The old "next week" thread. (Page 4 of 13)

Aims forced me to watch Constantine last night. I kinda loved it. Now I need to strap her down and get her to watch Sunshine before Monday.

That right there?  Exactly the sort of thing I was hoping would happen when we covered Constantine.   Lots more people should kinda love that movie.

And we haven't even released the commentary yet... awesome!

The blond British Constantine, from what I understand.   In the special features they mention that they discussed dyeing Keanu's hair, and show a wardrobe test of Keanu in the comic-established brown coat, etc.  But in the end they decided to leave his hair alone and make his coat non-canon black, because it just looked better on screen that way.   

Which in the end, was the right choice - Constantine's hair and accent and jacket color don't make one damn difference to the story, it would have been silly to slavishly stick to trivial details just because that's how it was in the comic.   Instead they just made the movie the best way they knew how.  For me, it worked.

I think "this was not the movie I expected or wanted" can be a legitimate criticism. Everybody has his or her own reasons for liking or disliking things, and that one's as good as any.

"They changed it now it sucks," on the other hand, is not a legitimate criticism. There's gotta be a "because" in there someplace.

And that's fine, although there is the question of how much you can change a character before it's no longer that character. Lots of great movies totally ignore the source material, though.

We probably should hold off on more comments until they release it...

Yeah, imagine the outcry if they made a movie about an American superhero like Batman and the entire cast was British except for Katie Holmes and Morgan Freeman!   Oh, wait...

Fine, to be completely accurate the cast of Batman Begins is mostly from the UK... "British" excludes Cillian Murphy and Liam Neeson.   But anyway.

It's a tricky thing, adapting a work from another medium into a movie - it's entirely possible to keep all the wrong parts and lose the important ones, we can all cite examples of that.   

But I can't see how being blond and British would have made any significant difference to the Constantine character.   Maybe it mattered in some way in the comic, but it didn't matter at all to the story the movie was telling.   

Besides, it was Keanu's signing on to the movie that got it greenlit, it wouldn't have existed without him.   Watching Keanu walk around with bleached hair would have been a major distraction, and his attempt at a British accent in Coppola's Dracula is still being talked about so it was a good call that he didn't try that again.

Naturally it didn't matter to that, as it was telling the story of this new character My sister has commented that there are lots of adaptations of Agatha Christie Miss Marple stories but very few actually have Miss Marple in them. The rest just have characters with that name.

Well, to be fair, they ruined it eventually.

It's always only a matter of time.

Thanks, Entropy!

*thumbs up!*

I had the chance to see Constantine in a sneak peek before release and passed. Keanu in yet another satan-nearly-produces-the-antichrist movie around the same time as Schwarzenegger's End of Days? Ugh. Didn't Michael Biehn sort that all out in The Seventh Sign ten years earlier?

But I saw it several months ago and thought it was pretty good—despite the fact that it features both Keanu and Shia, which is like having two puppies in a movie that isn't about puppies.

What's wrong with Shia? The scene I loaded up to test if my video worked was a Shia scene, and that's what got me excited about watching the movie.

Constantine has a few scenes that are exemplary of Boufing.

Alright so I just finished rewatching Constantine, and man did I not watch that the first time. Maybe it was the fact that I was like 13 at the time, whatever.

But I really really liked it. Honestly it's like you guys are always saying, Keanu can do Keanu and I really like Keanu in this role, same goes for Shia actually. I thought it worked perfectly.

And of course Tilda Swinton was gorgeously sexy as ever.

Also does anyone know any other movies/books/comics whatever, along this same vein (God, demons, angels etc.) Cause I really love the shit out of this kinda stuff and I only had Supernatural before this, and I really want to find more like it.