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Actor Tom Hanks, director Ron Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman will reunite February in Europe for “Angels & Demons.”
Variety says Goldsman turned it into a sequel, even though the book is author Dan Brown's prequel to “The DaVinci Code.”
Variety’s Thursday-morning story on the matter says:
Hanks' character, a Harvard-based expert on religious symbols, this time sleuths a mystery that involves a secret society and a conspiracy that leads to Vatican City and threatens the future of the Catholic Church.
Read all of Variety’s story here.
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Hated the first movie.
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I wanted to be the first to say "yawn." I'll go with a "meh."
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Blah.
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You duplicated the same fucking story! Get some html skills! Pricks.
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Wasn't Angels and Demons supposed to be set before Da Vinci Code? Oh well, I just hope they keep the completely OTT finale in there.
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MORONS!
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Before everyone gets confused, you assholes.
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Because I thought I've read they would take the book and make it a sequel, taking place after the Da Vinci Code storyline. Anybody know?
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It's a word-for-word reimagining of the first post, dumbass.
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Ian McKellen was the only thing in it worth watching. Count me out of this.
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http://tinyurl.com/37a46b
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Thought the cough syrup and whiskey combo were making me see things.Oh, could care less about this movie. Thought they were teaming up again to give us Splash 2. Still waiting for that.
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or was that the whole talkback
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Oct 25, 2007 5:24:10 AM CDT
Still want to know the deal behind "much"
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
Why the hell does everyone throw it onto the end of incomplete sentences and call it a day? Where the fuck did this stupid idea originate from? And why do you people think it's a good idea to keep doing it
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Or Leonardo Da Vinci. No roman numbers, Stallone style.
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less terrible.
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That double post was seriously cheap.
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Christ was chinese, and his mother was a viking woman. The illuminati and the nazis don´t want you to know that.
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Hells yeah! http://tinyurl.com/37a46b
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I don't remember hearing a big outcry for Angels and Demons to be made, and I didn't think it was that succsful for them and was pretty well panned and I can't imagine it's for some unknown reason to make Dan Brown happy because that dude belives all that DiVinci stuff is real even though it's been proven it's not and tom Hanks basically said so in an interview so again I ask, why?
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except the millions of people who watch it of course
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I'm too bored even to come up with a proper comment about this.
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Like "Here you go, now I don't have to sit through another bullshit movie and you get paid. Everybody wins."
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Or you could just you know, not go see it, and keep your ten bucks.
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The "much" gag, as far as I can recall, is a Whedonism. It came from Buffy The Vampire Slayer. It's meant to reflect a person's bahavior to them by couching it in a question, meaning to ask if they engage in that particular behavior often, or if it's just at tat particular point in time that they are guilty of said behavior. It's based in the conceit of normal everyday conversation, but broadened to a comedic extent, like for example, if a person tells you they went to a certain restaurant for lunch and you were to ask, "Do you go there much?" Like I said, simple conversation. But if I were to say to you, "Wow - throw sissy fits on a talkback much?" it's broader, and funnier. And, in your case, relevant.
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"...meaning to ask if they engage in that particular behavior often, or if it's just at THAT particular point in time that they are guilty of said behavior."
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Oct 25, 2007 5:49:00 AM CDT
A Whedonism. Why am I not suprised.
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
Yeah. Way funnier. Just a barrel of fucking laughs the word "much" is. Well I'd like to believe there are still people out there, fighting the good fight in the name of the english language and common fucking sense.
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I'm surprised it took this long.
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by definition, a prequel is a story that is written/released AFTER a previous "episode" of the same "saga", but which takes place BEFORE that previous "episode". therefore, ANGELS & DEMONS is not a prequel to THE DAVINCI CODE, but simply the previous part in the "ROBERT LANGDON SAGA". btw, turning A&D into a sequel seems stupid, they should simply release it as a "prequel" :-)
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but how the heck are they gonna get permission to film in the vatican?
As I heard they were pretty pissed off about The Da Vinci code, so i cant really see them giving permission to film this Prequel turned sequel inside vatican grounds.
Granted it prolly only about two shots scenes that really need to be on location, the final scene with SPOILER the antimatter bomb going off above the St Peter Church and the killing in the Piazza Di Pietra . I guess you could fake the Sistine Chapel and the rest of the inside shots of the Church, but some of the other famous churces and places could still prove to be problematic getting acces to.
