Rachael MurphyAngels and Demons
May 18th 2009 11:34
When I went into the cinema to watch this movie I told myself to expect nothing. The Da Vinci code [/I was a pile of pooh and the word on the street was that the follow up was emitting similar odours. I had read the novel and I liked the whole idea of a secret society and the mystery that could be unfolded around it, I even got over the writing ability of the author to finish it and find out what happened in the end. Better luck still I had actually forgotten what happened in the end of the book so I was going into the movie ready for it all to come back to me in a interesting and exciting way.
Having said that a book and a movie are very different entities and I am the very one who will tell anyone who stands close enough for me to make them hear my point that you cannot compare the two on the same level. The book and the movie are never really going to be the same. You write things down that people will picture in their head but would be very hard to put on screen(the the alternate ending). So I will just talk about the movie. Pile of Pooh I think is too harsh for this movie but it doesn't smell of roses either. You cannot accuse it of being slow movie but you don't really keep up with all the running around because it doesn't really make you care enough. You don't care if the cardinals get killed really and for some reason you are encouraged to dislike nearly all of the characters as the movie lists out their flaws but not in a
we are all flawed as human beings
sort of way but more in a I could possibly be behind this
way and because of that you don't really connect with any of these characters. The only person you are being told to like is Ewan Mcgregor's character and that's only really because he speaks softly in a Irish accent.
Well I say Irish accent but in reality he just joins the list of actors who seem unable to do one. In fact if he had stuck with owe Scottish twang he would have been closer.
Another thing that bothered me about the movie was the way that they justified other characters being of help to our hero Robert Langdon. I wondered how a professor of symbology who has speak his career studying the symbols of different cultures and wrote a book on the Illuminati does not speak Latin and neither is his Italian passable enough to translate the passages he was trying to read. In fact if that was the case he should have just sent someone else down to the vault and got them to write it out for them in a language he could understand.
to be honest I came out of the cinema with the same thought in my head as when I went in. I was happy that I had expected nothing because that was more or less what I got. I still liked the idea of a secret society and the mysteries that they layed down it was just everything else in the movie that ruined it.
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