Da Vinci Code's Tomatometer rating

[The STE]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/da_vinci_code/

[AUSTIN316426808]

I thought it last summer when I saw the teaser, I all but totally convinced myself of it after a couple documentary specials I've seen in the past 2 weeks leading up to the Friday release. Now I'm completely convinced and disappointed that the film probably has way too much talking/explaining.

Oh well, still have X-Men, Pirates and Superman.

[The STE]

I refuse to read the book and I'm only seeing the movie if I don't have to pay for it (seeing it with my parents for the free pop-corn and the previews)
I can't stand the fact that a fucking dimestore thriller novel is getting all these specials on the national geographic channel.

[ItsAlive75]

I was looking at that earlier, I love it. Tom Hanks is getting to that level of stardom where he thinks everything he does is gold. Punch that fucker down a peg.

And Ian McKellan is in so many movies I'm seeing him in my sleep.

[The_Return]

Just to see what all the fuss is about I'll probably rent it when it comes out on DVD, but I also think it looks pretty dumb.

[Yellow Jacket]

LMFAO!!! It deserves that low rating. Hell, I think Son of the Mask got a better tomatometer rating than that! I think.

[ItsAlive75]

Well the movie aint out yet, so gotta wait for the majority of the reviews to come out.

[noctuary]

Damn. That's the lowest rating I've ever seen. How can they not recognize the cinematic genius of Ron Howard?










:rolleyes:

[alkytrio666]

I don't have an interest in this film at all, and I probably won't see it.

But you guys look pretty dumb ripping a movie that you've never even seen.

[The STE]

I'm not ripping the movie (if anything, I'm ripping a BOOK that I've never READ), I'm just sick of hearing about the fucking Da Vinci Code like it's some sort of investigative expose on some bible conspiracy when it's a fucking dimestore thriller novel (yes, I keep using that phrase to describe it, because THAT'S WHAT IT IS!). I'll rejoice in any bit of bad reviews it gets. Maybe if it gets trashed enough, I won't have to hear about it anymore

[MoonLit Meadow]

Bah....I was actually planning on seeing it Saturday....probably still will, but I'm definately disappointed it isn't being received well:(

[AUSTIN316426808]

Originally posted by The STE
I refuse to read the book and I'm only seeing the movie if I don't have to pay for it (seeing it with my parents for the free pop-corn and the previews)
I can't stand the fact that a fucking dimestore thriller novel is getting all these specials on the national geographic channel.


It's getting all the discovery/national geographic attention because it is an interesting story. Like you I thought it was a serious investigative novel and Dan Brown only appears to have taken notes from another book(Holy Blood, Holy Grail which seems to be the real investigating book done by people who seriously researched the matter.) and wrapped it around a bunch of his own fiction. I probably enjoyed the specials I've seen more than I'll ever enjoy the book or film. I plan on seeing the movie, having second thoughts about the book but it wouldn't be the first time morbid curiosity pulled me in if I did read it.

[The STE]

but there are more interesting stories that get no National Geographic channel specials. I mean, honestly, what the fuck is so special about saying Jesus got married or something? Hey, guess what? LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST! Hell, Kevin Smith made a movie about his great great great great great great great grand-niece (Dogma spoiler-warning). But some guy writes that he married Mary Magdalene and Da Vinci put secret codes in his paintings, all of a sudden OMG WHAT IF THAT WERE REAL!? Wake me when someone makes a movie about Jesus being black (besides Dogma).


Look, I'm not saying the book is a BAD dimestore thriller novel, I'm just sick and tired of it being elevated into something that it's not. I'm sick of hearing about it, so I'm not going to read it. And I'm probably not going to see the movie, either.

[Haunted]

The fucking Holy Grail legend was a Cornish (Celtic) or Welsh (Celtic) legend and nothing (do you get that?) NO FUCKING THING to do with Christianity.

