Went to 'Angels and Demons'.......

[FAST FRED]

....with my sweet wife, who wanted to see it.

She read both "Angels and Demons" and "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown and enjoyed each book.

I read neither.

We went to both movies together and she liked "The Da Vinci Code" a lot as a film, while I was lukewarm on it at best:

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My key evaluation: For a flick about a code, I found it not to be very cryptic at all.

She wanted to see "Angels and Demons," so I took her.

She said this book was the better of the two.

We sat down in the theater after a big lunch; I watched the start, caught the drift, yawned and went to sleep.

I didn't watch enough to write a review but it seemed and sounded like all chase and little space.

She woke me up after an hour or so and we left early.

Afterwards she summarized, saying it was "loud, fast, impersonal and gave me a headache," making her ready to leave before it ended.

I told her I'd been waiting on her to make the first move.

 

[Dionysus]

I think the biggest challenge with these Dan Brown books is that there is too much detail to be dealt with in two hours or so on film. You just can't do justice to a very complex story line in a compressed script like that.

 

[FAST FRED]

I tend to agree.

I'm not much of a book reader these days, but, in general, I've found books I've enjoyed made for better reading than watching as movies.

Now, reading the book would come after watching the movie, instead of vice versa, for me, so I don't know if that still would hold true.

 

[EJC+1]

Had 3 hours to kill. Saw it today at a Matinee.

Was ok...nothing great...would make a good rental.

Movie followed the book pretty well.

Rating = 5 out of 10.

 

[Hornin Hong Kong]

spoiler:






You killed the pope

chick tells you that is someone killed the pope with the drug mentioned he will havea black tongue

cardinal says no autopsy

you then take everyone down to see if the pope shows signs of being murdered

why?

yeah yeah wanted to freak all the cardinals out but still - you got away clean, why would you bring the heat down?

 

[RomaVicta]

SPOILER ANSWER TO SPOILER QUESTION ABOVE








To further the idea that the illuminati are moving against the Church.

 

[NameAlreadyInUse]

I liked both books. Disliked both movies.

As books they are fast paced and intricate and interesting. As movies they plod along from one action sequence to another and the fast pace from the book gets lost somewhere in the translation to film.

It's disappointing.

 

[Hornin Hong Kong]

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[Horns_House]

the deviations from the book really bothered me. as is often the case, i would have liked the movie more had i not read the book.