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Beaks here...
I just read over at Deadline Hollywood Daily that Ron Howard's ANGELS & DEMONS is the fifth most anticipated movie of 2009 (behind HARRY POTTER VI, X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE, TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN and PUBLIC ENEMIES). I guess this means there are people out there who actually liked THE DA VINCI CODE. Weird.
For those of you who want to see Tom Hanks chase around those Illuminati rascals for another seven hours, it's my duty to inform you and my pleasure to warn you that the remarkably uneventful ANGELS & DEMONS teaser is available for viewing at the film's official site. I'm told there are easter eggs hidden within the teaser, so happy hunting.
ANGELS & DEMONS opens all over the goddamn place on May 15, 2009.
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Better than Da Vinci Code, but still pretty bad pop lit
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that's right
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This is not one of my most anticipated movies at all.
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It lacked the charm of the novel but was still a harmlessly entertaining time-waster. ANGELS & DEMONS is poised to be a much more exciting movie, because the book was action-packed in a way CODE wasn't. It's darker and more menacing.
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It's that "Angels and Demons" is a VASTLY superior book, and I think a far better film prospect than TDC, which was laughable as a book before it was laughable as a movie. A&D, though, is far more accessible, and as much as I hated the first film, I have to say I'm looking forward to this.
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Not to mention star trek.
Da Vinci code wasn't that bad, its sequel isnt top five on any of my most anticipated lists. -
When I read it, it felt like the author said "Hey I have a great idea for a movie...shit, I write books! Oh well, I'll just write a shitty book version and hope the movie turns out awesome." But lo and behold, the movie was somehow worse. Don't care if this book was better, I'm not going to spend any more time on that shitty writer.
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I'd pay to watch that.
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Enjoyed the book.Is Angels & Demons a better read?
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was a terrible movie. Enjoyed the book, but that movie is on my top 10 worst list.
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But Tom Hanks needs to make a really badass movie next time.
I would like to see "Castaway 2: Wilson's return" -
But THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, a 2008 release, did! And ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS!
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Very well made film, but just not that exciting, Divinci that is.. I always thought Angels was a FAR better story, and Code was very boring as a book and movie.. I hope the movie is as good as the book was. The book was a ton of fun.
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Doesn't anybody like Watchmen ? * sob *
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Yep, Angels & Demons is a better read. In fact they both come from a same template... there are beat by beat parallels to two books. Though it is case with ALL Dan Brown books, but more pronounced with Da Vinci and A&D than any other.
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And what the fuck is Public Enemies? Who are these people they're polling?
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Far better than DaVinci Code. I'm really looking forward to this movie. Great to see John Langdon's ambigrams get used as well!
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Oct 31, 2008 12:22:41 AM CDT
So much for Deadline Hollywood Daily's credibility
by the crystal skull
No Watchmen? You have got to be effin' kiddin' me. I didn't think ANYONE liked The Davinci Code movie. I don't really know much about DHD, but I'll certainly never take them seriously after this.
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Only geeks and fanboys give a shit about watchmen. Even I don't really care about it despite being a semi-geek. I'm gonna watch it for sure to see what the fuss is all about, but it's not one of my most anticipated. But PUBLIC ENEMIES... hell yeah!
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you guys are actually excited about Trek. You're talking about STAR TREK right??? I knew you were geeks but I didn't think you were that geeky.
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Depp, Bale, Mann, Dillinger. I'm all in.
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I would choose to watch that over ANY of those other films and this is the first I've heard of Public Enemy
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But that film is practically a 2009 release. It does show that perhaps Cameron needs to get a teaser out there.
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Who gives two craps? Seriously no one is anticipating this.
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This is actually the prequel as far as the books are concerned.
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"Seriously no one is anticipating this."
Considering the book pretty much outsells everything on stands, I'm sure many people are anticipating it. Whether or not they should be is a different matter. -
Most anticipated films of 2009? Deadline Hollywood Daily's list. Most remembered films of 2009? WATCHMEN and AVATAR.
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angels and demons is using the sci-fi channel cgi department?
