I tried my best to sit through Angels & Demons but lost interest within the first 1/2 hour of the movie. I'm usually a big Tom Hanks fan but man oh man did this movie suck. What did you all think of it?
I do not sit well with movies like that and I think we rented this, so I actually did, in my own home, which made it even worse. I need a movie that keeps me entertained, not one that is going to make me sleepy.
Wayne Parham Messages: 18793 Registered: January 2001
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I like the premise, so I liked it even though I think you guys are right, it's kind of slow. In a way, I had some objections to the earlier "Da Vinci Code" movie too, because of some of the oddball fabrications. Stuff like the Priori of Sion. The premise of the movie would have been maintained completely intact without these fabrications, going with more the same foundation laid in Michael Baigent's, "Holy Blood, Holy Grail". But I guess Dan Brown wanted to fictionalize it all and make it his own. Still, I kind of dig this stuff so I liked both movies.
I also struggled with the movie. The book was great, but the movie lacked something. I don't know if it was lacking some of the details that made the book, but something just wasn't right.
Fortunately I haven't watched the movie. Angels and Demons and the DaVinci Code are great novels, but the DaVinci Code the movie is a shame. It seems that some great novels are not suitable to be made movies from.
This is unfortunately true, but logical. There can be so many more details contained in a book that simply cannot be portrayed in a movie, and that leads to it seems shallow by comparison.
Yes Dizzy you are right. Sidney Sheldon is a great author and has written great novels (many of them are my favorites), but I never knew there are any good movies made from his works.
I guess I'm the only one here who sort of enjoyed the movie. I'm a fan of all three of the Dan Brown books in this series. All of which are better than the two movies they made, but I always think the books are better. It's true that it was a bit slow and had I not read the book, I might not have understood part of what they were trying to portray. Not my favorite, but okay.
I had a really similar opinion that you had. After you read the book, your expectations are set at a very high level and therefore the movie was a disappointment for me. However, for my brother, who didn't read the book, it was a very nice movie.
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Angels and Demons and the DaVinci Code are great novels, but the DaVinci Code the movie is a shame. It seems that some great novels are not suitable to be made movies from. 
