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Originally Posted by Froofy-D I thought it was pretty good and was mostly faithful to the book. |
Mostly, except the last few minutes, in which Ron Howard pussied out to the church in order to make the ending more politically correct.
Now that I've had a couple days to reflect on the movie and why I disliked it so much, I've decided it was the handling of the end that pissed me off. Howard had a chance to fix Dan Brown's novel by just taking the basic plot synopsis and rebuilding it from there as a movie; he didn't, instead choosing to make the first 130 minutes follow the book nearly verbatim. However when it came to the end, he chose to tack on a conversation between Langdon and Sophie that wasn't in the book and changed the big reveal, plus Langdon seems to have 'faith' throughout the movie that he didn't have in the book, making his dropping to his knees at the end have a much different meaning--done to pander to the Catholic church/Christians/whatever other whackos are offended by DVC as if a few concessions at the would change anyone's opinion of it. They formed their opinions with the book, nothing was going to change that.
The one thing I actually did like about the book was that Brown was at least unflinching in his 'attack' on the church, right to the end. The movie can't even claim that much.