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Most people don't even know what it is. The film has no major stars. The trailer is totally incomprehensible. It's notable to admirers of the comic book, but to the Average Joe it means nothing. A great deal of young comic book readers don't even know what it is. The fact is more people probably ARE looking forward to ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS. (Not me, mind you.) This is not to say, however, that WATCHMEN won't become one of 2008's biggest films, which it very well could. It's just that the collective fervor toward the movie's release is limited to a cult following at present.
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up his ass with a Mime plug-in (whatever the FUCK that is), all the while videotaping it so I can edit it on FinalCut Pro, which I can only do on my macbook. for fun, count how many times it says "Microsoft" on that fucking godawful site, and then count how many Mac Safari users aren't going to be able to watch the trailer (like I can't), which I'm sure is a piece of shit anyway.in short, I'm not at all upset.
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Judging by Da Vinci Code (i've refused to read any of the others), DB should be writing in fucking crayon. He might have a somewhat interesting concept, but his writing is fucking awful! The movie was shit, because you know the concept, so you know the interesting part, and all you're left with is the shit story and the shit characters. I have no idea what Angels & Demons is about other than its set in the vatican, and some guy who sounds like Awec Baawin thinks now is the perfect time for revenge! What a crock of shit. This is not even in my Top 100! Avatar is the only film I'm truly excited about. BTW, no one other than the geeks know what the fuck Watchmen is!
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It's a closed community that has nothing to do with what the world at large is waiting to see in theaters. See that yellow thing outside your window? That's called the sun. Go outside where the sun is and talk to some people. You'll see they sometimes have very different tastes and opinions than you would think.
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no one with social skills gives a fuck about Watchmen or Star Trek. It's a geek thing. Unless Watchmen somehow crosses over, it'll do Hellboy business...MAYBE Hellboy 2. But facee the fucking faccts, even back in 86, it still wasn't mainstream, and it ain't now. Just be glad it's been shot and being released...maybe. Trek will do a lil better, but not by much, because...it's Trek. And nobody but trekkies and geeks gives 2/5th a fuck all. So fuckin' relax, enjoy the lil piece of geekdom hollywood breaks off every so often, and shut the fuck up.
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It moves a lot faster...has a lot more big moments and there's more action in it. Should do much better than the Da Vinci Code.
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film of next year. Morons.
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Awww, I just watched the trailer...Tom Hanks lost the badass haircut!
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This is before he grows out the hairdo.
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This is a city of crime!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The movie's been reformatted as a sequel I think?
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you sound so damned excitied for more Tom Hanks vs. Religion shenanigans.
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I cant understand why there is a demand for these movies when better material like Urban's Revelations movie (Udo Keir and Terence Stamp) is crying out for a sequel. Browns books and the movies are as about exciting as listening to an accountant discuss your tax returns. Meh. Bland.
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what the title said
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wtf no way i mean no way does the general public know anything about movies like; the informant and Public Enemies and The Taking of Pelham 123. even me who hangs on this site more than he should dont know much if anything about them. the list is complete bogus. the list should include Terminator, Star Trek, Watchmen, AVATAR. these research survey guys need to go back to school and relearn their shit coz they screwed up their external validity.
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did Merrick pass this on to you? I emailed this to him yesterday as he was posting like crazy. That fucker
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Anyway, teaser looks good. A&E was a much better book, hopefully the movies are the same way.
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That's a ridiculous list, plain and simple.
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As a book, at least. Hopefully as a movie too. Gotta admit I'm totally sick of epic shots of real places from the sky that still just look utterly unconvincing and CG. Nothing is that clean! Nothing! But Ewan McGregor is an excellent, excellent choice for the Carmelengo. An excellent actor for the best character in the book. Who is playing the assassin?
