managed to stay awake

Rating: 3/10 (3 February 2007)

Review: Other than the fact that I found the book so mind-numbingly boring and horribly written (grammar for starters) I had to put it down, the movie wasn't too awful. Dan Brown should have stuck with the theories and concepts and nixed the stupid "thriller" stuff or just gone with the thriller stuff alone. Actually, he would have failed miserably at the theories. Actually, the "thriller" part wasn't that good either. The movie was tolerable up until they started running from Château Villete.
Other: The ideas aren't new. From actual ancient documents, it is clear things are not nearly so cut-and-dried as the Catholic/Christian religion would like. But Dan Brown munged a lot of facts and theories. It is very possible Mary Magdelene could have been Jesus Christ's wife. A definite was there was no consensus on whether Jesus was divine or human, or some strange combo of the two. The idea of that the Council declared Jesus being divine actually lasted for the first 300 years or so of Christianity. The Nicene Council was called because one faction wanted to assert its view as canon law (truth or lie has no relevance at these things) and declare the rest heretics.