let's hope they get enough money to make silas eyes red in the dvd version.. haha
couldn't they afford contact lenses?
possibly the biggest let down of the year
Jay
· 3 years ago
Thanks for the very detailed review of the DVC. Interesting.
reallybites
· 3 years ago
now i dun wanna watch it anymoreeeee
she came back from uni/coll right? read the book so long ago...forgot the plot di...
alvin
· 3 years ago
i hate you! It's not easy to get ticket Ooookay. Had to line up some more. Now two days before the movie, you just ruin everything. Hem!
ianfluenza
· 3 years ago
NNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Due to the sellout at the ticket booth, I haven't seen it yet!!! It's just like finding out that Santa Claus did not exist!!! Anyways, the critics from Cannes Film Festival bombarded heavy rounds of dissatisfaction and negative response on the film. So I have a rough idea on how badly-accepted the picture is, from a non-religious perspective. SIGH~~~
But I'll still watch it. Die Die must watch! (And keep your criticisms in mind while watching them!)
Calypso
· 3 years ago
Jer all my enthusiasm of watching it washed down the drain...blah
loud
· 3 years ago
It's ok, X-3 is out soon! =)
KY
· 3 years ago
looks like this won't be any better than the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy adaptation, that one was horshit too. now i'm feeling like really not going to watch this one.
mervkwok
· 3 years ago
That bad huh... I'm having second thoughts about watching the movie now. I shall need to brainwash myself and tell meself that the movie is not The Da Vinci Code haha.
argee
· 3 years ago
heh..i dunno. i thought it was good entertainment.
Ian McKellen stole the show indeed. i luv the part where they had to answer 3 questions to enter his mansion. lmao.
i tot the argument between teabing and langdon was brilliant.
though i felt annoyed at how they portrayed the council of nicaea as some sort of market place....so uncivilized...lol
overall, not bad trying to cram a whole load of stuff in 2 1/2 hours.
now, let me go learn french. lol
Chuang Shyue Chou
· 3 years ago
Wow! I am surprised at the detailed scene by scene comparison.
I take it that you are a huge fan of Dan Brown?
kimberlycun
· 3 years ago
omg sounds incredibly horrible...will still check it out though coz i wanna drool over tautou
p/s: nice meeting u the other night! :D
Chapree Da Grande
· 3 years ago
Awesome review! Very-very detailed. I guess eveybody that read the book agree on what you've said. It's too fast! >_
Bryan
· 3 years ago
Just watched it this afternoon. I give it 7/10, just because I have not read the book and understand almost everything in the movie. :D
For me, everytime I watch a movie that originated from a novel/comic/whatever book, I will only take the movie as it is. The movie stands on its own and have no relationship to the book at all. That will make you better enjoy the movie.
One thing I don't understand :-
Why they cracked their heads openning the cryptex the normal way?
Since they know there is vinegar inside, just freeze it then break it lah. Easy what. LoL...
Who cares if the code is APPLE or SOFIA? I say FREEZER ! Wuahahhaha....
Waifon
· 3 years ago
I am watching it tmrw and I have to skip so many para of this review that I don't think I read anything at all in fear of spoliers :( I read this book yonks ago and I'm resisting the temptation to read the book before tmr's show so that I won't be so dissapointed if the movie really sucked monkey balls compared to the book. But then again, since I almost forgot how's the plot like, I'm going TRY enjoying the show like a first- timer..hehe..must pujuk didri first. I've learnt my lesson from the Memoirs of a Geisha. That was total disappointment [dot] com, it's not even funny anymore.
And your review damn detailed okay. Were you concentrating on the show or keep doing mental notes on how to review it later on your blog? Haha..respek ar. I'm coming back to read it after the show. If it's that bad, I'll mourn with you. Already half mourning now, Elliot was sent away by Daniel Powter's Bad Day. geez...Taylor grey hair is so not winning man. Ish~ Oh oh..when are you watching Grease? I heard it wasn't that good but heck~ I'm so gonna lie and convince myself that is hell of a great production :D
Ginny
· 3 years ago
FINALLY!! SOME1 AGREES WITH ME!! THE MOVIE FRIGGIN SPOILED EVERYTHING!! when i came out i said.. fuck.. im so dissapointed.. it sucked.. everyone screamed at me.. saying NO LOR!! ITS NICE LOR.. den go school also.. i said that.. every1 was like.. WHY MuST U SpoIl IT WANNnnnNNN!! u too high la ure expectation..
