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12 Responses to “The Da Vinci Code movie is really really bad”

1. Twosret Says:
   May 19th, 2006 at 11:50 am

   what an idiot Tom Hanks is to take this role in the first place. Lousy story!

2. Hyscience Says:
   May 19th, 2006 at 4:39 pm

   Da Vinci Code Reviews Keep Coming In - It’s Still Getting Crucified

   I’m one of the >12 people in the country not to see the DVC, and have no plans of rewarding Ron Howard for a bad movie. As for the book, I haven’t read that either, so Dan Brown won’t be getting any of my bucks either.

3. hebe Says:
   May 19th, 2006 at 5:23 pm

   im not suprised , it was an amusing light read with a very predicatble ‘benevolent villa’n mystery plot with some interesting historic bits and clunky prose not very filmable material

4. nomad Says:
   May 19th, 2006 at 6:50 pm

   quand la mauvaise litterature accouche d’une grosse merd.

   http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-766360,36-772600,0.html?xtor=RSS-3208

5. Don Cox Says:
   May 19th, 2006 at 7:05 pm

   It is quite rare for a good film to be made from a good (or even a “fun read”) book. The two media are too different.

   If you must have a literary source, a short story or a fairy tale is a better bet, so that it can be _expanded_ to make a film, rather than having to hack most of the original out.

   There are some thrillers which were obviously written deliberately with an eye on the film rights, and are planned out like film scripts, but these ate the exception.

6. nomad Says:
   May 19th, 2006 at 7:36 pm

   I don’t think the da vinci code is an inspiring book, it was only a purpose of money

   if you go in books shops, it ‘ s amazing the number of that kind of plots that have emerged thince the past two years ; hehe, the authors think they may also get the jackpot

7. Anna in Cairo Says:
   May 21st, 2006 at 5:25 am

   Teh book may be about an interesting subject but the writing was totally the worst. He’s an absolutely terrible writer. I was not expecting much from the movie, given that the characters in the book were so shallow they were more like comic characters than anything else. Since the book was so superficial what hope was there for the movie. And also, I read two others of his books and they were no better (Angels and Demons, and Deception Point) - what is the matter with me for keeping on reading Dan Brown???

8. Winston Says:
   May 21st, 2006 at 6:08 am

   bad and boring…

9. Suzanne Says:
   May 21st, 2006 at 5:15 pm

   The book was mainly focussed on symbols and mysterious hystorical hypotheses and not about elaborating on the characters. Too bad the movie focused more on the characters and less at the mysterie. No wonder the movie appeared to be shallow.

   And btw, the woman is supposed to be the one cracking codes and being smart and all that. Didn’t see that in the movie.

10. srf chick Says:
    May 22nd, 2006 at 8:48 am

    i read the book and the angels and demons one, which is a better story..and saw the movie tonite and really people, it is what it is..i agree he’s not the best writer but the story was interesting and so if you were intrigued with that then the movie was pretty darn true to the book. i thought it had some good action and all but yeah seems you needed to read the book first to really be able to follow the movie well. I think all the hype is whats making people feel like they have to bash it but look, even national geographic is devoting a week to ‘breaking the codes’ in the da vinci code so as they say, any publicity, even bad..is good publicity. ok lets all go see ‘over the hedge’ now!

11. Anna in Cairo Says:
    May 22nd, 2006 at 12:15 pm

    Hm, like the Harry Potter movies (you have to read the book or you are pretty much lost with the movies). However unlike Dan Brown JK Rowling is what I would call a good author (and she has gotten steadily better with each book - has anyone else noticed that), and she does not pretend she is writing a mature book for adults.

12. freedom=peace Says:
    June 29th, 2006 at 12:11 pm

    i think the DVC movie was pretty good and yeah i agree suzanne, the women was ment to be the one cracking the codes but seems like she hardely did anything!!

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