Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Da Vinci Code (Web Exclusive)

[Rhiannon12866]

John Oliver discusses The Da Vinci Code: the book, the film, and, for some reason, the cultural phenomenon. 01/09/2022.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Good point, they can convince you of anything and you'll pay them for the privilege

I tried to watch the movie. Couldn't hack it. Gave up on movie culture long ago. Empty content stripped of meaning.

[Fritz Walter]

2. Thank you for the Monday morning puzzler

I just had to check out the YouTube page to catch the comments about the image that John showed at the end of the clip.

For the life of me, I thought I'd seen it decades ago as artwork on a vinyl LP by either Pink Floyd or 10cc. Still working under a Monday morning caffeine-deficit.

Anybody else recall seeing that image before?

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Awww, so glad you enjoyed it!

I know that John Oliver can't help offering videos from time to time when he's on hiatus, so I kept checking and this is the second he's uploaded this time around. And, as usual, he's offbeat and clever, I wasn't familiar with it, but I figured that someone else here might be.

[malthaussen]

4. Couldn't agree with him more.

I had much the same reaction to Digital Fortress, which I read before the Code. Not only was the solution to the puzzle obvious from page one, but the book insulted my intelligence on a regular basis. I'm still annoyed with the Harvard-trained PhD who didn't know what quis custodiet ipsos custodes meant.

-- Mal

[TomWilm]

5. That book is extremely bad written ...

Its mumbled sentences and plots hurt my teeth and toes more than those weirdly thin riddles.

[genxlib]

6. I found it to be an enjoyable read

Sure it's dreck but it was fast paced and easy.

More than anything, I enjoyed that it took a piss out of the Catholic Church. That can't be all bad can it?