Party Down with Angels and Demons

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Watched the Starz networks first sitcom called PARTY DOWN. Chances are you don't have the network, neither do I, but I was able to check it out on Netflix view now. And a giant thank you to Netflix for finally having mac support on the view now function. Another one camera show w/o a laugh track and in this case involves a catering crew. Stars include  Ken Marino, Adam Scott, and Jane Lynch among others. Really good pilot actually and was co-written by Paul Rudd, just really gives you enough of each of the really great cast of characters. They also used the ability to have some pay cable content. Check it out if you have Netflix or may also be available on demand. I enjoyed the first so much I'm going to go back and check out the second ep in a bit.

I read The Da Vinci Code. It was entertaining. It's not a great book. I enjoy conspiracy theories, and the page turning book allowed me to try and put it all together while seeing what Professor Langdon was up to. The movie was a turd. Talk,talk,talk, slow,slow,slow and really didn't bring much to the big screen. For the Record I didn't really care Tom Hanks had a mullet. 

Going to see ANGELS AND DEMONS I knew little about the book besides it dealt with the Catholic church. I can dig that, a conspiracy theory about one of the biggest,oldest,and dirtiest corporations ever. Oh, wait now they did have some controversy about with the Church about Da Vinci. Will that effect this movie and how heavily it deals with the church? Answer is yes, i think, like i said I didn't read the book. The movies pace was a bit faster, it still had quite a bit of talking exposition mumbo jumbo and really didnt involve the audience with the clues. The Da Vinci code did this, they showed you the pieces that Langdon put together and allowed you to play along. I think everyone looked up the Last Supper painting online after reading the chapter in The Da Vinci code. The subject matter of science v church is barely touched upon, except for the purpose of the confusing anti-matter story. I'm guessing the book had something to do with technology subject mixed in there somewhere. Also going against this book was the lack of Illuminati. How facinating is that underground group? Besides name dropping it's not in this too much. It's dropped so much that the bad guy in this or bad guys are not effecting in this story. Motivation is not driven as much and not as good even as the albino from the other over pubbed movie. It think ANGELS AND DEMONS is also supposed to be a thriller, but it's not very thriller. I'm not saying this movie is worse than the Da Vinci Code, but it's not much better. Dan Brown the author of these books is writing another Langdon book and heres to the hopes that he works more with the underground societies and if he goes after the institutions to not hold back or just take it in another direction. To be honest I wouldn't mind Langdon working on something at home here in the states. We could all pretend that National Treasure hasn't done that, and it would be easy to forget if someone were to do a good job. Heck even Indiana Jones failed the last time. Also notice Chicago's Dave Pasquesi  in the movie as one of the main Vatican police.

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