Active Users:499 Time:27/04/2024 01:41:43 AM
So, are all Dan Brown movies/books as dumb as Inferno? Cannoli Send a noteboard - 04/11/2016 10:35:44 AM

I didn't see the first two movies, or read any of the books, but I decided to see Inferno, more out of curiosity than anything else, and also there was nothing good in theaters, and to see what the latest British-accented bit of feminist pandering infecting Star Wars was capable of, acting-wise. ( "This is a Rebellion, isn't it? I rebel" is not a particularly smart or witty thing to say to military leaders, regardless of the circumstances. )

Anyway, Felicity Jones was okay, but it was one of those things where the bad guys' methods seem kind of stupid once you know everything, the best character was Irrfan Khan's sort-of villain/antagonist (he came close in Jurassic World, too. If he could improve his English, I'd want to see a lot more of him), and I figured out the final clue before the genius Harvard "symbology" professor (as in I heard the clue and thought "they should go to X" but Tom Hanks said "Oh, it means we have to go to Z". And they went to "Z" and the guy who knows all the hidden passages in museums, and can pick out tiny variations in old paintings, somehow needs to physically confront a bunch of statues in "Z"town to recall their connection to "X" town, where they should have been going in the first place. At one point, when Hanks expresses a need to find a copy of the Divine Comedy to look up a clue, Jones snarks that she prefers "Google", which should make the whole side trip to the wrong city completely unnecessary, since looking things up on the internet is absolutely within their skill set.

Cannoli
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
Reply to message
So, are all Dan Brown movies/books as dumb as Inferno? - 04/11/2016 10:35:44 AM 883 Views

Reply to Message