Angels and Demons

I know that Mr. Bennett has stated and I have been told by many other sources that you have to judge a movie and a book seperately, because they are two seperate entities and should not be compared. However, when watching Angels and Demons recently, I could just not do this.

Because of Julia's post on the film, I figured it wasn't great, but not only was it not great, I found it annoying and I found myself distracted because I knew what was going to happen and I felt no sense of urgency or suspense despite what the characters were trying to portray.

I usually try to judge the movie and book seperately because it is not possible to make a 700 page book into a movie that isn't 8 hours long and get all the essential elements of the book. But personally, they left out the greatest part of the book, out of the entire movie, something that shocked me, because it was really the point of the book. How it was left out still dumbfounds me? (Unless of course, my memory fails me)

So in the end, I will say that if you read the book, don't bother seeing the movie, it will only dilute your thoughts. Just a couple of days after seeing the movie, I can barely remember it and instead am relying upon the memories of the book. So, I will be honest, I failed in trying to objectively judge this movie, so people that have not read the book may very much enjoy it, in fact, I have heard several people who liked the movie, and others who did not but I will say, that the movie fell flat.

I barely recommend it and that is only because I hope that Dan Brown, the author, will make money off of it and if it makes a bigger profit, he will make more money. But the movie just didn't work, and I liked the DaVinci Code, so maybe it is just a skewed view on my part, because in that instance I believe that I saw the movie first. So maybe if I had seen the movie before reading it I would have liked it more. I don't know.