DISQUS

Film School Rejects: Angels & Demons: 10 Things I Didn’t Like, 5 I Did

  • Gopher · 6 months ago
    Ugh, I am sick of everybody trashing this movie. It was not great, but I found it really entertaining.
  • chille · 6 months ago
    There was one more big plot hole:

    When the power goes out in the archives, the emergency power switches on. Ok, that makes sense. But wait, the emergency power only powers red lights, and just lets ventilation and door control shut down, leaving anybody inside the containers to die. That makes sense.
  • Cole_Abaius · 6 months ago
    And the fact that any cop who gets trapped like that would pull out his gun and fire all his rounds into the very-breakable glass immediately. First instinct. Definitely.

    That entire scene was absurd. Plus, it did nothing for the story anyway.
  • Brandon · 6 months ago
    well the vents didnt turn on cuz someone turned them off to kill him and probably made sure the vents would not go on
  • Sick · 6 months ago
    BORING! So fussy! So picky! Worse than my mother-in-law!

    So this post is it an attack on Dan Brown's book or the movie? Rob did you actually read the book? It is pure FICTION (please check dictionary for definition if you don't know what it is - it means everything is fake and made up). So why so serious and picky about the loopholes and plots? In fact this movie stayed as close to the book and Ron Howard even had a few characters removed and few scenes improved. If you read the book it is even more far fetched but it sure is entertaining and provide a bit of escapism.
  • PaulSileo · 6 months ago
    I am confused why people think that just because something can be classified as fiction that it should receive a free pass to be poorly constructed, poorly written, or outlandish.
  • hutnutup.ur.butt · 6 months ago
    your a little ridiculous... taken too seriously...it is fiction...you go too far as say outlandish, poorly constructed. you would be the only individual i've seen to go that far...overly critical....it is fiction but not ridiculous...
  • Isamu · 6 months ago
    I kind of agree wth you Sick about what you said on your comment.
  • lliiz · 6 months ago
    most of the issues are upon the book not the movie... one should be reviewing a movie against the book written.. not as a single entity
  • switchkosterice · 6 months ago
    Regarding #7: Too bad all that is true. A high school physics education would tell you that.
  • Rob Hunter · 6 months ago
    I must have been absent the day Physics class covered the topic of priests in basements.
  • Nicole C. · 6 months ago
    Fiction still needs to make sense, or else it's bad.
    If the loopholes're in the book, fix them for the movie.
    Be critical Rob, I want movies to make sense, fiction or not.
  • MooCow_of_Justice · 5 months ago
    I thought it was pretty believable. Sure the thing with the archive room was pretty lame, but that Mercenary doing all he did I could believe. Mercenaries would have to be pretty damn good at their job, don't you think?

    The murder of the Cardinals wasn't repetitive. Each Cardinal had unique scenes, and Langdon didn't just "dick around" before he had to save them.

    The way you describe things in this just makes me think that you went into the movie ready to think "God, this is going to suck." And from there you tried to find reason after to reason to tear it down.
  • suds · 3 months ago
    The assassin in the book was completely different than that of the movie. The book version had the best character development in a villain, it would have been gold to translate him to the movie, but since he was Middle Eastern, they 'couldn't.' These books do not make good movies, when you cut out the details, it all moves too fast, but when you include them it moves too slow.