Angels & Demons
- Thread starter UniversalWolf
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And that's why those books and movies are shitty
Cimmerian Nights
So Old I'm Losing Radiation Signs
Yeah, and all these years I naively thought that the triangle had some intrinsic, geometrically aesthetic value in architecture. Little did I know, their true insidious nature, that of a nefarious, centuries-old conspiracy to keep us down.
Jeez, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Right Siggy?
But seriously, you walk a fine line when you impugn any church like that. It's really irresponsible to throw bombs around like that and then just walk away like "oh, it's just a novel, I only want to stimulate conversation"
At least if you're going to slag the church, build a solid case like a Christopher Hitchens. None of this innacurate pseudo-historical tinfoil-hat bullshit.
Dan Brown is like some poor man's Salman Rushdie without the balls to make a frontal assault.
The worst thing about Brown is that his writing only serves as a vehicle to take you from one conspiracy to the next. I admit, some of it is intriguing, but the cliche story he builds around it, is so transparent, and ham fisted. It reminds me of the days when porno movies had some semblance of a plot when we all knew it was just a clumsy segue from one scene to the next. That's what Dan Brown does, the money shot is these little conspiratorial tidbits that he doles out, the story and the characters are completely forgettable filler.
That's the sham people need to know about, not the Illuminati.
Jeez, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Right Siggy?
But seriously, you walk a fine line when you impugn any church like that. It's really irresponsible to throw bombs around like that and then just walk away like "oh, it's just a novel, I only want to stimulate conversation"
At least if you're going to slag the church, build a solid case like a Christopher Hitchens. None of this innacurate pseudo-historical tinfoil-hat bullshit.
Dan Brown is like some poor man's Salman Rushdie without the balls to make a frontal assault.
The worst thing about Brown is that his writing only serves as a vehicle to take you from one conspiracy to the next. I admit, some of it is intriguing, but the cliche story he builds around it, is so transparent, and ham fisted. It reminds me of the days when porno movies had some semblance of a plot when we all knew it was just a clumsy segue from one scene to the next. That's what Dan Brown does, the money shot is these little conspiratorial tidbits that he doles out, the story and the characters are completely forgettable filler.
That's the sham people need to know about, not the Illuminati.
UniversalWolf
eaten by a grue.
I care nothing about Dan Brown, either good or bad, and I don't read his books.
I care very little about whether or not his writing impunes or exposes Roman Catholicism.
I've ignored all Dan Brown related media hype. All of it.
Angels & Demons is a terrible movie.
[spoiler:d7421043a2]Let me see if I have this right. Ewan McGregor's plan was:
a) Murder the Pope.
b) Have his goon steal a vial of antimatter from the LHC.
c) Have his goon kidnap four of the preferitti.
d) HHG plant the vial of antimatter under the Vatican.
e) HHG send a video threat of the vial and the preferitti.
f) HHG murder the cardinals in four different churches.
g) Find the antimatter just before it detonates, but too late to stop it.
h) Grab the antimatter, jump in a helicopter, fly up, up, up.
i) Parachute out just in the nick of time to avoid being obliterated.
j) Having stalled the conclave, become Pope for his apparent heroism.
k) Use the power of the church to shut down the LHC.
Yes, that seems plausible. Good thing it went off the rails at step j.
Question: where did he get the money to hire the goon?
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I care very little about whether or not his writing impunes or exposes Roman Catholicism.
I've ignored all Dan Brown related media hype. All of it.
Angels & Demons is a terrible movie.
[spoiler:d7421043a2]Let me see if I have this right. Ewan McGregor's plan was:
a) Murder the Pope.
b) Have his goon steal a vial of antimatter from the LHC.
c) Have his goon kidnap four of the preferitti.
d) HHG plant the vial of antimatter under the Vatican.
e) HHG send a video threat of the vial and the preferitti.
f) HHG murder the cardinals in four different churches.
g) Find the antimatter just before it detonates, but too late to stop it.
h) Grab the antimatter, jump in a helicopter, fly up, up, up.
i) Parachute out just in the nick of time to avoid being obliterated.
j) Having stalled the conclave, become Pope for his apparent heroism.
k) Use the power of the church to shut down the LHC.
Yes, that seems plausible. Good thing it went off the rails at step j.
Question: where did he get the money to hire the goon?
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^^^^^^
[spoiler:49b9c7ba24]So basically one of the 'villain's reasons to become pope is to stop the 'evil science'
Ugh more Luddites[/spoiler:49b9c7ba24]
[spoiler:49b9c7ba24]So basically one of the 'villain's reasons to become pope is to stop the 'evil science'
Ugh more Luddites[/spoiler:49b9c7ba24]
maximaz
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
I read both books and after watching the Da Vinci Code I really have no interest in the A&D movie. It's not that Da Vinci Code was bad it's that it was really boring when I already knew what was about to happen.