The Da Vinci Code

[polkablues]

Bad: Am I going to have to pay for a damn ticket before I get to hear Audrey Tautou speak English?

Or you could rent Dirty Pretty Things.

Oh, yeah.  Forgot about that one.   

It also proved to me that I don't really need to see the movie at all.  More than likely, I will, but I don't need to.

It's better than that, though.  Because once the movie comes out, it means no one will ever need to read Dan Brown's shitty prose ever again.  Ron Howard is saving the world from bad literature!

[Pubrick]

the da vinci who?

[grand theft sparrow]

It also proved to me that I don't really need to see the movie at all.  More than likely, I will, but I don't need to.

It's better than that, though.  Because once the movie comes out, it means no one will ever need to read Dan Brown's shitty prose ever again.  Ron Howard is saving the world from bad literature!

He's too late.  That damn book came out over 2 years ago and I still see people on the subway reading it or other Dan Brown books.  And it's misleading to use the word "literature."  He writes novel-length script treatments.  Or rather the same novel-length script treatment over and over again with different objects and occasionally characters thrown in. 

the da vinci who?

It's like Shakespeare in Love, just with Da Vinci and the Mona Lisa. 

[pete]

it's like every Americans' fantasy--the Everyman using his wit to outwit those snobby Frenchmen who love art and literature and other things the Good Americans won't stand for--and that includes Jesus.  It's like when they have the British asshole on American idol.  It's a joyless, humorless Indiana Jones.

[Ultrahip]

come on, the last chapter was pretty fucking hilarious.

[Pubrick]

come on, the last chapter was pretty fucking hilarious.

i've been told that if i'm gonna read this crap i should only read the last chapter. is it worth the effort?

[Ultrahip]

nope.

[grand theft sparrow]

from imdb trivia:

"24" (2001) creator Joel Surnow thought that "The DaVinci Code" would provide a great storyline for the show's third season. Surnow asked his boss, producer Brian Grazer about acquiring the film rights to the book. Author Dan Brown had no intention of his book being adapted for a TV show, and rejected their bid. Months later, Sony Pictures paid $6 million for the book and hired Grazer as producer.

[polkablues]

come on, the last chapter was pretty fucking hilarious.

i've been told that if i'm gonna read this crap i should only read the last chapter. is it worth the effort?

Definitely, definitely not.

[grand theft sparrow]

come on, the last chapter was pretty fucking hilarious.

i've been told that if i'm gonna read this crap i should only read the last chapter. is it worth the effort?

Definitely, definitely not.

I disagree.  Next time you're at the library, pick it up, read the last chapter, put it back, and take out Foucault's Pendulum instead.  That way, it's not noted anywhere that you took out Da Vinci Code, you didn't pay any money for it, and you can avoid seeing the movie and not ever wonder in the slightest that you're missing out on something. 

[polkablues]

No, seeing the movie should be okay, since it's a fun story, just bad, awful, atrocious prose.  And on the screen, you don't have to be worried about being poisoned by Dan Brown's writing.





...just Akiva Goldsman's.

[Sal]

I'm only seeing this because of Tom's hair.

[Pubrick]

come on, the last chapter was pretty fucking hilarious.

i've been told that if i'm gonna read this crap i should only read the last chapter. is it worth the effort?

Definitely, definitely not.

I disagree.  Next time you're at the library, pick it up, read the last chapter, put it back, and take out Foucault's Pendulum instead.  That way, it's not noted anywhere that you took out Da Vinci Code, you didn't pay any money for it, and you can avoid seeing the movie and not ever wonder in the slightest that you're missing out on something. 

haha ok. i've decided i won't read the book, i'll just watch the last 10 minutes of the movie. 

[polkablues]

I've heard the book's worth reading for the hilarity factor alone. Is it?

Possibly.

If the idea of a novel in which it takes a world-renowned symbology professor and a professional cryptographer 30 pages to figure out that the code they're trying to crack is BACKWARDS WRITING tickles your fancy, by all means pick it up.  It's full of groan-worthy moments like that.

[ono]

If the idea of a novel in which it takes a world-renowned symbology professor and a professional cryptographer 30 pages to figure out that the code they're trying to crack is BACKWARDS WRITING tickles your fancy, by all means pick it up. It's full of groan-worthy moments like that.

Backwards "hold-it-to-a-mirror," or backwards "sdrawkcab?"