They didn't like the idea that they were behind a 2,000-year-old cover-up about what the Holy Grail really was. It received very harsh criticism from the Roman Catholic Church. The Da Vinci Code (like the book) was controversial.
The first two Langdon-movies are hovering at 6,6 on IMDb. Read the transcript Trailer transcripts Credits Home media Soundtrack Production Trivia Gallery. Hans Zimmer's score was great, as usual, though. Guess they wanted to avoid any controversy. And the best park of the book? They completely changed it. When you make a movie with several visually looking fantastic locales around the world, it SCREAMS cinemascope. Then there's the blatant mistake of shooting the movie in standard widescreen, instead of cinemascope, like the first two. Yes, the Langdon movies are suppose to be fast paced, but if almost no scenes are allowed to breathe, does it matter? And why do director Ron Howard keep on insisting insulting my intelligence? Like in the first two, many things are explained twice, so even the dumbest one in the audience knows what's going on. The Da Vinci Code was the second novel from author Dan Brown to feature his recurring protagonist Robert Langdon, the renowned 'symbologist.
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Like the first two in this franchise, 'Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels and Demons', there's just something terribly wrong with the direction. Heres The Da Vinci Code movie franchise and The Lost Symbol TV show in chronological order. Both great directors, but it wouldn't have worked. Imagine if Spielberg had directed 'Godfather' and Coppola had directed the Indiana Jones movies.