Angels and Demons, and other crap in theaters now.

I somewhat reluctantly went to see Angels and Demons with a friend who had read the book and was eager to see it. My expectations were low and i was hoping the movie would at least surpass them. It managed to exceed my expectations in terms of how much it sucked. It started with four or five Hollywood motion picture logos, not a good sign, and some scary string section and quickly went downhill from there.

For starters we got to watch a preview for what presumably will be another piece of shit, staring John Travolta, in which he kidnaps and murders hostages on a subway, while Denzel Washington talks him down on the phone. I was thinking 'well at least i don't have to watch that garbage' only to find that minutes into our feature the evil villain, has kidnapped, and is going to torture and murder his captives.

The super villain carefully follows some cryptic plan that dictates were he is to dump his murdered bodies, which only Tom Hanks can decode through some absurd puzzle skills that only he possesses. Like turning pages of text upside down or reading the margins of some antiquated text, stored in the Vatican vault, or in this case a Hollywood set.

For some reason a particle accelerator plays prominently in the film, along with some antimatter, that is going to wipe out all of Rome unless Tom Hanks and company can get to the Plexiglas canister containing it. Schlock. Garbage. I can't say enough bad things about this film. It's too bad, Ron Howard, the films director, seems like such a nice guy. After all, he was Opie on the Andy Griffith Show.