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is it actually worth reading/watching? is it popular because it is good, or just because the catholic church/america/etc. is scared of it? |
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i prefer books,but film must be fun it is popular because the people wants to know the THRUTH and in this books are some revelations that to medium people are hard to find.The Church will decay soon. |
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The book was very popular. People in America weren't scared of it then. But the format of film changes that obvilously. I think only zealots are "scared" of this story. America as a whole can give less than a shit about it. I'm sure religous fanatics in Europe/England are raising a stink about it as well. No? |
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The book's entertaining, but that's all... And for the movie, dunno... But I hate Tom Hanks... |
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My gf absolutely hates it (the book) with a passion, she thinks it's a disgrace that something so poorly written can be hailed as a masterpiece. |
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no one really seems to care over here, relision over here is usually of the half-hearted watered-down variety. i heard there were big protests in india about it |
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Yes, I think, because Muslims (i think they are Muslims over there) are very "serious" about their beliefs. People died and buildings burned with those comics of Mohamed (sp?). Who knows what will happen with this? |
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I think they "honor" jesus as well or something. |
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He's seen as a prophet by Islam. It was them that got so upset about the Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (shit book by the way- don't believe it's any good/buy it just because of the controversy) and made him go into hiding, even though it was Christians who should have been more upset by it. As Ezkerraldean says, bit of a watered down variety of religion in Europe, particularly in the UK. |
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my mum has bought the book. they say that this and harry potter are "novels for people who don't read novels" and its true. theyre probably the only books my mum has ever read |
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I thought reading the book was like watching a trashy but very entertaining film, so if they havent managed to turn it into a trashy but very entertaining film then ron howard is a cunt |
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i'm sick of hearing about this. its not a book, its a stupid fucking fad, like tamagotchis |
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it is a really poor book. it is just like watching a run of the mill blockbuster peice of poo. reminds me of harry potter: he walked in the room. he noticed the crack on the floor. he began to wonder what dr bellsmoker had said to him just days before. look at the floor. look at the floor, the big secret is in the floor. slowly he began to look at the floor some more. it was all really exciting and tense. no it wasnt. shut up. |
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that sounds crap, but at least it upsets some religious zealots then i dont mind |
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i'm reading the book but it doesn't seem a masterpiece |
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this book is crap. a lot of long known theories (bullshit) sticked together in one book with poor writing. |
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HARRY POTTER FOR FUCKING ADULTS. THE FUCKING CHURCHES ARE COINING IT IN OFF THE BOOK OF THIS PIECE OF SHIT EXCUSE FOR A BOOK. |
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Most people don't read books for enlightenment. They may think they do, but people would rather have someone tell them they are thinking and give them a bit of trivia. If a book is a best seller, its rarely because it deserves to be read, so much as it gives people a simple story with a couple basic plot twists. |
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bah! |
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If it upsets baby Jesus, it's good as far as I'm concerned. All kiddie-fiddlers, them lot who work at the church. |
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its a fun book, if you like adventure stories. movie should be the same. |
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Im so happy"! All journalists in Cannes thought it was shit !!! Ahah the face of Jean Reno after the projection.... God it was good ! |
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I enjoyed the book. Although it occured to me about half way through, that if they did manage to prove or find the blood line of Jesus, it would not change the views of the Church. There are Christians who do not believe in evolution because it is written in a different way in Genesis. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie isn't a shit book, not his best but certainly better than the Da Vinci Code. |
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Catholics are not the religious American Christian zealots. Catholics in the usa are like Catholics in any western country. Probably less religious than the ones you would find in Italy. It's the regular, less formal Christians, younger churches that are the Bush supporters and the people you are afraid of. Not the thousand year old Catholic church. Most Catholics are more concerned with being good catholics than good people. |
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Never read it, never will. The same with the movie. |
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I think you are pretty post on with that IMO |
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I hear Tom Hanks Tiger Bombs the Pope of a 10 foot stage onto a burning table wrapped in barbed wire! ECW!!! |
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The books better of you speed read it by just looking at the pictures. It's fucking terrible. |
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It's a movie by Ron Howard starring Tom Hanks. If that weren't bad enough it's based on a piece of shit novel based on piece of shit "non fiction" with no more scholarship than that fucking Erich von Daniken with his fucking Egyptian astronauts. It is a veritable black hole of stupidity. Viewers will have to roll a saving throw against instant mental retardation. |
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Well I'm going to see the movie tomorrow so I'll report back on say... saturday... maybe... It seems everyone can't understand why christians are upset over a piece of fiction. Seems crazy until you realize that christianity is based on a ficticious book. pwnd |
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Hahahahahahaha Very nice weatheredstoner, very nice indeed... |
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The duh vinci code |
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bible sticker, if only.................. |
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hahah ok so I went and there were protesters standing at the edge of the movie theater property (they won't let them protest on the property thank god). But of course they still had their signs with pictures of Geesus and were chanting some crap by the road. I just rolled my window down and told them to 'get a life'. I then ran home and posted about it on an internet msgboard. Oh and the movie was so-so. Didn't hate it, didn't love it. It's kinda hard to hate a movie with Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Tom Hanks. There all so adorable. And Audrey Tautou was lookin kinda fuckable through most the movie. Or maybe I was just horny. I didn't read the book but I'd imagine that if i did i might have found the movie boring only because I know what's going to happen in the plot next. |
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You are rationalizing why you might want to fuck Audrey Tautou? Maybe you are gay? |
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Is this the one where Harry Potter dies at the end? |
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yes. God did it. |
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"Harry, I am your Fasher" |
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the movie is supposed to be shit. got 1.5 stars at darkhorizons |
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it was a very poorly written book and it's in no way "a work of literature" and i always felt as if i was reading a movie script. it's no wonder then that this got filmed. i heard that the major complaints were due to tom hanks hairdo. OH NO. TOM HANKS HAIR BAD, ERGO MOVIE BAD...but i'm guessing there was something more to it than that. |
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Dan Brown has bad hair, just like Tom Hanks' character... coincidence? |
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Jesus had a mullet, if religious iconography is to be taken at face value. |
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not a simple coincidence... |
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While the book is put down by many because of the blatant text of disproving that jesus christ was an actual immortal being, the fact is that is alot of what Brown talks about in the book is actual truth. The holy grail while may not be infact mary magdaline but it is a supported believe that is another way of looking at religion and christ, just as christianity and any other religion their is no ACTUAL PROOF that any of these saviors where who they were or if they were just made up to be these entities over time, fact of the matter is no one from those era's is alive today and we only can go by ancient text's to make us think what we want to think, the books interested reguardless, its meant to make you think. Brown didn't write it to piss off christians and have people question their faith, its a FICTIONAL novel and should be treated as thus. |
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Garth's review at darkhorizons stated a main complaint being that it is just too boring. too talky and heavy handed basically. He mentioned that a previous book "angels and demons" or something would have made a much better movie. but of course it didn't sell nearly as well as a book so that's a no brainer for Hollywood. |
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Dan even walks around with a copy of his own book to constantly remind himself, "oh shit I really did write that". |
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they should question their faith. i always make people question their faith if i get the chance, to stop them taking it literally and mindlessly. you cant follow a religion like a zombie! you must ask questions |
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the book is bad you get tired of the plot twists, but it hooks you up at the beggining so you have no remedy of finishing the motherfucker. |
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The book sucks imo, but it's far better than the movie. |
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