RX-8 in "The Da Vinci Code"
05-20-2006, 01:47 PM
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RX-8 in "The Da Vinci Code"
When our heroes are running through the streets of London, IIRC right after the Temple Church scene, the camera flashes to a 4 way intersection that contains a Titanium Gray facing the camera, just left of the center of the screen. The car is probably on camera about 2 seconds, but it's easy to catch if you look for it. 
05-21-2006, 12:08 AM
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I'm with RG on this. The RX-8 is the Holy Grail of sports car engineering. The scene is clearly foreshadowing for the sequel: The Da Vinci Code II, Quest for the Renesis. 
05-21-2006, 12:31 PM
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Obviously we need more movies staring RX-8s, is anyone keeping a list? I'm taking my 94 year old mother to see it Monday, she is a Family Historian and says we are kin to those Royal French folks and even worse also kin to the bunch that came from Joseph of Arimethia over in England - sort of a double dose of trouble - she says the part about people trying to protect you is the fiction - she says you'll do better with a fast car and good air bags!
05-21-2006, 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Blue87Sport
I'm with RG on this. The RX-8 is the Holy Grail of sports car engineering. The scene is clearly foreshadowing for the sequel: The Da Vinci Code II, Quest for the Renesis.
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05-22-2006, 01:04 PM
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How was the movie? The press beat it up in the reviews.
Faithful to the novel minus the ending scene the chapel. It dragged a bit at points in my opinion though.
05-22-2006, 10:44 PM
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Took Mom (94) to see it. She liked the popcorn. As for the Movie, Mom says: "It had car chases and shootings, but the language was vulgar! They said swear words just to try and make it more exciting. I thought it would be more about Jesus and Mary - It's just a detective story. If she was really a Grand-daughter of Jesus she should have healed that poor Swedish man with the bad contact lenses. You should never slap a person who is tied up if you are a hero. I don't think it was very kind to Catholics, there didn't seem to be any nice ones. And, why did that poor man have to wear that awful jewlery? Also, I don't think a museum person would wonder about in his altogether writing blood messages on all the good paintings, and leaving just a little mess in front of each one. Some one would have to clean that up. Also they wouldn't let people with guns in all those nice buildings they could damage th windows. Harry Potter was better!"
As for my opinion: I had not read the book but I could follow the plot inspite of this. The detective work and clue solving was intellegent. The acting was good, the pace usually good, and the story line only got a bit convoluted once or twice. The landscapes were interesting and the film did what it should do, show you images of things you don't usually see. It was a pleasant way to spend the afternoon. As in most movies, the Devil gets the best lines, and I agreed with Mom that a member of the Catholic Church would feel about as comfortable with this film as a black man at a KKK Fund raiser and Bar-B-Que. The hidden, mysterious, forbidden secret, had been made way to public before hand to have much shock value. The author, tongue in cheek, must know that at least half the people in Europe and most of the people in England can trace an ancestor or two back to the Royal Line of David. Still it was interesting on an intellectual level, and I didn't see the Gray 8, but I thought there was a front on view of one right about where the hero goes skipping over the brass disks of the rose line.
As for my opinion: I had not read the book but I could follow the plot inspite of this. The detective work and clue solving was intellegent. The acting was good, the pace usually good, and the story line only got a bit convoluted once or twice. The landscapes were interesting and the film did what it should do, show you images of things you don't usually see. It was a pleasant way to spend the afternoon. As in most movies, the Devil gets the best lines, and I agreed with Mom that a member of the Catholic Church would feel about as comfortable with this film as a black man at a KKK Fund raiser and Bar-B-Que. The hidden, mysterious, forbidden secret, had been made way to public before hand to have much shock value. The author, tongue in cheek, must know that at least half the people in Europe and most of the people in England can trace an ancestor or two back to the Royal Line of David. Still it was interesting on an intellectual level, and I didn't see the Gray 8, but I thought there was a front on view of one right about where the hero goes skipping over the brass disks of the rose line.
05-23-2006, 08:00 AM
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Maybe because he thought it was an excellent detective/mystery fiction novel that would be fun to act in and would do well in the box office among other things...
05-23-2006, 10:47 AM
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Maybe because he thought it was an excellent detective/mystery fiction novel that would be fun to act in and would do well in the box office among other things...
Have you seen what some people say as they leave the movie? Some people think that stuff is real...that's why I don't like it. But that's not the topic...so I'll shut up about it now.
05-23-2006, 02:46 PM
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Not to be political or religious, but since when did a fiction movie have to avoid offending Christians to be worth making or watching? There have been thousands of movies that have portrayed other ideologies in negative lights, and I'm sure you've enjoyed watching those.
Besides, its about time that more people learn to question ideas they're fed from birth and realize there's a whole lot more to the universe than our limited worldviews can comprehend.
Besides, its about time that more people learn to question ideas they're fed from birth and realize there's a whole lot more to the universe than our limited worldviews can comprehend.