May 21, 2006, 01:40 AM
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I've never read the book but I found the movie pretty good. 7/10ish. Theater was packed and nobody walked out or laughed except at the parts that were trying to elicit it. I didn't find it "slow" I guess because it felt like it kept moving enough. Acting was decent all around, with McKellen and Bettany leading the way, and Hanks a bit poorer than usual. From my experience the critics seemed way off with 18% positive ratings. I didn't think a movie of this stature (Howard, Hanks, etc) could really be (or was) THAT bad, so I pretty much disregarded it and with a $30M opening day it seems the general populous didn't care either. I thought this was gonna be the hit of the summer and outgross everything else...would be funny if that happened even with the critics totally ganging up on it.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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lazuli