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Here's the super early DA VINCI CODE teaser for ya'!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with a Quicktime teaser trailer for the upcoming Opie adaptation of THE DA VINCI CODE. The flick doesn't come out until May '06, but I'm sure this teaser will get housewives all over the country dying to see the movie. The teaser is simple and well done. I will make it a point to actually pick this book up before the film's release and see if I'm sucked into it as deeply as everyone else in the world. Here's the teaser!
CLICK IT HERE TO DIVE DEEP INTO THE FACE OF THE LOVELY MONA LISA!
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Somehow I just don't see it living up to this year.
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May 19th just happens to be my birthday. These compulsory trips to the cinema are getting a bit annoying; especially when they're based on ridiculousy over-hyped, childishly written 'novels'. And yet, I see myself sat front row, centre. Damn me.
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if you've never seen the opening of Batman.
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but sure, it's only a teaser, boring one at that, with the obligatory whiskey-voice-over drenn.
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This movie is going to make enough money to feed half of Africa twice over. I mean, seriously. Hanks, Howard, the most popular novel in the world without a gawky boy-wizard... Passion-esque controversy, a big fat consensus picture... This movie is going to swallow America. I hate you, The Da Vinci Code. The poster sure is purdy, though.
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HAHAHAHAHAHACKHAHAHAHAHAHA
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...doesn't that make the medium version small, compared of course to the large one, which would be medium, and the full screen version, which would be large. and people leonardo da vinci smart, cant even work out the sizes of his goddamn trailers.
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Great use of CGI, voice over- not too melodramatic - and I loved the bit with the mona lisa. Good cast - and the May 19, 2006 WORLDWIDE bit - aint nobody gonna fuck with that date i tell ya. Let's just hope the makers of the film dont trivialize or shroud the hardhitting stuff in the film.
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And as far as teasers go, I think this one's pretty well done.
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Wow it's like the Grand Canyon or something, I'm sure this isn't going to pull out and reveal the Mona Lisa or anything, Oh and what an original voice over, Meh. It only leaves me wondering if the Portrait had the cracks in the paint when Da Vinci painted it? Me thinks not, but I haven't read the book because it's all been proven to be bollocks, somebody mistranslated something from some old scriptures about 500 years ago.
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After the a teaser trailer like that, I'm expecting some grand explosions!!! Read the book. Should be interesting to see the public reaction to this one. This will be the opposite of the Passion of the Christ. I'm surprised it's being made, and by big names at that. Anyway, if you read the book, you'll probably agree, Mr. Voice is really out of place for a movie like The DaVinci Code.
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Why is this book so popular? Because it takes things/places/art that we know so well and makes you seriously question whether or not it's all true...Oh and it's taken alot of time and effort for people to prove Dan Brown's statements to be wrong/or right...which basically means the writing and story was so good it had to be challenged...and there in is the reason why it is so popular...
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Why did it pull out to reveal the Mona Lisa and not the Last Supper? Isn't the whole story about how the Last Supper has a 'code' in it (ie, a woman sitting nest to Jesus to suggest he was married and therefore had a child whose bloodline has survived to this day) Am I thinking of something else?
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having finished the book 2 weeks ago after being 'forced' into reading it by various members of the Da Vinci Code Fanclub (membership- fucking everyone) I watched this trailer and thought WTF? If you've read the book it gives away nothing about the film and if you've not read it then does it stoke up your excitement for the film?
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The story goes that JC had a wife MM who after the death of her spouse JC went to Europe with her unborn baby and JC's disciples, something about the Knights Templar and the European Royal Family Bloodlines. Mary Magdalene was apparently made out to be a prostitute by the Vatican who wanted to continue their control over women in society and not alow them to think they could be Priest etc.
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I know how Hollywood likes ot tinker with things...I wonder if they'll sneak in references to the Freemasons, Illuminati, Rosicrucians, Bilderburger, Trilateral Commission, Disneyland's Club 33, Mickey Mouse, Al Roker, Mayor Mccheese, Pacman, Denver Airport, the lance of longinus and the number 7.
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But it is fun, even if there are gaping plot holes. Literary snobs can be worse than cinephiles. Just because it isn't a classic doesn't mean it should be ignored, it is fun, and like Harry Potter,if it gets people reading that is a good thing.
