DaVinci Code panned at Cannes Film Festival.

[demosincebirth]

I read the book and didn't think much of it.



http://movies.msn.com/movies/cannes06/davincicode_critics

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. I read about 20 pages,and

tossed it. It was unreadable, at least in my opinion.

You just knew the movie would suck, didn't you?

[demosincebirth]

2. I'll go see it just to prove myself right.

[ikojo]

3. I don't expect much considering they have

Tom Hanks as the lead. From what little of the book I read, I thought the Tom Hanks character, the American professor was supposed to be attractive..Tom Hanks is far from that. In my mind I saw the professor as being similar to the Indiana Jones character in the first Indiana Jones movie where he is teaching in the class room and it's a class full of women who think Indy is hot.

[Cleita]

9. Harrison Ford would have been great if he were

thirty years younger.

[Hardrada]

4. Out of curiousity, how would you rank it with GWTW??

Another book that has sold a gadzillion copies and in its first printing state is worth rather a lot.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

6. I've never read GWTW

I've seen the movie, though.

[Hardrada]

12. I consider them both pseudo-histories

and just wonder what quality it is that people latch onto so enthusiastically. I suppose I'll just have to actually read them. I suppose I should read Mein Kampf too, for that matter. All these books I hear about but no one including me has ever actually read!

[OldLeftieLawyer]

15. I write professionally

and my literary agent says that the easiest manuscripts to sell these days are "historical fiction." Not history, mind you, but fiction pretending to be history.

She says people who read these things "actually think they're learning something."

Doesn't that just say it all for these days under Fuckface?

You do NOT have to read Da Vince Code. Trust me. Save yourself. It's awful.

You don't have to read Mein Kampf, either, unless you speed read. Trust me on that one.

[Hardrada]

17. I will take your word for it on the DVC.

I am a writer myself but an historian who once used to read fiction. Now I see I am constrained by time to read only what is relevant to my projects. For that reason I might read Mein Kampf since Hitler also was dealing with what was essentially a crisis of the bourgeois class, however vile and inhuman his answers were. But then I should have to study the other ideologies with more attention than I have given them. A quandary... but it won't keep me from my other work necessarily since I can get through anything I deem useful with relative ease (not, of course reading every single abstruse footnote!!).

[Hokie]

5. I read the book, it was so so

I understand the movie has been watered down to placate the Christians by adding verbiage that softens assertions that Christ was not divine (aka supernatural). I think this is one that I will not pay to see but wait until the DVD hits the shelf in local library.

[Cleita]

11. I read the whole thing and Brown isn't a good writer.

However, he knows how to get people turning the pages so I knew right away it would make a good movie plot and was not surprised that Hollywood snapped it up. More money for everyone. However, the plot isn't classy. It's more Mission Impossible than Sherlock Holmes. I can see why the Cannes crowd didn't take to it. However, it will probably make lots of money as a matinee popcorn flick. Let's hope the Xtian censors lighten up and just let flotsam be flotsam.

[mykpart]

16. He really isn't a good writer.

I kept wanting to circle all the errors in red and give him a grade. But I did read the book all the way through, 'cause I wanted to see how it turned out. Only when I got to the end, it was pretty predictible, so that was disappointing. But the "treasure hunt" aspect was fun.

[allalone]

7. I figured the film would be a stinker

when I heard who they cast. It's better as a book because you can go back to figure out what the hell they're talking about.

[insane_cratic_gal]

8. I actually think the film would be better!

the book sucked.. clever plot stolen from half a dozen different books. Lets be honest all Brown did was stitch them together badly with flat writing, undercooked characters.

I expect if anyone could bring this plot to life, Howard would be that man. I'll go see out of spite of the Roman catholic church making such a fuss over the idea of Jesus being human and having SEX! (gasp)


I didn't think that Gibsons, Christ was all that. Watching a man be beaten to death for 3.5 hrs wasn't a walk in the park either. Yes he was a Martyr and people still treat his memory like it was nothing to get wacked with glass for 2 days straight.

[Justice]

10. yeah, it just wasn't funny....

sorry, couldn't resist - the parallels between Colbert's performance and this movie - when you want to stop people from watching, just saying it was bad, not funny.

[annm4peace]

14. I loved the book, and want to see the movie!!!!!

It might not be great literature, but as someone who has had a chance to go to Europe, I really enjoyed this simple mystery book. It is just a fictional book with suspense and a little romance. I don't know who these freaks are who act like it was a non-fiction book. I'm Catholic and have no problem with the story... and Paleeeese.. I would not read this book as a history book.
** I am really looking forward to the movie and seeing the paintings on the big screen. Sorry folks.. sitting through some BBC documentary on the Louve just might bore me,, but I am looking forward to this movie. If anything I would think Da Vinci fans would be more insulted than Christians. And by the way there are tons of things I can not stand about the Patriarchy of the Catholic church and I often wonder why I stay in it. I would love it if it were true about Mary Magdalene.. and I would especially love it if we had a Woman Pope.. it would be a much better world. (sorry for all the misspellings)

[gatorboy]

13. I was wondering if I was the only one that thought it was pretty average.

I mean without the "issue", the book has nothing going for it. The set-up is almost exactly like Brown's first book and there was nothing of real interest thriller-wise going on. I got half way through and was bored to tears...

I still don't see what they could do to make this any more exciting on the screen...