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Personally, I am not that exited about Dan Brown's work so far. A mediocre hack who writes his novels so they are easy to adapt. Plus Davinci Code was a complete rip off of his own Angels and Demons to begin with. I was watching Apollo 13 (same director and star) the other day again on DVD and that is an awesome movie, despite the fact that everybody knows the ending. Now, I wondered why they couldn't make DaVinci Code work... (Although there was a hint of movie magic in the final two minutes if I remember correctly)
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I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO… AVATAR, A Christmas Carol, The Descent 2, Edge of Darkness, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Knowing, The Informant, Public Enemies, The Road, This Side of the Truth, Where the Wild Things Are. HALF INTERESTED IN… Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Watchmen, Ninja Assassin, Whiteout, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra. I WOULD RATHER EAT MY OWN SHIT THAN SEE... Angels & Demons, Beverly Hills Ninja 2, Crank: High Voltage, Dragonball, Fast & Furious, Final Destination 4, Friday the 13th, Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian, The Pink Panther 2, Van Wilder 3
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Star Trek and Terminator. That is all.
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The book Angels and Demons was much better than Da Vinci Code. This movie could be of greatness.
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Plus The Davinci Code movie did not follow the book which in and of itself had huge plotholes to the whole code thing. The movie only made them wider. Angels and Demons is a much better book. Just like The Matrix, it should have been left alone.
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Though I'm interested and have read about The Priory of Zion and the story of Mary Magdalene scuttling off to Europe, I can't stand Dan Brown or Ron Howard's fiction. They're both accomplished storytellers, money and fame-wise, but they're also bland as tofu.
The story of what really happened to Jesus, if you believe he existed at all, and the subsequent striving to keep Jesus' and Mary Magdalene's bloodline alive through the centuries under the Catholic Church's despotic clutches is a tremendously compelling story. I'm still not sure what I believe and don't believe about it, but the story itself cuts the heart out of what every Christian believes. It's an alternate telling of history, one where Jesus was just a man and not the son of god. It cuts the "Christ" out of "Christian."
Thus I was disappointed by Dan Brown and Ron Howard. I know Brown's book sold faddishly huge numbers, but I don't give a shit. The story he wrote was boring and milktoast, Howard's film even more so.
So now we're getting "Angels and Demons" by the same filmmaker, huh? Whoop de frickin' doo. -
I only managed to get through about 10 pages of Da Vinci. I was looking forward to it so much, however the writing was almost at a Dr Suess level. Now I'm no literary snob, hell I read Dean Koontz even though I'm pretty sure every story will result in a man, a woman and a gifted dog. It was quite simply the worst novel I ever attempted to read. Now having said that, I was aware that the 'plot' was still supposed to be pretty solid, so I waited in anticipation of the Ron Howard, Tom Hanks version. Howard is pretty hit and miss for me, but Hanks usually shows a savvy choice for quality projects. What is funny is that I have attempted to watch it twice. The first time I fell asleep(This has never happened to me before) and on the second viewing, when they replayed how they hid in the airplane hanger I turned it off in fuckin disgust. Thats as many attempts as I am willing to give it. You sellout fucks will never pollute me again.
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Is it based on some new obscure Woody Allen film?
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Instead of creating a nifty, multi-century thiller involving power figures and possible riddles in great works of art, it was a boring pseudo-lecture that pretended to give ANSWERS to the supposed riddles. Woulda been a much better flick if the riddles were left unanswered ("Ever really looked at a one dollar bill? There's a lot of spooky stuff going on on the one dollar bill.")
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So I sure don't care about the movie. Plus it will be incredibly "mainstreamed" and dumbed down to capture the widest possible DVC audience.
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I hate when Hollywood thinks they HAVE to have a teaser or a trailer out, so they whip up some awful piece of CGI crap with about 50 frames of actual film footage and call it a trailer. Are you f@cking kidding me?? And Ron Howard, what the hell happened to you? Christ, make a sequel to Splash if you feel the need to do a sequel, not some retarded book that Oprah thought was the greatest thing ever and told all of her minions to read. Sorry, I had to get that out...
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Console yourself, sir, I'm in total sympathy. Read book and watched movie and wished I didn't (though doing both gives me the moral right to bitch). Da Vinci code was awful, calling the caricatures in the book "characters" is an offense against common sense. Movie was uninteresting though I love McKellen's droll narrative dropped in the middle of the movie like a rose growing out of horse fertilizer. Author, director and actors coming together again to make zillions of dollars is as inevitable as High School Musical 4. Shit happens, like children get abused, poor people starve to death, good people die. And A&D becomes a movie and a megahit.