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Very similar writing styles, stupidly fast paced with plenty of research to give a slight veneer of plausibility. Matthew reilly takes himself a lot less seriously, mind.
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Based on a hoax. The film will make a ton of money and be forgotten in six months.
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It always blows my mind to see people knocking "The Da Vinci Code" as a bad book, which is most certainly is not. Does is contain brilliant writing? No. And Langdon's really the only fleshed out character. But it's a well-planned, super-researched religious thriller with an ingenious plot. More importantly, it's a hell of a lot of fun to read. I can only assume that the people who bash the book are God-fearin' Christians with closed minds who absolutely do not want to see their religion's history interpreted in not-so-flattering ways. As for the movie, I still hate the casting of Hanks, but they've cast the supporting roles good enough to keep my interest. Oh, and "Angels & Demons" is at least as good as "Da Vinci" UNTIL its ludicrous finale, which really hurts it.
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I liked the book. I agree it was not the greatest, but it was fun, and quick. I know some of you ADD people only watch movies, but throw in some pills and open the book before you bash it. If you like it read Angels and Demons, I agree with the earlier post, A&D's was better, and it was the first Langdon book which means Da Vinci was a sequel.
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The DaVinci Code is what is wrong with American literature today. Now excuse me while I run out and buy the latest Jackie Collins, Harold Robbins, Deepak Chopra self-help tripe and a few diet books as well. Who moved my fucking cheese?!
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May 18, 2005 7:47:43 AM CDT
Too Many People who DON'T read told me how good this book was...
by slaw8
...but I had already learned my lesson from The Celestine Prophecy. Still, I was on a long drive and had the unabridged book-on-tape. It did not disappoint (me). The plot was basic, the twists illogical. It was like a good James Patterson (which is still really, really bad). I expect a movie that will be seen by all of those illiterate yahoos who told me how good the book was.
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Myself, I think whats wrong with the world today is better exemplified by the Crazy Frog. The Da vinci code is harmless fun, and i doubt it'll convince anyone to renounce christianity, and those who take it as fact probably weren't christians anyway. But thats from a european perspective. Has the book upset many christians in the US?
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Sensationalism, manipulative dishonest storytelling, shallow characters, and really stupid subject matter. Count me out on this one. Figures it would get made, though. It might be a shitty book but it's one of those shitty books that made a lot of money, so of course it has to be turned into a shitty movie.
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May 18, 2005 9:01:35 AM CDT
Quint, DaVinci is not a book for housewives. I enjoyed it. I rea
by mr. profit
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Fiction, by it's very definition, is "dishonest."
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Why are all of you posting in this talkback if you didn't like the Da Vinci Code? Why did you even read this article? basically you just wasted valuable time on something you hated. jokes on you muthafuckas
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...the whole revisionist take on Christ, mostly because the Bible is fiction and very open to interpretation, but the actual story is crap. I hope some majoe re-writes were done otherwise, this will be a shitty fucking movie. Also, what's with making it look like "Indy 4"?
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confirmed/ rumours on this board? can't be arsed myself
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I've watched all of the documentaries and the whole business with the Priory of Scion, and it's obvious that it's a work of pure fiction. It's just another venemous attempt to discredit the Bible. Believe what you want, but do your research, folks.
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Combine the Da Vinci Code with Indy 4. They could have the Pope send out his henchmen to stop Indy from uncovering the truth and end it with a big sword fight between Indy and the Pope in an underground temple then Jesus comes along and all Hell breaks loose. It virtually writes itself.
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..while mary magdelene runs around screaming pointlessly, and in the end, the Mona Lisa is stashed in a giant underground warehouse, along with the ark of the covenant, the holy spear, The Last supper, the holy grail and one of those pens with the 4 colours in it.
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I'd watch it
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All that ringtone\screensaver shit is fucked up...people pay a fortune for that shit...for nothing. People are fucking dense!! Oh, and The DaVinci Code was a fun read. Casting seems a bit cack though. I imagined Sophie Marceau in the female lead role. Yummy. Oh...and on that Crazy Frog\Tweety shit...check this out: http://www.headstaggers.com/?shoe=flash&moo=show&id=22
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Thats the funniest fucking thing i've seen in ages, i'm weeping trying not to laugh out loud here! Ah, thats great. Do you mind if i send that to friends and pretend i found it?
