Any comments? I have to wait till the 7:15 showing . Lines were out the door at the local movie theater for the 1215 showing. \/

Apparently it is as good as the book.....which means I will not be going to see it, as I am in the "hated the book" camp

It's getting really bad reviews here in Europe. I didn't like the book so I'm sure I won't like the film either!

We are seeing it today, I liked the book . I rarely agree with most critics so we will see

Just saw in Borders that Fodors has a new book just on the Da Vinci Code places.

I saw it last night see my other post

The reviews in the US have not been all that great, either. I also hear the female lead character doesn't come off as being as smart as she does in the book and if that's true it probably speaks a few volumes in and of itself.

I bought the Fodor's Guide for the DaVinci Code. It is excellent, even if you never read the book, the guidebook Fodor's published is really interesting.

Great, literary drivel brought to the masses who are too lazy to even read such a simple book. How much more conspiracy crap do we have to put up with now by people who forget that it is fiction? I'm not trashing you if you like the book, it was reasonably entertaining, only if you are obsessed with it.

If it's not as good as the book, it must be really dreadful.

The vast majority of reviews (about 85%) collected on Rotten Tomatoes are negative.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/da_vinci_code/

The book is fiction, I took it as NOTHING but fiction....and still think is a fun book. ANYBODY that takes the book too seriously, ONE WAY OR THE OTHER needs to get a life.

The book is presented as fiction however to quote one review the book "is guaranteed to deeply offend anyone who has a strong beleif in te sanctity of (a) Jesus Christ or (b) good literature."

If for no other reason, Audrey Tatou is worth the ticket. She's wonderful!

I'll bet you Dan Brown doesn't even care if some label it bad literature. I loved the book, although the ending was a bit too "neat".

I have a total belief in the sanctity of Our Lord and I wasn't the least bit offended by the book.

Viajero: good, that's exactly how normal people are supposed to take it. I don't take the book seriously at all, but when people start going all nutty about it, it irks me, and then governments start imposing censorship and the church goes nuts and all that over a popular novel, just stupid.

I try to avoid all Hollywood movies at any cost! Let them pay me for keeping me in a stuffed dark room for 2 hours

Will this movie make me smarter? NO. More educated? NO. Provide entertainment? Maybe, but there is a 3-D movie about ocean life, I'd rather take my money there.

One of the potential problems with books and movies of this nature is that over time people will tend to blur the distinction between fact and fiction, and accept it as truth. Example being the need for St Sulpice in Paris to put up a sign telling people that the church IS NOT what people have read in the book...how do you explain this away if people really believe it is fiction...that is the risk, that average person will say.."If there is such a fuss, must be some truth to it..."

A crowded movie theater on opening night, no thank you.

We're going tomorrow night. We're Catholic, the DH goes to Mass every day. But it's fiction, FFS. We enjoyed the (not very literary) book as a good yarn.

As for fiction/fact, it's a pervasive cultural problem; how many more fifth graders can identify Homer Simpson than, say, Albert Einstein?

How many lovelorn letters asking for advice get sent to Juliet in Verona every year? I'd worry more about people who seek advice from a fictional teenager who if she did exist would now be dead 400 years.