Darth Mattitude wrote:

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Your kidding right? Da Vinci Code was one of the most abysmal films of 06. It doesn't help that Dan Brown is a weak writer.

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That's your opinion DM, but mine differs and I'm sure others will hold a different opinion again. If you ddn't like it then fine but you can't tell others there are wrong if they disagree with you.

And I think that Dan Brown is quite an inventive writer who concentrates on the story rather than flowery prose and in-depth analagies and deep metaphors that supposedly makes for "proper" literature.

I've not read his other two books yet so I can't comment on their sutability for a big screen screen adapation but I suspect if this one follows on from Da Vinci's success then I'm sure the other films will get the live action treatment.

By "that French bird", you mean Audrey Tatou right?

Anyway, she won't be in Angels & Demons as it is set in Italy so they will need an Italian actress to play Langdon's female companion Vittoria Vetra.

Any nominations for the role? I bet Oni could name a few!

-- Edited by Man In Black at 12:20, 2007-04-14

I like Dan Brown books, his style of each chapter ending with a cliff hanger and then moving to a parallel storyline in the next chapter keeps me reading as I want to know what happens next. But then you read the next chapter and don't find out and just get another cliff hanger and it just keeps me reading.

I've read all his books and I'm not much of a reader. The onyl thing I would say is that I don't think they work really well as films. The Da Vinici Code was an OK film but it didn't have the same suspense and effect that the book had, but that could be partly because I already knew what the twist in the story was going to be before it happened because of reading the book.

Also the book does drop lots of little hints trying to misdirect you at the wrong person like in Da Vinici Code it makes you think the french policeman is possibly the bad guy but I never felt that in the film.

Thats just my opinion.