10 Great Books That Made Utterly Terrible Movies

4. The Da Vinci Code

Da Vinci Code When Dan Brown released "The Da Vinci Code" in 2003, it took the world by storm. A worldwide bestseller, the book followed Professor Robert Langdon as he followed clues left by a deceased museum curator, which eventually leads him to on a mission to track the location of the Holy Grail. The book received a lot of attention from its depiction of the Catholic Church and its historical deviations of European history. Honestly, while the book wasn't an extraordinary piece of literature in retrospect, I found it quite exciting the first time I read it. Unfortunately, I didn't feel the same excitement while watching the movie. Starring Tom Hanks and Ian McKellen, the movie was overly complicated and lacked the thrill that the book provided. The movie was also cenosred in multiple countires due to the content, as well protested in some areas in the U.S. Hanks, McKellen, and the other actors played their roles fine, but the movie itself never amounted to much even with all the money it raked in. The worst part about all this is that director Ron Howard is still making adaptations of these Robert Langdon novels. "Angels and Demons" was released in 2009 and was only slightly better than its predecessor, and the film version of "Inferno" is scheduled to be released in 2015. My thought: if the first two movies were generally panned, it's probably not a good idea to go through with the third one.
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