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The DaVinci Code: Movie and Book May 20, 2006

Posted by AkumAPRIME in : Books,Life,Movies , trackback

I held off on a criticism of the Retardedly popular book until I could see it’s more visual incarnation. That’s taken care of so… here goes!
SPOILERS AHEAD!!! DO NOT READ ON IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE MOVIE/READ THE BOOK!!! SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

Over all the book and movie were good, but they both shared one thing that drove me Nuts. Teabing, or whatever, the old guess-he’s-the-baddie-early-on guy, kills his partner, and reunites with our heroes. Rather than say, ” OMG guys I totally escaped and we, like, gotta hurry and get out of here and like, open this cryptex and stuff” he admits his villainy and relies on their need for Truth to bring them to his side… This makes him suddenly stupid, which he wasn’t for the rest of the book. He relies on wits and treachery the Whole book to exact his plan, but suddenly he decides to just tell the Truth? That’s some old TV Batman villain bullshit, and it’s inexcusable.

Of course the movie was shitty compared to the book, leaving out details and adding things in for the sake of time. But it got it’s message across.

As a side note: I’m Really happy there was no “This is a work of fiction” message preluding the picture. That is just useless. Must we then add that to Every movie we see? blah blah blah, etc etc etc