Loved the book, and can't wait for the movie. Tom Hanks really isnt my first choice as the lead...would have preferred maybe Johnny Depp or someone with his sorts of characters. Hanks still works I guess. There certainly could have been worse choices.
Loved the book, and can't wait for the movie. Tom Hanks really isnt my first choice as the lead...would have preferred maybe Johnny Depp or someone with his sorts of characters. Hanks still works I guess. There certainly could have been worse choices.
i hope they don't butcher the book too badly cause i loved it. cant wait though!
reading the book, i always pictured sophie marceau as the part so its good to hear shes a frontrunner. but shes pushing 40 and isnt that old for the part? i havent seen her recently, so i dont know how shes aging.
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Mara wrote:
reading the book, i always pictured sophie marceau as the part
Did you read the same book I did?
Just kidding. She does play a big role in the book. I think it's just that the Langdon character is also the lead in other books, so I consider him the "main character".
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Langdon is also the lead in other books, so I consider him the "main character".
He's also "starring" in Angels and Demons, which I'm reading right now. It's better than TdVc so far, maybe it'll get a film too if TdVc is successful?
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The book was a bit blabbery and the some of the facts it presented weren't really true, if you trust anything the Catholic church says about their own history.
I thought Harrison Ford was gonna be Robert Langdon. The book said that Langdon looked like Ford. Tom Hanks forever is ruined because of "Forrest Gump," the same way Keanu Reeves was ruined by "Bill and Ted."
Jolie as Sophie?
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I read the book and I kept thinking that Harrison Ford would be the perfect Robert Lagdon and Sophie Marceu a good option for Sophie Neveue (maybe because of the name? )
after reading three dan brown books (DVC, A&D, DP), his writing is too d*mn predictable. midway through A&D, you knew who the villian was. after the first few pages of DP (after reading both langdon stories), you knew who the villian was. they all use the same formula. i hope he changes things up for his new book.
i had too look him up to find out who he was. that guy would be perfect..wasnt he in leon the professional?
In fact that is my favourite of all his performances. He's been in La Femme Nikita, The Big Blue, Ronin and an infinite amount of shitty films. (ie. Godzilla, that one where he is a knight in New York among others)
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Merrill Stubing wrote:
The book was a bit blabbery and the some of the facts it presented weren't really true, if you trust anything the Catholic church says about their own history.
The Catholic church has rarely presented the truth about their own history, Darrin.
I read the book, I liked it but also felt it was too many words, not enough substance. The info presented was fine, the manner in which it was presented bored me by about the 50th page.
I can't see the movie being anything but better than the book regardless of who plays who, and this is from someone who almost always likes movie versions of books less than the books themselves.
The whole time I was reading this book, I kept thinking "this scene was written to be a movie". Like, the writing was pretty medicore. Probably even bad. The whole book, the pacing and the way the chapters we divided... it felt like a movie. This book was born to be made into a film. It'll be a good popcorn movie, for sure.
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Tom Hanks just seems like an awful choice. Hanks is great in most everything he's done, but this part just doesn't mesh with his style. Ford does seem like the only choice.
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that's a horrible casting decision imo and will ruin the movie (not that it won't be bloated hollywood blockbuster crap anyway)
