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This movie was NOTHING like the book




This movie was real real bad. Hanks does a awful job playing Langdon. Also did anyone notice that they left the CERN boss in the wheelchair completely out of the movie? The killer was a Assassin in the book, and they gave him a sick back story, that was also left out. Ron Howard is useless, not only should he not make movies, he shouldn't even be allowed near a television. The book, next to The Godfather, was the best one i've ever read. I don't know how they messed up the story that bad.


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The film was like the book in that both were garbage.



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I didn't want to say that because I thought I got serious fan vibe off these people (like I would get death threats) but yeah totally agree. The book was appalling.

Stop being precious, what makes a good book doesn't always make a good film

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A&D is actually my favorite book in the series, but there is elements of it that are just to complex to make a into a movie.

DVC the book was written in such a way that the movie could follow it page-for-page (this being one of the movies many downfalls), but A&D does not have this, so would need to be adapted from scratch to get it onto the big screen.

Some of the changes I like (in the book the whole falling from the sky part at the end made no sense, but the movie improved on that!) others I do not like.

Good book, made in to a so-so movie, with just enough changes to make it enjoyable, but stay true to the book

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My only complaints are the mis-casting of the Camerlengo and Hassassin. They should never have cast Ewan MacGregor as the Camerlengo because the character is supposed to be Italian, however, since MacGregor is Irish they had to change the Camerlengo's nationality to fit the actor and by doing so his part in the story no longer makes sense. And as for the Hassassin, he was described in the book as a "mountain of a man" so I thought the actor was way to scrawny and also his accent was way off. I didn't mind some of the other changes though, infact I appreciated that they had Langdon save the last preferiti (papal candidate) from drowning in the fountain because unlike in the book, this time there were actually other people present in the square that night, and also the ending where, unlike in the book where they give Langdon the Illuminati crossed keys iron as a lone (and what exactly is he supposed to do with that?!) they finally give him the book he needs from the archives to finish researching the book he was currently writing (well thank you!). They also could have placed the Camerlengo's suicide on the Pope's balcaney like in the book instead of at the entrance to the catacomes and they also should have cast the head of CERN (the old man in the wheel chair) in the movie instead of combining him with Leonardo Vetra. Other than those few annoyances I didn't mind the movie but the book is definitely better.

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A little nitpick here but MacGregor is Scottish and not Irish.

I didn't mind the changes. It made for a better movie. The book was appalling.

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