Finally saw the DaVinci Code

[angellous_evangellous]

Well I finally saw the DaVinci Code, and for the most part I loved it.:yes:

It's a very good story aside from a few stupid moments (like finding out you're the heir of Jesus Christ with irrefutable proof immedeately before you)... but I suppose that the book is much better.

 

[MysticSang'ha]

Well I finally saw the DaVinci Code, and for the most part I loved it.:yes:

It's a very good story aside from a few stupid moments (like finding out you're the heir of Jesus Christ with irrefutable proof immedeately before you)... but I suppose that the book is much better.

I'm glad you enjoyed it, Nate. I thought it was.......meh.........OK. And the ending left much to be desired. The book is better than the film, but it isn't Dan Brown's best work, IMO.



Angels and Demons is much better. :yes:



Peace,
Mystic

 

[SoyLeche]

In the book they never find any documents either, but they start suspecting that she might be long before they do in the movie.

I would say the book is better - but I enjoyed to movie too.

 

[SoyLeche]

Angels and Demons is much better. :yes:

I would agree with that assessment. It seemed to me that the books were very similar to each other, but the action in Angels and Demons was better - so I'm glad I read The DaVinci Code first - otherwise I probably would have found it kinda boring.

 

[Green Gaia]

After reading the book, I was very dissappointed with the movie. Tom Hanks is a great actor, but I never saw him in the lead role, and the movie didn't make that feeling go away. But wasn't Sir Ian McKellen as Leigh Teabing amazing? If it weren't for him, I probably would have turned it off half way through, since I already knew how it ended.

 

[michel]

I'm glad you enjoyed it, Nate. I thought it was.......meh.........OK. And the ending left much to be desired. The book is better than the film, but it isn't Dan Brown's best work, IMO.



Angels and Demons is much better. :yes:



Peace,
Mystic

Wow! My son gave me Angels and Demons for Christmas!! (which I have slowly started reading)...Da Vinci - I saw the movie before I read the book; both were so full of holes that I think I needed both to understand the story.

 

[Kay]

I enjoyed the book very much. Finished it in 2 days. The movie left me feeling a bit ... meh.

 

[Mike182]

i thought the film was just cheesey, through and through. but i went to see it because of Sir Ian McKellen - always worth the watch!

 

[lilithu]

I agree. The book was waaaay better. Tom Hanks was awful. And Ian McKellen was grrreeeatt! He seemed to be the only major actor in the film who was inspired by his/her role.

I'm surprised by the people who say 'Angels and Demons' was better. I loved Angels and Demons, but felt that the timing of action sequences were a little too unbelievable. One hour left to go until doomsday and somehow he manages to race across the Vatican, find the necessary item, fight off his attackers, race up and down a maze of underground passages in the dark, back and forth... The story in Angels and Demons was more interesting but I thought that the Da Vinci Code was much more polished in its delivery.

Don't bother reading Deception Point and for the love of mercy do NOT read Digital Fortress. :cover: They both have great ideas (the dude is a genius at finding interesting plot lines) but Digital Fortress was so hackneyed and cliche in its delivery that I could barely finish the book. Brown has definately become a better and better author with practice.

 

[Booko]

After reading the book, I was very dissappointed with the movie. Tom Hanks is a great actor, but I never saw him in the lead role, and the movie didn't make that feeling go away. But wasn't Sir Ian McKellen as Leigh Teabing amazing? If it weren't for him, I probably would have turned it off half way through, since I already knew how it ended.

Yes, this was exactly my reaction. McKellen was fantastic. The movie was good, but I think could've been better. I could've dealt with Hanks as the lead, but I wonder if the directing and writing let them all down a bit? The movie lacked that page-turner drive that the book had.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

I'm glad you enjoyed it, Nate. I thought it was.......meh.........OK. And the ending left much to be desired. The book is better than the film, but it isn't Dan Brown's best work, IMO.



Angels and Demons is much better. :yes:



Peace,
Mystic

With all that talk about ritual sex, it kinda stinks that the feller didn't end up with the girl.

 

[Radio Frequency X]

Well I finally saw the DaVinci Code, and for the most part I loved it.:yes:

It's a very good story aside from a few stupid moments (like finding out you're the heir of Jesus Christ with irrefutable proof immedeately before you)... but I suppose that the book is much better.

The book was better, but Angels and Demons was even more interesting. Dan Brown is a great author, mixing history, mythology, and fiction together in a way where everything appears connected.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Two favorite lines:

From Hanks, a Harvard scholar, "I need to get to a library... fast!"

From Sophie to the killer monk: "God does not forgive murderers... he burns them!"

 

[SoyLeche]

With all that talk about ritual sex, it kinda stinks that the feller didn't end up with the girl.

In the book they at least leave it much more likely that they feller gets the girl eventually.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

In the book they at least leave it much more likely that they feller gets the girl eventually.

After all, what's the point of being in a fertility cult and not going to church?

BTW, another favorite line:

When our hero sees the star of David and says, "Just how the pagans would have wanted."

Priceless.

 

[lilithu]

BTW, another favorite line:

When our hero sees the star of David and says, "Just how the pagans would have wanted."

Priceless.

I get the impression that you like a little campiness in your religiously themed flicks. As do I. In terms of the cheese factor, I think Hellboy and Constantine top the Da Vinci Code. :cheese:

 

[angellous_evangellous]

I get the impression that you like a little campiness in your religiously themed flicks. As do I. In terms of the cheese factor, I think Hellboy and Constantine top the Da Vinci Code. :cheese:

I haven't seen either one... so I can't confirm the campiness factor.

I did think that the cheese factor in the DaVinci Code really hurt an otherwise good story.

 

[Katzpur]

I enjoyed the book very much. Finished it in 2 days. The movie left me feeling a bit ... meh.

Yeah, that's more or less what I was going to say. I'm not crazy about Tom Hanks as the romantic leading man, for one thing. He's an excellent actor, but I would have cast that role differently. I guess if you hadn't read the book, the movie would have been pretty good, but most people who saw it probably had read the book, which pretty much made the movie "a bit... meh."

 

[nutshell]

I haven't read the book and I thought the movie ridiculous. It felt like I was watching the 1966 Batman movie. Whenever they were presented with a puzzle, they just stood around and talked about if for two minutes and came up with some implossible answer out of thin air.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

I haven't read the book and I thought the movie ridiculous. It felt like I was watching the 1966 Batman movie. Whenever they were presented with a puzzle, they just stood around and talked about if for two minutes and came up with some implossible answer out of thin air.

hahahaha

I guess it wasn't stupid to me because I do that kinda thing all the time.