Read the book and found it entertaining, among many fictional novels I have read this month.
Might see the movie tomorrow because wifey wants to go, because she didn't read the book, but will try to stay home and stack firewood.
This is fiction, and pretend, and I am not worried about being traduced by a book or a movie. The caterwalling about it is free advertising. In two months the movie will be forgotten and the next big "scandel" will come along.
The theory that Christ had a woman? So what, pretending is not sacrelige. Its just that today so many people would LIKE to think he had a woman , who influenced his spirituality, just as they often do today. Yesterday everyone wanted him to be chaste, single and pure and today they see sacredness in union.
Maybe seeing sacredness in union might just help save the institution of marriage, look at the upside!
I suppose that offends many, but not me.
It'll be forgotten a whole lot sooner than that. The caterwauling is being drowned out by the virtually universal derision for this ponderous, pretentious dud of a movie. Even liberal critics like the guy at the Minneapolis Star Tribune ("Long and Winding Code" is his title) are lining up to bury this offal. It's simply. . . embarrassingly . . . awful.