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when a teaser comes out before filming has even begun.
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I grew tired of the Da Vinci Code after realizing that each chapter ends with an annoying cliffhanger that usually turns out to be pointless by the time the book comes back to it. Low brow nonsense...although...it could make a decent film since it's such a lousy book. Many a lousy book has been turned into a good film.
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Thank you, cutest_of_borg, for the biggest and most disgusted laugh of the day. When I was forced to watch the idiotic training film which accompanies that moronic tome at work a few years ago, I could literally feel my brain begin to melt.
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... Yep! Just finished DVC and realized as I was finishing the last page that this is what I HAD to do. Now... ummm... where do I find a branch of this alternate, divine feminine Church of Mary Magdalene? ... doesn't seeem... to be any in the Yellow Pages...
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is all the exposition. An since that will probably have to go if this movie is supposed to be a blockbuster, what remains is a plot so thin it could hide behind an anorectic, and characters so flat they're......couldn't come up with one more, but my point is made. I'm sceptical about this one. And that teaser is so not doing anything for me. And what do you need a teaser a year in advance for anyway?
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"The Da Vinci Code is shit!", "Harry Potter is shit!", "Why doesn't anybody care that I am SO well read?!?!?", "How is it possible that I am such a friggin' loser that I make all the other dorks at AICN look like the popular kids that tormented me in school?!?!?!?", "Oh the revenge I will seak on them!", "Oops, didn't mean to post that, er, uh, The Da Vinci Code is shit!"
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May 18, 2005 10:48:38 AM CDT
"...characters so flat they're... couldn't come up with one more
by big jim
How about: "characters so flat they should have cast Keira Knightley"?
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to play one of the 'bad guys', either Silas or the guy who is the teacher as he's a creepy looking man(trying not to be a spoiler)
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May 18, 2005 10:56:41 AM CDT
Hey, Doc...Try reading "FISH" is you want to o.d. on corporate p
by cutest_of_borg
I had to read that goddamned pos as part of mandatory training.
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May 18, 2005 10:56:42 AM CDT
I loved the book. Read it on vacation. Every third person on
by doobieflixx
I mean the Church is pissed at it, Albino activists are pissed at it. It's fiction. Now there are people criticising the trailer because it's boring? Man. It's a movie based on a book. If you want all the secrets revealed a year before the movie comes out, then read the book. Then read the books that prove it to be a fable. Then watch one of the many documentry's on it. Or go to Europe and take the tour that follows Robert Langdons path.
To me this book was an enjoyable read which prevoked my curiosity. I want to see the movie version. I'm not sure how Hanks will be as the lead. A bit too dogh-boyish. He's always good but I read Langdon to be more like a Harrison Ford. But he's too old for the role. I though maybe Dennis Quade? But he's associated with fluff. It could have possibly changed his career. I don't know. Any other suggestions out there people? Besides Hulk Hogan? ( I always love reading that ) Also Jean Reno as Bezu Fache seems a bit lazy in casting. I imagined Tch -
now theres a real minority.
I heard the Eccleston rumour, and assume its Silas, but didnt know that Reno was going to be Fache, thought he'd be Remy. So I say Remy to be Vincent Cassel, again Harrison Ford springs to mind as Langdon but is too old, Hanks will be ok. As for Lord Teastain (cant remember his proper name) as long as its not Michael Gambon, Patrick Stewart or Brian Cox, or another resurrected Oliver Reed performance i'll be ok, maybe Ben Kinsgley? -
May 18, 2005 11:11:47 AM CDT
when I read it I always pictured Langdon looking like Dennis Qua
by colonel_blimp
doobie, this book is readable excactly as you described it, vacation fiction. It's easy, accesible prose that doesn't require a lot from the reader. Not necessarily anything wrong with that. I've read all Brown's novels, and they're enjoyable enough, but the problem with his books is that, as I've pointed out in a previous post, the exposition is so much more interesting than the plot. And while exposition is fun to read, it's boring to watch. Furthermore it's really difficult to do visually and still maintain the pace of the movie and keep the audience's interest. BTW, BigJim, I like your style.
