Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Holy shit Dan Brown!

[jd]

It looks like Mike Nelson, the relatively un-funny replacement for
Joel on MST3K, isn't done humping that dead horse just yet:
http://www.rifftrax.com/

so maybe you will get your wish to get some sort of MST3K-ing of the
DaVinci Code

so far he only has Road House and The Fifth Element, though.

On 8/10/06, K. Michael Babcock <aesova at gmail.com> wrote:
> Unless it's shown on (now defunct) Mystery Science Theater 3000, it
> probably isn't worth sitting through.
>
> On 8/10/06, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Never felt any drive to read that book, and for the movie I can wait
> > until it's shown on free tv.
> >
> > 2006/8/10, The Great Quail <quail at libyrinth.com>:
> > > > Yeah, I spent a lot of time yelling @ TDVC.  In
> > > > public.
> > >
> > > My biggest problem with "The DaVinci Code" was its idiot characters. I mean,
> > > Dan Brown has written these characters, see, that are supposed to be
> > > GENIUSES in their fields of religion, language,. Antiquity cryptography,
> > > etc. And then, every dozen pages or so, they all stand around with their
> > > tongues hanging out, stumped at some moronic "puzzle" that any half-way
> > > intelligent reader has guessed by the time his eyes hit the period ending
> > > the sentence.
> > >
> > > I shit you not -- at one point, a pair of linguistic scholars are staring
> > > befuddled at ENGLISH HANDWRITING IN REVERSE and they have no idea what it
> > > is. Once even remarks something to the effect that it looks "Semitic" or
> > > "Aramaic" or something. Oh my fucking God.
> > >
> > > It's like having Umberto Eco, Douglas Hofstadter, and Paula Frederiksen
> > > being completely flamboozled by a pre-movie word-scramble of CHESS JURIST.
> > >
> > > --Quail
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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