Da Vinci Code & The 06-06-06 Hype

The 2 most controversial films of the year The Da Vinci Code and The Omen have shown me that the way to make money through film "now a days" is to offend the church! How else would they get people to go see these movies?

I must say for me, it was curiosity to see what the hype was about. (Yes, I missed Omen 1 and I didn’t read the book!)

But I was thoroughly disappointed as the plots were very predictable, the acting extremely flat or exaggerated and I was simply left wondering if I had fallen asleep and missed the great stuff!

Both movies failed to captivate or stimulate in any way. Hollywood’s quest for fact to turn into fiction has simply failed once more.

The Da Vinci Code which has affected the church and the legal community, created an unjustified hype. (Quite like Angelina Jolie and her newborn Shiloh .You would have thought the child was born on the 6th of June! But that is another story!)

The movie had the trappings of a great movie - best selling author, controversial topic, award winning actor - Tom Hanks and beautiful settings. The sad thing is that the movie failed to captivate any of my senses. In fact, I remember thinking close to the end of the movie, “ I’m watching a movie, so why am I still bored?”

So when the Catholic Church says “don’t go see it”. Trust me, you need not spend your money to see it. Read the reviews if you are curious.

As for the ominous Omen, apart from the occasional graphic "murders", the movie failed to spark any “fear” or “interest” for that matter. Provoking the church, releasing the movie 06-06-06 was a good marketing strategy. If you go see it, you will just be left feeling annoyed that they couldn’t come up with a more captivating way to present the "end time" story.

The plots of both movies were predictable and the scenes seem to ramble on to their fatuous conclusion.

If there was any lesson to be learnt from these two so-called “evil films”, it is that talent has indeed left Hollywood. (Hey Jamaicans here’s your chance)!

(P.S. By the way to my friends and family, I was taking a “beat break”! You know how valuable my time is. So you can imagine how disappointed I was that the movies failed to enlighten or entertain!!!)

Back to the beat!

LONDON IN THE SUMMER TIME

Croydon

Great for Shopping

Market at Elephant & Castle

( I spoke to many Jamaicans here)

Back to Central London

View from Vauxhall Bridge

Hyde Park comes alive as if it were Negril, Jamaica






Trafalagar Square

Road to Buchingham Palace

Perfect Place to end the day...Hyde Park once more!

RETURN TO LOVE

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves,

"Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking

so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

It is not just in some of us;

it is in all of us, in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,

We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.


"Return to Love"

by

Marianne Williamson