The Da Vinci Code (Variety movie review)

Variety ^ | May 16, 2006 | Todd McCarthy

[siunevada]

Sounds boring.

[FormerACLUmember]

Mega-turkey Alert! Having read the dreadful book, you couldn't pay me to relive my agonizing pain by watching the movie.

[Waverunner]

As soon as someone knows who jesus's descendant is supposed to be, ( they laughed at it during the film festival) post it, so we can spread it around, insuring that fewer people will go to see it for such a crappy climax.

[astoundedlib]

Pretty anxious to read the book and then see the movie...Form what i have read, the only critics who didn't like it were, either religious or people who didn't read the book, and didn't understand a thing...But as per the critics of the book, the plot seems incredibly interesting.

Best regards.

[Sans-Culotte]

The book consists of a lot of dialogue. On the page, this is pretty interesting, at least as opposed to pages of dry description. However, when translated to a movie, there is the danger of the story becoming too talky.

[My Favorite Headache]

Well it's Wednesday...doesn't the film officially release on Friday? I doubt the bad press will do anything to prevent a 75 million dollar opening. All the brainwashed dunces who think this book is so amazing wil flood theaters to see it.

The book was boring in so many ways. I can't imagine the film doing anything to improve on that.

[pabianice]

The Steven King Curse. Most of his richly entertaining books became boring movies.

[Ptarmigan]

The book is long and too much dialogue and details, even for me. I felt many of them were unnecessary.

[Mr. Lucky]

You don't really consider Variety an organ of the Christian right, do you?

[steve-b]

As soon as someone knows who jesus's descendant is supposed to be

[eureka!]

"Pretty anxious to read the book and then see the movie...Form what i have read, the only critics who didn't like it were, either religious or people who didn't read the book, and didn't understand a thing...But as per the critics of the book, the plot seems incredibly interesting. Best regards."

I'm with you. Those wacky religious zealots at Cannes make me sick. They want a theocracy, not a democracy. And they own stock in Diebold. And they drowned the passengers of Flight 77 in the Atlantic to cover the Predator drone that slammed into the Pentagon on 9-11....

[siunevada]

I doubt the bad press will do anything to prevent a 75 million dollar opening.

Yeah, there really isn't much competition. Nothing similar as far as new releases. A slasher and a PG animated. MI III will still be selling some tickets.

In a couple of weeks it will be Memorial Day weekend and the DVC movie will be old news.

[Draco]

As soon as someone knows who jesus's descendant is supposed to be, ( they laughed at it during the film festival) post it

Let's post our guesses of Christ's descendant (apparently the last one, a statistical improbablity) alive on earth today. The person is probably French. Is Jaqueline Bisset French? Bridgette Bardot? It couldn't be Jacques Chirac, could it?

[joylyn]

Maybe its Oprah.

[Califelephant]

This review points out some similarities between "Da Vinci Code" and "Protocols of the Elders of Zion".

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDY0YmNhMjc5YThmZWIxY2VjNmM3MWE0YjU1MDFhYTg=

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Pretty anxious to read the book and then see the movie...

I tried to read it, but the writing is at the third-grade level.

The fact that it is so popular is because so many people who read it were functionally illiterate and reading a novel for the first time in their lives.

Naturally they would think it was great.

[Revolting cat!]

Tomorrow's (VARIETY) headline today:

Code -- a Dud!

[Revolting cat!]

The fact that it is so popular is because so many people who read it were functionally illiterate and reading a novel for the first time in their lives.

Bears repeating. The lowest common denominator is the winner every time in mass popular culture.

[brownsfan]

"The lowest common denominator is the winner every time in mass popular culture."

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

- H.L. Mencken

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