The Da Vinci Code

[Willets Point]

Can the film possibly fully capture all the nuance of Dan Brown's craptastic writing style?

[Guest Rotblatt]

Am I the only person in America to have not read that book?

I'm vaguely intrigued but I strongly suspect it won't be worth my time.

[soupcan]

I'm the other guy that didn't read it.

[metirish]

FWIW the review in the NYT today was mixed to say the least.

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/05/17/movies/17cnd-code.html?hp&ex=1147924800&en=4275ff17e53f2bc7&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[Guest Rotblatt]

I forgot about Audrey. If I see this movie, it will be for her.

She's the damn cutest.

[Frayed Knot]

Didn't see the book, have no interest in reading the movie.

(or something like that)

[Willets Point]

I never read it either but did read the prequel for a book club. Dan Brown can't write for crap. I also know several people who tried to read the Da Vince Code but gave up after about 20 - 30 pages because it was so bad. They are page-turners and have the whole conspiracy theory angle going for them but I still don't see why his books are so popular.

[seawolf17]

Willets Point wrote: They are page-turners and have the whole conspiracy theory angle going for them but I still don't see why his books are so popular.

You answered your own question.

[Willets Point]

And I can't believe Audrey Tatou sold her soul to be in this movie.

[Centerfield]

Willets Point wrote: I never read it either but did read the prequel for a book club. Dan Brown can't write for crap. I also know several people who tried to read the Da Vince Code but gave up after about 20 - 30 pages because it was so bad. They are page-turners and have the whole conspiracy theory angle going for them but I still don't see why his books are so popular.

I read both. I thought the Da Vinci Code was much better than its prequel. Brown's style may be craptastic, but it was much more craptastic in the first one. I also thought Angels & Demons crossed the line from "silly little thriller" to "oh come on now, that's just ridiculous" when ****distorted, overexaggerated spoiler ahead*** the main character jumps from a helicopter using his ziploc sandwich bag as a parachute.

I liked the Da Vinci Code...I thought it was fun. And if you read when I read (commutes, waiting for my cases to be called) the more mindless the better. Of course, I also really like Harold and Kumar, so maybe that's just me. In fact, my biggest problem with the book is that it created an entire wave of idiot religious historians. "Well, actually, Christmas is based on an old Pagan holiday blah blah blah." Yeah that's great buddy. I read the Da Vinci Code too.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Harold and Kumar was hysterical.

The DaVinci Code, OTOH, has the potential to be preachy and boring.

D-Dad promised Impulse2 that he'd take her to see DaVinci. I'll wait for their review, but my inclination is to skip it (or at least wait until it's available through On Demand).

[Willets Point]

Centerfield wrote: I also thought Angels & Demons crossed the line from "silly little thriller" to "oh come on now, that's just ridiculous" when ****distorted, overexaggerated spoiler ahead*** the main character jumps from a helicopter using his ziploc sandwich bag as a parachute.

And after surviving said fall spends less than an hour in the hospital before rushing out to save the world from the evil Pope. Yes that was most absurd.

[Edgy MD]

In fact, my biggest problem with the book is that it created an entire wave of idiot religious historians.

Can you imagine what it must be like for tour guides in European Art museums and churches?

"Yes any questions?"

"Isn't the figure beside Jesus not John but Mary Magdalene?

"Ah, yes, the Magdalene theory. Well if you look at how young men were painted in this period of the Rennaissance, John is pretty cons..."

"Why are you covering for the Church's secrets?"

"So, I take it that you've read

Da Vinci Code

?"

"Well, yes, I have, and I'd like to say that..."

"And was it the

first

book you've read?"

[Willets Point]

Reminiscent of my friends who worked at Jamestown and what they had to go through after Disney's Pochahantas was released.

The most fun was trying to explain where the waterfall was in the completely flat Tidewater Virginia region.

[Frayed Knot]

Just lump them with all the people who thought 'The China Syndrome' and Stone's 'JFK' were documentaries.

