The last word on the Damn Book
Jul. 23rd, 2006 04:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrixrefugeeAnd the Damn Movie. And the Darn Video Game (which I'll be posting a few interesting revelations about in a moment...). Ironically, these thoughts come the day after the feast of St. Mary Magdalen, whom I imagine must be tearing out her long red hair over the sheer number of gulls who think she and Christ were married.
I may be offended by the way Dan Brown portrayed the Catholic Church. I may be offended by the flat out lies that he's put forth as truth (notwitstanding the 4-point type disclaimer on the same page as the Library of Congress information, which states that the book is purely fictional, but few people are going to notice *that*, are they?). I may be dismayed by the Emperor's New Clothes-like hype surrounding the movie. But I am not going to slam anyone for enjoying the book or the movie, IF they are mature and intelligent enough to treat it as the work of pure fiction that it is. If it looks like I slammed any of you for liking it, I'm sorry if it came across like that. I can be way too blunt sometimes, and I apologize to you sincerely for that.
Doesn't mean, however, I'm going to retract my snarky remarks about it. We're all entitled to our opinions, even the snarky opinions.
That said... I ran across a walk-through of the Darn Video Game, and it looks like it's an example of how Ron Howard should have toned-down the anti-Catholic gack in the movie-version: For starters, the albino assassin monk is now just an assassin working for a fake organization known as Manus Dei (instead of Opus Dei) which appears to be in no way connected to any real-world religious organizations/denominations. If I find a used copy of the game at the EB Games in Burlington, I might buy it just to try my hand at it.
I may be offended by the way Dan Brown portrayed the Catholic Church. I may be offended by the flat out lies that he's put forth as truth (notwitstanding the 4-point type disclaimer on the same page as the Library of Congress information, which states that the book is purely fictional, but few people are going to notice *that*, are they?). I may be dismayed by the Emperor's New Clothes-like hype surrounding the movie. But I am not going to slam anyone for enjoying the book or the movie, IF they are mature and intelligent enough to treat it as the work of pure fiction that it is. If it looks like I slammed any of you for liking it, I'm sorry if it came across like that. I can be way too blunt sometimes, and I apologize to you sincerely for that.
Doesn't mean, however, I'm going to retract my snarky remarks about it. We're all entitled to our opinions, even the snarky opinions.
That said... I ran across a walk-through of the Darn Video Game, and it looks like it's an example of how Ron Howard should have toned-down the anti-Catholic gack in the movie-version: For starters, the albino assassin monk is now just an assassin working for a fake organization known as Manus Dei (instead of Opus Dei) which appears to be in no way connected to any real-world religious organizations/denominations. If I find a used copy of the game at the EB Games in Burlington, I might buy it just to try my hand at it.