even jim carrey wasn’t crazy enough to get involved in this one

I definitely won’t be seeing Evan; I may tune in at some point in the future when it’s on network TV, but that’s the only hope its makers have of ever having me watch it.

Naomi, Terra, I agree: I liked A&D better than TDVC, but only in respect to the action and some of the themes. Brown’s biggest flaw among an ocean of them is definitely character and introduction - and the villain in A&D was the worst cardboard construction I’ve read in a long time (and I read a lot of pulp!). And why, oh why is it always an older man with a nubile younger woman, whether or not she’s a genius (which she is in A&D)?

A story about building an Ark like Noah’s, (which I really didn’t believe in even when I was a Christian) just seems stupid.

But hey, at least Steve Carell made a good salary off of it! I’ve always liked him.

*”Bruce Almighty” was interesting (but not particularly spectacular) because it showed what a normal guy would do with omnipotence, something we all wonder, to some degree. No one wonders “what if I had to build an ark”?

*The only comedy about genocide that ever worked was “Springtime for Hitler.”

*Bad language, black God, and potentially mocking religious humor would turn off the churchies that they were trying to court. If “Biblical story without violence featuring a really pregnant teenage Mary” was enough to keep them from seeing “The Nativity Story,” then that combination would be more than enough to drive them away from “Evan.”

*From all the previews, the plot for this movie looked almost indistinguishable from “The Santa Clause.” And we all know how well those movies do.

So, a mediocre-at-best movie whose religious themes drive away secular types, whose religious mistakes and other themes drive away religionists, and whose plot falls apart if you think about it too hard. Sounds like the makings of an utter flop.

I completely agree with your formulaic comment. I read DVC first and then A&D and I remember thinking, “Ummmm…is this the same story??” I couldn’t believe a mainstream author could get away with writing two books that shared so many main plot points, with the lead character being the same dude. How many times does an old dude die and then you meet his beautiful, intelligent daughter/neice whatever?

Man, I need to write some shitty novels and make millions…I am getting rather sick of my job…

The (fictional) new Poop is at the heart of the story; he sells himself as the charismatic “Messianic Savior”, and the “matter/anti-matter terrorism” was exciting.

However, Brown is so formulaic - the tale starts with the murder of an elderly man whose *gasp* lovely young descendant is thrown at Langdon’s head…