Saw DaVinci Code

[Firebeetle]

As some of you know, I'm a projectionist as my part-time gig and we showed DaVinci for the employees last night.

I have NOT read the book (a rarity for me) so I don't know how it stacks against it. My friend who attended had and was satisfied although a lot was taken out apparently.

As a movie, there was a rumor that this movie must stink because the company wasn't doing advanced screenings. I don't see that at all. I really enjoyed it. It looks terrific, well-directed, excellent acting, characters are conveyed well, and the mystery is top notch. I really appreciate the academic nature of it. This movie is a lot like "National Treasure" with an IQ.

Anyone planning on seeing it opening night? I'm tempted to "check the print" again tonight. (we did have a bad frame in reel 3 )

 

[mmu1]

Nope... Not going to see it, ever. (well, that's not quite true, if I was told I'd get to hit Don Brown in the nuts with a baseball bat after the screening, I probably would)

The book managed to insult my intelligence, offend my vestigial religious sensibilities, and bore me, all at the same time. I tossed it in the garbage, because I don't have a backyard to burn it in.

 

[jester47]

I will prolly check it out. I have been waiting for a dramatization of Focoult's Pendulum for a long time...

 

[Kralin Thornberry]

I'm planning on seeing it, actually already have my tickets.

Thought it was a "good" book, not excellent, not great, but good. The religious "changes" didn't bother me, since I picked up the book in the FICTION section, and I know that fiction means (loosely) not factual.

 

[Firebeetle]

I've decided to pick up the book as a result of the movie. I've always been a religious reformer (I asked the uncomforable questions in Sunday School) and appreciate a non-dogmatic view of Christ more than the next guy. I know it offends some people. I have lots more to say on the subject, but that would violate our no religion/politics rule.

As for a dramatization of Foucault's Pendalum (spoilers) it's not in there buddy, sorry. Was that in the book?

 

[Roudi]

Not to get too far off-topic, but...

mmu1, how did The DaVinci Code insult your intelligence? I read the book recently and, my own criticisms of the work aside, it never insulted my intelligence.

 

[Arnwyn]

Rental.

 

[Henry]

I don't know about opening night, but I may yet see it. If not, I'll definitely rent it, just because Tom Hanks always turns in a pretty good performance in most any movie he's in.

 

[Bront]

I'll be seeing it next monday or tuesday.

My father, who I think is a fairly intellegent person, enjoyed the book (though he said Angels and Devils was much better). And personaly, given that the book is FICTION, I don't see how it can insult someone on the religious basis, as it's not something the author states as trueths, or that he even believes it.

 

[mmu1]

Not to get too far off-topic, but...

mmu1, how did The DaVinci Code insult your intelligence? I read the book recently and, my own criticisms of the work aside, it never insulted my intelligence.

Oh, let's see... The main character's smug little lectures that read like something a sophomore liberal arts major might regurgitate, the fact he was asking me to take a "symbologist" seriously (admittedly, a lot of this is my own bias, but being a science person, I find a lot of other academic disciplines nothing but a way of keeping sociology and philosophy majors from starving to death), the idea that a mystery that was designed so that most readers could solve stuff along with the characters actually stumped the police...

In general, I thought Brown wasn't just asking the readers to suspend their disbelief, he was asking them to suspend their critical thinking and logical reasoning, while spoon-feeding them the story.