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I saw your comment subject and got totally mad. I got ready tell you to shut the fuck up and make inappropriate comments about your mothers vagina. I'm glad then that I expanded the talkback to see your comment itself. Maybe next time. After all, I am prepared with quips now. http://tinyurl.com/37a46b
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why you ask? because the first movie made well over 200 million. doesnt change the fact that it isnt really any good but yeah.
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Oct 25, 2007 6:15:57 AM CDT
Why is Akiva Goldsman allowed to write anything after Batman & R
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By law, shouldn't he still be on the waterboard after that shit? "I found a way to make it a sequel." In Goldsman terms, that means he found a way to make it suck and get paid a truckload of money while doing it. This guy keeps getting work even after every project he does is a masterpiece of diarrhea, it's a wonder that he doesn't have a cabinet position in the Bush Administration.
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Do you people have any idea what you've done? Hear that distant wailing? It's Scoobies and Browncoats on the march, and they're headed RIGHT THIS WAY!!!
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Ever read Shakespeare? The guy had a pretty good knack for turning phrases and playing with the english language. Kinda made him a good writer. I believe it's called being clever.
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...that they've changed the order, virtually nothing will change, other than the fact we already know he's clostrophobic. I personally think the movie was much better than the overrated book, cutting away a lot of the flab and making a semi decent film out of it. Angels and Demons is a far better book, so hopfully the movie should kick ass. they MUST keep that last line from the book tho!
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The first movie got it all wrong. This one is going to be just as bad. Wrong director, wrong lead actor, DEFINATLY wrong writer. I don't care much for Ron Horward save for a few movies, Tom Hanks is still the man, and Akiva, well no, just say no. If they had gone with a different director and style it would have worked. Shoot this like it's a trashy novel, and cast James Spader as the lead and you would have me. But as it stands, no.
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Take it easy. So they screwed up in a minor way. Chill out man. There's too many other things wrong in the world to get so worked up about it.Too bad it's not this movie. What a total snooze fest the first one was. And I love Audrey Tatou, too. I'd rather they make Apollo 14 and just show a smooth trouble free mission to the moon.
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I was perplexed by the problem someone had with ending a sentence with the word much. It doesn't really seem to happen that much. Um, much. Man, that word gets stranger and stranger the more times you say and type it.Yes, I am a little stoned.
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Secret society: check, Weirdo assassin: check, Pursuit through historical locations: check, Hot foreign love interest: check. The only way this movie could be possibly any good was if it had a decent screenwriter. But they got Goldsman.
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-sigh- Just stop trashing us, okay?
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For two reasons: 1) She was the best thing Ron Howard made in his entire life 2) My masturbation requires more than that icy cold Manderlay scenes.
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Sorry for the trolling, but I just remembered how Fellowship of the Rings got ripped off by that shitty Beautiful Mind. The movies still owe some apologies for Peter Jackson on that.
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Sorry for the trolling, but I just remembered how Fellowship of the Rings got ripped off by that shitty Beautiful Mind. The movies still owe some apologies for Peter Jackson on that.
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That was just me being stupid.
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generally speaking, i have no objection to airport thrillers being made into movies.
some of them can turn out to be plenty entertaining.
but Dan Brown's writing is agressively stupid and offensively bad. How he came to be such a successful author is one of the central mysteries of our time.
he must be stopped.
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i mean come on, theres suspending belief ****SPOILER**** then theres being fucking flung out of a 'copter at fuck knows how high and using some piece of paper to glide back down ****SPOILER END**** nah was a piss poor book, Divinci was a definite improvement, they should make his other ones which i think would lend themselves better for film
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He solves problems in a way I relate to more.
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LOL nothing like a angry fan who goes off in a fanboy rage in the heat of the moment lol
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A&D will be so kick ass. Angels and Demons was a way better book than Da vinci Code, so i look foward to this one.
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There's an idea. Let's all just give 'em ten bucks to NOT make the movie. While we're at it, can we do this for that JLA movie too? Enough already :S
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I'm waiting for Dan Brown to write a novel about Islam where he insinuates that Mohammed might not be divine and the religion is based on lies and half truths. You know...take something that is sacred to people and desecrate it under the guise of fiction. No wait…based on recent history...if he did that to Muslims they would try to kill him and his family…like they tried to do with Salman Rushdie.
Oh well…I guess it’s safer to go after the easy targets.
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I'd rather be stuck on an airplane with no food or water than watch anything having to do with the DumbVinci Code.
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Is if they cast Monica Belucci as Vittoria Vetra and Naveen Andrews as the Hassassin. Otherwise, I will probably add it to my Netflix and see it then or wait till the dollar theater. The story is flawed, no doubt about it but is is vastly better than Da Vinci Code in terms of action.