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Bluemancbrit, I agree about the activists. And it's just plain silly. Everyone knows albinos are evil. (Just kidding you crazy eyed pale boys - I'd be your friend)
Here's the cast so far:
Tom Hanks .... Robert Langdon
Ian McKellen .... Sir Leigh Teabing
Alfred Molina .... Bishop Aringarosa
Jean Reno .... Bezu Fache
Audrey Tautou .... Sophie Neve
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May 18, 2005 11:20:46 AM CDT
That last post would have been cleaner if they allowed spaces.
by doobieflixx
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May 18, 2005 11:21:03 AM CDT
Opie, you better tell Aunt B. to have my bean pies ready or I'ma
by embrypotzebra721
I didn't scroll the TB's so I'm gonna hope against hope no one else used that. By the way, whoever the fuck that little ugly no talent hack Ron Howard married, must be the hottest cunt on planet earth to make up for his balogny genetics and actually plop out the half-decent looking Bryce Dallas Howard.
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If they are making a sequel to my fav. movie of last year why not give it a more similar name. How do you go from National Treasue to The Dumb Vinci Code?
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May 18, 2005 11:26:39 AM CDT
Exposition is fun to read, it's boring to watch. We'll have to
by doobieflixx
Colonel, I agree with you but I am a filmmaker and have believe that they have a plan in telling this story. (fingers crossed)
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If they wanna maximize the drama, and all out cooleverness of this story, the should have Hanks replay his Euro-trash character from Terminal, only this time he's trapped in a museum, or library, or wherever the fuck this story takes place (... I don't know, I don't read books without pictures), for the whole of the picture, all the while trying to lure the "still hott" 60 year old librarian out of her shell, and to love again, only to get his heavy as fuck accent-having heart broken when she leaves him for the Dewey Decimal System.
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Because there certainly wasn't any in the book. All that happened in the book was that Langdon ran around Europe trying to find enough time to explain the "true" history of Christianity to Sophie. He'd start to tell the story here, at point A, but then the cops came so they'd run away. And when they reached point B he continued the story. But the the cops came so they'd run away to point C. Wow. Captivating. As for the "mystery"...who is the Teacher? Well, there are 5 characters in the whole book, and SURPRISE! one of them's the bad guy. So you have a pretty good chance of guessing it. Of course, until the last page the main character of the book doesn't even know there's a bad guy he has to worry about. Wow. What a great book.
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Send it to whomever you wish, and pretend you found it to whomever you wish, my good man! It is damn funny!!! What's annoying is you can't turn on the TV without seeing some dumbass fucking ringtone ads.Fuckers.
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i hate the stupid things you say and the ridiculous ways you say them. go back to your old phone sex job in tampa and leave us alone.
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The Celestine Prophecy is the worst book ever written...ever.
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Not that I am complaining at all, but has this now become Quint's website?
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The guy is 6'5" and white and pasty already.
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Far superior. What a movie if filmed.
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Conspiracy theories about the Knights Templar, Freemasons, Jesus's secret lineage, and secret societies have been around for a loooong time before Dan Brown came along and crammed them all into some Oprah's pick of the month truck stop adventure book. Take that and turn it into a movie directed by RON HOWARD and starring TOM FUCKING HANKS and it's like so perfectly mainstream it hurts. Is fucking Akiva adapting this shit too? FUCK.
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for the cast list, glad to see the temptress that is Audrey Tautou in another major film. If anyone was interested in 'A Very Long Engagement' (also starring her)I can highly recommend it.
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Old, but nice ideas and a mediocre execution make it an entertaining read, but nothing really great. For a real thriller like this, read Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. Now THAT'S a book!
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In earlier times this bookie filmie would have caused the author to be burned at the stake. JC's offspring? God is a sexual being? This story is a sign of our times, where we are all rejecting BS disguised as sacred truth. Was JC a great master teacher? YES. Was he God incarnate? Not any more than Moses or Muhammed. No one can save you except yourself. Once the masses reject the myth, the subject becomes ripe for the dime store novel. BUNKYBOO HAS SPOKEN.
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Except it was called National Treasure. It sucked. Oh, and the Da Vinci Code book sucked too.
