Old Home Days' Question: The Da Vinci Code

I rewatched this on cable yesterday and don't care enough about the
movie to sift through lots of ramcf posts. When I first saw it last
December, someone told me in advance I'd hate everything about it
except the last five minutes. I really liked the last five minutes;
for a film where "the eternal feminine" is repeated at least 1000
times, the movie hits one over the head like the mallet of the eternal
masculine. The delicate ending therefore was a surprise.

I didn't read the book and would like to know if the surprise ending
is forecast even tangentially by Dan Brown. If there's some sort of
build-up to the mystery of Paris' twenty year-old eyesore, some
subplot-- Well, it might be more interesting than the actual novel.

On Jun 9, 5:32 am, mute....RemoveThis@yahoo.com wrote:
> I rewatched this on cable yesterday and don't care enough about the
> movie to sift through lots of ramcf posts. When I first saw it last
> December, someone told me in advance I'd hate everything about it
> except the last five minutes. I really liked the last five minutes;
> for a film where "the eternal feminine" is repeated at least 1000
> times, the movie hits one over the head like the mallet of the eternal
> masculine. The delicate ending therefore was a surprise.
>
> I didn't read the book and would like to know if the surprise ending
> is forecast even tangentially by Dan Brown. If there's some sort of
> build-up to the mystery of Paris' twenty year-old eyesore, some
> subplot-- Well, it might be more interesting than the actual novel.

Nope. The ending is right out of the novel. Pretty much everything in
the movie is straight out of the novel.

John Harkness