A couple of months ago, the media buzz from the Vatican reached a fever pitch, concerning the new Ron Howard movie "Angels and Demons". An earlier movie, "The Da Vinci Code", was perceived by Church leaders as prejudicial toward Catholicism. No filming was allowed at the Vatican for the new movie. Some consideration was given to banning Catholics from viewing the movie.
"Angels and Demons" came to my local cheapo second run theater complex a couple weeks ago, so I went to see it yesterday. It wasn't such a great movie. The Church needn't have worried. They came off really sympathetically. Past atrocities of the Church were portrayed as aberrations. The current cinematic pot boiling crisis was written off as the work of a lone, low level villain with mental problems. The only Church figure to get slandered is Georg Gansweinn. Nobody really cares about that. Poor Georgy.
It's an OK way to spend a hot summer afternoon, if admission is only a few dollars, the air conditioning works and they're selling dollar hot dogs.
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