Movie critics unite with book critics to hate The Da Vinci Code
In Other Media would be remiss if it didn’t comment on the release of the film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code. By almost all accounts, it stinks out loud. Dana Stevens at Slate sums it up: “As I slogged through the vast wastes of expository dialogue that comprise Dan Brown’s best seller The Da Vinci Code, one of the few compliments I could honestly pay the book was that it was eminently filmable,” she writes. “So much for that theory…. Given the silliness of the source material, The Da Vinci Code stood little chance of being a great film, but it could easily have been a fun one. Instead, Howard takes a strangely respectful approach to the overheated mysticism of the novel, turning the film into that most boring of genres: the pious blockbuster.”
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