Angels & Demons- Praised by the Vatican.

You guys suck

Book was excellent

PostRe: Angels & Demons- First Review by Fm » Thu May 07, 2009 11:11 am

Instead of talking about the film let's post some wicked cool ambigrams.

So they didn't make Hanks keep that stupid haircut!

I always wondered who came up with his haircut for Da Vinci. It was appalling.

PostRe: Angels & Demons- First Review by **Red** » Thu May 07, 2009 11:36 am

It looks awful, I won't be giving it a chance.

captain red dog wrote:I always wondered who came up with his haircut for Da Vinci.

Maybe it was an evil catholic conspiracy.

PostRe: Angels & Demons- First Review by **Rubix** » Thu May 07, 2009 3:12 pm

Steve wrote:
Gandalf wrote:
Steve wrote:I want to see this. I thought The Da Vinci Code was excellent.

I can't work out if you're being serious or not.

Deadly serious.

I liked it, just turned up today in Blu Ray so if might watch it tonight ready for this film

PostRe: Angels & Demons- First Review by **Hulohot** » Thu May 07, 2009 3:20 pm

I too liked The Da Vinci Code, a lot.

I still think that the final scenes when Langdon has his realisation is one of my favourite scenes ever. It's so beautifully done. Running across Paris with the music playing, reciting the lines of the riddle being led to the Louvre, then dropping to his knees. Epic stuff.

PostRe: Angels & Demons- First Review by **Rog** » Thu May 07, 2009 3:21 pm

The book was pish so the film will need to work a minor miracle to make it worth watching.

PostRe: Angels & Demons- First Review by **Hulohot** » Thu May 07, 2009 3:23 pm

Rog wrote:The book was pish so the film will need to work a minor miracle to make it worth watching.

Badly written? Because I dont think that what happens in the book could fail as a movie. It's so fast paced, I dont see how it could fail. We'll see.

I enjoyed the book, so I might see this at the cinema. If not I'll definitely be watching via other, more dubious means.

As far as the rest of his books go, I've enjoyed those too. I don't think or claim them to be literary masterpieces but I think they're quite entertaining.

I enjoyed the Da Vinci Code too, both book and film.

Should Tom Hanks be worried for his career? He used to be able to play any role you'd throw at him but this is some of the most blatant type-casting I've seen...

PostRe: Angels & Demons- First Review by **Hulohot** » Thu May 07, 2009 3:47 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8035441.stm

A lot more reviews there, all of them are fairly positive.

Except for Empire who give it 2/5.

Ron Howard does a far superior job of filming Dan Brown's first Robert Langdon novel than he did with his lifeless blockbuster The Da Vinci Code.

In Angels and Demons, director Ron Howard conspicuously gives top priority to the story's beat-the-clock thriller elements.

Plucking the same violent, occult strings as Da Vinci while avoiding its leadenness, Angels keeps the action coming for the best part of 139 minutes.

Sensibly, though, some of the author's crazier embellishments are jettisoned in a film that atones for The Da Vinci Code's cardinal sin - thou shalt not bore.

More entertaining than The Da Vinci Code, but still tosh. Empire.

PostRe: Angels & Demons- First Review by **Wedgie** » Thu May 07, 2009 4:53 pm

Shite book it may, but boy it did grip me very well. I started it one day, only to finish it on the same day. The same for DVC, but I hated the film.

But I sort of like it as well. Why? Because the religion zealots are going nuts over it. :lol:

PostRe: Angels & Demons- First Review by **Kanbei** » Thu May 07, 2009 5:40 pm

Speaking of The Da Vinci Code movie could someone possibly help me out. On the DVD if you go to "Trailers" there's music in the background does someone know what it is?

PostRe: Angels & Demons- First Review by **Hulohot** » Thu May 07, 2009 7:46 pm

Kanbei wrote:Speaking of The Da Vinci Code movie could someone possibly help me out. On the DVD if you go to "Trailers" there's music in the background does someone know what it is?

The most popular piece of music from the movie is Chevaliers de Sangreal. Might be it?

PostRe: Angels & Demons- First Review by JK » Thu May 07, 2009 7:46 pm

Quick! To the library!

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Reading through all of the reviews, and they are all extremely positive. :shock:

Hardly a single negative point in the first three I have read.

Perhaps recognizing how static and talky "Da Vinci" was, Howard and lenser Salvatore Totino this time have the camera thrashing and thrusting about while keeping Langdon constantly on the move and laying Hans Zimmer's thumping score on top. While more superficially stimulating, the adrenalized approach can't hide the utter absurdity of a timeframe that gives the characters just an hour each time to navigate the labyrinths of the Vatican basement archives, figure out what to do next and make their way through crowds and Roman traffic to the location of the next atrocity.

Brown's straight-line plotting, streamlined by scenarists David Koepp and Akiva Goldsman, creates some impatience and a hunger for any kind of surprise. The latter is satisfied to an extent by the climax, which, however far-fetched, is visually spectacular and dramatically both evenhanded and unexpected.

Driven by a furiously urgent Hans Zimmer score complete with operatic Omen-style choirs and punctuated by a set of gruesome killings straight out of the Inquisition, the plot races through all of Rome’s finest tourist spots – from the Pantheon to Castel Sant’ Angelo to the Sistine Chapel and of course St Peter’s Basilica. Bearing in mind the Vatican banned the production from shooting in the principality, the set recreations and CG work here are astonishing. Cinematographer Salvatore Totino lights the halls and plush corridors of the Vatican as if it were the Corleone house.

Fortunately Howard rises to the occasion. No doubt aware that The Da Vinci Code was hindered by its fidelity to Brown’s text, his writers – Akiva Goldsman and David Koepp – have found speedy entrees into this story, losing large swathes of convoluted plot points and characters from the novel. And Howard himself is more adventurous and nimble here, moving his camera more energetically. He is clearly determined to give the audience a ride after the turgid tedium of the first film. That the story itself, especially its climactic revelations, is so absurd can’t be helped, given the source material.

The strong cast plays it admirably straight, from Hanks to Zurer who makes a plausible particle physicist and best of all Ewan McGregor as the humble Irish chamberlain (“camerlengo”) to the late pope who has full papal power in the interim period before the new pontiff is elected.

The Vatican have praised the movie too, saying it is harmless entertainment.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... -film.html

Dan Brown's idea of science :lol:

Seeing the 6pm showing today. Can't wait.

Corazon de Leon

Drumstick wrote:I enjoyed the book, so I might see this at the cinema. If not I'll definitely be watching via other, more dubious means.

As far as the rest of his books go, I've enjoyed those too. I don't think or claim them to be literary masterpieces but I think they're quite entertaining.

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