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The Da Vinci Code: The Movie
- Thread starter Xko
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They'll make Angels and Demons when the DVC movie cleans up, which I have absolutely no doubt it will.
The fact that I have been unable to pick up a single Dan Brown book that does not have, as its prologue, a scene in which someone is being killed or dying for a secret, does not bode well for Mr. Brown's abilities as a writer. Even trash writers know better than to show so clearly that their work is just the "same ol' same ol'" every time. He is also distressingly fond of "FACT" pages, which are just tiresome, not to mention frequently jarringly inaccurate and poorly researched, as in the Angels and Demons (I think) one in which he says that scientists have actually created anti-matter "recently" and then summarises anti-matter as being the same as matter only with the opposite electrical charge, which is a gross oversimplification which would have been better incorporated somehow into the text or just left out. (To be fair, even a bona fide science fiction author, Stephen Baxter, could not forbear from including one of these bogus "FACT" pages, something I just found highly irritating!
Disclaimer: My handle has absolutely nothing to do with any character named "Silas" who may or may not appear in a Dan Brown novel.
The fact that I have been unable to pick up a single Dan Brown book that does not have, as its prologue, a scene in which someone is being killed or dying for a secret, does not bode well for Mr. Brown's abilities as a writer. Even trash writers know better than to show so clearly that their work is just the "same ol' same ol'" every time. He is also distressingly fond of "FACT" pages, which are just tiresome, not to mention frequently jarringly inaccurate and poorly researched, as in the Angels and Demons (I think) one in which he says that scientists have actually created anti-matter "recently" and then summarises anti-matter as being the same as matter only with the opposite electrical charge, which is a gross oversimplification which would have been better incorporated somehow into the text or just left out. (To be fair, even a bona fide science fiction author, Stephen Baxter, could not forbear from including one of these bogus "FACT" pages, something I just found highly irritating!
Disclaimer: My handle has absolutely nothing to do with any character named "Silas" who may or may not appear in a Dan Brown novel.
I agree with the same ol' same ol' thing.
I read the Da Vinci code first and enjoyed quite a lot even if it was a little glib. So in true bibliophile fashion bought Angels and Demons AND Digital Fortress when all I really needed to do was swap the names in the Code and save myself some pennies to spend on sweets.
I read the Da Vinci code first and enjoyed quite a lot even if it was a little glib. So in true bibliophile fashion bought Angels and Demons AND Digital Fortress when all I really needed to do was swap the names in the Code and save myself some pennies to spend on sweets.
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Nuttyfish
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I liked the book, but it would make a shitty movie. When a film is 75% fact, and 20% tripe, you just get an overbudgeted documentary about evil popes and blasphemy.