Barbara Nicolosi: The DVC movie is "embarrassingly bad"

Over at Amy Welborn's Open Book blog, Barbara Nicolosi has this report on TDVC movie:

The buzz on the streets here in Hollywood is that the film is embarrassingly bad. The studio has stirctly limied the MPAA screening - usually about 500-800 people - to only 100 people. No one is getting in to advance screenings which has everybody saying things like, "The only time studios act this way is when they have a Class A Dud on their hands."

The script is a dud. The ultra-weird transitions from people running from long-winded seminars on ecclesiastical history to murderous Opus Dei assassins to Biblical period flashbacks of Jesus and Mary Magdalen looking tenderly at each other made me laugh at loud.

Sony knows they will only have devastating word of mouth on this one. So they have to get everybody in the first weekend.

This is certainly encouraging. Could the movie be as bad as the novel, from both a creative and historical perspective? If so, Howard and Hanks have sunk lower than most fans would have ever thought possible.

Comments

[Project9]

... and we should believe blindly in her totally unbiased opinion about the subject.

"Could the movie be as bad as the novel"

hahahaahaha now that's a kicker. If the movie is "as bad" as the novel, then 30 million people will watch it.

... if you only your book was a bad as the novel, eh Carl?

[Carl Olson]

"... if you only your book was a bad as the novel, eh Carl?"

Yes, if only. But that would mean lowering my standards down to your level. And we both know that ain't gonna happen.

[xavier]

Project 9:
Here's what 'll happen. On opening day and a fews date later; a week maximum, a lot of people will rush to see it. Once they do, the movie will sink in the 2nd week by word of mouth, blog posts, TV interviews on just how dull it was, or the movie didn't match the book, or they'll relize just how much of a doofus Langdon is and Sophie's a ditzy airhead that makes Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie look commonsensical in comparasion.

I bet the Sony execs are drinking Maalox by the carton and swearing to themsleves of how Playstation 3 must subsidize this dud.

xavier

[Cristina A. Montes]

I heard someone in the advertising industry say, "The best way to kill a bad product is through good advertising."

[Project9]

I don't think it has anything to do with standards, i think it has more to do with the ability to write a book as appealing as TDVC.

[MLC]

Project9

Remove the "e" and add another "l" to the word "appealing", and I can agree with you.

[Kathryn Grover]

Ugh, I don't think Playstation 3 could save Sony. They're turning it into the next Betamax.

[MLC]

Xavier: she is. When Carl said that his next project was to debunk Danielle Steele, I assumed he was writing tongue-in- cheek, and responded in the same vein.

I realize that our attempts at humour can sometimes miss the mark when we are communicating electronically instead of face-to-face.

[MLC]

OOPS! please ignore the above post. It was intended for another thread. DUH!