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July 23, 2006
da Vinci Code
Talk about a waste of two and a half hours! I just went to the da Vinci Code at the Smith Opera House (a 2nd run theater, so I only paid $5). It was as bad as I'd heard - though my colleague Elena Ciletti is right that the scene of the bishops screaming at each other at the Council of Nicaea is almost worth the price of admission. And concessions are cheap at the Smith, too.
Sad sad sad, if anyone takes that kind of tripe seriously enough that his or her 'faith is shaken.'
And if you know someone for whom that's true, send 'em a copy of De-Coding Da Vinci, by Amy Welborn.
Gosh! I don't know what offended me more - the Chick Tracts view of Constantine or the idea that Isaac Newton and the Catholic Church had anything to do with each other. The conflation of the Inquisition and the Witch Hunts? The 'art history'? Oh - I don't know. Tripe. It wasn't worth sitting through even to see what all the fuss was about.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at July 23, 2006 4:51 PM