Da Vinci Code (16.05.06)

[Ben]

here's a trailer for the film

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382625/trailers-screenplay-E27011-10-2

looks really good, can't wait to see it!

[~Wayne~]

The storyline sounds amazing I must say

[iaxa]

i thinking of seeing it . i havent read the book though wouldnt mind reading it. looks great it got 5 stars out of 5 here in Australia!

[Ben]

yeh it's a great read, very exciting all the way through. it's a world bestseller!

[Ben]

EDIT: comes out on friday the 19th, not tuesday the 16th. won't let me edit my first post...

[Shane]

Sounds good. Wanan go see it next week Ben? I'll have read it by then.

[Ben]

i'm going to see it on friday with all my geek friends from school. come along if you like. let me know though. going friday afternoon 12:30 centertainment, get back in time for maths. study leave? pffft. some lessons are still running lol

[Ben]

just been to see it today. it was amzing. i really enjoyed it. they did a really good job, and most of it was near-perfect, but they did alter things slightly, some more serious changes thatn others, but on the whole did the job of getting the story out in a film.

reading the book first is essential to understanding the film entirely, but you'd be alright seeing it anyway.

strongly recommend going to see it having read the book first.

[Lindsay]

i heard the book was way better. It only got 2 and a half stars and my brother went and said it was pretty boring, but my boyfriend loved the book so i'm most likely going to end up going.

[Ben]

yeh it was nothing compared with the book.

2.5 stars is crap, it deserved way better. i take it your brother hasn't read it if he found it boring.

[Lindsay]

no he has. He said that the book was supposed to take plce in 24 hours or something and the movie stretches it out for too long
something like that

[Wen1992]

My teacher saw it last night, she said it's good but they have the wrong casts. She said that she hated the casts!

[Ben]

no he has. He said that the book was supposed to take plce in 24 hours or something and the movie stretches it out for too long
something like that

yeh but that didn't make it boring!


My teacher saw it last night, she said it's good but they have the wrong casts. She said that she hated the casts!

i thought the casting was great!!

[~Wayne~]

Shane I'll go see it next week if ya want

[clueless]

The castings are totally wrong. Tom Hanks does not look like a prof and Jacques Sauniere doesn't look European enough. Nor does Bezu Fache has the physique of a bull. Silas isn't scary enough.

I did plan to go see the movie today, but was too shattered. So tomorrow it is, hopefully. :D

[Ben]

oh i thought the casting was brilliant. silas was perfect, fache was the bull, sophie was right, i thought sueniere was a little out, but i'm not sure what i expected really, and tom hanks wasn't perfect for the part, but he played it well, when he was arguing wth leabing about the myth he really looked like he knew his stuff and was really fighting for what he believed was truth and what was legend, and that lecture at the beginning was good too.

i really didnt know what to expect the bishop to look like, and i had got Rémy completely wrong in my head...seemed really weird in that.

[Chris]

Just got back from seeing it, i quite enjoyed it, and i havent read the book, so i can judge this film without personal bias towards the book.

What's Good:

The story, while sometimes confusing, was still highly engaging and entertaining, and i thought that Paul Bettany as Silas was excellent, he looked menacing and was perfect for the role. As was Ian McKellan as the Da Vinci enthusiast Teibing, his acting was by far the best in the movie and i felt he was very convincing.

What's Bad:

The car chase near the beggining of the film was terrible, the camera was far to zoomed in and you could barely see anything because the camera was moving to fast (bad editing and directing). This kind of thing was happening throughout the film with the camera looking like it was going to zoom up the actors nostrils, lol. That and i thought Tom Hanks's acting wasnt all that great, sometimes it seemed like he was reading of off cue cards and didnt really feel comfortable in the role.

Conclusion:

A good film that is nowhere near as bad as recent reviews have been saying, if you go into the cinema expecting an awesome film you will probably be dissapointed, but go in expecting a decent film and you will probably enjoy it (as i did). The entire cinema screen (the really big one in Cineworld) was packed and the next three showing at Cineworld in Sheffield were fully booked, just goes to show that most people are ignoring these negative reviews, i advise you to do the same, go and see it and make up your own mind.

8/10 :)

[Ben]

cheers for that, chris. i was expecting a fucking brilliant film, and that's exactly what i got. i loved the book and knew it would make a terrific blockbuster of a film, and i was certainly not disappointed. though they kept speeding everything up, especially the bits that took ages for them to figure out in the book, like that they had to use a mirror to read what langdon found in the box containing the cryptex, and whether they should enter the fibonacci sequence scrambled or in order as the 10-digit password to get into the swiss vault. also they missed a few bits out like that there was a second cryptex inside the first one (i think...i just remembered that) and often drifted over bits too quickly, so parts of it really required having read the book first.

i saw it at centertainment yesterday too, 12:30 screening, there were 200-odd seats left in our screening but they were full up for that evening by then.

[Mikhael]

apparently if u join up all the points on a map of the places rob langdon goes in the book.it is a big nob

And also Dan Brown is also and Anagram of Drawn Nob

[~Wayne~]

Very random fact there...

[Ben]

lol

'Leigh Teabing' is an anagram of the surnames of the two authors that tried to sue Dan Brown for stealing their book, the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail

Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh >>> Leigh Teabing

[Lindsay]

i just saw it with my boyfriend and it was pretty good. you don't have to have read the book to get the movie which i liked. I found everything worked out too conviently though
"thankfully i have an airplane!"
"thankfully i can quickly solve anagrams!"

[Ben]

well having read your post, it would seem that you would have had to read the book to properly understand the film.

Teabing is a knight, he's fucking rich, he's got a mansion in france, and flies to london every week for special treatment from english doctors just because he doesn't trust any frenchmen.

sophie is a professional cryptographer, she does that sort of thing all the time, that's why she could do them, although the film did take the piss here, in the book they would spend hours mulling things over working these codes out (not specifically hours on the anagrams) and the film just showed them working them out instantaneously.

[Chris]

I'm glad they worked them out quickly actually, it would have seemed to drag on if they had spent ages working out the codes. Thats the difference between film and book, in a book you can afford to drag it out a little because you will have already got the readers attention, whereas in a film you have about 2-3 hours before the audience begins to get bored.

[Ben]

i guess so, but then it adds to the 'farfetched' aspect...

[Lindsay]

well having read your post, it would seem that you would have had to read the book to properly understand the film.

Teabing is a knight, he's f*cking rich, he's got a mansion in france, and flies to london every week for special treatment from english doctors just because he doesn't trust any frenchmen.

sophie is a professional cryptographer, she does that sort of thing all the time, that's why she could do them, although the film did take the piss here, in the book they would spend hours mulling things over working these codes out (not specifically hours on the anagrams) and the film just showed them working them out instantaneously.

i was talking about robert solving them quickly actually.

[Ben]

yeh, that's another thing. in the book, she's the one that can do stuff like that, and fast, but in the film langdon does the anagrams by himself while she's stood next to him. i think he did the first few in the book, while she wasnt there, but she got the last one by herslef and says 'i missed the first two anagrams, i wasn't going to miss a third'.

can't remember exactly, i'll have to read it again some time.