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The shocking secret of 'The Da Vinci Code': It stinks
St. Paul Pioneer Press ^
| May 21, 2006
| DOMINIC P. PAPATOLA
Posted on 05/23/2006 9:42:06 AM PDT by Caleb1411
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To: Caleb1411
I enjoyed the book for the pure entertainment of it. That being said, the movie was flat out bad. It held none of the same entertainment value that the book had (which is always the case).
To: Caleb1411
Almost unfair, it is. Like shooting fish in a barrel. Like hunting for clams on the beach with a shotgun.
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posted on
05/23/2006 10:04:40 AM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
(Colossians 4:6)
To: Froufrou
Yeah, I was one of those. They kept telling me that the book must be good because of the number of copies sold.
I haven't read DVC. But I did read Deception Point and part of Angels and Demons. Deception Point is his finest work, and it's mediocre at best. Angels and Demons was so bad that I quit reading it after about 100 pages. And I never, ever, quit reading a book unless it's truly horrible. Angels and Demons took its place next to Battlefield Earth as one of the worst books ever. In short, Dan Brown just ain't a very good author.
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posted on
05/23/2006 10:05:01 AM PDT
by
JamesP81
To: Caleb1411
What the heck is a "kerfuffle"?
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posted on
05/23/2006 10:06:52 AM PDT
by
diamond6
(Everyone who is for abortion have been born. Ronald Reagan)
To: Froufrou
sad that Hanks finally is in a flop, though... You must have missed "The Terminal." Obviously most everyone else did.
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posted on
05/23/2006 10:07:11 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Florida Gators - 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions)
To: Caleb1411
He was attending to works with greater literary heft.Which apparently never included a newspaper.
To: Caleb1411
To call the thing a piffle is to insult piffles. Mr. Papatola, where ever you are, you owe me a new keyboard.
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posted on
05/23/2006 10:09:16 AM PDT
by
Redcloak
(Speak softly and wear a loud shirt.)
To: Caleb1411
I heard they are already casting the sequel.
To: Caleb1411
"IT STINKS!" They don't show re-runs of "The Critic" often enough!
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posted on
05/23/2006 10:11:58 AM PDT
by
divine_moment_of_facts
("Liberals see what they believe... Conservatives believe what they see")
To: Aquinasfan
Unfortunately, 1/3 of the Brits or Canadians (I forget which) who've read the book believe it to be historically accurate.Doesn't shed a good light on the level of their intellect, does it?
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posted on
05/23/2006 10:18:42 AM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: 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.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.
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posted on
05/23/2006 10:20:33 AM PDT
by
mjolnir
("All great change in America begins at the dinner table.")
To: JamesP81
You had me slapping my knees, I was laughing so hard.
Still, you made if further through Angels and Demons that did I! :p
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posted on
05/23/2006 10:22:56 AM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: dfwgator
Actually, I did see The Terminal. Mrs. Douglas stank in that. Reeked. There was no chemistry there. None.
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posted on
05/23/2006 10:35:13 AM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: mjolnir
Those who have a deep faith should have nothing to worry about as they can easily glean the "fluff" from the truth. I found some interesting statistics from the Barna Group's website (read the Da Vinci Code story on the homepage
here).
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posted on
05/23/2006 10:42:15 AM PDT
by
jettester
(I got paid to break 'em - not fly 'em)
To: diamond6
What the heck is a "kerfuffle"? A big commotion.
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posted on
05/23/2006 10:42:57 AM PDT
by
Caleb1411
("These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own." G. K. C)
To: Last Dakotan
Which apparently never included a newspaper. Which would be indefensible since he writes for the newspaper.
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posted on
05/23/2006 10:44:37 AM PDT
by
Caleb1411
("These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own." G. K. C)
To: Arizona Carolyn
I heard they are already casting the sequel. Fear and loathing in FreeRepublicville.
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posted on
05/23/2006 10:49:20 AM PDT
by
Caleb1411
("These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own." G. K. C)
To: Froufrou
sad that Hanks finally is in a flop, though
"The Terminal" was also a flop, IMHO. I'm not a fan of Ron Howard's movies, so the fact that this one is getting panned isn't particularly surprising to me - I thought "A Beautiful Mind" was vastly over-rated and that was apparently Howard's best work.
To: 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.
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.
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posted on
05/23/2006 10:51:55 AM PDT
by
Arkinsaw
To: BenLurkin
The problem is that non-Christians are lapping up the outrageous lies concerning the history of the church and the divinity of Christ.
Non-Christians can read the word "fiction" printed on the spine of the book as easily as Christians. And non-Christians presumably don't believe in the divinity of Christ anyway.
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