Director Ron Howard defends "Angels & Demons"

Yahoo ^ | 4/22/09

[steve-b]

Director Ron Howard on Tuesday defended his film adaptation of "The Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown 's "Angels & Demons" from criticism that it smears the Roman Catholic Church, heightening an ongoing battle over fictional depictions of the Vatican.

Howard, who also directed the 2006 movie adaptation of "The Da Vinci Code," posted a blog at The Huffington Post website saying that neither he nor his new movie "Angels & Demons," which debuts in May and stars Tom Hanks, are anti-Catholic.

"And let me be a little controversial: I believe Catholics, including most in the hierarchy of the Church , will enjoy the movie for what it is: an exciting mystery, set in the awe-inspiring beauty of Rome," Howard wrote....

[steve-b]

The real "mystery" is why people would pay money to see this guff.

[subterfuge]

Shut up Dopey Cunningham.

[SJSAMPLE]

And yet, he posts his comments on the anti-Catholic Huffington post ....

Go figure, Ronnie.

[wolfcreek]

It was a very good book. (a thriller) Personally, I can’t wait to see it and the Catholic church need to concentrate on *nonfiction* issues.

[2banana]

When he is going to make his first anti-islamic movie? And there is so much to work with he won't have to make stuff up!

[donaldo]

No mystery here. The late Peter Viereck wrote long ago that “Catholic-baiting is the anti-Semitism of the liberals.”

[Pietro]

"And let me be a little controversial: "

Go back to Mayberry Opie.

Slandering religion is a dispicable way to make money.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

it’s christianity generally, as far as most people are concerned.

and yes, there are many tweaked-out idiots who believe it’s real. And that’s often the intention.

[a fool in paradise]

neither he nor his new movie "Angels & Demons," which debuts in May and stars Tom Hanks, are anti-Catholic.

Isn't it outright anti-Christian by establishing a history that Jesus Christ's death and resurrection were a fraud and then establishing a timeline that the Church "knew" but covered up these "facts"?

[Deo volente]

He was cute as Opie.

It’s been pretty much downhill since then.

[puroresu]

When he is going to make his first anti-islamic movie? And there is so much to work with he won't have to make stuff up!

He'll never make that film since he's Ron Coward.

[bray]

Notice how this courageous HomoWood hero doesn’t do the same thing to Islam.

Pray for America

[albie]

Posting a blog on Huffington is all I need to know.

[top 2 toe red]

Both Howard and Hanks have turned out to be very far left total loony liberals. Pity.

[raybbr]

I really liked the story. It was fun and interesting.

However, I will NEVER pay to watch a movie made by this marxist.

[a fool in paradise]

Brown this week announced that his follow-up novel to "The Da Vinci Code" will be released in September and is titled "The Lost Symbol."

How about a conspiracy novel about the machinations of the liberal bigots in Hollywood franchising hate to keep regurgitating the myth that Catholicism and Christianity in general are a hoax deliberately concocted by subversives bent on some murky form of domination.

Note that the author is putting out yet another book in the "series". James Bond was a character in thrillers. He faced a different foe every time. It wasn't always the Church.

Note too that Yahoo made sure to get the release date (and stars) ink near the top of the article. "Controversy" was designed to general press, not boycotts.

[kevinm13]

More liberal lies. Don’t trust a Hollyweird liberal for anything.

[stuartcr]

Are there any best-selling anti-Islamic novels out there to make a movie about?

[blues-train]

Hollywood can't/won’ make an anti-islamic movie for fear it might offend. The stock answer that it “is not intended to offend” or “shouldn't offend” would never cut it if applied to Islamic (read Hollywood PC) sensibilities. The outcry from such a movie would be deafening.

[a fool in paradise]

Ron Howard turned the engineering firms that worked on the Apollo mission into “bad guys” too. Apollo 13 didn’t need a villain but Ronnie made industrialists bad anyway.

[wolfcreek]

“It wasn’t always the Church.”

Guess you haven’t read the books. The *Church* was the villian in neither.

[freeplancer]

Tom Hanks is not only anti-Catholic, he is anti-religion big time.

[Landru]

"He was cute as Opie. It’s been pretty much downhill since then."

