The Da Vinci Code

[Iannis]

My farts last longer than a single chapter in the da vinci code. true story.

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Originally Posted by tanjo

Amazing reasoning you have here. Your hostile reaction without having read the book sure does separate you from all those slack-jawed hillbillies you were talking about. I don't understand the negative reaction the book gets from so many people. I guess it's because it's so popular or something and people don't understand why. Really, the thing is like candy or popcorn for anyone interested in history, art, and religion with all the references. And as an English major who reads all the time, I'm not literarily shallow. The book is good for what it is.

http://www.fohguild.org/forums/501305-post18.html

Its popularity has nothing to do with people's negative feelings on the basis of its value as a piece of literature. Its just plain bad. The "facts" are wrong, it tells not shows, the descriptions are one liners that reference movie stars, and the mystery was mind-numbing.

[Duppin]

Boy, who would've thought we had all these intellectual giants and literary critics hiding out on a gaming forum!

[FanBuss]

Originally Posted by Duppin

Boy, who would've thought we had all these intellectual giants and literary critics hiding out on a gaming forum!

Right, because we're not allowed to call something a piece of shit cause its a gaming forum.

[Froofy-D]

I thought it was pretty good and was mostly faithful to the book. I can see how if you didnt read it though some parts might have been confusing. There were a few things they could have explained more clearly. Couple things:

- dont think Tom Hanks was right for the part
- french girl was hot
- flashbacks were a little overdone

Someone mentioned that many reviews slagged it:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/da_vinci_code/

However the collective reviewers monitored by RottenTomotoes have little credibility for the most part as evidenced by:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/signs/

[Scape667]

Good MOVIE. If you take the whole thing seriously you are an idioit. This movie had good action, good story and was interesting to watch. Ofcourse there are idiots who take is as something else and start to flame it. You are retarded. A good example is the passion of the christ. Horrible movie, dumb plot, most dumbasses loved it. However I dont consider paying money for a ticket to see a guy getting his as handed to him for 2hrs a good use of my money.

[Communistbloc]

They gave signs a 76%? Holy shit, that movie was trash.

[Vorph]

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.

[Eomer]

A good example is the passion of the christ. Horrible movie, dumb plot

lol

[Lhon]

Originally Posted by FanBuss

Also the fact that it's written like a high-school drama story tend to undermine it's credibility.

Credibility? It has no credibility, it's fiction. The writing is crap, but the story is interesting, which is why it sold well.

[Cybsled]

This Jesus movie had a better plot!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vToIb...inator%20jesus

[Kiksar]

I didn't read the book but I have been exposed to these ideas since I was pretty young. I really don't get the controversy. There have been Discovery Channel specials on more controversial things for as long as I can remember, including plenty of theories about Jesus having kids (and so on) floating around.

So whatever, the plot was what it was but come the fuck on, as a movie it was bullshit. I haven't been considered that stupid by a movie in as long as I can remember. People saying "it could have been confusing if you didn't read the book" are hopefully underestimating humanity. How many times did Amelie have to be like, "wait, I don't understand" before it was painfully obvious that they were talking directly to the audience? (Correct: once!)

Hey Ron and writer(s), I've got a great idea of how to handle this movie! 10 minutes of action, 20 minutes of exposition, rinse and repeat. Bullshit and you all know it. The entire movie was like the 20 minutes in Silent Hill where they stopped to tell the audience what the fuck was going on.

I haven't read the book because I had a feeling that most of the controversial subject matter was stuff I had already heard and I was right. That alone isn't reason enough to kill a story/movie for me, but this one was just clumsy all around. I've liked Ron Howard in the past for the most part and most of the cast as well, but as my roommate commented, "it felt like everyone involved knew that this was a free money press".

[Iannis]

I myself am fond of theories Jesus said "fuck you jews" and packed up mary magdalene and headed to India where he became a great guru.

[Araysar]

The puzzle-solving aspect of this movie was super-corny as well. I don't want to spoil anything, but there's this hundreds of years old puzzle-box the heroes obtain early in the movie which needs a five letter word as the input code. When they finally come up with the answer it's so retarded, it couldn't have been any more stupid if the answer was "Regis" from Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

I didn't read the book or saw the movie but was the password... "Jesus"?

[Duppin]

Originally Posted by Araysar

I didn't read the book or saw the movie but was the password... "Jesus"?

Apple.

And it wasn't as bad as he makes out. It made sense within the context of the book.

Just another pseudo-intellectual bashing DVC because it's popular.