Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Holy shit Dan Brown!
K. Michael Babcock
aesova at gmail.com
Fri Aug 11 08:23:26 CDT 2006
I'm not sure that works as well, somehow.
I think that the MST3K appeal may have been, at least in part, due to
the time period in which it existed. More recently, digital cable and
the dubya-dubya-dubya have created a glut in the
funny-because-its-stupid market.
On 8/10/06, jd <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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