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The guy from castaway, Revtevya/Doc Ock and Gandalf. Yowzers. Yo that was actually a pretty good teaser, although I am trying to stay cool by hating Da Vinci Code with venomous passion. But I love Mr. Voice. I liked the book. (Thought my friend was going to strangle me when I told him that.) I watch The Apprentice. I still hum Nsync songs, even O-Town on occasion. Yet I cannot and will not admit any of these things in real life, because that would make me Supergaydorkfuck. I was told, after coming clean about liking the book, that there are people who find out who likes this book at certain universities so they can know whose opinion not to listen to. That is the price you pay for allowing yourself to be mainstream. So I will never tell anyone. When this movie hits huge like everyone knew it would, I will be disgusted with stupid America. But I will be one of them. Somehow I find a way to carry on with my secert shame.
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Quint, rather than spending time reading The Da Vinci Code, get a book that is enjoyable and intelligent. If you want a different take on religion, try Life of Pi. But please don't encourage Dan Brown by reading this appaling scavenger hunt.
This movie is going to make several hundred million dollars and I will be very upset.
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is a shit book
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Dan Brown is coining it at the moment and by that I mean he is rolling in dosh, lolly, spondulicks, Bread, Dough.
MONEY. That is what this whole thing is about.
Lots and lots of Money for his book publishers, Himself and he will make more money when the film comes out because, guess who the exec. producer is, its, none other than Dan Brown himself. And imagine wont do to badly out of it.
As will smith the only colour Hollywood cares about is GREEN!
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If they choose any other actor in this universe, I will absolutely eat my own testies like Ron Jeremy.
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GOT THAT!
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FUCKINGGOT THAT!
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May 18, 2005 2:49:12 PM CDT
As long as it follows the typical liberal Hollywood trend of bas
by swarmy
Bush sucks! Long live communism! All hail the Hypno Toad!!!!
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Look at "The Kite Runner" -- wonderful story, terribly written. But at least Hosseini had the excuse of not having English as a native language. :)
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Wikipedia this stuff "Da Vinci Code". You will get an eye- opening view into the intrigue. What's up with Tom Hanks? Is the Jimmy Stewart of our age going to propel this into the record books?
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That Da Vinci didn't intend the Mona Lisa to be all cracked and busted up? Time did that. It was originally painted as smooth and silky as my butt.
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May 18, 2005 3:31:36 PM CDT
BUNCH OF RETARDED MUPPETS - THE DA VINCI CODE WAS A FUCKING HOAX
by alucardvsdracula
...although there could well have been something other than a shared spiritual belief between the Jeez and that bitch whore girlfriend of his.
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DaVinci Code is the kind of book my mom and aunts like to read. It argues that women deserve a bigger place in Christian History, but totally respects Christianity. The "Church" objected because, well, they are gonna object to anything that doesn't hew the line 100%, but it's still a pretty traditional book. I found it cheesy, but I'm a snob like that and didn't get into the whole Eyes Wide Shut thing.
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...fuck it, can't believe I'm posting about a Ron Howard flick.
Life's too short.
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May 18, 2005 3:51:07 PM CDT
"I'm sure this teaser will get housewives all over the country d
by adiaphoron
Fuck the mysogyny on this site.
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May 18, 2005 4:16:08 PM CDT
anyone who disses the book either A) Didn't read it, B) think th
by cherrycola
I like the book and I'm the most cynical bastard there is when it comes to popular fiction. It was a fun read full of interesting facts and scenarios. Yeah, the characters were a little thin but the book was'nt about them, it was about hidden secrets, murder and mystery. WHO CARES if the facts don't all add up? I liked it and there's a reason why its been a super best seller: PRACTICALLY EVERYONE ELSE WHO READ IT LIKED IT TOO! People just want to be "different" because they think it makes them cool. Whatever.
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...I was a Lit. major in college, and I've read every word William Shakespeare ever wrote. Why am I saying this? So all you pretentious assholes can suck it (since you can't get much more pretentious than Shakespeare). I agree that Dan Brown can't write worth shit; and, I agree that the plot has more holes than the field in which they found Saddam. The novel, however, is still a fun read. As Stephen King once said (about his own work, not "The Davinci Code), it's "the Big Mac and fries of literature." Does that make it less fun to read? No. So it won't be found in the same sentence as "Catcher in the Rye," it's still fun. Take it for what it is, and get off your high horse. PS. If you don't like this book for its stance on religion, then fuck you! Open your mind. You're not supposed to believe it in the real world; you're supposed to believe it in the world that Dan Brown creates. It's called WILLING SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF!!!
