The Da-Vinci Code

[Caciss]

Re: The Da-Vinci Code

Meh.

[Magus]

Re: The Da-Vinci Code

Jean Reno's in it. I've got to see it.

HENRI DEMANDS I DO

[Redneck 2000]

Re: The Da-Vinci Code

The book was nothing more than a mildly interesting read.

[Kire]

Re: The Da-Vinci Code

There sure are a lot of old people in the trailer.

[Big Rick Cook]

Re: The Da-Vinci Code

There are no youngins in the novel.

Thing about Dan Brown is that he's trying to be too many things at once. He's trying to incite lots of interest in his writing by quoting a lot of fact and then spinning it off into fairy-tale land, and most people just don't understand where the fact ends and the fiction begins. Dan Brown then tries to spin an intriguing murder mystery wrapped up in puzzles and enigmas, while at the same time developing a romance that doesn't work at all. It very rarely works out when an author wants to be both insanely knowledgeable in his books and insanely good at writing fiction, and Dan Brown is no exception. He loses himself in the fact more often than not and the classical literary side falters all too often. The mystery and the suspense are pretty good, but he has a way of telling you outright when something's going to be important later on rather than letting you intimate that knowledge for yourself or allowing some crafty foreshadowing to hint around. It's just "little did he know that such-and-such information would save his life not twenty-four hours from now." I hate it when authors write like that, but that's me.

I read this book because it was given to me by my brother, who got it from a book club he's not a part of (don't ask me how that works). While Dan Brown doesn't seem to be able to write fantastically, he is capable of stringing together a story and telling it well enough that it reads incredibly fast and keeps you reading. The puzzles and the mystery shine while the prose rusts away, basically. People love it because it seems deep and philosophical and clever and ultra-historically accurate, when it isn't really any of them past a certain point. There are a few clever lines here and there, and he occasionally surprises me with some profound emotional impact, but on the whole, it falls short in too many ways for it to be as popular as it is.

I've also read the precursor to The Da-Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, also starring Robert Langdon, and I can't figure out why this isn't the book that is praised more highly than anything else he's written. This first novel about Langdon takes on an epic scope and is told much more beautifully than Da-Vinci could hope for. The puzzles are more frantic and less obvious and not as good, but the storytelling is a lot better. It is for this reason that I've decided to get Dan Brown's other novels, because between Demons and Da-Vinci, I'm intrigued to see if he can keep up and surpass himself in the departments he does well, and improve upon those he lacks real talent in.

The movie will be shortened and it will most definitely suck for having to leave out oh-so-many important plot points and historical facts.

[Jamos' Old Account]

Re: The Da-Vinci Code

I'm not really interested in this movie. I'm not saying that I think it would be a bad movie. It just seems, to me, like a movie that I would rent once it come out on dvd rather than pay 8/9 bucks to watch in the theaters.

[Obsidian]

Re: The Da-Vinci Code

Angels & Demons was alot more disturbing.

[Obsidian]

Re: The Da-Vinci Code

Just saw the Teaser, looks ****ing Ausome!!

[Magus]

Re: The Da-Vinci Code

Isn't the teaser just a bunch of Mona Lisa graphics?

[Obsidian]

Re: The Da-Vinci Code

Sorry, the teaser is nothing special. But the New trailer is what I saw, that looks amazing!!! Especialy the albino killer killing the guy in the car.