*ish ish*
justakid
· 3 years ago
i. havent. seen. the. movie :'( :'(
exams goin on!!!!!!!!!!!! @!#$%^~&* so must continue readin my stupid sejarah book instead of going out to see the biggest most highly anticipated movie of the YEAR.
tink i'll go see it anyway. :P
Waifon
· 3 years ago
Oui...damn close ar with Patrick Teoh and TV Smith..haha. How to get passes to watch that talk show ha? So fun...you can join their production. And your picture on Suanie's page looks damn tired :( but u still look so adorable like a pauuuuuu :D
tze
· 3 years ago
hahaha i told eugin that i would need to watch the movie twice to understand it. then he rolled his eyes and called me a bimbo.
percy
· 3 years ago
ai yaya...i shouldnt log this website....anyway i should glad as i'm also didnt had time to go watch dvc....
foreverjas
· 3 years ago
omg!!!! i've nth to say. good review!=)
entwined
· 3 years ago
i really like to read you, that's why it took a LOT of effort of my part to skip this (long) post, you know! :/
i wanna watch the movie with an open, but prepared-to-accept-that-it-will-suck, mind, although i don't wanna know where/why/how/when it sucks before watching it. half the fun is spotting the suckiness factor!
pinkpau
· 3 years ago
george : yeah i'm still wondering why the heck his eyes were BLUE! maybe he's a special breed of albino .. or something..
jay : you're welcome!
reallybites : haha dont remember if it was uni or work, but it was sure as hell NOT boarding school!
alvin : hehehe i watched it, i watched it!
ianfluenza : yeah i watched it at times square's hugest cinema hall and it was FULL! times square's halls are NEVER full !!
calypso : no no no you must watch it! it's not good, but still a must watch :D
loud : OOH cant wait for that one either
KY : why!? watch it! :) it's a must-watch, albeit not a good one.
mervkwok : yeah i tried to do the same :(
argee : entertaining?! i was clutching my head going oh nooooo almost every 3 seconds! and the argument made me go wtf out loud! eh the one you watched .. did it have english subtitles during the french dialogue?
chuang : i wouldnt use the word fan .. haha i'm barely a fan of anything nowadays. i just like his writing.
kimberlycun : ooh she is hot :) yes, twas nice meeting you rowdy bunch!
chapree : like lightning!
bryan : seriously, you could catch everything? nothing confused you?! haha wow you're a prodigy. eh ...... your freeze thingy makes sense ... oh hey but maybe the papyrus is so brittle that it;ll break?
waifon : hehe yes come back and read this after you've watched, and let me know what u think. and of cos i was concentrating on the show 100%! i just happen to have a very good memory when it comes to complaining about things i dont like .. hahaha. and i'm going for Grease tomorrow, which is saturday
ginny : what, really?! then your friends are the ONLY people i know who liked the movie!
justakid : OF COURSE U MUST WATCH IT!
waifon : no la not close :) and their filming is over already. today last day.
tze : nvm nvm you were late ma!
percy : watch it anyway!
foreverjas : why nothing to say? @_@
entwined : all the best sitting through the suckiness :P it was torturous for me..
turquoise
· 3 years ago
I so wanted to see the movie. I was still unfazed when my friend told me the book was better. then i read your review. I think I'll go and see another movie this weekend. they seemed to have squeezed out everything that people yearned for.
Bryan
· 3 years ago
I've not read the book but I watched the documentary of National Geographic about The DaVinci Code. They invited some experts and Dan Brown to explain some parts of the book, that's why I can understand the movie. :p
argee
· 3 years ago
heh, no english subtitles during frenchy...grrrh...
oh well, it's nice to listen to french anyway. *must learn* lol
foreverjas
· 3 years ago
so bad ark? i havent watch tht movie yet.hehe. izit above 18 ark?
Cheneille
· 3 years ago
hello pinkpau!
been reading your blog for some time heh. feel like weeping every time because you're so eloquent, makes me wanna hide my face 6 ft under and never come up again :P
anyways, i watched Da Vinci Code too, and I guess the problem with us bookworms (or at least the ones I know so far) is that we can't stand film reproductions of our beloved stories, especially if they don't keep to the plot and replace important details with their own interpretation. Mine would be all 4 of the Harry Potter movies.
my main gripe with DVC would be Tom Hanks playing Langdon. WTF. I was expecting them to pick someone like Harrison Ford. oh well, at least the albino's hot, even though he's not supposed to be. :/
clem
· 3 years ago
My friends and I wanna watch it, but everytime we want to it's bloody full for the next 6 hours. =__=
foreverjas
· 3 years ago
well..i think even if the movie is so so bad.. i think we should at least appreciate their effort in everything la.. thou the book raux.hehe.
hanna
· 3 years ago
i'd give it one and a half out of five, and that's because of ian mckellen (who is awesome) and paul bettany (who is also awesome).
