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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 2844804" data-attributes="member: 2795">Face it. This is a horrible movie based on an even worse book. Although, I suppose, this is one of those very rare instances where the movie is better than the book. Even still, the entire pile of schlock is so ridiculous as to be completely laughable. That is if it weren't so mind-numbingly dull. Heck, the movie can't even get its own title right. No one with any sense calls Leonardo "Da Vinci". Da Vinci isn't his last name; it's where he's from. What's next? The Secret Life of Stratford-Upon-Avon?Mistwell claims the movie isn't deliberately insulting, and that to prove otherwise one must quote Ron Howard being deliberately insulting. Okay. Fine. It's not deliberately insulting. Ron Howard was completely clueless that anyone would find the work patently offensive.The movie claims the Catholic Church is run by liars and murderers, Howard's attempts to nuance with the presence of sympathetic elements this notwithstanding. It also unequivocally states that the central doctrines of the Catholic Church are the fabrication of cabal of women-hating bishops in cahoots with Constantine. This isn't insulting, both to general civility as well as the intelligence? Of course it is.How would I have improved the movie? I'd have not filmed it. I'd have made a serious push to the film rights for a good conspiracy theory book, such as Foucault's Pendulum, instead.</blockquote>