Can totally understand the hate for this movie.....

and I feel like I am a dedicated Christian, not Catholic but still Christian.

Me too! I just don't understand what the fuzz is about. Sometimes I feel like I'm really different from most people. I loved this, but hated Inception. If my mind was right, I guess it should have been the other way around.

I think Howard is excellent at his best. Also loved TDV, but I understand the controversy around the plot of course.

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wut? catholic and christian is the same think difrent era

To Mystery hunters13

I like alot of movies alot of the time but personally I think it makes a hell of a difference if you have read the book. I just thought that the film itself ran far to quickly it didnt give you a chance to know who the characters where and it missed out massive chunks that was quite important to the storyline.
For example at the end when the Camerlergo sets himself on fire.. Does anyone know why he does that?
You wouldnt unless you had read the book. Personally to me the film just didnt make any sense even after I had read the book. It went too fast and skipped far to much for me.

But that is just my opinion.. :)

I felt in many ways the movie script improved on the book. By the time I finished the book my head was spinning from the sheer unbelievability of much of it. Just the fact that so much was crammed into such a limited time period, episodes like the way Langdon survived the helicopter jump and still managed to save the day at the Vatican, Brown's lame dialogue and character delineation (it was the first time I'd heard the word "camerlengo", not being Catholic, and Brown made sure I'll never forget it by addressing Ventresca (McKenna in the movie) by it seemingly every single time he is referred to). The movie streamlined the action, made it more believable - it was a compact, well-acted thriller with a lot of interesting detail and atmosphere. I liked the movie; the book was a chore, despite Brown's gift for slipping in lots of arcane knowledge.

Totally agree --- tried to watch numerous times... what is a Catholic Priest/whatever doing at CERN??

I just gave up -- read the wiki plot - fine by me - at least I get the point - lots of crap going on to justify a book/movie.

After the Da Vinci Code movie I gave up on Dan Brown and I certainly was not going to spend a penny on another movie made with Tom Hanks directed by Howard.
Today I took out the movie from the library and find the movie so boring that I end up doing all kind of other things while having it on. And that despite the fact that I have lived in Roma and have visited the Vatican and even was invited to an audience with the pope, so a movie filmed there should hold my interest.. The movie certainly does not show me the Rome I love and there are so many scenes in the dark and the movie is difficult to understand (it seems like everyone mumbles). It is a shame that despite the fact that these movies are so awful they still make money because they are so heavily promoted.
Not only are these movie versions of the Dan Brown novels terribly altered, but they are also miscast. Not one second does Tom Hanks convinces me as a Harvard professor and all the other characters are unconvincing too.

Just recently I read the newest book from Dan Brown, which was so bad and obviously already written with a movie in mind. What a pity, I liked his ideas about picking subjects like religion and giving it a different twist, but the Da Vinci Code is the only book I still like. The other ones are just riding on the tail of the Da Vinci Code and are not original anymore.

Sounds like someone is too dumb to read.