That’s what I felt like while watching this flick last Friday night. And I don’t want to get into too much of a movie review mode about it. I enjoyed the experience, but I left that theatre feeling really dissapointed. It didn’t help that I just read the book. I mean literally, I just finished reading the book that same day.
What didn’t I like about it? That’s hard to say without giving too much of the story away. I think a lot of people understand the premise of the book, but the story that is built around it is the only thing the media hasn’t given away. Regardless, they did change some things, as Hollywood always does. They sliced some elements up, took some out completely, and then made the characters fit the movie rather than the ones that you got from the book.
I’ll have to watch it again to understand, for myself, how it was as an actual movie. Paying so much attention to the storyline, I didn’t really take in the film as it was presented. However, I recently heard that the makers of 24[fox] tried to get the rights from Dan Brown to do a season based on his book. That got me thinking that either a television mini-series or even the 24 idea would have succeeded in bringing the book to life better rather than a simple, box office smash.
Opie, you let me down.
I thought the book was pretty bad, but I was disappointed nonetheless to hear that the movie took out a large portion of the academic angles of the plot and content.
That seemed the only redeeming thing to celebrate! But I know lots of people loved it, and they’re not liking the movie nearly as much.