I enjoyed the book “The DaVinci Code” as an interesting fiction, but the movie was just awful: Tom Hanks and that female lead were like cardboard cutouts, and it was boring.
everyone i know said oh you HAVE to read the di vinci code it is sooooo good. i read the book. it was mediocre and i was bored by a good half of it. i never bothered with the movie. i will skip this one from the start. wasting my time with boring drivel is not on my list of fun things to do.
Too much contemporary fiction is written with the screen play/movie rights in mind; explosions replace intrigue, and the medium suffers. Umberto Eco published Foucault's Pendulum in the late '80s and provided a much better treatment of the Templers, secret societies and their sub rosa manipulation of history. Whereas Brown took a lot of liberties with his art history, Eco pieced together snippets of actual historical documents and produced a much more cerebral novel.
FWIW, Eco is not exactly a fan of Roman Catholicism either, but a much better author than Brown.
I found it interesting enough. It has some twists and turns that were unexpected. The only films I’ve seen lately that were really good were Second Hand Lions and Taking Chance. Great movies.
The Da Vinci Code is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It stinks.
A friend of mine is a movie buff and he insists Ron Howard is the most boring director ever.