"Mio" is scarier, but I find it hard to pinpoint why. I think, at least for me, a large part of the horror was the whole feel of Kato's lands. Also the plot with the missing children was really disturbing.
And I must be quite the masochist, because I've also seen the film. I suppose I just couldn't bring myself to believe that about Ian McKellen.
Hee. For me it was Ian Mckellen and Paul Bettany (though I rather liked his albino monk), but the rest of the films was just awful! There were scenes upon scenes of people talking about the plot. Not acting the plot or doing the plot which would be normal in a visual medium, but actual talking. WTF? Then again I've had a problem with St.Tom Hanks since "Saving Private Ryan".
I think I'd just be so much more tolerant of the book if it wasn't claiming to be so much more than it is.
Oh absolutely. The whole turn it has made from pulpish fiction to pseudo-science is really annoying. But I've tried to see it on a more meta level, and I guess the "DaVinci" phenomenon says something about people and their need for symbols and the feeling that everything is connected and makes sense. You just have to have the key, and then you can unlock all the strangeness in the world.
But I salute you for having trudged through "Angels & Demons". I tried (perhaps I have a masochistic streak as well?) but I got to the part where just one journalist was covering the popes funeral, and my suspension of disbelief snapped. I promptly put the book away.
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"Mio" is scarier, but I find it hard to pinpoint why. I think, at least for me, a large part of the horror was the whole feel of Kato's lands. Also the plot with the missing children was really disturbing.
And I must be quite the masochist, because I've also seen the film. I suppose I just couldn't bring myself to believe that about Ian McKellen.
Hee. For me it was Ian Mckellen and Paul Bettany (though I rather liked his albino monk), but the rest of the films was just awful! There were scenes upon scenes of people talking about the plot. Not acting the plot or doing the plot which would be normal in a visual medium, but actual talking. WTF?
Then again I've had a problem with St.Tom Hanks since "Saving Private Ryan".
I think I'd just be so much more tolerant of the book if it wasn't claiming to be so much more than it is.
Oh absolutely. The whole turn it has made from pulpish fiction to pseudo-science is really annoying.
But I've tried to see it on a more meta level, and I guess the "DaVinci" phenomenon says something about people and their need for symbols and the feeling that everything is connected and makes sense. You just have to have the key, and then you can unlock all the strangeness in the world.
But I salute you for having trudged through "Angels & Demons". I tried (perhaps I have a masochistic streak as well?) but I got to the part where just one journalist was covering the popes funeral, and my suspension of disbelief snapped. I promptly put the book away.