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Look how upset the Muslim world got over a Dutch (I think it was Dutch) CARTOON STRIP that was a little mocking of Islam...radical Muslims (note I said RADICAL, not ALL) started kidnapping people and killing them SPECIFICALLY because of that one incident. I don't gravitate towards any specific religious philosophy, but I will say that I've never read about any Christians going on a rampage after reading Doonesbury.
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The Da vinci Cod was one of the worst films I've ever had the misfortune to endured!about as thrilling as a granny going downhill on her motor scooter with the brake off!Should just call it 'HANKS' Return of shitto Mullet!
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Still haven't seen the movie. I'm a rebel.
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Is a superior title.
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This news is so ancient I heard a door creaking when i clicked the link. And DaVinci Code was such a tedious, pedestrian film why would anyone let this team tackle another - okay yes it made a gazillion dollars but i hope audiences aren't duped again. Fool us once shame on you, fool us twice shame on us.
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Which isn't to say that it's good, but better... the action and plotting is definitely done better than DaVinci so hopefully this will suck less, although if Tom Hanks still has that godawful mullet, all bets are off.
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Uh-oh. Does this mean Tom Hanks is going to be sporting that ugly, fucked-up hair from the first film? The sacrifices some people make for their shit, I mean art.
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Ugh!!
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break your Mother's back...step on your sack....SOMERSAULT!
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Dan Brown, Akiva Goldsman... yes, that's about the same level. All it needs now is some Paul W. S. Anderson (if Uwe is busy) and Freddie Prinze Jr. Oh, and "music" by Marilyn Manson. Then the level of involved talent will be pretty much constant.
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as Langdon. They should release it as a prequel and get somebody better and with less hockey hair to play Langdon.
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Other than that, howard has to be oneof the most uninspired directors ever.
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Setting aside all of the flammable religious stuff in the book, it was flat out awful. The dialog was somehow worse than DaVinci, the puzzles were more mundane, and the action would make Arnold and Sylvester blush at its absurdity, particularly the way our hero survives the big bang at the end (mentioned above). I think Deus Ex Machina should get top billing in the cast for this movie.
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Death to Hollywood.
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And make a much better movie, much like Tomb Raider 2's improvement over...D'oh!
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Shitty plagiarist author, terrible screenwriter, most boring Oscar-winning director ever, and a decent comic actor who's been boring for the last 10 years. Cha-ching!
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and I think A&D could make a better movie, but not with the team they assembled for Davinci. They dug themselves into a HUGE hole with that steaming turd of a film.
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...I know imdb is never accurate, but I got scared as hell when he was attached to the "east of eden" remake...
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DAVINCI CODE was quite possibly one of the worst movies ever made. Brown is famous for his ability to "write" action sequences - too bad Howard is infamous for "filming" action sequences. Top lesson here - don't cast your buddy in a movie just because he's your buddy. *ahem-hanks!*
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Scubs premieres tonight. Talkback?
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Maybe the movie will be to.
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Oct 25, 2007 9:23:37 AM CDT
"Goldsman turned it into a sequel, even though the book is autho
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...doesn't that pretty much say it all?
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"Goldsman turned it into a sequel, even though the book is author Dan Brown's prequel"
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And the book isn't a prequel, it was the first of the 2 Langdon books written. He wrote Da Vinci afterwords. Dan Brown is a hack. The success of the Da Vinci Code novel always baffled me, it was a book that made people who don't read much feel smart. It does seem like every few years a book comes along that is a huge bestseller and is completely horrible. The Bridges of Madison county was one. Tuesdays with Morrie was one. That one made me want to punch Mitch Albom in the neck.
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Didn't the first one suck badly enough?
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I view it more like the Bond films, just the continuing adventures. Did they film the Fleming books in chronological order? I don't even see a need to reference Da Vinci Code in an Angels and Demons movie. Audiences will know the book, know that Tom Hanks was in Da Vinci...it's fine.
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The Da Vinci Code was really bad. It was hard to believe I was watching Tom Hanks - that dude typically quality... the Jesus grand daughter was sort of hot though...
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Do something that glorifies women.If Opie made DaVinci code as it was written and kept more of the dialog it would have been a chick flick. When I was reading the book, I got so tired of referrences to the Scared Feminine.
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If only the Catholic Church would be destroyed in real life.