This misconception makes me really very angry.:)

[newb]

I thought The Holy Grail was a great movie.

now go away....or I shall taunt you a second time.

http://www.cdaccess.com/gifs/screen/holygr3.jpg

[Haunted]

Yes, well, that's the only redeemable movie or piece based on the what the Christians stole from us!

Fie! Villainous tickle-brained nut-hooks! Fie!

[The STE]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/630157401X.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg, mofo

[orangestar]

...I liked the book. I'll probably see the movie tomorrow sometime. I don't mind movies with a ton of dialogue. Maybe it won't be so bad.

[The STE]

<<<Quite enjoys movies with a ton of dialogue

[Miss Olivia]

Yeah, if Tom Hanks can pull off a whole movie about sitting on a beach and talking to a volleyball, maybe he can pull this off.....maybe they should have had Wilson cameo in Da Vinci....

[The STE]

Holy Shit, Jesus married a volleyball!!!

[Haunted]

All of the Indiana Jones movies pissed me off. I won't go into why because for one, you probably don't care and two, you wouldn't agree with me anyway.:)

By the way, have any of you that are throwing off on The Da Vinci Code ever read the book? Id did, thought it sucked, but that's just me. If you haven't read it, I would advise that you not talk about it on the grounds of...not knowing one single thing about what you're talking about.

[The STE]

again, my complaint has nothing to do with the quality of the book, but with the way the book is being perceived as something more than what it is

[orangestar]

I don't think anyone is saying The Da Vinci Code is an amazing life-changing well-written nobel prize winning book. I just thought it was entertaining. Dan Brown isn't horrible, but he isnt the next Hemingway. The book was fine, but I agree that some people are taking it a bit seriously.

[The_Return]

I love all the idiotic protesters that are unknowingly killing their own cause. I mean, Hollywood cant buy publicity like that.

[Haunted]

Originally posted by The STE
again, my complaint has nothing to do with the quality of the book, but with the way the book is being perceived as something more than what it is

I understand that completely, and you are absolutely correct by assessing that people are doing just that. It is completely irritating. It's true that the Gnostic gospels talk about the Magdalen in such a way, but Brown carries the theory (theory being the opperative word) to the limit.

However, you know, who the fuck am I? I don't give a shit if Jesus was married, had a harem, or was flaming gay. I'm a fucking Pagan. I just want the Holy Grail mysth returned.

Sorry, S, if I implied anything about you.:)

[The STE]

lol, you said "gay"

[ENTITY2000]

anybody watch a&e or history channel? neway that is all they r talking about is that dan brown's books. i am so tired of hearing about if jesus and mary had something going on. i know that's not what it's all about but that's what they lean toward!

[AUSTIN316426808]

Originally posted by The STE
but there are more interesting stories that get no National Geographic channel specials. I mean, honestly, what the fuck is so special about saying Jesus got married or something? Hey, guess what? LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST! Hell, Kevin Smith made a movie about his great great great great great great great grand-niece (Dogma spoiler-warning). But some guy writes that he married Mary Magdalene and Da Vinci put secret codes in his paintings, all of a sudden OMG WHAT IF THAT WERE REAL!? Wake me when someone makes a movie about Jesus being black (besides Dogma).


Look, I'm not saying the book is a BAD dimestore thriller novel, I'm just sick and tired of it being elevated into something that it's not. I'm sick of hearing about it, so I'm not going to read it. And I'm probably not going to see the movie, either.


I completely agree, Tom Hanks(and others involved in with the film) said something close to this...''It's all a bunch of who ha not to be taken seriously.'' That(maybe minorly, but all the same) is ripping the book and film of any seriousness thought to have been put into it by Dan Brown. Like I said in a previous post Brown just took notes from 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail'(which seems to be the serious investigation into the matter) and threw a story into it. Robert Langdon is a fictional as are the rest of the characters. So I don't know what all the fuss is about myself.

Also, look who the director is, how controversial do you think opie would let one of his films get? Any spark of believability and/or intrigue/controversy the book possesses is probably gonna be killed by how harmlessly Howard presents and concludes the theories.