ClimbAnyHill Posted December 3, 2006 Report Posted December 3, 2006 Scientists reconstruct Davinci's fingerprint. http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/exper...S00010000000001
Meat Posted December 4, 2006 Report Posted December 4, 2006 i rented the movie this past weekend and it was a good movie.. kinda. The storyline was pretty cool, and the ending was pretty good. Id like to know how much of the plot was fabricated.... .... "azriel abyss" :laugh:
Wallrat Posted December 4, 2006 Report Posted December 4, 2006 I was pretty disappointed compared to the book - and I didn't like the book either! My complaints: Book- I'm betting that Dan Brown went crazy with the ol' highlighter when they covered 'foreshadowing' in creative writing 101. Holy crap did that shit annoy me. It was almost always totally pointless as well. Foreshadowing, or giving future information to the reader and not the characters, is a tool for building suspense (in case you didn't know). That's fine, but he's an idiot. By page 50 I knew what was gonna happen on pages 51, 55, 62, 73, 82-85, 115-132, 144, 146, and 153-164. Another thing that pissed me off was the transitions that I assume were put in there to keep the reader from putting the book down. For example, the dude and the chick are in the louvre, following a line of clues left by the dead guy. This goes on for 10 pages, then they have an idea and check BEHIND such n' such painting: "What they saw caused both of their jaws to drop." Now cut over to some other part of the story and read about those dipshits for 20 pages. Okay now back to the Louvre: "What they saw behind the painting caused both of them to turn ash white. There, written in invisible ink were the words: "Five-sixty man came through, Klatoo Verata Nektoo!" -So lemme get this straight. I stayed up 15 more minutes to wade through 20 pages of BS to find out that there's a message that you could have told me 20 pages ago and it wouldn't have made shit for sense then either?? Now we need another 10 pages to explain what the fuck that crap means! And this kinda bullshit happens like 15 times in the book! I usually go through a book pretty fast. Something that size about 7 days. It took me over a month to read it cuz I kept getting so pissed at his writing style. And the movie: Should be better than the book right? There's no way they could duplicate the mistakes Brown made! Okay so for the most part that was true, but here's what they did do: "We're hollywood pussies making a controversial movie about whether J.C. was just a man who was banging the shit out of Mary or really the son of God and all pious n' shit. But we don't want to alienate 1/2 our audience so we're gonna cut the balls off this message! How? We'll make Jesus's descendants have special powers! But we'll make it kinda vague n' shit so we don't really know for sure if its a special power or just coincidence. Fuck me that's brilliant!"
warwgn Posted December 4, 2006 Author Report Posted December 4, 2006 now thats a good responce :beer: :beer: :beer:
bigboybanshee Posted December 6, 2006 Report Posted December 6, 2006 now thats a good responce :beer: :beer: :beer: Agreed, good post Wallrat :beer:
theshee Posted December 6, 2006 Report Posted December 6, 2006 Wow... theres a lot of posts here. I was pretty into the code, read the book and saw the movie... but im not gonna jump in here now, Id have to read 213 pages of replies to catch up... Good topic though... :beer:
dajogejr Posted December 18, 2006 Report Posted December 18, 2006 I thought the book was way better than the movie, and I haven't read a book in years. (I gave helldriver my hooked on phonics years ago, he still hasn't returned it...) I personally like Dan Brown's writing style. Angels and Demons was a better book that the code, I thought. I also read two of his other books, deception point and digital fortress. If you don't like the code cause of his style, don't bother picking the other books up, same writing style in each. For the Code and A&D, that's what made me not want to put the book down. I think I finished each in 4 or 5 days. But after those, the other two took more time. You kinda felt that pattern of his style. I thought they were all good books, but A&D was the best IMO....
PUSH THE THROTTLE Posted December 18, 2006 Report Posted December 18, 2006 Last time I posted was Nov 22nd I figured I'd have a lot of catching up to do. Guess not, the puppet quit dancing.
Blue Duece Posted December 19, 2006 Report Posted December 19, 2006 Last time I posted was Nov 22nd I figured I'd have a lot of catching up to do. Guess not, the puppet quit dancing. i think since the building industry is slowing down the puppets 12 dollar an hour gig dried up, therefore no 50 dollar a month internet service, maybe he can dial up, god willing..........
PUSH THE THROTTLE Posted December 19, 2006 Report Posted December 19, 2006 i think since the building industry is slowing down the puppets 12 dollar an hour gig dried up, therefore no 50 dollar a month internet service, maybe he can dial up, god willing.......... Or maybe he's at the hospital recovering from the removal of the gerbil? ::
dajogejr Posted December 19, 2006 Report Posted December 19, 2006 Or maybe he's at the hospital recovering from the removal of the gerbil? :: The gerbil falls in and falls out I'm sure...like a Kid Rock said about Pam Anderson, like throwing a hot dog down a hallway....
Blue Duece Posted December 20, 2006 Report Posted December 20, 2006 lets not jump to conclusions guys, maybe the brown eye or the darkside called him away, maybe he's on an undercover mission for the underworld...lets not under estamate the darkside...........
PUSH THE THROTTLE Posted December 20, 2006 Report Posted December 20, 2006 lets not jump to conclusions guys, maybe the brown eye or the darkside called him away, maybe he's on an undercover mission for the underworld...lets not under estamate the darkside...........With such an ominous presence like Helldriver may the force be with us all. :yelrotflmao: :yelrotflmao: :yelrotflmao:
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