[NavyCanDo]

Imagine the bomb this movie could have been if not for the attention brought to it by the public outcry to boycott it. The banned in Boston effect was in play.

[mjolnir]

Imagine the bomb this movie could have been if not for the attention brought to it by the public outcry to boycott it. The banned in Boston effect was in play.

I doubt that public criticism had much to do with it. Whether or not WE think the Da Vinci Code is stupid fluff and shouldn't be taken seriously, hundreds of thousands of people do take it seriously. It's sold more than 40 million copies in hardcover and I can tell you from experience in my classes that it is taken very, very seriously by tons of college students, especially female college students. This movie was a blockbuster waiting to happen, as the Left Behind books might also have been had they received the hype, production values and talent behind the Da Vinci movie. True, the book sucks. It was still very popular-- nobody should be surprised that a movie based on it is very popular as well.

[Arkinsaw]

Imagine the bomb this movie could have been if not for the attention brought to it by the public outcry to boycott it. The banned in Boston effect was in play.

Yeah, this is faddish pap. It will be forgotten very shortly....old news.....languishing at $5.99 in the DVD store bargain bin along with Mars Attacks!. The controversy has attracted a lot of people who have never read the book to go see it. But it's a bad movie.

Just as "The Last Temptation of Christ" had no lasting social impact whatsoever, despite the controversy, this one won't either. The only thing the controversy has done is earn the author and creators a few more bucks over the next few weeks. The ultimate outcome, other than the extra bucks, is the same.....$5.99 in the bargain bin.

[Antoninus]

Imagine the bomb this movie could have been if not for the attention brought to it by the public outcry to boycott it. The banned in Boston effect was in play.

Not a chance. This movie got all the free publicity it ever could have wanted. The major media couldn't stop talking about it. Even our local news was doing segments on it.

[RobbyS]

Forgetting the huge fan base that the book has, which is because it plays to the gnosticism of so many millions of American "Christians" and Jews. Not to mention the "New Agers" for whom the Catholic Church is their bete noir. The intelligensia knows that it is slock, but even for them it serves the purpose of making Christianity seem ridiculous and feeds their delusion that radical Islam cannot possibly be a real threat.