[Choose Ye This Day]

So far, after listening to most of the audio book, I'd give it half a star. What a lousy novel. Dan Brown is a talentless chimp. Had it not been for the controversial subject matter, nobody would have read this thing.

I'm not about to waste $8 abd 2.5 hours of my life to see it rehashed on screen.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Andy needs to kick Opie's ass.

[TheCrusader]

Many Americans will never intellectually grow beyond MTV and American Idol, that's why the movie version of the book came out so quickly. If you're going to kick up a lying, blasphemous storm against Christ and the Catholic Church, you can't do it with print alone, you need a movie too.

[goldstategop]

Its not even faithful to the novel. A pity that such excellent stars get wasted in this big budget flop of a summer epic.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

[LowOiL]

Our town movie theather went bankrupt last week. Couldn't of picked a better time IMHO.

[Swordmaker]

If, as the dVC would have it, Jesus was merely a man with no Divinity, why does his umptyeth Greatgranddaughter have healing powers, as hinted at in dVC?

Is the divine spirit present in the DNA?

But, no, accrording to Dan Brown, et al, Jesus of Nazareth was just a man, no more divine than John Doe... ergo, his umptyeth Greatgranddaughter would be no different than the umptyeth greatgranddaughter of anybody from that time.

IF, then Jesus was nothing Divine, WHY would his wife be anything special?

Maybe the divinity only exists in the females of the line? Then Jesus was just a front man for his wife's startling abilities... and it was really Mary Magdalene who walked on water... oh, that must be a lie... who changed water into wine... oh, too many witnesses... (Holy Blood, Holy Grail says the wedding in Cana was JC's and MM's wedding!)

Let's see, another problem... a couple with one daughter having progeny over 1970 or so years... somehow results in only ONE umptyeth G'grandchild? Haven't these people heard about geometric progression? Gee, if each generation's offspring each only had two children, one boy, one girl, and only count the girls' offspring of one boy, one girl, how many Umptyeth Grandchildren of Jesus and Mary Mag would there eventually be? Let's figure a generation every 20 years... 97 generations... wouldn't that be 2⁹⁶ descendents with the first 2 G'g'children popping out in about 53AD to 56AD... and 4 more in 73AD to 77AD... and 8 more 20-26 years later... andso on????? How many Jesus descendant might their be in in the 95th generation 2006???

Assuming only 4 generations (0 to ~80 years of age) alive at any one time (and assuming miraculous healing and life, then the answer would be 2⁹⁴ minus 2⁹¹ living offspring... 19,807,040,628,600,000,000,000,000,000 minus 2,475,880,078,570,000,000,000,000,000 or about 17,331,160,550,000,000,000,000,000,000 Umptyeth G'Grandchildren... and since there are only about 6,000,000,000 people on Earth, then we ARE ALL Descendants of JC and MM... and we are up to our eyeballs in cousins...

Now, I may have added or dropped a generation or a few zeros here and there... but you get the idea... The most absurd idea of all is that there would be only ONE heir.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

This movie will have zero impact on true believers. It may even be a blessing, getting nonbelievers to start investigating the truth about Christ for themselves. And that will lead them to God's plan of salvation and redemption from this cursed world, and the fallen, sinful nature we are born into.

[beaversmom]

Da Vinci review ping

[1955Ford]

Michael makes two uncharacteristic but glaring spelling errors.

"the world would be a better place of Christian faith collapsed,"

"much of this trivia coalescences into large,"

"of" should be "is" and "coalescences" should be "coalesces"

[beaversmom]

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[beaversmom]

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[Taxman]

The book is an amusing work of FICTION!

Picture this: DaVinci painted the Last Supper roughly 1500 years after Jesus was crucified. Exactly how does a person who was not an eye witness to the Last Supper gain any credence whatsoever?

I enjoyed reading it, but to take the book (and/or the painting) as a scholarly piece of work borders on the absurd/insane.

Nothing to see here, folks. Move on.

[Caleb1411]

As a piece of cinema, THE DA VINCI CODE is just barely competent enough to influence some gullible audience members to question the ancient story of the Gospels. If the movie represents the beginning of that questioning process, it could spark a religious awakening in some viewers, but director Ron Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman (who did such wonderful work in last year’s superb “Cinderella Man”) offer smug, supercilious conclusions, not vital or vigorous challenges.

As I mentioned on this thread, it's almost too easy to pile a few more pejoratives on this stinker.

[BritExPatInFla]

Damn, the 'Flop' took in $77 Mil last weekend, I wonder how much more it really was when you figure in the offended Christians that were going to intentionally buy tickets to other movies and then sneak into DVC for 'research purposes'.

[David Allen]

When the Da Vinci Code book first came out, a friend was telling me about it. When he got to the part where the bloodline of Christ was supposedly in France, I told him to stop, right then.

Any story that goes from Jesus to some smelly, French aristocrat is a steaming pile of ... what is that stuff?

Sorry, but I cannot suspend disbelief that much.

[steve-b]

screenwriter Akiva Goldsman (who did such wonderful work in last year's superb "Cinderella Man")

Alas, it appears that he has instead repeated the dreadful quality of Batman & Robin and Lost In Space.