1. If this entry wasn't dealing with fiction, I might've added the 'bad science' tag to it. 2. Fans of Leslie Charteris' Simon Templar generally shuddered at the 2007 Val Kilmer-starring film The Saint, but the treatment of cold fusion in that movie's (original) screenplay was so much better than the half-arsed depictions of CERN and anti-matter in this lemon... 3. Just for fun, I may as well point out that the Illuminati-related inaccuracies of the book don't play out very well on the screen, either. Even the use of ambigrams seemed stunningly underwhelming, although I hope that John Langdon's book Wordplay sells a few more copies, because that is good.
The 'miraculous' escape from the helicopter (horribly signposted by Oirish Father McGregor in Superfluous Chunk of Exposition Number 503 - ho, ho) is in! And looks effing ridiculous.
That's another thing. Why are the special effects so terrible in this film? (Did Ron blow that part of the budget on an underwater camera for the Tom Hanks-in-the-swimming-pool scene?)
Ah yes, helicopter, I forgot. That info almost makes me want to go and see the movie. Almost. ;D
I only saw the headline this morning. But I didn't make the connection that that is also referring to a game (sometimes there's still a language barrier). It does get stranger by the day.
The only good line in the whole thing - and proof that somewhere, some academics were actually involved, somehow - was "Then I can finish my book... and sell dozens of copies in the Harvard bookstore."
...for some reason, I was the only person in the theatre who laughed.
Sidenote to GS: By the time you take up your position there at least you'll be working under a different name! (Thank heaven for small mercies and the comfort of relative anonymity...)
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2. Fans of Leslie Charteris' Simon Templar generally shuddered at the 2007 Val Kilmer-starring film The Saint, but the treatment of cold fusion in that movie's (original) screenplay was so much better than the half-arsed depictions of CERN and anti-matter in this lemon...
3. Just for fun, I may as well point out that the Illuminati-related inaccuracies of the book don't play out very well on the screen, either. Even the use of ambigrams seemed stunningly underwhelming, although I hope that John Langdon's book Wordplay sells a few more copies, because that is good.
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(The Pope lent me his copy.)
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That's another thing. Why are the special effects so terrible in this film? (Did Ron blow that part of the budget on an underwater camera for the Tom Hanks-in-the-swimming-pool scene?)
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I only saw the headline this morning. But I didn't make the connection that that is also referring to a game (sometimes there's still a language barrier). It does get stranger by the day.
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...for some reason, I was the only person in the theatre who laughed.
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