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- bokep, on 06/19/2008, -18/+234If this movie is anything like the first, the Vatican is doing us a favour.
- jkizzle, on 06/19/2008, -21/+116They have every right to. The parts of Angels and Demons about the Catholic Church are twisted, exagerated and blown extremely out of proportion, and during most of the film, the Catholic Church would be portrayed in a horrible light, that is not true. It is their property to with as they please, and I definitely see how they can not be interested in this film. I know I wouldn't have a filmed at my house about how I was a murderer that ran free and then screwed lots of people at the same time as being an alcoholic inept of self preservation!
I already know what you will say, the crusades, the inquisition, blah blah blah. This book puts the modern church in a murderous light, and while entertaining, is not at all representative of the church. - jkizzle, on 06/19/2008, -9/+100its not banning filming, its refusal to let the film companies capitalize on a degrading image of the church... ON THEIR PROPERTY.
- hapax, on 06/19/2008, -4/+87I will probably get dugg down by the anti-religious crowd here, but I believe the Vatican, just like any other organization or country, has the right to refuse anyone who works contrary to its interests, a persona non grata.
Prejudice? They have a basis for making a judgement -- the first movie.
Hypocritical/un-Christian? He's not being denied charity or dignity as a human person -- he isn't exactly being denied food or water or about to be burned at the stake here. He is merely being denied a chance to make money at the Church's expense. - thejokell, on 06/19/2008, -7/+86"Angels & Demons is one of the best books ever written!"
You need to read more. Seriously. - whiteyMcBrown, on 06/19/2008, -3/+75I'm an atheist, but I fully understand this. Why on earth would you let someone onto your property so they could talk ***** about you?
- jasonj75, on 06/19/2008, -4/+59Prejudice? Did you even bother to read the article? Or for that matter watch The Da Vinvi Code? If a guy writes a book / makes a movie that makes you look bad, what motivation do you have to cooperate with him the second time around? There's no prejudice, just common sense, or at its worse vindictiveness.
Do you think the US Govt. would cooperate with Michael Moore and allow him to film a documentary on the ineptitude of Bush and stage it in the Oval Office?
I hope they film it, but have never had any illusions that the Catholics would cooperate this time around, hell I was surprised they cooperated for the original. - BarriedaleNick, on 06/19/2008, -5/+45As long as it delays another Dan Brown based movie I am all for it...
- smacksaw, on 06/19/2008, -3/+43Father Marco Fibbi, a spokesman for the Diocese of Rome, said: “Normally we read the script but this time it was not necessary. The name Dan Brown was enough. Not because of blasphemy, we just simply could not choke down any more of his writing and figured that we'd spare the rest of the world this abomination.”
- Kinnkster, on 06/19/2008, -0/+36It would be pretty strange for them to let the use the vatican to film this. I really can't find any fault with them.
- Mootabolife, on 06/19/2008, -0/+35Dan Brown's books all have a similar plot if you haven't noticed. Read Digital Fortress too, it's The Da Vinci Code with a different setting.
- Easty, on 06/19/2008, -1/+28A summary:
Secret society, o noes!
Intrepid heroes must solve this stuff.
Awkward sex scene.
Hey there's somebody trying to kill us.
BETRAYAL!
Oh it's ok guys who are trying to kill us and guy who betrayed us are dead.
Let's have cake.
TO BE CONTINUED...? - solid12345, on 06/19/2008, -0/+22lego vatican?
- LexisNexis, on 06/19/2008, -8/+31So they let Bill Maher in the Vatican for 'Religulous' but no love for Dan Brown?
- Feldoh, on 06/19/2008, -0/+21I see where you're coming from, but at the same time jkizzle has a point. This is like the coca-cola company filming a commercial bashing pepsi, at the pepsi headquarters. Yeah, it's a crappy analogy, but you get the point.
People are stupid they mistake fiction for fact... - delorenj, on 06/19/2008, -0/+21"...This book is 10X better than the first one..."
Actually, Angels & Demons was written first. The Da Vinci code is the sequel. - tattertech, on 06/19/2008, -0/+19Actually I don't think any rational member of the anti-religion crowd would disagree. The church is fully in its rights as a private organization to do this. The church is wrong in a lot of ways, and acts in unethically in a lot of ways, but they're fully within their rights here.
- BDOUG, on 06/19/2008, -3/+22Make Dan Brown sit.... IN THE COMFY CHAIR.
- rabidbob, on 06/19/2008, -69/+88I'm not a Dan Brown fan by any means but banning filming based on prejudice is a bit pathetic.
- jkizzle, on 06/19/2008, -1/+19Good one. THIS ISNT CENSORSHIP. The church is simply not allowing the filming on their property.
And try to tell me the catholic church has killed more than WWII Germany alone, what about Russian Genocide.
Think Current. Great Britain killed alot of people colonizing, but that doesnt mean we should bomb Parliament. The Catholics have done great things this century, open up your eyes and get over yourself. - unknownpoltroon, on 06/19/2008, -2/+18They obviously read Digital Fortress. Please, for teh sake of your brain, do not attempt this.
- Myonosken, on 06/19/2008, -4/+20"Angels & Demons is one of the best books ever written!"
Just no. Its a good book but Dan Brown's writing style is pretty basic and I could list plenty of books far better than what is, essentially, supermarker checkout fodder. - ctenn2ls, on 06/19/2008, -1/+17I know, it's uncanny. It's almost like some people...don't know what they're talking about on the internet. Why should they be criticized for not going out of their way to facilitate a negative portrayal in a movie millions of people will go see?
