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Anyone get the Wal-Mart bonus disc? Anything worthwhile?

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Originally Posted by baracine

The film was a big disappointment for the people who had read the book.

Maybe for you it was, but it wasn't for me. I read the book, and I liked the film perfectly fine. I wasn't expecting it to be *exactly* like the book, because I think that is an impossible feat with any book to film.

Does anyone have an uploaded pic of the artwork for the 3-Disc Deluxe Edition so I can upload it for DVD Af?

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Originally Posted by JLyon1515

I disagree. In this case, the book readers were the film's captive public and they were expecting a faithful adaptation in exchange for the extra money they shelled out at the box office. The changes made only confused them. There was absolutely no good reason:

(1) to change Sophie Neveu's backstory so much that at the end her character doesn't have the consolation and emotional closure of being reunited with people she knew and loved; and

(2) to make Commissaire Fache into a member of the Opus Dei who is also a pathologically violent, easily-misled chump.

A good question to put to Jean Reno in the extras would have been: «Monsieur Reno, how does it feel to have been contractually obligated to play a part that demeans and makes hateful the sympathetic character you had been signed on to play on the basis of the book's success, especially considering that Dan Brown wrote the character with you in mind?»

Here is Bézu's part as it was written in the book ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezu_Fache ):

Spoiler:

After reading and liking the book which depicted a well-meaning, good-hearted and competent police commissionner struggling against impossible odds and racing against the clock to get his facts straight, I didn't go to the movies expecting to see the adventures of a one-dimensional, sadistic, heartless, proto-Nazi, benighted, blundering French policeman who is also a gullible religious fanatic.

Bottom line: Howard and his screenwriter don't understand fiction, they don't understand reality and they don't understand films. They only understand making and breaking deals.

I can't even remember the last time a movie was exactly like the book without some major change that people piss and moan about. I would think we'd be pretty used to it by now. I never read the book and really enjoyed the movie.

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Originally Posted by dcprules

Is this being released on Blu Ray? I haven't seen any information about it. It really would kinda surprise me if Sony's biggest film of the year isn't on their HD format.

This will get a Blu-ray release, probably by next Spring. The reason for the delay is because Sony was having trouble with BD50 production. Now that they are getting produced, they can spruce up this title with plenty of features to fit on the 50 gig disc. Since this is one of their biggest titles, they will probably want to add some of the bd-java interactive features on it as well. The extra space will benefit. Otherwise, we would've gotten a 2 1/2 hr movie crammed on a BD-25 and suffering from compression. I want the movie, but I'm gonna wait for the Blu-ray version.

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Originally Posted by JLyon1515

Me too. I bought and read the book, and even re-bought the collector's edition of the book when it was first released a year ago. While I certainly enjoyed the book more then the movie, I wasn't put off by the movie at all.

I don't think the large amount of people that read the book were that put off by the movie, at least to the extent that is described by baracine.

I purchased the 3 disk set at Target today as well :)

I watched the film last night, and while it wasn't as bad as some critics proclaimed, I thought it was a little lackluster. But I think this particular book is a tough one to bring to the screen because its most interesting parts are the IDEAS put forth regarding religion, not the action. At least to me.

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Originally Posted by bookcase3

I agree with you that it was a tough job. Where the film succeeds is in incorporating a lot of the ideas that were in the book in a kind of executive summary. Where it drops the ball, is in depicting everything else, including the characters and their human interrelations. And that is very sad, because it's a missed opportunity. If the world hadn't had enough of The Da Vinci Code by this time, it would cry out for the film to be remade faithfully. Instead of that, all we can look forward to is another botched up job with Angels and Demons.

Let us all pray that Akiva Goldsman will not be allowed anywhere near the script this time.

Dang, thought I stumbled into Movie Talk for a second....

Question: in the Wal-Mart 2-Pack with the "Creating THE DA VINCI CODE" bonus DVD, is the DVD case of the actual movie factory sealed (in other words, not just the outer box that holds both movie and bonus DVD, but the case for the movie itself)?

I'll second Filmmaker's question.

Also, same question for the Target set with the bonus disc. Is the actual movie factory sealed?

I bought both, but hope to be able to regift one of them if sealed.

Trevor, I'll answer it for you, since I had to bite the bullet. At Wal-Mart, the case for the bonus DVD is NOT factory sealed. The case for the DVD of the movie IS factory-sealed. It has the exact same UPC code as any other widescreen copy of TDC out in the world. Therefore, you can do as I did and buy the bonus set, keep the bonus disc and return the factory sealed movie (which I bought as the 3-disc version from Target) for store credit. At Target, same story--movie DVD, with same UPC code as everywhere else, was factory sealed, the bonus DVD was not.