Familial "Da Vinci Code" bitchery

[apocalypsos]

So it turns out that my father wants to see the movie about as much as I want to finish reading the book. Which led to this fun conversation:

Mom: Well, Laurie (our cousin) and I are going to see it no matter what you people think. *pointed look at us* Did you even finish that book?
Me: Oh, Mom, you really hate me that much?
Mom: Come on ...
Me: It's just so awful.
Mom: It can't be bad! Millions of people bought it!

Oh, Mother. I'm going to start to take comments like that as more evidence I simply sprung fully formed from my dad's forehead.

I continued to cough and sneeze like an idiot for the rest of the afternoon, until I flopped down on my stomach on the carpet in the living room to watch The Patriot with everybody else and the kitten decided the comfiest sleeping spot in the room was the small of my back.

Comments

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Tell your mother this quote from H.L. Mencken:

"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."

[insidian.livejournal.com]

Mom: It can't be bad! Millions of people bought it!

My own mother used that line on me regarding something. My reply? "You know what else millions of people bought? Nazism. And Tab. It doesn't make either of them good ideas."

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

See, my throwback was how many tickets were sold for Dude, Where's My Car?. Illness will do that to my brain.

[budclare.livejournal.com]

Does she remember the last election?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Apparently not.

[stevie-jane.livejournal.com]

Right, because everything popular is automatically good. Um, American Idol says different.

[secretbutterfly.livejournal.com]

You are now Athena. (It was Athena, right?)

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

Someone on my FL thinks that it's a "great book, well told".

*goes on massive defriending spree*

[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

You know, Sir Ian McKellen, Paul Bettany and Jean Reno are all pretty good in it. As you would expect. However, Jean Reno tragically fails to punch Tom Hanks, Paul Bettany is creepily masochistic (and naked, which probably isn't a plus for your father), and all three of them are not in the last twenty to thirty minutes of the film, which therefore drag to an incredible degree.

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

It's irritating when large numbers of people insist on deriving pleasure and sometimes even intellectual stimulation from something that we know is rubbish, isn't it? There ought to be a law...