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Angels & Demons (review)
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 4:55 pm
by Horror Flicks
It was poor movie. The main flaw with "Angels & Demons" is that it ask us to take it seriously. It has no suspense. It unspools as a ridiculous theological scavenger hunt in which poor Tom Hanks rushes from church to church across Rome - shouting out "clues" as he runs along. But let's be fair. "Angels & Demons" is better than "The Da Vinci Code" movie in two counts. Tom Hanks has a better haircut - that '70s mane is gone... and there is a genuine surprise ending.
PG-13 with violence only. It's about 2 hours and 20 minutes.
Re: Angels & Demons (review)
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 1:42 pm
by Pumpkin_Man
I agree. Like "The Davinci Code," it was just more digs against the Catholic Church, spreads more lies and rediculour conspiracy theories about the Pope and the clergy, and was a sucky movie to boot. Porrly written, poorly acted, and hokey as hokey can be. As a Catolic I am again very insulted, and sorry I wated my money.
Mike
Re: Angels & Demons (review)
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 3:04 pm
by Horror Flicks
Good thing that I didn't go see that movie because it's not worth to waste money for nuthin'!
I will save it when it comes straight to Netflix or rent it at the video store.
Re: Angels & Demons (review)
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 4:06 pm
by hippieluvn
Loved the book, hated the movie!!!
Re: Angels & Demons (review)
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:18 pm
by Pumpkin_Man
I never read the book, Hipielivn, but that's almost allways the case. The movie is almost never as good or the same as the book it's based on. I had a simular experience with the film "Mommy Dearest." The book was a thousand times better then the movie, but the movie was not bad.
My problem with "Angels and Demons" was not only the fact that it was a really badly done film, but it was also highly insulting to Catholics, and it's a pack of lies. It was just as bad as "The Davinci Code" for spreading lies about something that I hold very sacred. I was very offended, and I would have demanded my money back, except that some of the people who work at that theatre were friends of mine.
Mike
Re: Angels & Demons (review)
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:49 pm
by hippieluvn
i'm a former catholic seminarian and i don't find it the least bit insulting
it's fiction and in the end the church's cooler heads prevailed, winning out over the zealots on the left and the right
