My daughter and I saw it as she has to do the review for her college paper. The theater at the 1:15 showing was about 3/4 or more full for a Sunday afternoon.
They changed some from the book especially near the ending.
Tom Hanks turned out okay but he was too stiff at the beginning, and I think someone else would have done a better job. After seeing the movie, anyone that doesn't think it is a piece of fiction, doesn't have a clue and their faith is not very strong. It was a good MOVIE, but I have seen better.
Paradoxically, I think the controversy helped educate people about the reliability of the Bible.
I'm not so sure that Brown hadn't hoped to convince people, however, of the feasibility of his theory.
I haven't read the book and I'm not going to see the movie so I won't judge it. But from what I've read about them they seem to go out of their way to insult my faith, and it's not like they haven't done that before.
That is exactly what our son and his wife told us this afternoon.
They had read the book before hand, so they knew about it going in.
Word for word, thats funny.
We have a winner!
We saw it today, too. Of course the book was better, but it was a good movie, much as one would expect of Tom Hanks and Ron Howard. With all the backlash around here, it's amazing we all got out without being buzzed by a single locust. A Baptist church group had a showing reserved, so they weren't boycotting it, not to mention there are many preachers who are using the controversy to open dialog and laughing at those who can't get their minds around that's it's fiction.