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...Angels & Demons was a ludricrous, hacky mess. Da Vinci Code movie sucked.... we're looking at mega-suck here if they do an Angels & Demons flick. (Oh... just so you'll know... if you jump out of an exploding helicopter at 5000 feet, even if you're holding onto the rain tarp they cover the helicopter with when it's parked... the tarp will be snatched from your hands by the relative air velocity of you're falling body, you'll plummet like a stone. Even if that doesn't happen... a tarp is not a parachute... you'll still plummet like a stone... Just so you'll know.)
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Dog Gammit!!!
Dan Brown is actually a good author! Why does Ron Howard have to run his two books past the ground into the depths of Hollywood Hell.
He only took out 2 scenes from the book in "Da Vinci", but they managed to totally castrate the movie, voiding it of ANY IMPACT WHATSOFUCKINEVER!!!!! Tom Hanks is the "skeptic" on the fence??? He's supposed to be the protagonist, pushing the "original" idea forward as the hero for the audience.
Ron Howard castrated the Code, now he's going after the prequel (which is even a better book). This is sadddddd.
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Hopefully the movie will be better too. There was an AMAZING movie waiting to be made out of The Da Vinci Code, but it turned out to be one of the worst big films I've ever seen. Jesus H Christ, Howard, how the hell could you screw that book up? How the hell was it even possible?? Goldsman is such a hack, that's probably part of the reason, but everyone seemed to be phoning their performance in (except Mckellen, but it's probably impossible for him to give a crap performance, he doesn't have to put it on he's naturally great).
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read Umberto Eco if you want some good stuff. This Dan Brown crap is dumbed down garbage for the illiterate masses.
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um..I remember saying "stare much!?" as a kid in the 70's. (you know, when someone was looking at you funny)
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And John Carpenter can't get a movie made?
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because of how popular it was but Angels and Demons was always a book much more suited to be adapted to the big screen.
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sitting on his old ass, eating fried chicken and counting the money he gets for whoring his catalogue out. He's a movie pimp. I can't believe there are people that actually liked the book The Davinci Code. Fucking terrible, psuedo-intellectual trite potboiling garbage.
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even the bad ones. So to post that made me sad.
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Says it all. I'm sure the money's swell, but Hanks and Howard can do better.
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'The Expected One'? Its by the self- obsessed and self proclaimed descendant of Jesus and Mary M Kathleen McGowan. Its apparantly based on her own experience in discovering her sacred heritage. Its also a pile of horse shite. Read it and despair then pray for mankind.
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I just made that up.
Between this film, Stone's "Pinkville" and "The Golden Compass" I really don't see any reason to stop the Taliban from exploding us all up.
Cinima, TV, and video games could be so great if we actually used our imaginations to tell a story or create a truly unique visceral experience rather than just tear each other down and blow things up.
Instead we spew molten crap into the minds of our citizens, leaving only mental lilliputians in our wake.
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Money-wise, it made a fortune overseas. This was a no-brainer.
It amazed me that Howard was able to take a fun little read like DVC and turn it into the snoozefest that the film was. Angels and Demons is a bit more grim, but until the ridiculous conclusion it's a pretty fun ride. Lets hope they learned from the mistakes of the first film and can tighten this one up a bit. -
What's the hook in this book?
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What a fucking joke. You can't even call it a franchise with a straight face. Can't these two find anything better to do?
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Is the best this movie will get to, if they don't change everyone involved.
The first movie managed to do the impossible, to transform a fast paced twisting piece of entertaining thriller into almost 3 hours of troubled sleep. The second will be the same with Ron and Akiva. And Hanks.
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...into a decent film. Uhg, that ending!
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... did someone use the words "Ron Howard" and "learn" in the same sentence? Asking him not to be bland is like asking Dane Cook not to be unfunny... it's just not going to happen.
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But it gotta precede Da Vinci Code, it's just the way things are.
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Were you molested as a wee lad? There there, it's okay...
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maybe I'll actually see this one
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God, did I hate that Da Vinci Crap book. And the fucking film. And ANGELS AND DEMONS was even fucking worse. And now there's a movie.
Aw hell NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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isn't this the book with the skydiving pope? These books are really so awful I just completly forgot everything about them.
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Oct 25, 2007 2:45:17 PM CDT
You guys don't find the Jesus/Mary revelation fascinating?
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And you call yourself Christians?
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It's a SHITQUEL. As in some kind of quel that absolutely NO-ONE FUCKING WANTED!!! OKAY?!?!??!!??
