So the The Da Vinci Code

Post by **Don Carlos** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:12 am

IS it just me or does old Ronald Howard appear to be hitting
the right sort of notes with this film? Just seen the new lengthy
trailer and it appears to be atmospheric and just what i had
pictured in my mind...I think this is gonna be a good film...!!!

Thoughts?

Oh yeh, and the cast is excellent!!!

Post by **busetibi** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:18 am

Ron is a damn fine director
:thumbup:

Post by **Don Carlos** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:19 am

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pict ... inci_code/

just incase..

Post by **Freakaloin** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:29 pm

its going to paperback soon...

Post by **mik0rs** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:02 pm

Starting reading the thing tonight I think.

Post by **R00k** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:25 pm

mik0rs wrote:Starting reading the thing tonight I think.

It only took me like 3 or 4 days to read it so you shouldn't have any problems.

I'm looking forward to the movie. Unfortunately I'm sure it's going to stir a massive uprising of holy-rollers to attack everyone involved - I'm just glad someone had the nuts to make it.

Post by **Freakaloin** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:31 pm

I am stoopid..

Post by **Jackal** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:47 pm

I've said it once and I will say it again, The Davinci Code is probably one of the worst books I have ever read. I'm not even trying to be a naysayer here, it was just plain terrible. I read the whole thing in about a day and half just to get it over with.
Furthermore, I don't understand why people call the book controversial. It's based on half truths and made up connections. How can that piss anyone off? It's fiction. If you're going to get angry at it then you may as well rage against Harry Potter and LOTR's too.

Post by **R00k** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:38 pm

Why did you think it was one of the worst books you've ever read?

Post by **Freakaloin** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:39 pm

big words?...

Post by **Jackal** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:02 pm

R00k wrote:Why did you think it was one of the worst books you've ever read?

Absolutely 0 character development, Totally cliched, paper thin characters, a story based on half truths presenting itself as fact, and the incessent mental deus ex machina (ie: Robert magically knowing everything about anything).

Post by **prince1000** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:19 pm

busetibi wrote:Ron is a damn fine director
:thumbup:

are you on crack?

Post by **prince1000** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:23 pm

Jackal wrote:
R00k wrote:Why did you think it was one of the worst books you've ever read?
Absolutely 0 character development, Totally cliched, paper thin characters, a story based on half truths presenting itself as fact, and the incessent mental deus ex machina (ie: Robert magically knowing everything about anything).

well he does teach at harvard....

but i agree with you. it read like a hardy boys novel or other such crime/mystery novel. every chapter ended quite predictably. when i started reading it my first though was how closely it resembled a screenplay.

Post by **Don Carlos** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:26 pm

Jackal wrote:It's fiction. If you're going to get angry at it then you may as well rage against Harry Potter and LOTR's too.

Already been done.
Churches have condemned Harry and chums for the use of witch craft!!!!
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Post by **Grandpa Stu** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:11 pm

yeah i cant wait for it. loved the book so this should be good. though personally i enjoyed angels & demons about 100x more than the da vinci code. i wish they woulda started out with that one seeing as it's actually more of an introduction to the whole thing.

Post by **SIK** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:04 pm

Jackal wrote:I've said it once and I will say it again, The Davinci Code is probably one of the worst books I have ever read. I'm not even trying to be a naysayer here, it was just plain terrible. I read the whole thing in about a day and half just to get it over with.
Furthermore, I don't understand why people call the book controversial. It's based on half truths and made up connections. How can that piss anyone off? It's fiction. If you're going to get angry at it then you may as well rage against Harry Potter and LOTR's too.

