have all those smart people in Angels and Demons...

[vshah]

So i saw an early preview of this yesterday.

1st: what a horrible movie. totally predictable. the instant they run into a roadblock, tom hank's character points at some statue and automagically knows where to go in 1 second.

2nd: when they were powering down city lights trying to isolate the bomb's position, why did no one suggest a binary search? they were going district by district, one by one. idiots!

the intro at CERN LHC was pretty cool though, I wonder if it was actually shot there...

-Vivan

 

[clamum]

The movie is based on fiction. If you were expecting a true life documentary... fail.

 

[rh71]

is this anything like National Treasure? 😀

 

[Mean MrMustard]

Read the book. It's much better than The DaVinci Code. I'll probably see the movie, but I kinda don't want to.

All of Dan Brown's books are like that. Everything fits together way too well.

 

[ViviTheMage]

haven't seen tom hank in a while, I will probably end up going...

 

[Leros]

I haven't seen the movie, but you can only do a binary search if the items are in some sort of sorted order. If they knew nothing except that a bomb existed someplace, a binary search wouldn't work.

 

[ghostman]

I haven't seen the movie (or remember enough of the book to know what was in it), but does a binary search apply? Meaning they knew enough about the bomb to say that if it was not in one district, that district became the upper or lower bound of the set?

 

[Tobolo]

Originally posted by: ghostman
I haven't seen the movie (or remember enough of the book to know what was in it), but does a binary search apply? Meaning they knew enough about the bomb to say that if it was not in one district, that district became the upper or lower bound of the set?

No it was in a dark room and all they could see was a bomb.

 

[vshah]

maybe binary search was the wrong term? what i mean is this:

turn off power to half the city. if the light on the bomb goes off, it is in that half, if not, its in the other half.
repeat on the correct half until you are down to the right district

much faster than going one by one....

 

[tk149]

I liked The DaVinci Code (the book) quite a bit. But I thought the book Angels & Demons was horribly weak, and completely unbelievable. Dan Brown wrote Angels & Demons first, and it is much less polished than The DaVinci Code.

Unless there are some major plot changes, I don't think I'll like the new movie.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: vshah
maybe binary search was the wrong term? what i mean is this:

turn off power to half the city. if the light on the bomb goes off, it is in that half, if not, its in the other half.
repeat on the correct half until you are down to the right district

much faster than going one by one....

Oh. Well, if that's how it works, then I guess you could do a binary search.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: rh71
is this anything like National Treasure? 😀

he *did* say it was horrible

 

[BW86]

Originally posted by: tk149
I liked The DaVinci Code (the book) quite a bit. But I thought the book Angels & Demons was horribly weak, and completely unbelievable. Dan Brown wrote Angels & Demons first, and it is much less polished than The DaVinci Code.

Unless there are some major plot changes, I don't think I'll like the new movie.

really? I thought A&D was a far better read than DaVinci code.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Originally posted by: BW86

Originally posted by: tk149
I liked The DaVinci Code (the book) quite a bit. But I thought the book Angels & Demons was horribly weak, and completely unbelievable. Dan Brown wrote Angels & Demons first, and it is much less polished than The DaVinci Code.

Unless there are some major plot changes, I don't think I'll like the new movie.

really? I thought A&D was a far better read than DaVinci code.

I did too for the most part. The helicopter (maybe it was a plane? been too long...) part was just way too unbelievable though.

 

[tk149]

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269

Originally posted by: BW86

Originally posted by: tk149
I liked The DaVinci Code (the book) quite a bit. But I thought the book Angels & Demons was horribly weak, and completely unbelievable. Dan Brown wrote Angels & Demons first, and it is much less polished than The DaVinci Code.

Unless there are some major plot changes, I don't think I'll like the new movie.

really? I thought A&D was a far better read than DaVinci code.

I did too for the most part. The helicopter (maybe it was a plane? been too long...) part was just way too unbelievable though.

Yeah, I think that that part is what really ruined it for me.

His other book "Digital Fortress" is even worse. I gave up reading his stuff after that one.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: tk149

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269

Originally posted by: BW86

Originally posted by: tk149
I liked The DaVinci Code (the book) quite a bit. But I thought the book Angels & Demons was horribly weak, and completely unbelievable. Dan Brown wrote Angels & Demons first, and it is much less polished than The DaVinci Code.

Unless there are some major plot changes, I don't think I'll like the new movie.

really? I thought A&D was a far better read than DaVinci code.

I did too for the most part. The helicopter (maybe it was a plane? been too long...) part was just way too unbelievable though.

Yeah, I think that that part is what really ruined it for me.

His other book "Digital Fortress" is even worse. I gave up reading his stuff after that one.

Just saw the movie yesterday. A&D (book) is an easier read than DaVinci Code but wasn't that impressive to me. Easier read as in it's just plot and nothing more. Easy for 4th graders to digest. DVC was more complex, and I thought he wove it together better. Digital Fortress was just meh.

As for the movie does anyone remember the cops getting owned that badly by the hassassin in the book? Because it was literally carnage in that fire church heh.