There’s been some buzz about Ron Howard’s latest anti-Catholic-but-“not-really”-anti-Catholic movie Angels and Demons. Well it seems that the reviews are in and the movie is a dud–and from the secular press! The marketing has been so good that many people will see it anyway, but no blockbuster seems to be on the way.
Some sample reviews from my favorite movie review site, Rotten Tomatoes:
“This is a terrible movie with barely concealed contempt for its audience. Please don’t go to see it – or another of these calamities may be along next summer.”
“Like its predecessor, Angels & Demons manages the miraculous feat of seeming to plod while racing at breakneck speed, the tempo set by Hans Zimmer’s blusterous score.”
“This movie takes preposterousness to new levels; there are times when the proceedings become so ludicrous that one is tempted to laugh aloud at the sheer audacity of the plotting.”
“The plotting here is so convoluted and so far-fetched that it makes the conspiracy elements in the National Treasure movies look plausible by comparison.”
“The result is dizzying enough to make you think you’re entertained, although the moment you stop to think about Angels & Demons for even a second, the movie becomes ridiculous and preposterous enough to be laughed off the screen.”
May 15, 2009 at 4:18 pm
I bet the real problem is that it doesn’t bash the Catholic Church enough. Most of these comments apply equally well to The Da Vinci Code, but since that one attacked the Church it was somehow “great”.
May 15, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Rotten Tomatoes will give an objective review, thus this POS falls flat.
Unfortunately we can expect the MSM to positively drool over "Angels & Demons", my bet is it'll get at least one Oscar nomination.
May 15, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Subvet– not sure what you are saying here.
May 15, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Since you have thus far dedicated 3 posts towards this movie, I’d say you are giving more attention to this movie than the viewing public. So, maybe you can do your part to let it uncerimoniously fade into obscurity.
In other words: shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….
May 15, 2009 at 11:41 pm
This is a BLOG… B-L-O-G… that is a place where people write about stuff, not NOT write about stuff.
May 16, 2009 at 4:59 am
Deusdonat
Funny, I sometimes think the same thing about you ;-P
May 16, 2009 at 5:37 am
Hey Patrick, no problem there bubba. Far be it for me to prevent your meteoric rise to #32 on the Catholic blogosphere.
Over and out.
May 16, 2009 at 7:17 pm
D
All in good fun.
#32 huh? Would that we were so lucky!
March 8, 2010 at 2:04 am
I am watching the movie for the first time, after reading the book more than a dozen times. I am beginning to think M.Night Shyamalan has taken over Ron Howard's body. I am very tired of the movie script so far away from the book, where the plot is senseless. I need a Xanax.