They bitched about him opening with his little fact sheet...well that fact sheet was in a fiction book...
I have to agree. 'The Princess Bride' is set up in a similar way (claiming to be a true story; based on a multi-volume work) but in reality it's all made up.
If you find it in the fiction sections odds are it isn't true.
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A lot of the facts that he sites can be verified. The same is true of Angels and Demons which was the first in this series. In fact, this movie almost didn't see distro because of a lawsuit claiming that he plageurised their reference books on the subject.
As I mentioned above, I have not seen any of his cited works or looked at any of the research, but he's very much like Crighton (sp?) in that he spins his stories around some truth.
Star Wars = Space & Space = exists therefore Star Wars = TRUTH...
lol...anyway...
Sold the FRICK out...can't get a ticket to tonight's show...ALL theaters in FW running it are booked..
So...tomorrow night I will go...
Do come back with your opinions and what you thought of it...but PLEASE...dear god PLEASE...do not ruin it by telling me if Tom Hanks gets off the island or not...
Well, the Holy Grail theory of the main character in this story is a widely accepted theory. I've hit a few websites checking it out after I read the book a few months ago. I'll see if I can find them again and post them here.
I really didn't see Tom Hanks in this role after having read two books with this character. I would more easily see someone like Greg Kinnear, Anthony Michael Hall, John deLancie, or even Pee Wee Herman before Hanks. I'm sure as an outstanding actor, he'll pull it off, but his look does not (IMO) match the man in the book at all.
Pee Wee would have been better! It really comes down to the haircut I envisioned. All the 'blasphemy' aside, Hanks looks like John Travolta in Pulp Fiction! WTF??
I won't ruin it for anyone, but I was kind of disappointed. It just didn't play out the way I thought it would, which sounds odd because I read the book. Of course screenwriters have their ways with books a lot of times and suddenly decide they're more creative than the author and their ideas are better. heh.
Some of it was cool though.
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I just read Angels & Demons and it's a decent suspense/thriller novel (haven't gotten a copy of Code yet). It does remind me of Crichton in a way, and if you like stories like that I'd also recommend The Eight by Katherine Neville.
But it is just a novel, so I don't understand all the hoopla.
