{"id":87614056,"date":"2006-05-17T15:58:13","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T23:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614056"},"modified":"2006-06-06T23:21:42","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T07:21:42","slug":"da-vincis-in-a-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614056","title":{"rendered":"Da Vinci&#8217;s In a Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a target=\"_blank\">OhNoTheyDidn&#8217;t<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221; drew lukewarm praise, shrugs of indifference, some jeering laughter and a few derisive jabs Tuesday from arguably the world&#8217;s toughest movie crowd: critics at the Cannes Film Festival.<br \/>\nThe year&#8217;s most anticipated movie, &#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221; was a generally faithful adaptation of Dan Brown&#8217;s monster best seller, spinning a murder thriller that stems from a cover-up of secrets about Christianity&#8217;s roots.<br \/>\nWhile readers worldwide devoured the novel, reaction from Cannes critics ranged from mild endorsement of its potboiler suspense to groans of ridicule over its heavy melodrama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry if you read this book, and thought it was groundbreaking, or beautifully written, but I spent most of my time going &#8220;Is it over yet?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not because it&#8217;s &#8220;a religious movie,&#8221; but the book sure as heck wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;readers worldwide devoured the novel&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, they also devour lots and lots of stale cheezies.  Doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via OhNoTheyDidn&#8217;t &#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221; drew lukewarm praise, shrugs of indifference, some jeering laughter and a few derisive jabs Tuesday from arguably the world&#8217;s toughest movie crowd: critics at the Cannes Film Festival. The year&#8217;s most anticipated movie, &#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221; was a generally faithful adaptation of Dan Brown&#8217;s monster best seller, spinning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87614056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87614056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}