Film comes out this Thursday (May 14th). I have booked my tickets for the night showing as I am at work till late evening - anyone else really excited about the film?
Angels and Demons
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Yeah, I've read the book and it's much better than the Da Vinci Code, really looking forward to it.
Trailers look good too, pretty much just how I was picturing it when reading it.
A lot of critics have been quick to paint it as another crap glossy hollywood movie. Hope they are wrong.
A lot of critics have been quick to paint it as another crap glossy hollywood movie. Hope they are wrong.
I've read the book so I will probably see it. I wasn't impressed with the book though.
I liked the book, one of the best I've read.
Hope it's better than the Da Vinci Code was when converted.
Hope it's better than the Da Vinci Code was when converted.
actually i loved the da vinci code film - and book
Me neither. Typical Dan Brown stuff. Not particularly well written but an interesting premise and a fast paced plot. He's like another Jeffrey Archer.
This film is supposed to be much more different to the book than the Da Vinci code was. It's done as a sequel as well rather than a prequel.
Better book than the Da Vinci code, imho.
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fecking idiots
catholics here have a problem
fecking idiots
I've read the book, and so will also watch the movie - Promises to be entertaining.
The book was better than the DaVinci code imho
looking forward to the movie despite it getting slated in reviews i've read
looking forward to the movie despite it getting slated in reviews i've read
Agreed. I loved A&D much better than DVC.
I liked the book more than DVC but I'm not particularly looking forward to the movie. Da Vinci Code(the movie) wasn't anything special, I'm not expecting this to be.
I'm in agreement with the majority it seems when I say I of all Browns books Angels and Demons was the best i've read (possibly helped by the fact I read it by a pool in the Algarve).
I'm hopefully going to see it Thursday too - from the trailers i've seen it looks to have to potential to be a great film!
Fingers crossed.
I'm hopefully going to see it Thursday too - from the trailers i've seen it looks to have to potential to be a great film!
Fingers crossed.
My thoughts exactly. I don't go to the cinema a massive amount but i've had this in the diary since last year.
Although film can so very rarely do a book justice, but we can hope for a good deal better than the Da Vinci Code.
And i don't care a damn if book critics in their snobbish ways look down upon it.
Anyone here read Deception Point [think that is what it is called], didn't think so much of that meself.
Shit books, likely to be shitter films as well.
Which is a shame because I actually like Tom Hanks.
Which is a shame because I actually like Tom Hanks.
Shite! Absolute kack. Put it down so many times, and in the end, couldn't find any motivation to pick it back up. It felt like a chore just trying to read it.
Have to agree with the first line - Da Vinci Code was one of the worst films I have ever been dragged out to.
Funny, I watched it the other day expecting it to be shit (as the reviews had said). But I thought it was pretty good.
I loved all the Dan Brown books.
Just about to go and see this, not looked forward to seeing a film in a long time!
i wanted to see it today but didn't have time
we're coming to st helens tomorrow so maybe i'll go tomorrow afternoon
Just seen it, without reading the book, and it was a quality film, interesting and enlightening.
Worth a watch!
Worth a watch!
I read The Da Vinci Code and thought it was unmerciful shit. My missus then made me watch the movie and it was worse again.
Dan Brown's not getting any more of my time.
Dan Brown's not getting any more of my time.
Dan Brown really is the marmite of the literature world.
Nah, he's like the News of the World or McDonalds. Massively popular but actually pretty shit compared to most other stuff out there.
Just back from the film
I really enjoyed it and would definitely recommend watching it, however i can see why people might not like it - as some of it may be didfficult to understand/appreciate.
I though thought it was really good, well paced full of the drama/action you want from a good movie.
I really enjoyed it and would definitely recommend watching it, however i can see why people might not like it - as some of it may be didfficult to understand/appreciate.
I though thought it was really good, well paced full of the drama/action you want from a good movie.
I didn't mind the book, the trailer looks decent.
I think what you're saying there is that people who don't like it are stupid
I watched it with my brother and he didn't get some of it
so yeah you're probably right!
Does it on the whole stay loyal to the plot of the book? And are there any glaring departures that you saw?
To be honest I read the book a few years ago so i'm not entirely sure. i did think the relationship between langdon and the scientist woman was closer than in the film but I may be wrong.
I'm going to re-ead the book and see how they compare
I was checking the cast on IMDB.. and they didn't have Kohler (The director of CERN) on the list of characters - I thought that was weird.
Was he included jg? I'm going to watch it tomorrow.
Was he included jg? I'm going to watch it tomorrow.
No he wasn't included, but the alternative to his parts as such, was extremely well worked in. I did really enjoy it, although at some points, where the film carried on, I was waiting for what happened in the book to come through. Would certainly recommend it though, and so would the missus, who hasn't read the book.
SPOILERS below -
But in the book he was present at two fairly important parts of the plot. At the beginning when he and Langdon examine Vetra's body, and later on when he forces a confession out o the camerlengo and records it [the tape of which exposes the conspiracy].
Well at least that's how it is in the book.
Didn't see the first film, won't be seeing this one... Merely because I don't respect Brown's books... He seems to have a cookie cutter formula for writing books... They seem very screenplay-y in their style, and are, sure enough, fast-paced cliff-hangers... but if you've read one you've read them all, in terms of the plot-twists and whatnot.
Obnoxious what he's done to the art of writing.
Obnoxious what he's done to the art of writing.
Yeah that's why I was thinking that leaving him out would be a strange move Nick. Apparently they've handled it well in the movie.. so I guess it works out somehow.