I got some notoriety when I called The DaVinci Code ‘retarded,’ and I stand by that statement. That movie was so fucking stupid it was stunning. And then there was the matter of Tom Hanks’ hair. Good lord.
Well, I don’t know if Angels & Demons, the sequel (I think? It was the book before DaVinci, but I think the movie version doesn’t follow that timeline), is any smarter than the first film, but Tom Hanks has a better haircut. And that’s really all we can ask for at this point.
The first teaser for the film is online now, and it looks like it might make some of the Christians who got so mad at The DaVinci Code happier – this time Tom Hanks is trying to save the Catholic Church from the Illuminati, not find the bloodline of Christ. Of course saving the Catholic Church will probably just piss off the Evangelicals anyway, since they see the Pope as a servant of the Devil or some shit.
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This gives me the same feeling as Easter sunday with the grandparents at the Village Inn. So Tom Hanks really likes what he has become, I guess. Sure the money is great. But I think Castaway was the last film of his that interested me. Or Road to Perdition, each me trying harder than the last to like.
These films don't deserve a score as good as they have. God bless Hans Zimmer.
Well, the book version of Angels and Demons was better the DaVinci (until the completely retarded climax). It sounds like the filmmakers learned their lesson from the first film though. You can't do a straight interpretation of a book and make it into a good film. Hopefully this one will be better.
I'm sad that this is being made. I always wanted Hanks to make a Hitchcokian thriller like 39 Steps, but this is such a waste of time. I would literally have more respect for him if he were plugging potato chips for his paycheck.
the book was marginally better than the da vinci code but still fucking awful, and the ending was truly terrible. Both books read like bad nivelisations of cheesy movies so how a 'good' movie can be made of them is beyond me..
also the movies miss the truly mnid numbing writing such as 'And then it happened..' or 'little did he know that later he would need this..' dun dun DUUUUUN.
Written by Akiva Goldsman and David Koepp? Holy jebus, count me out. Although if I was an exec, it'd be another story.
That was some proper ugly cg for that angel/demon transfer, it looked like video game fmv circa 1998. Boo Hiss etc, Tom Hanks is still ridiculous, he gets some points back on the board for John Adams though, enjoying that… even as an Australian without the vested interest.
I enjoy how your knowledge of religion is perpetually off base, reactionary and uninformed. Christians think the pope is a servant of the devil? No, that's not true.
Actually, it's quite true. Denominations that Catholic churches (ie those that believe in the Nicene Creed) officially consider to be cults like the Seventh Day Adventists and the weirder off-shoots of the Protestant movement believe that the Pope is the Anti-Christ and regularly print and distribute literature on just such topics.
These days it's predominantly an American phenomenon although it's origins can be traced to the more extreme rhetoric from the Reformation.
I suggest looking it up. *Not* Wikipedia now, try and find a good book. 🙂 No I'm not fat, lazy or American.
it looks like she has a bomb and everyone's taking a shit.
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