y’all probably know all about these. Thankfully, I don’t get out much. Especially to malls!
Back when I was a teen, I had a favorite t-shirt. Unfortunately I wore it in many vacation pics (meaning, I come across it more than I’d wish). It read: “Conserve Energy … Shut Up.”
And, on that note …
A while back I mentioned this film. Here’s (sort of) an update:
The FilmForce reviewer—who mentions a Catholic upbringing—praises the script as “a reverent recounting of the biblical story that also added an insightful socio-political dimension to the world Mary would have been brought up in.” He calls it “respectful enough of the Gospels so as to not alarm the faithful, while also being broad enough thematically in order to appeal to a wider demographic. In other words, you shouldn’t expect Nativity to spark any Passion-ate firestorms.”
Perhaps I’m being hyper-crytical, but this kind of thing just gives me the willies. True, like The Da Vinci Code, such movies allow Christians opportunities to witness to the Truth.
What’s Hollywood trying to do? Wear us out?
I mean, really … how’m I s’posed to explain Forrest Gump in a mullet?
