Comments on: Watching The Da Vinci Code http://wongablog.co.uk/2006/05/28/watching-the-da-vinci-code/ like balloons, only with dancing Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:54:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Pete http://wongablog.co.uk/2006/05/28/watching-the-da-vinci-code/#comment-3879 Pete Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:08:02 +0000 http://wongablog.djcounsell.org/?p=1856#comment-3879 I agree. If you've read the book the film was ok, nothing more and nothing less. I can't decide whether to recommend the film to people who haven't read the book. I'm not sure whether the pace is so fast with so little explained that it just wouldn't work or if there is enough explanation to make it a good/okay film in its own right. Guess you'd have to ask someone who hadn't read the book. I don't think the book does mention where Robert Langdon's claustrophobia stem's from, I just remember thinking it could have been something to do with his first book. I might be very wrong there and there may well be a chapter devoted to it but it didn't hang around in my mind to be filed within the memories section. I think the film was fighting a lose lose battle from the start. Okay lots of people that have read the book will want to see the film and those that haven't may want to see what the fuss is about. Out of those people, the first group will see nothing new and the book is always better than the film (especially in a film like this when you know what's coming), and the second group... see my first point in the post, I don't know. Still I'm going to watch Xmen III later/tomorrow, which I'm looking forward to more. I agree. If you’ve read the book the film was ok, nothing more and nothing less. I can’t decide whether to recommend the film to people who haven’t read the book. I’m not sure whether the pace is so fast with so little explained that it just wouldn’t work or if there is enough explanation to make it a good/okay film in its own right. Guess you’d have to ask someone who hadn’t read the book.

I don’t think the book does mention where Robert Langdon’s claustrophobia stem’s from, I just remember thinking it could have been something to do with his first book. I might be very wrong there and there may well be a chapter devoted to it but it didn’t hang around in my mind to be filed within the memories section.

I think the film was fighting a lose lose battle from the start. Okay lots of people that have read the book will want to see the film and those that haven’t may want to see what the fuss is about. Out of those people, the first group will see nothing new and the book is always better than the film (especially in a film like this when you know what’s coming), and the second group… see my first point in the post, I don’t know.

Still I’m going to watch Xmen III later/tomorrow, which I’m looking forward to more.

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