And if I were an author who made excessive factual claims, I’d realize that I was leaving myself open to criticism on that point. If The Da Vinci Code had never been presented as anything more than a “fun fast-paced action thriller” (as Eyebrows of Doom described it) then it would be unfair to criticize it for taking liberties with the truth. But Brown has attempted to market the book as something more significant than that, and that’s why the book has received more scorn than the average popular beach novel.
As a Lovecraft fan, I find the use of the words “non-euclidean” and “Dan Brown” in the same sentence offensive. Particularly in that the “The DaVinci Code” probably would have been much better with some Cthulhu tossed in.
Either that, or his Tentacleness would awaken and destory mankind, heading to Dan Brown’s house first.
Crap, I can’t decide if that would be horrible or totally awesome.
Aside from being a massive cliche by this point? Most authors don’t even try to play that straight anymore.
Neither does Brown. The twist of the book is that the Illuminati have dead for centuries and their role in the story is a complete ruse.
Yeah, I am sure Stellan Skarsgaard is jealous of Dan Brown’s success. LOL 
I remember very well my Mother-In-Law reading the DaVinci Code. I told her my biggest problem with it was all the people who took his plot devices for fact. She laughed and said she knew better. Damned if 50 pages later she wasn’t trying to convince me that the Olympic rings are based on the pattern drawn in the sky from the orbit of the planet Venus because the original games were in Venus’ honour. :rolleyes:
Well, how many bestsellers has HE written? Not very many, I’d wager! 
Yeah seriously, that hater should go back to Sweden!
Just saw the movie. I didn’t think this was possible, but Ron Howard and/or whoever wrote the screenplay absolutely ruined the book.
Yeah, it’s that bad.
True. I can understand the annoyance at people who believed every word of it to be The Truth, and all the hype that surrounded it. I read it a while after all that so it didn’t really have much of an effect on what I thought of the book itself.
Damn, didn’t get my edit in fast enough.
I just saw the film tonight, and I liked it much more than the book (the ending of which I hated.) I had one question though, as it relates to the book:
I only read the book once, several years ago, but wasn’t there some bit at the end where Langdon was in the helicopter as well and he fell out of the helicopter into some body of water? Tell me my mind didn’t just completely make that up? Because I remember thinking how idiotic that was and how from that height, even landing in water would still kill him.
Yes, in the book he’s in the chopper with the Camarlengo, jumps out, and uses a sort of flying squirrel trick that the Italian bint taught him (:rolleyes:) to minimize his velocity so he doesn’t die when he drops into the Tiber. Musta been one hell of a painful bellyflop anyway…
Well when you saw the previews about the evil Illuminati plot you knew it just had to be good!
I look at it as an extremely expensive SyFy original movie. The first one didn’t disappoint me because I had no expectations.
I already knew the plot. I’d read the book. The movie departs from the book in quite a few ways, and most of the changes make the plot points nonsensical.
So for people who have seen the film, how hot is Ewan McGregor in it? Worth $5.50 to see it in the theater? Or should I wait until it shows up on HBO? (Keeping in mind I am only interested in seeing it for Ewan’s hotness).
I wasn’t expecting much from the original and I still almost threw the disc across the room when they did the “reveal” at the end. The fact I rented it was the only thing that saved it from that fate.
Yep, Stellan’s special alright. And now that I’ve seen the movie, he’s right about Dan Brown too.
Wow, I never knew about Alexander! Thank you for fighting my ignorance. Yum! I haven’t seen any of his movies but I will now keep an eye out.
pepperlandgirl, Ewan is always hot, even when he’s covered neck to toe in priesty garb. Though, I like him much better as Christian than as a Christian.
I wonder if we can get Dan to work Bob Dobson and the Church of the Subgenius into his next book. Or would that be an insult to Bob and his fine organization?
You know, I thought about the plots of Naked Lunch and Junky for five minutes before I realized you meant Edgar Rice and not William S.