1. Sophie not being Sauniére's granddaughter made perfect sense, and made it less unbelievable. 2. isn't Audrey Tautou simply the cutest thing?
MengZ
· 3 years ago
I watch the premium screening at sunway.
the only scenes i found that match the book is the opening when Sauniere was chased down and killed. *i haven't finish the book yet.
The book itself is full of bullcrap. the movie is juz an act, an simplify version , this is not a documentary movie. i wont blame the sriptwritter. not many in this world read about Leonardo Da Vinci and undestand what he has done in his great life.*his artwork/code/technique/design Not eveyone know story about jesus christ and chatolic church. so the sriptwritter have to make it short and...some how will make mistake.
This book is misleading in some way. : p
hehe.
kat
· 3 years ago
hi pinkpau I don't think you know me, I've come to know about your blog thru my friend, and that is quite a studied review on dvc.
i agree with the totally uncalled for 'sofia-cryptex-killing'. the atbash cipher was the best part of the book. and they just ran through the anagrams, urgh. i dont think anyone who hasnt read the book understood that.
but, really, people are comparing it too much to the book. of course the book is better. Since when has a movie been more successful than the book it was based on?
it is hard to convey the intensity and the impact of the book's meaning onto the screen when so many parties are offended by its release. To me, as a movie, it was tame but maybe it was exactly the kind of boring and unprovocative movie the producers might have wanted it to be.
I'm not touching on any sensitive strings here, but imagine if you were a Christian or a Catholic watching the movie and the bare, almost crude contradiction of the Church's stand about mary magdalene and Jesus was laid down full blast, how would you take it?
to viewers, just enjoy the movie and stop comparing it to the book, because the book has a more intellectual ground compared to the movie's grandiose and drama.
Anonymous
· 3 years ago
The movie was bad because the book is shite.
Anonymous Two
· 3 years ago
I agree. The book was a bad fairytale.
pinkpau
· 3 years ago
wow you guys are replying really late in the game .. :)
but to kat, i agree that one should refrain from comparing the book to the movie when watching the latter based on the former. but you have to admit that the DVC Movie, on its own, as a MOVIE, was a horrible cinematic flop. i mean, the angles! the script! the cinematography! yuck.
All Comments
haha
couldn't they afford contact lenses?
possibly the biggest let down of the year
she came back from uni/coll right? read the book so long ago...forgot the plot di...
Due to the sellout at the ticket booth, I haven't seen it yet!!! It's just like finding out that Santa Claus did not exist!!! Anyways, the critics from Cannes Film Festival bombarded heavy rounds of dissatisfaction and negative response on the film. So I have a rough idea on how badly-accepted the picture is, from a non-religious perspective. SIGH~~~
But I'll still watch it. Die Die must watch! (And keep your criticisms in mind while watching them!)
Ian McKellen stole the show indeed. i luv the part where they had to answer 3 questions to enter his mansion. lmao.
i tot the argument between teabing and langdon was brilliant.
though i felt annoyed at how they portrayed the council of nicaea as some sort of market place....so uncivilized...lol
overall, not bad trying to cram a whole load of stuff in 2 1/2 hours.
now, let me go learn french. lol
I take it that you are a huge fan of Dan Brown?
p/s: nice meeting u the other night! :D
For me, everytime I watch a movie that originated from a novel/comic/whatever book, I will only take the movie as it is. The movie stands on its own and have no relationship to the book at all. That will make you better enjoy the movie.
One thing I don't understand :-
Why they cracked their heads openning the cryptex the normal way?
Since they know there is vinegar inside, just freeze it then break it lah. Easy what. LoL...
Who cares if the code is APPLE or SOFIA? I say FREEZER ! Wuahahhaha....
I've learnt my lesson from the Memoirs of a Geisha. That was total disappointment [dot] com, it's not even funny anymore.