If you think The Da Vinci Code is bad try reading his 'Digital Fortress' or 'Angels And Demons'. Essentially identical stories to The Da Vinci Code with copycat characters. If someone else had written them after he'd published The Da Vinci Code he'd have sued for plagiarism.
As a mere taste of the sheer awfulness of 'Digital Fortress' (which is all about cryptography and the NSA) there's a scenario at the end of the book where a group of the world's finest cryptanalysts are trying to solve a written puzzle to reveal a numeric key which they need to disable a virus which is threatening to lay bare the NSA database to the world. The first line of the puzzle begins "The prime difference between..." These intellectual giants and mathematical geniuses scratch their heads and wrack their planet-sized brains for ages then one of them has a Eureka moment and screams "OMFG!!! It means a PRIME number!!!!"

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Post by **R00k** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:41 pm

SIK wrote: If you think The Da Vinci Code is bad try reading his 'Digital Fortress' or 'Angels And Demons'. Essentially identical stories to The Da Vinci Code with copycat characters. If someone else had written them after he'd published The Da Vinci Code he'd have sued for plagiarism.
As a mere taste of the sheer awfulness of 'Digital Fortress' (which is all about cryptography and the NSA) there's a scenario at the end of the book where a group of the world's finest cryptanalysts are trying to solve a written puzzle to reveal a numeric key which they need to disable a virus which is threatening to lay bare the NSA database to the world. The first line of the puzzle begins "The prime difference between..." These intellectual giants and mathematical geniuses scratch their heads and wrack their planet-sized brains for ages then one of them has a Eureka moment and screams "OMFG!!! It means a PRIME number!!!!"

:icon27:

LOL, that's completely retarded.

I didn't really find the DaVinci Code to be like that though. Maybe I just have an inferior mental capacity to you guys, but I didn't think any of the puzzles and stuff were that transparent or easy.

I do agree that the book read almost like a screenplay - but that was part of what kept me wrapped up in it and made it so easy to read. I think it's hard to write a book like that in a more traditional voice because it would be boring.

Post by **Grudge** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:52 pm

Digital Fortress was a really shitty book, but I enjoyed his other three ones. It's simple entertainment, not Nobel Prize winning world litterature.

Post by **R00k** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:55 pm

I've heard Angels and Demons was great - was planning on reading it when I got the chance.

Post by **Don Carlos** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:56 pm

i really enjoyed Digital Fortress

Post by **Grudge** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:58 pm

Don Carlos wrote:i really enjoyed Digital Fortress

I think having read Cryptonomicon ruined it for me. It was just so stupid and corny in comparison.

Post by **werldhed** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:51 pm

Jackal wrote:
R00k wrote:Why did you think it was one of the worst books you've ever read?
Absolutely 0 character development, Totally cliched, paper thin characters, a story based on half truths presenting itself as fact, and the incessent mental deus ex machina (ie: Robert magically knowing everything about anything).

Word. The thing that bugged me the most was everyone saying it was "gripping" and "a page turner." But that was only because he uses stupid techniques at the end of chapters where the characters say,

Dan Brown in every other chapter wrote: "OMG! I figured out the puzzle! The solution is-"
And then the lights went out...
End of Chapter! LOL!

Angels and Demons was a bit of the same, but more unbelievable. That said, I found both to be entertaining for lazy pleasure reading.

Post by **S@M** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:21 pm

Jackal wrote:I've said it once and I will say it again, The Davinci Code is probably one of the worst books I have ever read. I'm not even trying to be a naysayer here, it was just plain terrible. I read the whole thing in about a day and half just to get it over with.
Furthermore, I don't understand why people call the book controversial. It's based on half truths and made up connections. How can that piss anyone off? It's fiction. If you're going to get angry at it then you may as well rage against Harry Potter and LOTR's too.

agreed, nothing to see here

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:45 pm

they should make a movie of angels and demons... its 10x better than that 5 page childrens book, da vinci code.

Post by **mik0rs** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:58 pm

R00k wrote:I've heard Angels and Demons was great - was planning on reading it when I got the chance.

I just started reading that instead of the Da Vinci Code, because a second person in this thread said about reading that one first. I'm such a lazy reader it'll take me a while even though it's a piece of cake to read.

So the The Da Vinci Code

So the The Da Vinci Code

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