Friday, May 15, 2009

I SO want to see this....


The reviews for "Angels and Demons" have been uniformly bad bordering on hilarious (see salon here or NY Times here, title "Holy Mystery; Mayhem at the Vatican!").
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I can't wait to see it.  I think I am making Eddie take me tonight.
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I particularly like this comment in Salon, The action unfolds against constant narration: When a character indicates, in a parched whisper, that Langdon should get over to Castel Sant'Angelo fast, he hippity-hops on his way, but not before exclaiming, "The Castle of the Angel!" Every revelation in "Angels & Demons" has a "Colonel Mustard in the library with the candlestick" vibe. Whenever something bad is about to happen, Hans Zimmer's score flares up like a bad case of stigmata. "