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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.
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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.