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I hate (teaser) trailers that show no footage and are essentially pointless except telling people when the film will be out and who stars
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The point IS to tell "people when the film will be out and who stars". It really is nothing more than a glorified poster. But the point is to make people aware that there is a movie coming. I would hazard a guess that many of those who read the book don't know a movie is being made. Plus, this teaser serves another purpose: to advertise the book and try and get even more people to buy it.
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May 18, 2005 5:04:33 PM CDT
I always pictured Robert Langdon looking exactly like Mike Conno
by one9deuce
http://imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1059/Mptv/1059/9770-0005.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Connors,%20Mike%20(I)-------- Not real sure about Tom Hanks as Langdon, but Hanks is an incredible actor, so I am at least interested in his portrayal. As far as the book goes, I think there are too many complaints from the literary snobs. The Da Vinci Code isn't a great book, but it is a fun read. I love art films as much as any cinephile, but I like watching summer blockbusters just as much. Variety in what we watch or read is good.
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The majority of the people who read and "loved" this book are more than likely the same people who bought all those Left Behind books and "loved" those books as well...
Like the Left Behind books, Dan Brown's books are garbage.
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May 18, 2005 6:30:28 PM CDT
"Let's just hope the makers of the film dont trivialize or shrou
by minderbinder
The plot is kinda fun, but it's horribly written, awful dialogue and paper thin characters. And the most "hardhitting" stuff is just lifted from disrpoven bestsellers from decades before. The whole priory of sion is a hoax, one french guy made it up and admitted to it. Maybe I would have liked it better if I hadn't already read Holy Blood, holy Grail (also disproven). Seriously, the ending was predictable literaly from the prologue.
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I guess some people did not realize that this was a work of fiction.
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the book was not all that good. The movie will probably suck, but the teaser was ok.
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A novel in which the hero is a noted art historian and spends the entire book calling a famous artist "Da Vinci", which is pretty much the same as calling him "from Vinci" and has no meaning, so not likely something an art historian would do, noted or otherwise. There's more, but that's enough for starters.
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..unless you make fun of popular stuff. You have to nitpick it and only see things you don't like and not just take that shit lightly. And you have to make sure EVERYone knows you don't like what's popular. Also be sure to point out how shit only you have heard of is much much better. This gives you like 10 more cool points. And lets you feel superior. And totally doesn't make you sound like a smug asshole motherfucker that can't possibly have any friends in real life because no one could stand to be around you. Doesn't make you sound like that at all.
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May 18, 2005 9:27:29 PM CDT
Sure, it's fiction. But it's lame that so many people believe i
by minderbinder
Doesn't help that the author puts in an intro insisting that his "historical" bits are all true. Great way to spread the propaganda but still be immune from getting the facts right.
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The prose is the WORST I have ever read. Every third sentence is in italics, as a character realises a revelation that any reader with more than two brain cells would have got pages back.
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You couldn't be more wrong about that. And I didn't read either of those books. But you can't honestly believe that's an accurate representation of the audience that Dan Brown reached. And the appeal probably wasn't the same. I think "The DaVinci Code" caught on because of the crazy labrynthian mystery that involves famous artifacts (for more proof of America's inexplicable love for this convention, I direct you to the mystifying success of 'National Treasure'). Maybe that kind of stuff was going on in "Left Behind," but I haven't heard anything like that. Or maybe you were "implying" something puerile about religion. Whoa, man. Deep like the ocean.
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May 18, 2005 10:50:36 PM CDT
Not a great book, but neither was Catcher in the Rye. Or Heart
by wukkawukka
What makes a book 'great'? A bunch of academics who think they're smarter than everyone else talking about theme and subtext? Or something that a bunch of people enjoy and encourages non-readers to read?
Personally, I though DVC was an OK read, fairly forgettable, and in no way deserving of the 'biggest book in the world since whatever' tag. The movie? Who knows. Maybe we could wait and see it. Isn't that a novel idea?
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Possibly the funniest book I've ever read. Who gives a rat's ass about theme and subtext, that thing just made me laugh. But I guess that shouldn't be a surprise based on my user name, should it?
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May 19, 2005 8:48:47 AM CDT
DaVinci Code, the antibook that allowed thousands of analphabeti
by salvatoregravano
There were worse pulp "bestsellers" excreted by worse nonwriters, of course. Names such as "Reilly" or "Alten" come to mind.
