Dear Nol. You have now given me images of a modern day Jerott Blyth in the Swiss Guard*, for which I am eternally grateful. The fact that you've chosen to illustrate this with a Billy Corrigan icon just adds to the brilliance. *though in a suit, and not in the silly ceremonial uniforms.
And yes - Angels and Demons is pure cheese, in the pulpish, adventure sort of way. It contains lines like "Quick we must solve the puzzle in Santa Maria Vittoria and save the cardinal, or else the Vatican will be blown apart by the bomb made of anti-matter". It has dubious clergy, dubious academic credentials, Swiss Guard agents and an assassin. The only thing lacking is a good swordfight.
I will admit that I mainly bough Sword of Doom based on the title. The fact that it turned out to be a good film was just an added bonus. Also it never hurts to watch Mifune and Nakadai parade around as samurai. ;)
since you are the only (1!) dissenting voice I have heard among those who have seen the film.
Yeah, I very much feel like I'm going against the grain here, and that's a little sad. I very much wanted to like the film, but I guess it wasn't meant to be. I do like the points alexandral makes about the use of Cold war symbolism, and there must be said that certain aspects of the story are fascinating. So I think my recommendation would be to check out the film and see what you think.
ps. Have you seen the Sherlock Holmes trailer? Someone forgot to tell me Mark Strong was in the cast as well.
*though in a suit, and not in the silly ceremonial uniforms.
And yes - Angels and Demons is pure cheese, in the pulpish, adventure sort of way. It contains lines like "Quick we must solve the puzzle in Santa Maria Vittoria and save the cardinal, or else the Vatican will be blown apart by the bomb made of anti-matter". It has dubious clergy, dubious academic credentials, Swiss Guard agents and an assassin. The only thing lacking is a good swordfight.
I will admit that I mainly bough Sword of Doom based on the title. The fact that it turned out to be a good film was just an added bonus. Also it never hurts to watch Mifune and Nakadai parade around as samurai. ;)
since you are the only (1!) dissenting voice I have heard among those who have seen the film.
Yeah, I very much feel like I'm going against the grain here, and that's a little sad. I very much wanted to like the film, but I guess it wasn't meant to be. I do like the points alexandral makes about the use of Cold war symbolism, and there must be said that certain aspects of the story are fascinating. So I think my recommendation would be to check out the film and see what you think.
ps. Have you seen the Sherlock Holmes trailer? Someone forgot to tell me Mark Strong was in the cast as well.
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