Da Vinci Code

[king kong]

Well like most people I have read the book and yesterday i saw the film and despite what the 'critics' say i thought the film was pretty good.

I'm not a religious or anything but I do believe that historically there was a JC and that he was a truly great person with his teachings.

After all, we saw what Hitler did through his oratory skills, he whippped a whole nation into a frenzy!

The fact JC may have fathered a child with Mary Magdalene surly is something that dose not detract from his 'divinity'. We know that the gospels were written some 30 years to 2 centuries after his death.

I just find the whole thing fascinating! What do you think?

[veeeffarr]

I have a rule of thumb.

Anything most people like, is shit.

Therefore, I stay away from The DaVinci Code

I weakened, and went to see King Kong, and it was the biggest load of fucking gash I've ever seen.

[cagiva gezzer]

Having read the book i feel the film mised out on some of the details that kept you hanging on.

The book made you want to sit on the tube for another stop to see the twists and turns in the plot.

The film spoon fed it to you in a low fat version.

Would of been good enough, but there's been soo much hype as the book was such a hit.
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[plugger147]

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[king kong]

[tokarev]

I saw the Da Vinci Code on sat, and thought it was quite good...although it was not as good as I was expecting it to be. But that could be down to the fact that I have never read the book, because my friends who had also read the book were talking about it for quite a while afterwards.

Anyway, that french chick was quite hot.

[G]

Haven't read the book or the film, but did read another one of his that was a complete 'POS' - myabe the historical facts were generally right, but lots of others weren't and the writing wasn't great in my opinion.

Thought that was bad, then read some cheap copy along similar things - where a main character was kickstarting his Honda 600cc sports motorcycle .

[Spiral]

Was a 2.5 outta 5 film imo it only really got interesting when ian mckellen came into it an when he went out it was downhill fast.

Not haven read the book i would say the story probaly would be better told in its written form.

Ian mckellen stole the show, the guy is great he can make any script sound good.

Tom hanks was okay as he always is, hes an okay actor he just happens to have been in some great films.

P.S. in the book does tom hanks character have an overdyed mullet?
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[veeeffarr]

[craigie b]

^^^^^^Didnt expect anything, thought it would be shit, was right. ^^^^^^

If you haven't seen it and haven't read it then then how on earth can you be right? All your doing is showing that you follow the crowd and regurgitate whatever they say

[veeeffarr]

[craigie b]

Fair play

[veeeffarr]

[king kong]

Sorry Toby R

I naturally assumed that from adding a comment DVC to suddenly slamming KK and being that my Username is King Kong also that you were implying that I was shit.

Sorry about that.

[biggerjohn]

I saw it on Sunday but as said I had very low expectations due to all the hype but was presently surprised.


It wasn’t as crap as I thought it would be and interesting enough story.

Defiantly not the best film I have seen this year but not the worst ether.



The interesting thing about the whole saga of the book and the film is the way the church feel it had to defend itself in the media in interviews and the like.

[craigie b]

Its worth noting, to the people who have seen the fil but not read the book, that the story itself, in written format is very compelling reading. The story twists and turn and its written in such a way that each chapter is incredibly short. This makes it a real page turner to see what happens next...lol I read the book in a day.

I suppose if you've seen the flick then I wouldn;t bother reading the book but if you haven;t seen the flick, read the book first. That way you'll get to enjoy the story and give a fair opinion of the film.

I don;t particulary think it is a story meant for film, however money mould motivate me to sell the rights

[veeeffarr]

[king kong]

I thought the book was as you say a real page turner and obviousley goes a lot deeper than the film. Also thought that the film should have at least hinted at the connection between President Miterond (if that how you spell it!) and the pyramid construction at the louvre for more credability.

Also Marys journey to southern France and the tie up with French royal blood was worth a mention.

[veeeffarr]

[craigie b]

My two favourite book to film conversions are Trainspotting, which made for a fucking awesome film and Fight Club. Fight Club was particulary bizzarre because I read the book after the film and the film is 100 times better. It took genius to realise the book was good film material.

I suppose Lord of the Rings was a fantastic conversion too, however sci fi/fantasy is so cliche that it doesn't rate in my book to film views!!!

[veeeffarr]

[innominate]

I think Brave New World would be a bit easier to make..

1984 would be a headfuck to create, no doubt.
+ if they did it right, a large proprtion of cinema viewers would top themselves during the credits...
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