The Da Vinci Code sucks

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A few years ago, I had to get the muffler replaced on my car. It was a bright sunny morning and I felt great while driving through a nice sporadically wooded road to get there. When I arrived at the shop, I was told I could go inside and wait and that there was a TV inside. The TV was on Syfy and was playing The Da Vinci Code, during the later scenes that take place during the day. That's the type of movie that The Da Vinci Code is: something that you watch a portion of on cable TV to pass the time on a weekday morning in a muffler shop.

I ended up buying physical copies of all three movies. They're not great film making, but they're fine to watch when drunk or wanting some throwaway entertainment.

EDIT: I should specify that I paid less than $10 for said movies. It would be truly horrifying to have seen all of them in theaters or to have paid full price for all those DVDs.
 
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I tore two muscles in my back delivering the prints of this movie thanks to Sony being retardedly paranoid about it, thanks to their insane belief it would make more money than the Lord of the Rings trilogy did.

FUCK THE DA VINCI CODE! FUCK DAN BROWN! FUCK SONY PICTURES!
 
I recall when that book and then the movie were a huge fad. One time, I was in a B&N bookstore in a mall (this is definitely a '00s memory), and IIRC there was this ad thing playing over the intercom with an "intellectual-sounding" voice saying you could "ponder The Da Vinci Code" while hanging out at the Starbucks (lol). The fad really was big.
 
One good thing that The Da Vinci Code did inspire was the book "Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code" by Bart Ehrman. It is the best introduction to the basics of New Testament scholarship that I have seen by who is perhaps the top scholar in the field, and it is a quick, easy read. Basically, Dan Brown's chief source for the book (right down to the use of secret societies) is "Holy Blood, Holy Grail," a book that is universally derided by Biblical scholars and considered a work of pseudohistory. The book walks through each point of BS in The Da Vinci Code and then clarifies what really happened or what was a total fabrication.
 
It's weird how extremely brief but huge it's popularity was, everyone was talking about it, I saw tons of parodies of albino vision dude and that puzzle tube thing then literally no one talked about it ever again besides to shit on dan brown.
 
Markass the Worst dijo:
Every time I read the book when people say this, the book is just as bad as the movie.
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Yeah, and in this case it's 100% accurate.
Do you know those kiosks at the train station that have a little shelf with random books, probably sun bleached covers, only bought by people who are really desperate for some travel entertainment?
That's the quality of Dan Brown's books.
 
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