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I had a hard time getting through Di Vinci code, but Angels & Demons was a nice fast paced thriller. the A&D trailer was okay, but I really do love the music.
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Can't wait for the movie. There are definite parallels between A&D and TDC. But what I like is how Dan Brown takes little scraps of fact, and weaves them together in such a convincing way that you really think he's an authority on things like the knights templar, or the illuminati.
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Code had its moments and I find the concepts, however debunked (or is it misleading debunking - aha!), fascinating. A & D is sure to be equally hated by those who are Catholic/Christain/devoutly religious. I found it a more gripping read. Haven't seen the Code movie; time to add it to Netflix list.
People who think Brown is bad need to try some of the other books that turn up on NY Times, etc. best-selling fiction lists, which are far worse.
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I just hope ANGELS & DEMONS will be just as good. It certainly seems so by that teaser.
BTW, AVATAR is by FAR the most anticipated movie of 2009. Personally, mt top 10 anticipated movies of 2009 are: 1. AVATAR; 2. WATCHMEN; 3. THE LOVELY BONES; 4. SHUTTER ISLAND; 5. INGLORIOUS BASTERDS; 6. STAR TREK; 7. PUBLIC ENEMIES; 8. TERMINATOR SALVATION; 9. ANGELS & DEMONS; 10. BRUNO. -
Yawn.
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Is one of the worst movies ever made. It was truly truly awful. If there ever was an unfilmable book, its The Da Vinci Code. 95% of that crap was just history lessons.
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and probably below the top 50 most anticipated movie of 2009. Sorry fanboys...get used to failure.
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how stupid does Howard believe ppl are that they're NOT going to guess who's the bad guy IMMEDIATELY?
I won't go so far as to say Dan Brown is a HACK writer - he writes PULP fiction, and while he may have enough popular appeal to get a Da Vinci movie over the line, I can't help BUT think this one is going to tank.
The word of mouth will not be kind.
This should have been a TV movie - and whoever owns the option on Digital Fortress should think seriously hard about not aiming any higher than, say, Direct To DVD... -
The movie...not the book. Broadcast premiere was tonite on TNT. The made-for-TNT-TV-movie 'The Librarian' promos looked more interesting. Seriously...I fell asleep once McKellen turned out to be the bad guy....which is the equivilent of Marcus...or Sallah...turning out to be the bad guy in 'Raiders'.
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"Angels and Demons" was one of the stupidest books I have ever read. CERN making ant-matter with no-one noticing, an impossible symbol burnt on someone's chest which was on the cover of the book, etc, etc.
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The above post should have read anti-matter: mind you CERN could have made ants easier than that amount of anti-matter.
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The fucking 90's? Castaway 2: Rise of Wilson ... is what we'll gonna get. Because this is the age of prequels. And riseness. Prequels and riseness.
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Lets hope Ron doesnt hack this one up again.
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Avengerdude, the symbol burnt into the chest was illuminati, the one on the cover was Angels & Demons. And I don't see how that makes it a bad book.
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the book, in Dan Brown's typical halfassed fashion, describes Tom Hanks' character as Harrison Ford in Harvard tweed. So why the hell didn't they get Ford to play the character? Because, at his age, he'd fall asleep during filming this dull-as-shit book beloved by pseudo-intellectual community college students in flyover states. But the sequel? I think there would have been enough action for it to work as a Ford vehicle-maybe an Indiana Jones for his golden years. After finding the literal holy grail in Jones, why not have him in a movie where the grail is actually a biblical chick's vagina?
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I didn't read the book but, Da Vinci was a decent movie but one without a sack. Come on Cunningham, Nolan showed us a darker world. It's needs to get darker. This is the type of movie to do it. Da Vinci was pg-13, this better have a R rating.
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Reformatted as a sequel? How does that work? The Catholic church were the bad guys in the Da Vinci code, and now Langdon is supposed to help them in a sequel? Seems a little counter intuitive.
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