- zeebo, on 06/19/2008, -2/+17Angels and Demons was just plain bad, Dan Brown's conception of what scientists and Cern in particular is like is just wrong, and actually kind of silly. In the book they have their own mach-5 private space plane, we're talking super-villain level absurdity.
- SQLserver, on 06/19/2008, -0/+15I'm sorry.... But wasn't this really expected?
- deadbaby, on 06/19/2008, -4/+18I really don't get Dan Brown. It seems like he uses the back drop of religion to make his mediocre murder mystery thrillers seem more meaningful than they really are. I'd personally rather watch an episode of Colombo than read his books or watch the film adaptations. I bet the Vatican would let Colombo film anywhere he wanted to.
- equinoxChild, on 06/19/2008, -0/+14So well put. I'm agnostic, and I totally agree. Much as I tend to disagree with organised religion, they reserve the right to not allow defamatory material about them being shot on their premises. Can we please figure out a way to put your post at the top of the page so everyone reads it before crying about the vatican being bad / dan brown being bad =P
- skinrock, on 06/19/2008, -2/+15How will they ever make it look like the actors were on location?
- mal1964, on 06/19/2008, -0/+12Your comment covers everything.
- jonshipman, on 06/19/2008, -2/+15I think Bill Maher is a tad different than portraying dead bishops with pagan symbols written on them on the floor of the cathedrals.
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -0/+12Maybe they saw the first movie and how much crap is was? Forget about the books, they are doing Dan Brown a favor
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -2/+14Yes, books by Brown are always about authenticity. cough.
- hapax, on 06/19/2008, -0/+11The Vatican is a sovereign country, so they do have political power on their territory.
- JustinCase18, on 06/19/2008, -0/+10The argument is irrelevant. Anything as a House of Worship should be restricted to its religious intent or at best something of a historical nature that's respectful to that religion. Considering that the previous movie was very disrespectful to Catholics, it's completely logical to not wish to allow them the opportunity to take a second shot at them.
It doesn't matter what the book said, how often do directors detract from the material? How often is the final cut of a movie significantly different?
Would those of you slamming the Catholic Church for censorship and brainwashing have the same argument if Dan Brown and Tom Hanks had the balls to write a book and star in a film criticizing Islam and film it in a mosque? Come on now, heads would roll from that backlash. - Drahkar, on 06/19/2008, -1/+11No kidding. Someone steals a quarter canister of Anti-Matter? Seeing as it takes a massive machine to contain anti-matter currently because the only way to contain it is within a powerful magnetic field (If it touches anything it explodes due to its nature) that canister must be one hell of a breakthrough in itself.
- kholburn, on 06/19/2008, -0/+9Not to mention that the hero jumps out of a helicopter at 1000 feet or so with no chute and lands in the river and survives fairly easily. At least you could view the antimatter as a normal SciFi contrivance. A 1000 foot fall into water .... no special effects there.
- xelerated, on 06/19/2008, -4/+13Who can blame them? Its one thing if Dan Brown says its fiction and leaves it at that.. but he says its fiction, then says its fact... he is confused.
- homemadesoap, on 06/19/2008, -5/+14Dan Brown's plots are really daft. Man gets chased, man gets away, oh no he's still being chased just to get away again. Then he places filler in between of this Secret (of which half is true half is not)
- tattertech, on 06/19/2008, -2/+12Worst. Author. Ever.
- MOJIRA, on 06/19/2008, -0/+10I wish that was the actual quote.
- georgemason01, on 06/19/2008, -18/+26The Vatican's opinion on anything has been irrelevant since, well, forever. Remember Galileo.
- tattertech, on 06/19/2008, -4/+12They didn't ban the film because of the offenses to the Catholic Church. They banned the filming because of the book's offenses to the English language.
- wxdotz, on 06/19/2008, -1/+9Actually, I have read all of Dan Brown's books. While good reads, what is is saying is correct... every book essentially boils down to a secret society, a betrayal with a recurring pattern as to who the antagonist is (after one of his books I was able to immediately identify him within a chapter or two), etc. Not to mention the story is also always told from two different view points... I could go on and on.
- DivisibleByZero, on 06/19/2008, -0/+9You forgot the part about the elaborate puzzle set up by the Knights Templar to protect a secret which ends up being..... in the basement of the church that was a stronghold for the Knights Templar. I bet their enemies never would have thought to look there.
- heavystone, on 06/19/2008, -8/+15Whats the big deal? So they cant film in there? So what? This day and age of CGI and talented stage sets you would think they didn't need to film at locations anymore.
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -1/+8Well, it is THEIR church after all, and on top of that it's a sovereign body. They don't have the right to decide who gets to film in their house?
- BDOUG, on 06/19/2008, -6/+12Cool. One big overblown piece of fiction fighting a much larger overblown piece of fiction.
- Gforze, on 06/19/2008, -1/+7"Sweden"... Why is this always so hard? It's in CERN, Switzerland.
And the secretery does not figure out where the Illuminati have hidden anything since the Vatican destroyed the Illuminati ages ago and stored their artefacts in a secret chamber of the Vatican Library.
Also, according to the book it is hard to produce an ambigram, when in fact it is very easy. I have a friend that does just that for fun.
Entertaining book, for sure, but in no way a great work of litterature. -
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