Comments | foxtrot_sierra: The Da Vinci Code (2006) + Top Gun (1986)

foxtrot_sierra

The Da Vinci Code (2006) + Top Gun (1986)

Jun 20, 2006 11:47

It just drags on and on and on. “The Da Vinci Code” is an exposition-heavy “thriller” that really will surprise you with its levelness of badness. We follow yet still another couple on the run from villains who can’t shoot straight and cops slightly less incompetent than the graduates of “Police Academy.” They run, he explains things, they run, ( Read more... )

movies-t, 1.5 stars, 2 stars, 2000s, movies d, movies

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theamused June 20 2006, 17:44:47 UTC

Methinks you won’t be happy until every last movie character is infused with the knowledge that he or she is a movie character.

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theamused June 20 2006, 19:34:05 UTC

Uh oh, do you mean he's discovered that he's really just a character in the movie we've all been making?

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Factoid that may only interest me meiczyslaw June 20 2006, 17:51:04 UTC

Top Gun still exists. One of the things that doesn't get mentioned in the movie is that there were two schools -- one in San Diego (Miramar, the one in the movie), and one in Pensacola.

During the base closing/restructuring after the Cold War, the Navy realized that they only needed one school, so abandoned Miramar for Pensacola. But Miramar didn't close -- it was better than anything that the Marines had, so they took it over.