Okay, start counting. How many churches are going to devote a Sunday morning series to this book, now that the movie is coming out? Or, how many small group Bible studies will use this as a "hook" to get people to attend? I bet these are popping up all over. Last winter, it was Narnia-mania.
I personally have never read the book. I guess I don't need to read some thriller which purports to speculate that Jesus got married to Mary Magdalene and it has been held secret all these years by some albino monks. Just not interested. I've heard so much discussion about the book, I felt I've read it already.
But is it fair for DaVinci to get this much attention? What about some of the other summer movies that won't get their moment in the sun as a topic at Wednesday night prayer meeting?
Here's some alternatives:
Mission Impossible III: Our superspy's mission is to convince a Baptist church to use the NIV translation of the Bible. The first two missions failed miserably as our hero was unable to convince the Baptists that Sandi Patti is not rock music and that every day is not "gay day" at Disney World.
Poseidon: A remake of the disaster movie where survivors seek escape from a capsized ocean liner. Church groups will use this as an analogy of how upside down our lives are. The devil is the wave that has capsized our ships (our lives). Things have gotten so out of whack in our lives that to be rescued, we must descend all the way to the bottom in order to get out the top in our ship- turned-upside-down-world.
Garfield II: Hero-worship on all levels is bad. A cartoon kitty voiced by that degenerate Bill Murray is definitely not something our kids need to be exposed to.
Our longing for a savior to come down from the sky to make the world a better place will certainly be a hidden analogy in Superman Returns. I have no idea what parallels can be drawn from Johnny Depp's character in the Pirates of the Carribbean sequel, but we Christians have a way of taking what's popular and putting our own negative spin on it.
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