[MFS62]

I read in one of today's NY Daily News articles about the movie that there's another film out with the title "The DaVinci Load".
Its a porn flick, the premise of which is that DaVinci used his "bodily fluids" to paint part of the Mona Lisa, and those fluids have mystical powers. One reviewer said that's probably more believable than the premise of the DaVinci Code.

(I wonder how one becomes a porn movie reviewer?)

Later

[Willets Point]

For starters a porn reviewer would adapt the thumbs up/down to a different appendage.

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

The porn 'stash on your avatar makes you uniquely qualified, WP, to hold forth on porn arcana.

[Willets Point]

I never get the porn stasche joke.

[stevejrogers]

Willets Point wrote: I never get the porn stasche joke.

The mustache Franco, Jeff Kent, Raffy Palmerio, ect sport looks quite the way many porn stars (Ron Jeremy) wear their mustaches

Cops also, but mostly to the mass population its known as a Porn Stache

[Willets Point]

I think if I watched porn I wouldn't be looking at the men.

[Vic Sage]

NTTAWWT

[stevejrogers]

Willets Point wrote: I think if I watched porn I wouldn't be looking at the men.

LOL! Just a phrase that entered the popular jargon to describe those short cropped and bushy mustaches that were popular in the 70's and 80's

Usually its described as such by "Guy Talk" (Stern, O&A, Jim Rome, Ferrall, Pro-Wrestling fourms, ect) radio stations/message boards/ect

Why would they label it as such when that actually was a popular style outside of the porn industry, who knows...

[Willets Point]

Usually its described as such by "Guy Talk" (Stern, O&A, Jim Rome, Ferrall, Pro-Wrestling fourms, ect) radio stations/message boards/ect

Hmm...now we know what they're looking at when watching porn. Seriously, the naked male body is a frightening thing. It's a blessing that not all women are lesbians as a result. Although porn would be a lot more interesting if they were.

That moustache style reminds me of Burt Reynolds more than anyone else.

[Edgy MD]

An early entry to the CPF Song Parody Invitational, "Oh, Wally Backman!" described Wally as having a porn moustache.
Your call:



If I was going to be in a porno, I think I'd want to wear the eye grease:



Apologies to Mr. Whitham.

[Willets Point]

Good bye porn stache!

[stevejrogers]

Willets Point wrote: Usually its described as such by "Guy Talk" (Stern, O&A, Jim Rome, Ferrall, Pro-Wrestling fourms, ect) radio stations/message boards/ect Hmm...now we know what they're looking at when watching porn. Seriously, the naked male body is a frightening thing. It's a blessing that not all women are lesbians as a result. Although porn would be a lot more interesting if they were. That moustache style reminds me of Burt Reynolds more than anyone else.

True, no clue why its not called "The Burt" or "The Magnum" (Magnum PI's Tom Selleck) as they have much, much more mass appeal, and noterity, than a Ron Jeremy no matter how much the former Miami Heat coach Stan Van Gundy looks like him!

Heh, funny thing about that actually, was on a Jim Rome message board and posted a UMDB link to the game in 1994 that was featured on the cover of SI as Kyle "Likes To Fight Guy" Farnsworth joined the Braves and I wanted to do a "Welcome to Fight Club" thing for Farnsworth. Someone pointed out Jeff Kent's Porn Stache in Kent's mugshot by calling him "Porn Stache" and at first I thought the poster was commenting that someone on the Mets was known to have had a pretty large porn stash! Took me a while to realize he was reffering to Jeff Kent's mustache!

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

Have you proven Jeff Kent doesn't have a huge stash of porn? The over'under on his collection is 500 titles.

[Willets Point]

So if the Holy Grail really is a woman then maybe Sir Galahad did find it at Castle Anthrax after all.


"Just a little peril?"

[Elster88]

Willets Point wrote: Can the film possibly fully capture all the nuance of Dan Brown's craptastic writing style?

I'd say yes.

The movie was almost completely exposition.

The book was exactly the same thing, with Langdon explaining every little detail along the way.