http://www.filmjunk.com/2008/10/30/angels-and-demons-trailer-starring-tom-hanks/ Blog and Podcast Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:46:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.filmjunk.com/2008/10/30/angels-and-demons-trailer-starring-tom-hanks/comment-page-1/#comment-487166 Bas Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:06:00 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=12024#comment-487166 For me Dan Brown's books are a bit of a guilty pleasure. They're hardly literature, but you can see the movie-version in your head when you read his stuff. I guess that's why The Da vInci Code kinda sucked. And I agree Matt, his plot-twists are pretty predictable. For me Dan Brown’s books are a bit of a guilty pleasure. They’re hardly literature, but you can see the movie-version in your head when you read his stuff. I guess that’s why The Da vInci Code kinda sucked. And I agree Matt, his plot-twists are pretty predictable.

]]> http://www.filmjunk.com/2008/10/30/angels-and-demons-trailer-starring-tom-hanks/comment-page-1/#comment-487132 Matt Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:03:18 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=12024#comment-487132 Oh man... I tried reading this book but gave up halfway through, because it was just so mind-numbingly hackneyed, predictable, and frustrating. Not only could I guess most of the "plot twists", if they can even be called that, but the things that I did not foresee were so outrageously nonsensical, that I got angry at myself for wasting my own time. The dialogue of the characters, especially the female lead (her name escapes me), appears to have been conceived in a high school English class. The one thing that was in any way redeeming about the book is that I thought to myself "Hey, you too can be a no talent millionaire author." I certainly don't have anything against his portrayal of the Catholic Church. The catholic hierarchs (whatever) are being completely moronic in their condemnation of Dan Brown's "work", not only because it gives him more publicity, but also because it really doesn't help them refute the stereotype that they are dogmatic fanatics. If they actually read what he wrote they would see that the best way to handle Brown's book's is to keep their mouth shut and let the public figure out what a crock of shit his writing is. I don't mind his religious commentary at all, it's just everything else that I do mind. In fact if the church stuff wasn't in there it would have lost my attention a lot sooner. In fairness I have neither read The DaVinci Code, nor have I seen the movie of the same name, but I know that after my brief experience with Angels and Demons I will do neither (at least not for my personal enjoyment.) In conclusion, I certainly do not look forward to this movie, nor the fake controversy that will surround it. Oh man… I tried reading this book but gave up halfway through, because it was just so mind-numbingly hackneyed, predictable, and frustrating. Not only could I guess most of the “plot twists”, if they can even be called that, but the things that I did not foresee were so outrageously nonsensical, that I got angry at myself for wasting my own time. The dialogue of the characters, especially the female lead (her name escapes me), appears to have been conceived in a high school English class. The one thing that was in any way redeeming about the book is that I thought to myself “Hey, you too can be a no talent millionaire author.”
I certainly don’t have anything against his portrayal of the Catholic Church. The catholic hierarchs (whatever) are being completely moronic in their condemnation of Dan Brown’s “work”, not only because it gives him more publicity, but also because it really doesn’t help them refute the stereotype that they are dogmatic fanatics. If they actually read what he wrote they would see that the best way to handle Brown’s book’s is to keep their mouth shut and let the public figure out what a crock of shit his writing is.
I don’t mind his religious commentary at all, it’s just everything else that I do mind. In fact if the church stuff wasn’t in there it would have lost my attention a lot sooner.
In fairness I have neither read The DaVinci Code, nor have I seen the movie of the same name, but I know that after my brief experience with Angels and Demons I will do neither (at least not for my personal enjoyment.)
In conclusion, I certainly do not look forward to this movie, nor the fake controversy that will surround it.

]]> http://www.filmjunk.com/2008/10/30/angels-and-demons-trailer-starring-tom-hanks/comment-page-1/#comment-486859 Bas Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:07:18 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=12024#comment-486859 Thought the first one lacked the suspense of the book. This trailer looks pretty cool though, so I'll probably go check it out. Thought the first one lacked the suspense of the book. This trailer looks pretty cool though, so I’ll probably go check it out.

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