Quick Mailbag Dive

Cthulhu?
Avon Brandt had this link to a Cthulhu movie.

ABOUT THE FILM Cthulhu is loosely based on the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), in which we are introduced to the Cthulhu mythos, an elaborate cosmology of incomprehensibly alien gods able to move between dimensions whose existence dwarfs and will soon destroy humankind, The Cthulhu itself, whose name is only an approximation of inhuman speech, has lain asleep on the ocean floor since the dawn of time and is being summoned by human and half-human followers to rise and claim the world. Like many others, we believe this agenda is being pursued by those who live among us innocuously, but whose actions promote sprawl, pollution, climate change and war.

We’re also into the gay stuff, so there’s some of that as well.

Could be good, could be scary, could be ghastly.

Hard Up For Laughs?
Couple of funny movie clips from GK:

- The First Time
- Subtitles

I kinda like the first one better.

How To Learn Guitar
This link came in from Walk-off HBP. Pretty swanky software if you want to learn guitar. I can see the merits straight away.

The DaVinci Code Movie Sux? Why Am I Not Suprised?
This one is from Pleiades:

"I didn't like it very much. I thought it was almost as bad as the book. Tom Hanks

was a zombie, thank goodness for Ian McKellen. It was overplayed, there was too much music and it was much too grandiose," said Peter Brunette, critic for the US daily The Boston Globe.

The film version of Dan Brown's mega-best selling book premieres in Cannes on Wednesday before going on worldwide release on Friday. It stars Tom Hanks as symbologist Robert Langdon, called in after the curator of the Louvre is found murdered, his body splayed out covered in symbols.

Langdon and French police cryptologist Sophie Neveu, played by French actress Audrey Tautou, find themselves ensnared in a mystifying hunt to track down the murderer and solve a 2,000-year-old riddle.

The book has already sold some 50 million copies worldwide, been translated into 44 languages and spawned a spin-off tourist industry as well as whipping up a controversy. All ingredients to ensure that it will undoubtedly draw the crowds.

The greatest controversy has been stirred by the book's central theme that Jesus Christ married and had children whose descendants still survive today.

Thus book's detractors will no doubt be comforted to hear that when Hanks reveals who is supposedly the last surviving descendant of Jesus, the Cannes audience couldn't hold back their laughter.

"At the high point, there was laughter among the journalists. Not loud laughs, but a snicker and I think that says it all," said Gerson Da Cunha from The Times of India.

They're particularly cruel in Cannes, because it's cool to be cruel in Cannes.