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May 19, 2005 10:44:22 AM CDT
R.C.'s opinion: Johnny A's correct, the preview seem like it wa
by r.c. the "wise"
This is supposed to be thought provoking not some surruptitious nonsense. Tom Hanks rules though so I'm optimistic. It's just to bad they cast "Amelie" instead of Sophie Marceau.
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Sing it, brother.
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Don't worry, I hold no illusions about my coolness or superiority. I also don't hate things because they are popular. I like plenty of popular things. I do hate it when things that are awful become popular because of a massive marketing campaign. I feel that a good book should include certain things: interesting plot, well thought out characters, a writing style that is both enjoyable and preferably more intelligent than that of an slightly above-average junior high student. This book didn't have any of those things, so I didn't like it.
As for people being upset about the religious content of the book: It's fiction, and the only things Dan Brown actually claims are true have nothing to do with the controversy over the book.
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If there were ever only two types of people in America...It would be readers and non-readers. If you are a reader in general, you read the books on the NY Bestsellers list. Am I making generalizations? Yes. Am I being stereotypical? Yes...and I couldn't be that way unless generalizations and stereotypes were true...and they are...which is why we have them; exceptions be damned. So when I say that people who read the Da Vinci Code and Left Behind are mostly the same people, I am correct. As far as implying anything beyond just what I stated...no. Not at all. Well, other than that both of those books were aweful and the movie versions aren't/won't be much better.
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I think your argument could be better made by saying the people who read DaVinci Code are the same people who kept The Firm at #1 for so long.
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I almost don
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...but Picasso's works of art also contains a code that could save mankind...but only dyslexics can read it...Rated M--for "Mmmmm...what?"
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That's not even a teaser, it's a crappy advert that waaaay overhypes the product.
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See, this is why counting numbers like those isn't a good way to build an argument. I'd be willing to bet that there's not much crossover between readers of either book(s). So they become phenomena in their respective demographics, but you have no idea what kind of people are and are not buying them.
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See, this is why counting numbers like those isn't a good way to build an argument. I'd be willing to bet that there's not much crossover between readers of either book(s). So they become phenomena in their respective demographics, but you have no idea what kind of people are and are not buying them.
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I have come to the conclusion that Ron Howard is directing "The DaVinci Code" because Ron Howard is like the DaVinci Code of directors. And Akiva Goldsman is the DaVinci Code of writers.
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...for a popcorn read book. First Ms. A.T. would have been a better voice over. A a bit more fitting to the theme of the story (female linage). We can speculate all about what Mr. Howard is doing with this story, and blah, blah, blah. As for the trailer. It's a great example of studio laziness and marketing.
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A lot of people liked the Da Vinci Code. A lot of people don't read.
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Quote ascribed to millions of idiots who haven't read any other book (except possibly a 'Harry Potter') since school.
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First of all, the Harry Potter books are good books (as a Roald Dahl fan you should be able to appreciate at least some of their charm), and contrary to popular opinion, I DO read, and I have read The Lord of the Rings, so simmer down. Secondly, anyone who calls "The DaVinci Code" the best book ever is pretty much asking for it -- but I don't think many people would be so bold.
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NO WAY
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If you read the book you know how it ends and what Dan Brown believes to be the true Holy Grail. The entire book with its short chapters kept you up all night to find out what happens next. The ending left me thinking that it could have had a better climax. Hopefully Ron Howard won't leave us hanging on the edge of our seats. With that said I am expecting controversy and box office records.
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and that's all that matters. I hopt that there are lots of fights and car chases in it, then it will be widely viewed in the developing world, too.
The book is written like crap, the ideas are second-hand, nonethless,I'm grateful to Brown for stirring the whole thing up again, right when the Church is regressing towards orthodoxy and medieval ideals of power.
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It wasn't the best book I've ever read--not by a long shot--but it was good enough to the point where I ranted and raved about it to anyone who sat still long enough to listen. It's along the same lines as 'The Club Dumas' and 'The Flander's Panel' by Arturo-Perez Reverte, both of which use actual historical myths/facts to create a clever, exciting story. I'm really looking forward to seeing this film (AND Tom Hanks AND Audrey Tatou), though the 'trailer' distributors should be feathered, tarred, and run out of town on a rail.
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May 22, 2005 5:13:29 PM CDT
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