:facepalm: <---- Suu almost the entire movie.
I hate adaptations. Even off of Dan Brown novels they can't even be accurate or good.
I agree. The novel was bad, but the movie was horrible.
It just felt waaaaay too hurried along with all the omissions. :x
I just...ugh.
Also, LHC used to make antimatter. :x
Yeah, they really fucking butchered it. They changed the back story to the Camerlengo and made him all Scottish just so Ewan MacGregor could play the part.
But changing Kohler's name to Richter? That made me :lulz:.
Yeah, that made me laugh too.
The movie was awful though. Even the major plot made no sense, because it relied on Langdon finding the antimatter before it exploded, but after it could have been safely....neutralized or whatever, I cant remember the exact reason, but I know they couldn't stop it from blowing, which was all part of the plan. The retarded plan.
The only redeeming quality the book had was the character of the assassin, and they completely ruined him in the movie.
No, the only redeeming part of book was that he decided to end it with Langdon having freaky sex with a yoga master.
Quote from: Suu on December 01, 2009, 03:09:08 AM
But changing Kohler's name to Richter? That made me :lulz:.
Still would not watch, but
:lulz:
Quote from: Cain on December 01, 2009, 08:48:01 AM
Yeah, that made me laugh too.
The movie was awful though. Even the major plot made no sense, because it relied on Langdon finding the antimatter before it exploded, but after it could have been safely....neutralized or whatever, I cant remember the exact reason, but I know they couldn't stop it from blowing, which was all part of the plan. The retarded plan.
i thought it was funny they tried to shut down parts of the power grid to find the hidden camera instead of much easier and more accurate, tracing the signal.
even if it's wireless.
unless they routed it through korean proxies or shit, but I think they said it was still part of the vatican surveillance grid, they just didnt know where it was.
i mean you take a directional antenna and walk straight at it ..
i mean the power grid thing was a pretty clever move, granted that. but even if clever, it wasn't very efficient compared to tracing the signal.
Quote from: Da6s on December 01, 2009, 09:17:48 AM
The only redeeming quality the book had was the character of the assassin, and they completely ruined him in the movie.
Yeah. He wasn't Middle Eastern and full of rape. :|
I have a feeling that the Catholic Church must have threatened Ron Howard's mortal coil if they kept a few things in.
Angels and Demons is my "favorite" or maybe, "preferred" of the Robert Langdon books, but I probably won't be reading Lost Symbol anytime soon because all of my Masonic friends would probably disown me if I did.
Oh, come on.
It's horrible! You'll love it!
I haven't even read your NaNoWriMo, but I guarantee it's better written in it's rough draft than that book was after it went through a major publishing house's editing staff.
My mom has it now. She already said she's not NEARLY as into it as she was the previous two.
If anything, at least the Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons taught me shit about artwork I didn't know. Stuff about the dollar bill I learned in high school.
Eh, there's still some art stuff, as well as architecture and city planning.
But, of course, you're not missing anything by not reading it.
But I already KNOW Washington DC is a mess to drive around...
QuoteQuoteThe thirty-four-year-old initiate gazed down at the human skull cradled in his palms.
Mmm, beautiful. "Cradled in his palms". One can feel the reverence with which the initiate is delicately holding this human skull. But tell us more about the skull, Mr Brown!
QuoteThe skull was hollow,
That is useful information, for now I am no longer visualizing one of those solid skulls?
Quotelike a bowl,
Even better — hollow like a bowl, not hollow like, I don't know, a syringe, or an asteroid hollowed out by aliens. The image is now irresistibly vivid! A human skull, hollow like a bowl!
But wait, Mr Brown, why are you telling us that this particular skull is "hollow, like a bowl"? Are you subtly setting up the idea that the skull contains some liquid?
Quotefilled with bloodred wine.
Ah — now this is why Dan Brown is Dan Brown. A lesser author would have been satisfied with a lesser liquid — having the human skull (hollow like a bowl) contain, I don't know, some gazpacho soup or Ready Brek. No one but Dan Brown could have thought of filling the human skull (hollow like a bowl) with "bloodred wine".1 It is an image of menacing ingenuity, through which Mr Brown is really beginning to establish a kind of superior Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom atmosphere.
The author then types on with some description of a big room, but it is no shame for us to admit that his best work is already accomplished: the concept of an initiate holding a human skull (hollow like a bowl) filled with bloodred wine and cradled in his palms is a kind of chorus that insists on being heard again, and it is not long before the reader is thus pleasured:
QuoteThe initiate had been told every room in this building held a secret, and yet he knew no room held deeper secrets than the gigantic chamber in which he was currently kneeling with a skull cradled in his palms.
A skull cradled in his palms. Imagine! Almost as though it were a human infant. I must admit my eyes glazed over again after this at the further description of the big room and whatever, but only because I was aching to see what the author would do with his inevitable third treatment of the concept "skull cradled in his palms". I was not disappointed:
QuoteSteeling himself for the last step of his journey, the initiate shifted his muscular frame and turned his attention back to the skull cradled in his palms.
Only a second-rate writer would vary such a winning formula. The first-rate writer knows the true value of incessant repetition. Indeed, I suspect this stunning symbol-sequence, "skull cradled in his palms", must owe its majestic power to some actual black sorcery, because when I had finished reading the entire extract, I found myself cradling my own skull in my palms?
1. Later on we are told that "The crimson wine looked almost black in the dim candlelight", but that's the lighting director's problem, so fuck you.
I kept thinking (and wishing) I was watching Inspector Gadget.
Mainly cause the baffling plan the Illuminati (spoilers not revealed) was something a villain from a Saturday morning cartoon would come up with.
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on December 01, 2009, 04:24:43 PM
I kept thinking (and wishing) I was watching Inspector Gadget.
Mainly cause the baffling plan the Illuminati (spoilers not revealed) was something a villain from a Saturday morning cartoon would come up with.
Just read the book.