And your review damn detailed okay. Were you concentrating on the show or keep doing mental notes on how to review it later on your blog? Haha..respek ar. I'm coming back to read it after the show. If it's that bad, I'll mourn with you. Already half mourning now, Elliot was sent away by Daniel Powter's Bad Day. geez...Taylor grey hair is so not winning man. Ish~ Oh oh..when are you watching Grease? I heard it wasn't that good but heck~ I'm so gonna lie and convince myself that is hell of a great production :D
*ish ish*
exams goin on!!!!!!!!!!!! @!#$%^~&* so must continue readin my stupid sejarah book instead of going out to see the biggest most highly anticipated movie of the YEAR.
tink i'll go see it anyway. :P
i wanna watch the movie with an open, but prepared-to-accept-that-it-will-suck, mind, although i don't wanna know where/why/how/when it sucks before watching it. half the fun is spotting the suckiness factor!
jay : you're welcome!
reallybites : haha dont remember if it was uni or work, but it was sure as hell NOT boarding school!
alvin : hehehe i watched it, i watched it!
ianfluenza : yeah i watched it at times square's hugest cinema hall and it was FULL! times square's halls are NEVER full !!
calypso : no no no you must watch it! it's not good, but still a must watch :D
loud : OOH cant wait for that one either
KY : why!? watch it! :) it's a must-watch, albeit not a good one.
mervkwok : yeah i tried to do the same :(
argee : entertaining?! i was clutching my head going oh nooooo almost every 3 seconds! and the argument made me go wtf out loud! eh the one you watched .. did it have english subtitles during the french dialogue?
chuang : i wouldnt use the word fan .. haha i'm barely a fan of anything nowadays. i just like his writing.
kimberlycun : ooh she is hot :) yes, twas nice meeting you rowdy bunch!
chapree : like lightning!
bryan : seriously, you could catch everything? nothing confused you?! haha wow you're a prodigy. eh ...... your freeze thingy makes sense ... oh hey but maybe the papyrus is so brittle that it;ll break?
waifon : hehe yes come back and read this after you've watched, and let me know what u think. and of cos i was concentrating on the show 100%! i just happen to have a very good memory when it comes to complaining about things i dont like .. hahaha. and i'm going for Grease tomorrow, which is saturday
ginny : what, really?! then your friends are the ONLY people i know who liked the movie!
justakid : OF COURSE U MUST WATCH IT!
waifon : no la not close :) and their filming is over already. today last day.
tze : nvm nvm you were late ma!
percy : watch it anyway!
foreverjas : why nothing to say? @_@
entwined : all the best sitting through the suckiness :P it was torturous for me..
oh well, it's nice to listen to french anyway. *must learn* lol
been reading your blog for some time heh. feel like weeping every time because you're so eloquent, makes me wanna hide my face 6 ft under and never come up again :P
anyways, i watched Da Vinci Code too, and I guess the problem with us bookworms (or at least the ones I know so far) is that we can't stand film reproductions of our beloved stories, especially if they don't keep to the plot and replace important details with their own interpretation. Mine would be all 4 of the Harry Potter movies.
my main gripe with DVC would be Tom Hanks playing Langdon. WTF. I was expecting them to pick someone like Harrison Ford. oh well, at least the albino's hot, even though he's not supposed to be. :/
1. Sophie not being Sauniére's granddaughter made perfect sense, and made it less unbelievable.
2. isn't Audrey Tautou simply the cutest thing?
the only scenes i found that match the book is the opening when Sauniere was chased down and killed.
*i haven't finish the book yet.
The book itself is full of bullcrap.
the movie is juz an act, an simplify version , this is not a documentary movie.
i wont blame the sriptwritter.
not many in this world read about Leonardo Da Vinci and undestand what he has done in his great life.*his artwork/code/technique/design
Not eveyone know story about jesus christ and chatolic church.
so the sriptwritter have to make it short and...some how will make mistake.
This book is misleading in some way. : p
hehe.
i agree with the totally uncalled for 'sofia-cryptex-killing'. the atbash cipher was the best part of the book. and they just ran through the anagrams, urgh. i dont think anyone who hasnt read the book understood that.
but, really, people are comparing it too much to the book. of course the book is better. Since when has a movie been more successful than the book it was based on?
it is hard to convey the intensity and the impact of the book's meaning onto the screen when so many parties are offended by its release. To me, as a movie, it was tame but maybe it was exactly the kind of boring and unprovocative movie the producers might have wanted it to be.
I'm not touching on any sensitive strings here, but imagine if you were a Christian or a Catholic watching the movie and the bare, almost crude contradiction of the Church's stand about mary magdalene and Jesus was laid down full blast, how would you take it?
to viewers, just enjoy the movie and stop comparing it to the book, because the book has a more intellectual ground compared to the movie's grandiose and drama.
but to kat, i agree that one should refrain from comparing the book to the movie when watching the latter based on the former. but you have to admit that the DVC Movie, on its own, as a MOVIE, was a horrible cinematic flop. i mean, the angles! the script! the cinematography! yuck.