Tonight Nigel and I went to see "Angels & Demons", which opened today. It was also the first time we’ve been to the Sky City Cinemas in Albany.
This movie has a kind of unique distinction for me: I read the book first. You have no idea how unusual that is for me. Actually, I read The DaVinci Code before seeing the movie, too. I enjoyed the Angels & Demons book much more than the The DaVinci Code book.
This movie, like its predecessor, stars Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon, and I’m glad he was in both (I generally don’t like it when actors are changed in a film series—like Batman, for example). I have to admit that after reading both books, I didn’t picture Tom Hanks when I visualised Langdon. Even so, I think he did a great job.
This story is much simpler than The DaVinci Code, which means there can be more action and bit less explaining history, which will appeal to some people. But there’s also enough talk about history to satisfy those who like the “thinking parts” of the earlier story.
It was an entertaining movie, reasonably true to the book, and fun.
As a side note, I noticed that some Catholics were up in arms about the film, and I think I kind of know why: They don’t like the idea that leaders of the Catholic church could engage in conspiracies—they appear like all the rest of us, in other words. I thought that the church itself actually came across fine, and it’s the false-start critics who looked bad.
As I said, this was the first time we’d been to these cinemas, which are pretty new; It’s our new favourite. The seats are wide, reasonably comfortable, and have wide armrests with cupholders. It makes the $15.50 per person (US$9.15) seem like a reasonably good deal. It didn’t hurt that we saw a movie we liked.
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