Da Winki, Blinky and Nod.

Yes....I admit it....I gave in....I went to go see the Da Vinci Code today.

I've read the book, been studying the theory since I was 13 and drooled over the trailer since the day I saw it.

Was it good. Did it live up to the hype? Hell yeah....well I mean..if you like NBC mystery movie.

I was amazed the people that thought this was going to be a religious, eye-opening experiance. They were expecting "The Passion of the Christ" and instead wound up with Philip Marlow does religion. There-in lies my whole problem with people and this book. It is not a religious book. Everyone tends to forget that the main point of this book, at it's center, is a murder that needs to be solved. It's not an epic, it's a freakin murder mystery fiction. Dan Brown just happened to have picked a framing device (innocently, I think) that struck a chord with people and caused a sensation. All of a sudden people have become experts in something they know nothing about and it irks me to no end. Just becaue you've read the book does not make you a scholar on the theory, especially if you haven't done other research.

No...people forgot that this book is a work of fiction and that the actual theory is mearly a plot line for the whodunit.

I ADORED the movie. I thought it was fantastic. Beautiful filming with haunting music and a downright honest "edge of your seat" murder mystery suspense feel to it. Was it perfect? Not really, no movie is really perfect, but it got it's message across. I actually found humor in the fact that Ron Howard added scenes that "apologized". Actually it wasn't so much apologizing it was more like Ron Howard was letting people know "Um...Helloooo....work of fiction here....faith is based on what you believe it to be. No one religion is perfect.....SO BACK OFF!"

I think everyone should go see it with the mindset that it's a really cool, old-school detective murder mystery. And nothing else. Is it a movie about faith? Sure. But it's about the characters themselves and how each of them deal with faith based on what they learn. If anything religious is taken from the movie hopefully it's a peaked interest in the Magdelene theory just like I had when I was 13 and played Gabriel Knight. Then...and ONLY then can you make up your own mind, just please don't rely on a movie or a book to do it for you.