Angels & Demons - Hans Zimmer

Masterful

Cheap and undeserved pun, but clever.

Saw the movie yesterday, and the way the music worked in combination with the pictures on screen was just spectacular. Science & Religion is a great track as it is, but in theatre it will blow you away.

It´s a lot more action-oriented (as is the book); there is not much time for those lengthy explanation sessions that DVC dwelled about. As such, A&D is a faster movie, but it still has the same ingredients as DVC, just in different proportions. As a matter of fact, sometimes it feels a bit like 24: Rome. You half expect split-screens and digital clocks to appear. But there are still enough lectures about artistic and historical facts, a lot of hint-following, digging through books and stuff to keep you interested should the amount of action turn you off.

The scenery is just beautiful. The fact they weren´t allowed to film there seemed to have no effect whatsoever on the final product. If you´ve ever been in Rome, expect the exact same atmosphere you experienced there to be present in the movie. Some interiors (Pantheon, St. Peter´s Cathedral) seemed to be a bit larger than I remember, but it´s twenty-five years since I have been there, so there you go. In general, the movie captures the setting exactly as it is supposed to be. The scenes on St. Peter´s Square are pitch-perfect.

The fact that they changed some stuff from the book FOR THE BETTER doesn´t hurt, too. There are some scenes in the book that could have come over extremely silly on screen if done wrong, and I guess they didn´t want to take chances there and just skipped them, and I approve.

If you really loved DVC, I don´t think you´ll be disappointed, though since I don´t know what exactly turned you on, there is room for error here. Good Audrey is not part of the story.

And you've lost Demetris.

You are turned off by a bit more action and urgency even if everything else that made DVC what it was is still there?

Ehm, what I wrote was this:

But they don´t.

It´s just that some scenes are very fast and tense. That´s it.

The wife and I will go and see this, we really liked the Da Vinci Code and the music is Superb.

it's good it moves around faster than TDVC, but this one I'll just rent
our home cinema is good enough to enjoy this one as well

Actually, saying you are not interested is also a form of interest. It tells us just as much as saying "hey, I'm excited to see this".

Still in theatres? The film get's DVD / Blu-Ray release next week.

Oh, and hiya Bregje

How about just renting it first or something?

[spoiler]The one involving a helicopter, a parachute, and a Big Bang.[/spoiler]


If you mean the actual movie title, if I remember correctly it was shown right at the beginning, after the three or more producing studio names were presented (the beginning of Track 2 on your score CD, if available). If you mean actual credits with actors names and stuff, I think they came at the end of the movie.