Angels and Demons

[firstfrost]

Last night, mjperson declared the last minute plan of seeing Angels and Demons. I hadn't been planning to - I read the book and was... not impressed. (review here) And I've spent the years since occasionally using "Look at that rotational symmetry! Only the real Illuminati could have done that!" as a catchphrase for Stupid.

As it turns out, they took an awful lot of the Stupid out when they made the movie. They put in a little (most notably the special effects associated with the Large Hadron Collider, where for "photon" the CGI guys seemed to think "tinkerbell") and simplified the plot to something more like "Indiana Jones and the Conclave of Cardinals", but it was surprisingly more fun than I expected.

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[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

The antimatter parts of the movie did preserve some of the stupid of the book. But even so, it bore... a strong resemblance to actual science, in a way that a lot of "tech the tech!" moments in action movies don't. ("Red matter"?) For all that that dialogue is all over the map, it sounds like the person writing it had, say, read the Wikipedia entry on the LHC.