i just love movies...

i can find something in just about every genre that i just adore... from Arsenic and Old Lace... to Clueless... to The Matrix Trilogy... to Friday Night Lights... to On Golden Pond... to The Way of The Gun... to The Color Purple... Almost Famous... The Seven Year Itch... LOTR... SPANGLISH

ok... you get my point... i just finished watching the Da Vinci Code... and ever since it came out the hype was just unbearable and the point of this post is just that... i have a rule ~ i must see a movie i REALLY want to see the day it comes out... and i don't listen to reviews or read them... i want to sit and watch and judge for me as to whether or not the story maintained true to the original book ~ well in this case... if Tom Hanks was up to the task... just everything ~ i don't need someone to decide for me and who exactly are these critics anyway... Gene Shalot doesn't know me... we've never spoken even for a minute so how on earth would he know how i am going to be moved by what i see on film... Roger Ebert... never met him either so why should i value so much what he has to say about what i want to watch... i LIKE judging for myself... and i'm pretty good at sharing with people my opinion... lol ~ k that might be a bit of an understatement but my point... i know what my friends like... because well DUH we're friends ~ i would much rather take the recommendation of Gage... Jocelyn... Meg... any one of the people in my life because they know what i'll enjoy

so in my opinion ~ if you haven't seen it and are on the fence... i'll warn you if you read the book... there are some discrepancies ~ nothing GAPING but noticeable still ~ however i truly enjoyed i thought the casting was perfect... although i hope that dude that plays Silas got paid a lot... he'll never be able to do anything else and not be thought of as him ~ unless that was some STELLAR work in the cosmetic department in which case... i'm thinkin' OSCAR for that...