Have tickets to go see it Saturday. Will try to post my review by Sunday.
I did not read the book, "The Da Vinci Code". I did read, "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" (mentioned in the Da Vinci Code) about ten years ago. The HBHG book really had me -- a total page-turner until they revealed that "the Grail" was the "bloodline of Jesus Christ & Mary Magdeline's coupling". Then it was like the bad punchline to a very long but interesting joke -- "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Noooooooooooooooo".
Since the DVC book, there have been multiple documentaries on debunking it's theory. I have studied Christian theology for many years, so instintinctively, I knew that the premise was crap from the HBHG book. Yet, when I was in Italy last October, our guide still felt it necessary to point out to all where, in the DVC book, someone was supposed to have jumped out af a building into the river, but the building and the river were many blocks apart so it was totally impossible. (Like there were those "who needed to know".)
What I find sad about DVC is that so many people seem bent on finding some real "theological mystery revealed" in a simple novel. Are we really that pathetic and easily led, as a people that we are willing to believe any complicated nonsense?
I am seeing the film because a friend of mine bought tickets for us, just assuming that we would want to see it because everyone else does. And all I am looking for in the film is "entertainment value" -- not some preposterous "truth" from what is admittedly "fiction"! If it entertains me, I'll be happy. If it doesn't, I won't. I'll let you know.