And his Hair Club For Men job never hid the fact he's not very bright, too.

[Radagast the Fool]

Oh, Goodie!
Another movie to avoid.
Hollywood makes it soooo easy!!!!!

[Scotswife]

“Isn’t it outright anti-Christian by establishing a history that Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection were a fraud and then establishing a timeline that the Church “knew” but covered up these “facts”? “

shhh! You aren’t supposed to bring logic into these discussions!

[Palladin]

All the Vince Flynn books would make excellent movies.

[steve-b]

When he is going to make his first anti-islamic movie?

After he gets a adamantium neckbone installed.

[stuartcr]

Never heard of him, I’ll look him up. Is he popular enough to make movies from his books that would make money?

[cvq3842]

Yup.

Wonder how many films Hollywood will make similarly “questioning” the Muslim faith?

But I already know the answer.

[a fool in paradise]

Dopey was “surprised” when Catholic churches wouldn’t permit him inside to stage scenes for his movie.

[yield 2 the right]

All the Vince Flynn books would make excellent movies.

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Yep, ave not read any of them, so I will wait forever to see the movies instead...

[cups]

I didn’t like this one very much, I liked the DaVinci code much better. Still looking forward to the movie though.

It’s a movie people, calm down.

[lovecraft]

I thought the book SUCKED. The whole scene with the helicopter put it in the realm of "BS" even though it's fiction....

I can totally suspend disbelief for a book or movie, but you just can't suspend physics.

[a fool in paradise]

So what’s the “truth”, the “hidden secret” in the books?

There is no religious “mystery” coverup? The current leadership of the Church does not have be actively engaged in a murder myster thriller if the underlying message is that the Catholic Church was knowingly established on fraud and lies.

[yield 2 the right]

add the re tooled “Star Trek” due may 8th to the list....illogical themes(contrary to how the world/galaxy is in reality) and “Star Trek” are joined at the hip...

[mc5cents]

All the Vince Flynn books would make excellent movies.

Mitch Rapp rules!!

[Cyman]

Ron Howard is a talented and masterful story teller. His interpretation of the universally known story of the doomed flight of Apollo 13 was done with sensitivity, humor and more than a little chest thumping proud-to-be-an—American brush strokes.

He tells STORIES that a lot of people, including me, enjoy immensely. So when Angels and Demons is released, I will be in line on a Saturday night. Most probably right after I get done attending Saturday evening mass.

[wolfcreek]

I wouldn’t want to ruin it for you. Trust me, they’re very entertaining. (and they’re *fiction*)

[humblegunner]

Why should a movie need permission from a church?

It's a story.. a piece of fiction. A written tale.

Are your panties in a knot over Harry Potter, too?

[SJSAMPLE]

The movies really don’t follow the egalitarian socialist utopia of ST:TNG.

In the movies, Kirk kicks ass, gets laid, saves the galaxy.

[wolfcreek]

Thank you for your very calm and open-minded post.

Enjoy Mass and a movie.

[Constitution Day]

It’s a MOVIE, the opinions of Mr. Ratzinger and his followers, not withstanding.

[steve-b]

Ron Howard can make a good movie when he has good material to work with. In this case, he just has a bunch of Dan Brown crap.

[mc5cents]

Meet Vince Flynn(He is NOT Mitch Rapp!)

[A.A. Cunningham]

there are many tweaked-out idiots who believe it’s real

Including the snakeoil author of the book and the snakeoil director of the movie.

[steve-b]

LOL! Obviously, you haven’t seen my posts on the Harry Potter threads — the OMG SATANIC MAGIC OCCULT MENACE idiots call me a “troll” and go downhill from there.

[what's up]

The *Church* was the villian in neither

They covered up what the book purported to be the "truth". So they WERE the villian.

[steve-b]

Well, yeah. Battlefield Earth was a movie, too, and I don't get why anybody with a brain paid money to see that, either.

[Unam Sanctam]

Maybe Howard can make a film version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It’s only fiction after all, so why should Jews have any problem with that?

[Scotswife]

Funny how they’re always so surprised - shocked even, when the objects of their scorn don’t willingly play along with the mocking and blasphemy.