The Da Vinci Code - Review
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When you ask anyone who’s watched the movie adaptation of a best-seller, they’ll most likely root for the book version (assuming the novel came first). Of course, no one will admit that the movie version is better. It’s always nice to say that we liked the book better because it would simply make us appear intellectually inclined and we’ve got great imagination and all that stuff. Well there’s also the truth that movie adaptations are usually just bastardized versions of literary masterpieces.
The one movie I can think of that was better than the book would have to be The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I did attempt to read The Hobbit and The Silmarillon but the English was at times too hard to understand. I got the gist of it but it just got too boring I’d rather sit through 9 hours straight marathon-ing the movies.
Oh, right, I was supposed to review DVC. Well, it was a good watch but it didn’t give that factual appeal as it did in the book. The producers could’ve put in some prologue “Fact” text during the beginning of the movie like the controversial “Fact” page in the book. For those who didn’t read the novel, it was easier to dismiss the movie as purely fictional.
I wasn’t buying Tom Hank’s acting though. Perhaps he just couldn’t relate well with the Langdon. Whenever Hanks is supposedly acting out his claustrophobic tendencies, he merely looks like he’s having bad ulcer. The movie could’ve used more drama.
I like Magdalene’s sarcophagus because I hadn’t imagined it to be intricately decorated. I just pictured a slab of concrete with Templar inscriptions like the
When you ask anyone who’s watched the movie adaptation of a best-seller, they’ll most likely root for the book version (assuming the novel came first). Of course, no one will admit that the movie version is better. It’s always nice to say that we liked the book better because it would simply make us appear intellectually inclined and we’ve got great imagination and all that stuff. Well there’s also the truth that movie adaptations are usually just bastardized versions of literary masterpieces.
The one movie I can think of that was better than the book would have to be The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I did attempt to read The Hobbit and The Silmarillon but the English was at times too hard to understand. I got the gist of it but it just got too boring I’d rather sit through 9 hours straight marathon-ing the movies.
Oh, right, I was supposed to review DVC. Well, it was a good watch but it didn’t give that factual appeal as it did in the book. The producers could’ve put in some prologue “Fact” text during the beginning of the movie like the controversial “Fact” page in the book. For those who didn’t read the novel, it was easier to dismiss the movie as purely fictional.
I wasn’t buying Tom Hank’s acting though. Perhaps he just couldn’t relate well with the Langdon. Whenever Hanks is supposedly acting out his claustrophobic tendencies, he merely looks like he’s having bad ulcer. The movie could’ve used more drama.
I like Magdalene’s sarcophagus because I hadn’t imagined it to be intricately decorated. I just pictured a slab of concrete with Templar inscriptions like the
