Whoa! (channeling Keanu's Bill from his adventures with Ted, sorry to the younglings who can't relate). The Flesh and Blood Robert Langdon and the "Steel and Oil?" Large Hadron Collider(LHC) will actually touch skin to metallic skin. To those who can't relate to what I'm saying please go to a bookstore and try reading novels sometime rather than just looking at all the pretty pictures in the internet, Robert Langdon is a character in a novel by the Controversial DAN BROWN(of Da Vinci Code Fame) now another of his novels is being adapted into film actually the prequel to the Da Vinci code (but I think for some reason Hollywood is treating this movie as a sequel rather than a prequel - Whoa! says Bill again but I think that is a story for another time.) Well back to the previous train of thought, in the novel the Large Hadron Collider was an important plot device to keep the story rolling (don't want to spoil it to the two (2) or three (3) guys who did go out and read the novel. So to have Tom Hanks actually turn on again (because I think some mishap happened to the device some time ago - way to go Egg Heads that is what we want to hear that a possible doomsday device is having some glitches) the LHC is like art imitating life imitating art imitating life imitating [put adjective here].
I've read Dan Brown's books, the first one I enjoyed but when I came to read the other 3 books I felt like I was cheated because everything is of the same plot. Some knowledge that will cause a paradigm shift to the thinking of all the people of the world, is in the possession of a selected few, who is being hunted down by weird/enhanced individuals who is being backed up by shady organizations... so on so forth... etc.... nice read but lacking. It was tailor made to become a summer action blockbuster movie that's why it's bit disappointing to have that performance from the Da Vinci Code. I'm not really looking forward to watch the identity confused prequel/sequel movie, but if there's nothing much better then why not.
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