My problem with the DaVinci Code is the people who are treating it like it's fact. It's just a novel. I'm sick to death of all the "Cracking the DaVinci Code" and "Inside The Code" and "The Truth Behind the Code" books that are all over the place. The truth behind the code is there isn't any. What's next? Books about whether Hogwarts is real?
I haven't read the book myself, but the movie failed to impress me. Sir Ian McKellan is always worth the price of admission, but really, it was just "National Treasure, but in Europe." The plot was practically identical. The acting was better, but the plot was the same.
It's cheap historical fiction, and not very historical at that-- Opus Dai has only been around since the fifties, for starters. It's a beachnovel. I don't get why everyone's so obsessed with it. It really just Isn't That Good.
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Date: 2006-05-25 09:24 pm (UTC)I haven't read the book myself, but the movie failed to impress me. Sir Ian McKellan is always worth the price of admission, but really, it was just "National Treasure, but in Europe." The plot was practically identical. The acting was better, but the plot was the same.
It's cheap historical fiction, and not very historical at that-- Opus Dai has only been around since the fifties, for starters. It's a beachnovel. I don't get why everyone's so obsessed with it. It really just Isn't That Good.
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