I think I would have enjoyed the movie a lot more if I had NOT read the book first. Since the book was based on the suprise, twist ending, the movie was kinda ruined for me a little bit. That being said, I was suprised at how faithfully they stayed to the book. There were only a few things they strayed from, and they were pretty minor points.
I don't know if the "surprise twist ending" was such a big deal for the book. Hell, I thought the movie version of the ending was a hundred times better than Dan Brown's description. Obviously a movie has a lot more power in going with images and edited cuts to convey messages in a short amount of time. But even for a book medium, I found the book's ending to be tacked on and muddled. But the movie version really conveyed the moment where he had an epiphany and figured out the final puzzle. (Shrugs)
I didn't read the book, but did see a History channel show on the DC...I enjoyed the movie...It was a little slow and long, and I though someone other than Tom Hanks should have played the role, but overal, a thumbs up...
I've actually enjoyed all the shows on the Discovery channel that the book and movie have inspired more than the book or movie itself. Most say that Brown's "theories" are a bunch of hooey, and a lot of "facts" that he basis his fiction on are just plain incorrect, but they at least go track down the places and things in the book and give an actual historical perspective on things. That being said, I am not bothered by anything the book claims one way the other, and I was hoping some of the things might be true. But alas, the Discovery channel has knocked a bunch of it down.
Saw the movie this weekend, average at best, the pacing was horrible. I thought it was pretty basic with no real surprises. Ian McKellen was great in it.
Well you have to admit that the addition of Buford T. Justice chasing Robert Langdon around was a great touch.
Saw the movie and was not impressed. It's your typical anti-Christian movie coming out of Hollywood these days. Not as offensive as The Last Temptation of Christ or Dogma, but the allusions to Christianity and the Catholic church as being false is pretty apparent. Save your money for the new X-men and the new Superman movie coming out later in the summer as a better choice...
Interesting take. What hinted you in that direction, the "Divine Jesus = Farce" part or the "Vatican covered everything up" section.
As a Catholic, I disagree. The movie actually went far to say that some of the things mentioned were only theories. The book didn't do this. Anytime Teabing said something bad about the church, Langdon said it wasn't a sure thing. The book has no such dialogue.
Both. I'm not a Catholic, although my parents are, but it's seems like Hollywood loves to produce movies that disparage the Christian religion. When movies like Passion of the Christ and The Chronicles of Narnia come out the atheists and liberals scream that these movies are racist, deceitfull, and just plain evil. How come Hollywood feels like its okay to attack Christians, yet Jews and Muslims are off limits...
Yeah, I admit the movie was far more sensitive to the Christian faith than the book ever was. Ron Howard at least tried to present a more favorable view of the Catholic Church and Christianity than Dan Brown ever did in his book.
Without going all D&D in here, I agree with you but there's this pesky Freedom of Speech thing here in America. They can make whatever movies they wish.
You seem to live in a different reality on this. FYI, the controversy and outcry for DVC, Last Temptation of Christ, Harry Potter, etc. were much larger than for Narnia or Passion.
No, I would say there was as much controversy and outcry for every single one of those movie mentioned. I remember Jewish groups going nuts over Passion, atheist groups proclaiming Narnia as a Christian tool for conversion and Philip Pullman denounced the movie as propaganda, just as much for The Da Vinci Code and The Last Temptation...although I never remember any outcry for the Harry Potter movies...
Do you remember the outcry for the books? I'm not being rude because I don't remember it for Narnia so who am I to say you don't remember it for Harry Potter.
Pretty much exactly what I was thinking as well... great breakdown. I read the book, definitely thought it was a great story and made you think (and even made you appreciate some ancient works of art in a new light)... and it was just flat-out interesting. The movie kept true to the book... giving some good visual aids to the descriptions of the historical background of the "grail", and how the battle for it supposedly came about. In the end, I was entertained... and you can't really ask for much more out of a movie than that.
free speech goes both ways. people can and always will say you should watch/read/listen to something. even if they may be wrong its still there right to do so.
So if I were to accept this as true (I don't since Christians vastly outnumber any other groups in the US - not to mention the power their organizations have) wouldn't that negate your earlier comment about it being ok for Hollywood to be "anti-Christianity"? You are now saying the negative reaction is the same for movies pro and anti, just from different groups.