And that's a good point: let's see the next Dan Brown novel be about the radical Muslims. Yeah, go have a go at them, see what you get.
It's easy picking on the Christians and Catholics - we don't tend to vapourise anyone who disagrees with us. Well, maybe the Vatican does. Who fucking knows?
Either way, go fuck with them. No more Dan Brown. Everyone wins.
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I hate poorly written trype. So did Mr. Christ. That's why he chased all those people out of the temple with a whip, 'cause they were distributing a Torah in which Moses switched places with his Pharoe brother, and they didn't even know it! So Cleopatra was the actually the Messiah. They were so clever! 'Till they got there asses cut with bullhide. Oh YEAH!
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Because you, mr IAmMrMonkey, are not fucking Megan Fox either. Oh no, you're not. You're really not.
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Angels and Demons should be a much better movie than Da Vinci code
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Exactly how drunken were you, monkey, when you read that book???
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because the events from A&D have no bearing whatsoever on what happens in TDVC, so making it happen afterwards will not affect it in any way. The only issue is that the plot points are EXACTLY THE SAME for both books. I shit you not for those who haven't read A&D this is how it goes **SPOILER** old guy gets killed by a creepy assasin. Turns out he has a foxy female relative. Langdon for some reason gets called in to investigate. All turns out to be a big conspiracy that the Catholic Church has been trying to cover up. Langdon investigates whilst creepy assassin carries on creeping and assasinating **END SPOILERS** sound familiar?????
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the producers of 24 tried to buy this book to adapt as a season of 24. But Dan Brown & Co. said no. Anyone else hear that? Any truth to it?
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Nope, I also asked questions at Sunday School too. I now know more about Christian theology than most of the reverends we get at our church (who tend to be nice folk, well meaning, altruistic and genuine in their desire to help everyone and save their souls) which isn't good when you get into theological arguments with them. Usually they pull rank and start talking about "Who went to Bible college then?". Not me. I therefore win AND lose.
Religion isn't something that many people properly research. It's more comfortable and comforting that way. Doesn't mean that they're wrong for believing without question: I miss that certainty I had when I was just blindly evangelical, that spiritual stability.
My spiritual struggle aside, there's still no fucking excuse for THE DA VINCI CODE. And I CANNOT BELIEVE that the guys who wrote HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL lost that lawsuit. DA VINCI CODE is so fucking similar it's stupid. And that book was disproved in the late 1980s anyway. KNights Templar Rennes-le-Chateau my festering arse. -
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Stark Industries!
WE are the future!
We have the Technology!
And we only have to fire it ONCE!....
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Cheers for that - haven't seen the Pasolini, but will look for that. Loved LAST TEMPTATION - the scene where he looks at what his life with Mary could be is so incredibly moving, every time. Willem Dafoe nailed that interpretation, it is breathtaking cinema. As for PASSION OF THE CHRIST... PASSION FOR DIVINE TORTURE PORN would be more like it. Two hours of solid gore and torture, with almost zero understanding of the theology behind it. It was like watching BATMAN AND ROBIN again.
In all seriousness, Mel has never been more off the point in a movie. I argued with every Christian I know about that movie - to me, PASSION is the most offensive life of Christ ever made. Utterly beneath contempt.
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was generally considered a disappointment. I never saw it.
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Spud!!! Yep, I do truly love the TRAINSPOTTING (and I am a bit odd looking in that Spud way) but I was going for the "I am a couch potato" thing. The Mc has no meaning - I'm from the Midlands in the UK, and the only Scottish ancestry I have is an aunt who left to live up there years ago. Merely an affectation.
That said, I'm with you all the way on nunsploitation. Love it! Have you seen the Lance Henriksen PIT AND THE PENDULUM? Not quite nunsploitation, but melodramatic grand guignol of the cheesiest order. I thoroughly enjoyed it, shit production values and all.
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look like it was gonna be fuckin boring then thats what i heard so i really wont ever see it.
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For yet another sequel to yet another movie that most people either hated or thought was just OK? I really don't get the enthusiasm. How is this not terrible news?
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that would be AMAZING
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I like the Da Vinci Code, and even though I don't take the whole thing serious, there was some true historical statements in it (like how much of an overbearing ass Constantine was). I've read Angels and Demons, and I think it will make a fine film, perhaps not as big as the Da Vinci Code, but its a fun story none the less. Either way, with movie like the Da Vinci Code and National Treasure 1 and now 2 coming up, I'm glad to see films that make people think and have big mysteries as a main part of them instead of just mindless repetitive action with bullshit plots. I say, bring on more of these epic mystery films!
