All You Need to Know about the Plot of Angels and Demons...

[beamjockey]

...condensed into two sentences of dialogue:

"That canister contains an extremely combustible substance called 'antimatter!' We need to locate it immediately or evacuate Vatican City!"

Comments

[liveavatar.livejournal.com]

Your warning is much appreciated.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's pathetic.

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Let me guess; it's a vat of liquid Satan.

[maiac.livejournal.com]

Dan Brown is to writing as Thomas Kinkade is to painting.

And I don't mean that in a nice way.

[avram]

What, no mention of the Illuminati?

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Well, sure, there's plenty of Illuminati stuff, if you want to bother to see the more-than-two-sentence version of the movie, for some reason.

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

I pity the person who had to clean up that lackwits drool.

[le-trombone.livejournal.com]

No no, it's antimatter. So everything's opposite. So you can't let it catch water.

You just have to think these things through.

[mbcrui.livejournal.com]

Andy liked the Da Vinci Code. I kept getting hit with gotchas "What? What? THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED!" Then I would go on a rant for 15 minutes about crappy research and how if he'd just looked around a little that this actual incident would have worked better as a plot point than the made-up incident he used.

I love Tom Hanks, but haven't been able to sit thru the movie.

[kevinnickerson.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed both A&D, and TDVC. No more plot and science holes than the current GT threads. (rimshot)

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed both A&D, and TDVC. No more plot and science holes than the current GT threads. (rimshot)

The science is not terrible, as technothrillers go, but (judging by the first 150 pages or so, which is all I've read) A&D is a dreadful novel. The protagonist doesn't do anything. He moves from place to place, and people tell him what has happened. He's inert.

And Brown's research is spotty. There are lots of holes in the facts he trots out to amaze the reader. I was left fairly unamazed.

If you can keep a reader turning pages, though, it doesn't matter much how poorly you write. That's why there are both good writers and bad writers on the best-seller lists.

I suppose I'll return to the novel and finish it eventually. I keep getting questions about it...

[gomeza.livejournal.com]

Do not taunt Happy Fun Antimatter.

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

Thanks, sort of, for making me even gladder that I've never so much as opened a copy of The da Vinci Code. I'd read Holy Blood, Holy Grail back when, and Morning of the Magicians, for that matter, even longer ago.
I'll take the “original” sources, thank you.

[isherempress.livejournal.com]

So, does it combust spontaneously, when exposed to air?
Or does antimatter only combust when exposed to Catholicism?

Or is there another trigger, with which I may not be familiar? Pray tell!

[madtechie2718.livejournal.com]

When antimatter combusts, does it produce anti-photons?

I imagine that the movie will be full of all sorts of wizzes and bangs, but wonder if they'll keep in the private hypersonic jet that the CERN director has.

I think Bill H is just jealous that Fermilab doesn't have an LH2-fuelled hypersonic transport aircraft.

I do remember that as I watched TDVC, it occurred to me that freezing the codex with a CO2 fire extinguisher and then breaking it open would have saved a lot of time and running around....

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I imagine that the movie will be full of all sorts of wizzes and bangs, but wonder if they'll keep in the private hypersonic jet that the CERN director has.

CERN's FAQ page on Angels and Demons is slightly hilarious.

[whl.livejournal.com]

That's my question: if it doesn't have the spaceplane, I'm not paying money to see it.

I did eventually see The DaVinci Code; being a Tom Hanks fan, I was able to just watch the movie. But I am glad I didn't see it in the theater. I seem to recall I got it as a marked down DVD.

And, yeah, the first thing I did at the Codex scene was pause the movie and Google up the freezing point of vinegar.