Ron Howard's "The Da Vinci Code" has not aged very well; even franchise star and all-around nice guy Tom Hanks hasn't had many nice things to say about it over the years. However, every movie series has its fandom, and "The Da Vinci Code" is no different. The follows Robert Langdon, a professor of religious symbology, who is a suspect in the murder of a Louvre curator and ends up searching for the Holy Grail alongside police cryptographer Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou). Based on Dan Brown's best-selling book, "The Da Vinci Code" grossed 760 million worldwide on a 125 million dollar budget, which apparently justified the existence of two less successful sequels, "Angels & Demons" and "Inferno." We may not have the fondest memory of those films, but at least it seems like Hanks had fun on set filming the religious mystery thriller.
Much of "The Da Vinci Code" revolves around the Louvre,...
Much of "The Da Vinci Code" revolves around the Louvre,...
- 2/3/2023
- by Marcos Melendez
- Slash Film
For as often as he directs vanilla Oscar bait and "hooey" Robert Langdon movies, Ron Howard sometimes pulls out a film like "Rush" and reminds us he's capable of making genuinely exciting pictures. Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl bring a fiery energy to their on-screen rivalry in the 2013 film as Formula One drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda, two alpha male types who butt heads in the 1970s. As is often the case with biopics, the movie take liberties with the facts, portraying the duo as frenemies. In truth, the real Hunt maintained they...
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- 7/1/2022
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Tom Hanks has cracked “The Da Vinci Code”…and dubbed it “hooey.”
In a recent interview with The New York Times, Oscar winner Hanks called the Ron Howard-helmed trilogy “as cynical as a crossword puzzle” and an outrageous adventure story ripe for the box office. The franchise kicked off in 2006 before spurring two sequels, “Angels & Demons” and “Inferno.”
“God, that was a commercial enterprise,” Hanks said. “Yeah, those Robert Langdon sequels are hooey. ‘The Da Vinci Code’ was hooey.”
Hanks continued, “I mean, [author] Dan Brown, God bless him, says, ‘Here is a sculpture in a place in Paris! No, it’s way over there. See how a cross is formed on a map? Well, it’s sort of a cross.’ Those are delightful scavenger hunts that are about as accurate to history as the James Bond movies are to espionage…All we were doing is promising a diversion.
In a recent interview with The New York Times, Oscar winner Hanks called the Ron Howard-helmed trilogy “as cynical as a crossword puzzle” and an outrageous adventure story ripe for the box office. The franchise kicked off in 2006 before spurring two sequels, “Angels & Demons” and “Inferno.”
“God, that was a commercial enterprise,” Hanks said. “Yeah, those Robert Langdon sequels are hooey. ‘The Da Vinci Code’ was hooey.”
Hanks continued, “I mean, [author] Dan Brown, God bless him, says, ‘Here is a sculpture in a place in Paris! No, it’s way over there. See how a cross is formed on a map? Well, it’s sort of a cross.’ Those are delightful scavenger hunts that are about as accurate to history as the James Bond movies are to espionage…All we were doing is promising a diversion.
- 6/13/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
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