The Constantine ad says to me "Matrix meets Devil's Advocate." Which sounds like I'd like it, but not that it would necessarily be good, per se.
Travers: Perhaps you'll favor us with a demonstration while we're here. Buffy: You mean, like, right now? 'Cause, already had my recommended daily dose of fights tonight.
'Potential'
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Jesse - Feb 01, 2005 6:26:14 pm PST #8664 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
§ ita § - Feb 01, 2005 6:26:26 pm PST #8665 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can't see Keanu pulling off the world-weary, tired smartass without being somehow blunt. I want it to be magic, but mostly I wanted it to be this.
sumi - Feb 01, 2005 6:57:04 pm PST #8666 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
You have high-quality friends, Sumi.
Well, she really thought what Alibelle thought: that given Gladiator, Troy and Alexander we were in for another sandals and swords historic epic. She had also never heard of John Constantine. I just assumed that she had. (I've only come across him in his cameos in one of the Sandman books that I read.)
Atropa - Feb 01, 2005 6:59:24 pm PST #8667 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I am hoping Constantine turns out to be good. We're due.
cue bitter, bitter laughter
Alibelle - Feb 01, 2005 7:05:34 pm PST #8668 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
ita always brings the pretty pretty boy pictures.
Thanks, ita.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 01, 2005 7:52:07 pm PST #8669 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I am hoping Constantine turns out to be good. We're due.
I think at least Djimon Hounsou will be good. And what I've heard about the movie's twist on metaphysical cosmology will be interesting to see, though it's nothing like that of DC Comics.
P.M. Marc - Feb 01, 2005 8:28:22 pm PST #8670 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I think at least Djimon Hounsou will be good.
Mmm... good point.
Jessica - Feb 02, 2005 5:26:37 am PST #8671 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The Constantine ad says to me "Matrix meets Devil's Advocate." Which sounds like I'd like it, but not that it would necessarily be good, per se.
Heh. Yes, this.
Mostly, I hope the script is at least marginally better than the trailers VO, which is sucktacular even by comic-book-movie-trailer standards.
Maysa - Feb 02, 2005 6:09:39 am PST #8672 of 10001
Now that I have gotten my 76-years-old-and-not-media-savvy mom to join Netflix, we are having some very interesting conversations.
That's a cute story about your mom. I think someone should write a paper about netflix and how it changes the ways people interact with movies. I don't use their new 'friends' feature (I don't care for it) but my friends and I will email each other weird or nostaglia-inducing things we find on it and it's a lot of fun. Plus, it's given me access to things I never would have seen before and I'm watching about three movies a week. I don't know if everybody has the same experience, but it's swerved my life a little bit.
Calli - Feb 02, 2005 6:16:52 am PST #8673 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I think that Jack Davenport could have made a good Constantine. He can do world weary and he can do a British accent (what with being from Suffolk and all). OK, he's not blond, but if there's any kind of good left in the universe Keanu won't be either.