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[adiva_calandia]

Saw Angels and Demons. Want to punch Dan Brown in the FACE for a number of things, including villifying the Large Hadron Collider, fucking up his own continuity, and spouting ridiculous horseshit about "Ooooh, yes, the Illuminati used ENGLISH because the Vatican wouldn't use that vulgar, rebellious language! So of course their Significant Branding Irons would be in ENGLISH. Not LATIN like their FUCKING NAME, or Greek, THE LANGUAGE OF SCIENCE. Then we couldn't read the brands on the cardinals' chests!" OH. NOT TO MENTION RIPPING A PAGE OUT OF A GALILEO BOOK WITH A BARE HAND AND HANDLING A BERNINI BOOK WITHOUT GLOVES OR MASK OR ANYTHING. WERE YOU PEOPLE RAISED IN A FUCKING BARN? (I typoed "bar" for "barn" but that would work too.) And I could have done without Ewan MacGregor's impassioned speech in favor of a union between church and science, mainly because it slowed down the plot when there was a FUCKING ANTIMATTER BOMB threatening the Vatican (WTF DAN BROWN, AN ANTIMATTER BOMB? WHAT THE FUCK?) and it was so obviously contrived anyway.

That said, I enjoyed the eye candy (helloooooo, Ewan MacGregor; hellooooo, Bernini, Raphael, and Da Vinci) and what I took as Catholic in-jokes (all the papal stuff; angie_di leaned over near the beginning and whispered "Spot the minority!" and I busted up. It's funny 'cause it's true). And -- just like my experience with reading The Da Vinci Code -- I was holding my breath and bouncing at the edge of my seat a lot of the time. Ripping good yarn. Pity it makes me want to throw things.

In the end: Umberto Eco did it better with The Name of the Rose, AND he had more sex in his book. What now, Dan Brown. (--Oh. Right. *glowers at Da Vinci Code* Whatever.)

Comments

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

Did I ever tell you one of my highschool teachers is mentioned in The DaVinci Code?

[adiva_calandia]

I think you did, actually! Something about Opus Dei, right?

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

Yep. I went to a school run by them from grades 9-12. My "moral philosophy" teacher is mentioned in the book.

I will be laughing about that until the day I die.

[nepheliad.livejournal.com]

Did they actually make the movie of Angels and Demons a sequel to the movie of DVC? Because, I mean, I sort of liked A&D the book. I did not like Da Vinci Code in the way where I couldn't even enjoy its badness. And – switching the order of the stories is kind of just. I am not even sure how to respond to that.

[adiva_calandia]

Yup. Which, now I think about it, messes with the continuity of Langdon's character some -- he goes from "Maybe you are descended from Christ and cured my claustrophobia by laying on your hands!" to "Nope, don't believe in God, not even a little." Waaait a minute there.

'Course, he seems to be enjoying the fruits of being cured of claustrophobia. *eyeroll*

[ashen_key]

NOT TO MENTION RIPPING A PAGE OUT OF A GALILEO BOOK WITH A BARE HAND AND HANDLING A BERNINI BOOK WITHOUT GLOVES OR MASK OR ANYTHING.

WHAT?!

I mean, I've never trusted Brown since I read the Da Vinci Code and he had the dying curator run around WRITING ON THE PAINTINGS, but...

WHAT?!

[silveraspen]

Saw it today myself.

Of course, as I went INTO it expecting nothing but a game of "spot the wrong" and maybe some action sequences, that worked out.

[kornopolous.livejournal.com]

Heck, I want to punch every single person who gave Dan Brown $$$!!! HE HAS GOT TO BE ONE OF THE WORST WRITERS IN THE WORLD!!!!! wtf???