Finally saw the DaVinci Code

[lilithu]

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.

The book was much better at explaining how they got to a solution. That's one of the hardest things to translate from text into film, a person's thought processes. Too much voice-over naration often comes across as cheezy. (Tho it worked in BladeRunner) and too much dialogue in a movie slows down the plot.

What I really liked about the Da Vinci code and Angels and Demons is how the writing leads the reader to the same realization as the protagonists at about the same time. When something is obvious to the reader but not to the protagonist (because it would have derailed the plotline if they figured it out too soon), the protagonist appears stupid. That's my main complaint about Digital Fortress. Otoh, when the protagonist seems to pull a solution out of a magic hat and you can't see where it came from, that's annoying too. But in the book version of the Da Vinci code, the author leads you to the same conclusions, while still maintaining the believability that the protagonist has more knowledge about the subject than we do.