I know this is a bit behind the curve, but I just saw the DaVinci Code last night, and I was wondering...?

Question

What was the big deal?

I know, the books are always better, I'll have to get a hold of it.

Answer 1

People just liked the controversy. I think it was a poorly made movie for sure. And the book was just an average run of the mill thriller. It had no redeeming value over anything else. The only reason it was popular was the controversy.

Answer 2

While the book was fiction, Dan Brown actually took information about the Holy Grail from previous authors. You might be interested in reading about the same material that is presented in non-fiction. It is only a theory that Mary Magdalene was the wife as Jesus.
I have a book called, "The Bloodline of the Holy Grail" by Laurence Gardner. He presents Jesus Christ as a man and goes into detail about the miracles that he performed. The miracles are nothing but ordinary events in his book.
Anyways, Dan Brown took information from scholars and put it in a story. It's like taking the theory of evolution and making a movie about it.
To your question, I was a bit disappointed in the movie, but I liked the book a lot better.

Answer 3

The book is better but the film wasnt bad, the whole thing was just too over hyped, people were expecting some kind of amazing revelation! and were disappointed. Both were quite good if u can look past the hype and controversy and just appreciate an ok story!

Answer 4

The big deal is that the catholic church claims that Jesus was not married, and did not have any children, because he was a pure god. They also say it was wrong of Brown to write a fictional story claiming that Jesus was married.
Its called censorship.

If you're talking about the movie - the first time seeing it is kind of hard because its jumps around a lot. But when I watched it again on DVD, it was easier to follow the storyline.

Answer 5

The point is that if you use a computer to throw random patterns at a bunch of coherent data, occasionally you will get coherent data back. According to the principles of randomness, this is totally predictable. There is nothing more than probability involved.

Dan Brown writes nice stories with skill but he does have a disturbing habit of throwing in monumental lies within a passage containing a lot of truth and leaving you to assume that it is all truth. He'd make a great politician.

Answer 6

The book is pretty interesting, but it's nothing more than a fictional story. The reason it became a big deal is because some readers interpreted as a legit theory while others saw it as an attack on their religious beliefs.

Answer 7

Nothing really. It is a fictional work. I don't know why people were offended by it. Someone made it up. People need to relax a little.
The book is better. The movie was close, but the book is better.

Answer 8

Its a big deal because it means Jesus wasn't the divine son of a god, and couldn't have performed any of the miracles the bible claims are real, which throws everything the Christians believe into question.

Its the same reason people are making such a big deal about that tomb they think contains Jesus' body.

Answer 9

It helps to have read the book first. The movie necessarily concentrated on the adventure aspects of the story, and did not go deeply into the religious theses in the story that raised so much ruckus among the bible-thumpers.

Answer 10

Ack, the book was horrible. I'm not even talking about the theology, it was just poorly written. Ever single chapter ends in 'whatever can that be?' cliffhanger. I could not force myself past the first hundred pages.

The big deal was that a lot of otherwise smart people thought that this dubiously research hackneyed piece of crap was just one shade past non-fiction.

I didn't much care for it.