Angels and demons

[Dauphin]

Did the film deliberately mean to disregard science at every opportunity? Is it an attempt at sarcastic irony?

[Japher]

Tom Hanks was on the Daily Show the other day and pointed out that it wasn't very scientific.

So.

[Dauphin]

The Daily Show is scientific:

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[BeBMan]

Didn't know KH was that old....

[KrazyHorse]

I've met that old guy. The detector room looked like ATLAS. if so, then I was down there as well. And I went to a reception inside that big sphere at 4:21 of the video.

[onodera]

We were reading the book this film is based upon in German in our German class for some reason, and it had ridiculous errors, like mobile phones having a dial tone and copters having a neutral gear. Is the movie just as ridiculous?

[rah]

All the review I've seen were not very favorable. It did 58 mil last weekend.

[Krill]

Is it a decent action movie though?

[rah]

The main review that I read said it was as boring as the divinci code. Since I didn't see that, I'm not sure how to answer that question.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

From AO Scott's review in the New York Times:

The only people likely to be offended by “Angels & Demons” are those who persist in their adherence to the fading dogma that popular entertainment should earn its acclaim through excellence and originality. It is therefore not surprising that the public reaction so far has been notably calm.

[Nikolai]

Well, the book was not much to write home about, badly written and a badass idiotic end. But much better than that book he wrote after Angel and Demons and The da Vinci Code, there I knew who the bad guy was some 15 pages or so into the book. It was all too easy to see. Seriously, that author should take some classes.

[RGBVideo]

it's written by the guy who made "da vinci code", of course it's ridiculous

you watched it, the joke's on you

[Imran Siddiqui]

Did the film deliberately mean to disregard science at every opportunity? Is it an attempt at sarcastic irony?

It's Dan Brown! That's like asking if this Christopher Hitchens book means to slam religion at every oppertunity.

[Elok]

I read somewhere (I think Intuitor) that the book involved a conspiracy to kill the Pope with a bomb containing something like a pound of antimatter. Because, y'know, the Pope is immune to conventional and even nuclear explosives, and it's totally worthwhile to synthesize a large amount of a very hard-to-make and dangerously unstable substance just to blow up a religious leader whose main duties consist of making dry speeches apologizing for oppressing some group in the past--and then apologizing for the bits in said speeches that offend some other group.

Plus it's written by the hack who wrote The DaVinci Code. I only read one page of that book, and I couldn't bear to read more. It was like watching a snuff film of the English language. So the real question is: why did you watch the stupid movie, and why did you expect it to not be stupid?

[Kitschum]

I can't stand that guy