Wow, the movie 'Angels and Demons' sucked

[JCMach1]

Especially miffed by the reversal ending...

And should I mention the directing? Ron Howard was like all look at all the pretty places I got permission to film... YAWN...

And wow, could Tom Hanks have phoned it in more?


Major suckage.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. agreed.

:donut:

[JCMach1]

2. And the ONE interesting or likeable character... the Ewan McGregor one

turns out to be the bad guy... Who wrote this awful script!

Dan Brown are you hiding behind that angel statue!? Ha, now try not to blink!

[Orsino]

4. spoiler above n/t

[Orsino]

3. Yep. Pretty to look at...

...and otherwise a limp, uninspiring film. No character development, and no internal conflict whatsoever.

Still entertaining as a puzzle, much as was the book--but nothing I'll need to see again. I will watch The Lost Symbol, too, once. Looking forward to seeing Washington's secret sites.

[Richardo]

5. The thing is, he didn't get permission to film in a lot of those places - they're CG

The Sistene Chapel, por ejemplo.

[Orrex]

6. Well, consider the source material...

The Da Vinci Code was comically awful, too, yet they decided to make a movie about it.

[JCMach1]

7. But was at least watchable for a non Brown fan

It held together as a film.

[Demoiselle]

8. But the movie "Angels and Insects" is brilliant.

It's got an English cast and must be at least ten years old.
Do yourself a favor...rent it, watch it and purge yourself of the Angels and Demons silliness.

[frogmarch]

9. Yes! Angels and Insects

is excellent! :thumbsup:

I like Tom Hanks as an actor, but even he couldn't save Angels and Demons. The scenery was interesting, though.

[LibertyLover]

10. I'm cringing at the thought of the movie version of The Lost Symbol

that I'm sure in on the drawing board somewhere. I downloaded it and read it during the Snowpocolypse here in Maryland in January and wished I hadn't spent the money.

[jobycom]

11. It took a book whose only virtures were it's tight suspense and action sequences

and it wrote out most of the suspense and action scenes. On top of that, even though Dan Brown is an atrociously bad writer (just the craft, I mean--he creates a good story), his characters had a lot more life than the cardboard Howard put on the screen. And that's weird, too, considering that Howard's films are usually all about complex and emotional characters.

I think Howard just sucks at suspense flicks. I wish someone like Alfonso Cuaron had gotten it. His tight film perspective that made Children of Men and even The Prisoner of Azkaban so tense would have been closer to what made Brown's books work so well in the first place.