That 2006 Movie with a Long-Haired Tom Hanks and Amelie

I'm interested to see the movie, simply because I think the book lends itself more to a theatrical setting than a literary one. Dan Brown is a bad writer. A bad, bad writer. The code aspect was fun, but the character development was poor, to say the least. I was hoping that the script for the movie wouldn't borrow too much from the book, but it seems like these hopes will be fruitless.

As for making a movie version of Angels and Demons, ew. Just plain ew. That book has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. I slogged my way through it out of boredom and shock. "No, seriously. Are you really wiritng this? Is this happening? Are people BUYING this book? omfg." Nevermind the bad character development for this one. The plot was so ridiculous that I felt like I was getting dumber with every passing page.

Spoiler:

The helicopter scene was the worst out of all the crap in that book. How did Langdon survive the anti-matter (wtf? anti-matter? COME THE FUCK ON PLX), fall thousands of feet into a river, and get up in time to expose the Camerlengo? MIRACLE. That's their explanation. It must have been a miracle. I almost vomited. Dan Brown also severely and unrealistically portrayed the world's reaction to the death of a Pope and the reaction to the choosing of another one (which he could easily have done correctly had he bothered to, what's the word Dan? Oh yeah, RESEARCH), he had a crowd of thousands of people standing around waiting to be incinerated because they were CURIOUS, and he had a nun and a priest making babies through in vitro. I'm sorry, it's just fucked. I don't know how any rational, even remotely intelligent person could read that book and go "zomg SO AWESOME." The scene with the Camerlengo parachuting down on top of the Vatican put the nail in the most ridiculous coffin in history.

Yeah, so I kind of vented a little there. In conclusion, I hope the Da Vinci Code is a better movie than it was a book, and I hope Angels and Demons gets erased from the face of the planet and the memory of mankind.

Jam it back in, in the dark.