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seriously edited and censored piece of work, anyone that literally believes in Chirstianity really needs to do some research into the religions that preceded its inception. The iconography of Christianity is pretty much derived from earlier Babylonian and Egyptian religions most of which represented the worship of the Sun. e.g birth of Christ is curiously celebrated at the winter solstice *the dates never changed from earlier religions* (christ has risen again- like the sun rises again at the end of the winter solstice) 12 disciples of Horus (each representing the seasons) 12 disciples of christ. Horus was was "the truth and the life", so was Christ. Horus was a carpenter...so was Christ. The holy trinity of babylonian religion where the father, son and holy spirit were seen as one. The holy trinity of Christianity is exactly the same. The virgin birth of Queen Semiramis, the virgin birth of Mary...The Halo in earlier religions represented the Sun (i.e Sun God) yet it remains in images of Christ. The similarities are endless.....
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the real "code" in the painting of The Last Supper is that the 12 disciples are grouped into 4 lots of 3 like the seasons.
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organised religion is bs. And the biggest flaw of The Da Vinci Code movie (aside from it all being nonsense) was the anti-climactic ending.Whoo-eee I'm related to Christ! The End.
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oh and...growing a mullet when your hairline has receded that far is never a good idea.
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As an ex-Christian for many years now (I was one for over a decade, and a serious apologist/theologian) I recommend the book, The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God? by Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy. Also: The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? Challenging the Existence of an Historical Jesus by Earl Doherty, also: The Secret Origins of the Bible by Tim Callahan, The Born Again Skeptic's Guide To The Bible by Ruth Hurmence Green.
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theyll never go out of style!
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Who happened to be homosexual.
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Why are these two talented guys wasting their energy on THIS? Didn't see the first movie, and won't see this one either.
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If you like that sort of thing, you would love Garth Ennis' PREACHER series if you haven't already read them. The lineage of Christ is kept carefully, through generations of inbreeding, resulting in a deformed, mongoloid child cared for and hidden by a renegade Vatican faction known as The Grail, who hope one day to use the child as religious leverage against the Church. There's a great scene where a high-ranking member of the Grail, General Starr, meets the gibbering imbecile - who promprtly throws a handful of his own shit at him. That series of graphic novels are the most blasphemous thing I have ever read - and I laughed until I almost pissed myself. Funniest attack on religion I have ever read. My evangelical side shook and quivered the whole time, convinced I was going to Hell, but for all its flaws (weak ending, lack of real theological depth, kneejerk reactions to the Christian way of life etc) PREACHER is 10 volumes of the funniest, most offensive sick shit you will ever read.
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Where Langdon parachutes from a crashing helicopter with a blanket?
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I could use another 2 1/2 hours of sleep. I like Hanks but the movie was weak, and odds are this will follow in those footsteps.
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Only means another sleepfest. Who needs valuum anymore?
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It is just misunderstood.
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The Greatest Story Ever Told II: Christ Harder
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otm shank was not in a second ep of the sipmsons.
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^ I think that's one of the funniest things I've read in a talkback
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...this thing wasn't much more than a rough draft for Da Vinci! It's a real piece of shit. I hope they manage to make a better movie out of it, but I'm dreaming.
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Now with even less adventure!
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- To Commemorate The 3D Release Of STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE, George Lucas Wants You To Know...Greedo Shoots First!! -- 435 total posts 435 posts
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- AVENGERS enemy revealed as pink boardgame pieces... You might suffer some form of elation... SPOILERS!!! -- 86 total posts 80 posts
- Rest In Peace Bethesda’s Adam Adamowicz -- 76 total posts 76 posts
- The Sensorties Revisit The Friday Docback (And Still Smell)!! DOCTOR WHO Story #7 Again, The Coming Of Season/Series 7, And More!! -- 69 total posts 69 posts
- Quint travels to Barsoom and visits the John Carter set!!! -- 127 total posts 62 posts
- SPACE 2099!! -- 159 total posts 61 posts
- Friday Brings SWEEPS DAY NINE!! Gab Here About Tonight’s FRINGE!! Plus Einstein on TIM, Wiig On PORTLANDIA, MAHER, CLONE, GIFTED, GRIMM, SPARTACUS, SUPERNATURAL, GOLD RUSH And More!! -- 88 total posts 60 posts
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- Ridley Scott's Next Will Be Cormac McCarthy's THE COUNSELOR! -- 50 total posts 50 posts