this will probably be an unnecessary spoiler cut

[fox]

If I'm not the last English speaker left who hasn't read The Da Vinci Code, lord knows I'm among them, so there's probably no need to cut for spoilers, but I'll do it anyway on principle.

Did anyone else think the movie was a sort of workmanlike B-plus?  (It gets the plus, I should add, from the production values rather than from the script or, bless them, the performances.)  I was actually very disappointed when Audrey turned out to be the Heir of Slytherin Magdalene -- the minute they started talking about how that was the whole point, I assumed she was it, and I was really sort of expecting a twist in the form of Oh, the Heir is actually Tom/Sir Ian/the cop/Alfred Molina/anyone but the obvious choice, i.e. the girl.  (Though I wouldn't have bought it if it had turned out to be Paul Bettany, I admit.)  So in the complete lack of twist, I felt like I hadn't actually been watching a mystery or anything suspenseful after all.

And it had more endings than Return of the King, I swear.

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[wivern.livejournal.com]

I must be one of the other minority - I found the book really tedious, badly written and heavy handed, ( I just skimmed the last half to see if anything interesting and unexpected happened, but no) so I kinda expected the film to be good - on the principle that mediocre book make better movies than good books - but if they stuck closely to the book I expect the script is dire. I haven't seen it yet but the reviews, both professional and among my friends, are running about 9 against to every one for.

Part of my problem with the book was that I read History and Fine Arts at Uni and none of this was new to me so the Gee Wow factor was missing and I was just left with interminable cliff hanging chapters and pedestrian writing. Hmm... I really didn't like it did I? *g*

I'm still hoping I'll like the film better.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Well, I will note that although I know a lot of people who liked the book for the story, I've heard some incredibly unflattering things said about the writing. Some of the best are over at languagelog -- Geoff Pullum gets going and a person could laugh for days. In fact I've saved the relevant languagelog posts here (http://del.icio.us/agent.reynard/danbrown). :-)