32 thoughts on “John Reviews The Da Vinci Code

  1. You say the Da Vinci Code is a bad movie? I’ve wanted to see it ever since it came out. Maybe I’ll rent it. Do you think that? You gave it a no? I’ve heard this movie is far too long. I hate to long movies. I fall asleep. This got 2 thumbs up from Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper. They said it was a ‘thriller that’s enjoyable.’ I’ve seen the trailer for the Da Vinci Code and Tom Hanks just stinks, it looks like. I love him but he’s doing so bad! Ian McKellen doesn’t look too bad, but he can sure be doing better. As I said earlier, should I rent it? Or not?

  2. I didn’t think this movie was utter crap, but that isn’t saying much. It seemed really long when I was watching it, and although they couldn’t really go wrong with a story as good as this one, somehow it just didn’t grab me. The only person i thought was as good as the character in the book was Paul Bettany’s Silas, although he didn’t exactly look albino to me (he so should have had red eyes!)Anyway, it is so annoying that no film is ever as good as the book it was taken from, i guess the original is always the best, huh?

  3. In Summary:

    If you read the book: DaVinci Code = 2/10

    If you didn’t read the book: DaVinci Code = 5/10

    If you were drunk while watching: DaVinci Code = 10/10

    The only redeeming performance was from Sir Ian McKellen.

    Great Movie Review John, Keep it up!

    Sean aka “MovieJacket”

  4. ok. The DaVinci Code was a great book and movie. i would have to say that people should watch it or read it. which ever they prefer. and tom hanks played an excellent robert langdon. he wasnt boring. he played robert langdon pretty well. so far i hated most of your reviews on some of the movies. and right now especially this one.

  5. I really like the movie, although of course, the book was better! But everybody says that. It was amazing how different the movie and book were. If you liked the movie, read the book!

  6. There is a setting buried somewhere inside WMP that will let you turn the auto-play on or off…I can’t find it right now, but I remember setting it in the past.

    For me, I have to hit play.

    I’m also suffering from the same buffering issues…I am using WMP 11 if that makes a difference.

    Also, the “TypeKey” option for posting was telling me you are not set up for the service. (Not a big deal to me.)

    Thanks for the reviews!

  7. Video is not playing automatically on Firefox running on my Mac, but the video *is* impossible to play on my system. WMV’s rebuffering garbage never seems to work right and just hangs shortly after you start speaking, and while I could grab the source, pull out the link to the WMV file, download it, and view it, a video review isn’t worth that kind of trouble.

  8. I thought the Paul Bettany character was over-the-top. It wasn’t a real character; it was a stock “Evil Albino” with little other than doing Evil Deeds as its motivation. And National Treasure was OK, I guess, but comparing this film to National Treasure seems to kind of be missing the point, IMO.

  9. Hey there JJ,

    Hmmm… I agree with you that video that plays automatically on a site is annoying! But I have it programmed in such a way right now that you should have to hit “play” for it to start. Is it NOT working for you that way?

    How about everyone else? Is the video playing automatically when you load the page… or do you have to hit the play button to get it to start streaming?

  10. Hmmmm….
    Okay it’s not the best film I’ve seen but I think it deserves a better score (just my two british pennies). I saw it last week, forced to sit in the second row (right at the front) and knowing how bad the press has been on this film I was expecting to leave before the first hour finishes…Well just under three hours and with a stiff neck I left the ‘flicks’ feeling that this film was worth seeing, okay it’s no Jacobs ladder or LOTR but it was a good film….C’mon it was miles better than titanic!

    Okay the acting did feel a bit woody and Hanks really couldn’t care what happened throughtout the film which I liked co’s i’m british but the feel of the film was great. the pace was a tad slower but I bet people who haven’t read the book will get it a higher score than people how have.

    It deserves a better score and more praise as there are SOOO many more films out there that are miles worst and still get better critic reviews.

    Give me this over the colour bloody purple any day!

  11. Hey John great review I agree with Hanks being a total bore the whole movie. That video review sure does remind me how much I like The audio edition in video.(wink,wink,nudge,nudge)

  12. What I don’t like about this post (and past posts like this one) is the fact that it plays the video automatically when I come to the site. I HATE sites that play music, some silly wav file, or worse, a video file automatically when the page loads. Why not just link off to another page with the video, instead of killing your bandwidth on something that everyone may not want to watch?

    I am not criticizing your video, just don’t shove it down my throat. I like reading your blog, I could care less about podcasts/videocasts/etc.

  13. my, my – aren’t we opening the proverbial can of worms.
    read the book – found it so-so – not interested in the movie.
    i did not think the book could have been done as a movie in its present form. in the book i found langdon a sympathetic character. too bad.

    i find it interesting that when people haven’t a brain to present a reasonable argument they resort to the personal. so sad.

  14. Hey Spork,

    So let me get this straight. The most intelligent thing you have to offer in this conversation about the movie “The Da Vinci Code” is a criticism about how I pronounced the word especially in the video? Wow.

    Oh… and by the way… you’re right. I don’t have a TV show. But I do have over a million people a month reading and watching my commentary. How many people go out of their way to listen to you? Just curious.

    ~John

  15. Look at the word ‘especially’ and tell me how you can so badly mispronounce it as “eck-specially”?

    I mean, I can almost forgive you for mispronouncing DaVinci as “DaVinSEE” since it is from a foreign language, even though everyone on the planet seems to have little to no difficulty with it. But ‘especially’? C’mon…

    There’s a reason you’re forced to do this as a web site instead of having your own television show.

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