But Gabriel didn't switch sides to help Lucifer in the movie. He was still a loyal servant of God, he was just also batshit crazy and going about his loyal service in a way that would have resulted in horror and suffering on a worldwide scale.
(I actually think that was the most interesting thing about the movie. Instead of Christopher Walken's jealous, disdainful archangel that wanted to keep Mankind out of Heaven, we got Swinton's serene, loving one that wanted to blast all of Mankind into Heaven from a brimstone-fueled cannon...)
I liked Constantine on its own.
The Umbrella Academy is awesome, IMO. The story is solid, and the characters are well written.
Thanks, Jilli and Cash. Maybe I'll give it a look one day.
But Gabriel didn't switch sides to help Lucifer in the movie. He was still a loyal servant of God, he was just also batshit crazy and going about his loyal service in a way that would have resulted in horror and suffering on a worldwide scale.
But he was deciding he knew better than God how to serve God. He was in effect switching sides, by helping Lucifer. He mean't for it best is an argument that could be made for Lucifer. AGain, not denying it was a good movie. And I agree Gabriel was good characters. Just not a good adaptation of the comic, if you see the distinction. Had very little to do with the comic. And IMO as unfaithful to the spirt as to the letter of the comic.
Instead of Christopher Walken's jealous, disdainful archangel that wanted to keep Mankind out of Heaven
Though that was a masterful interpretation, even if he did get upstaged by Viggo.
I'm not a Seth Rogen fan to start with, but this description of a sex scene from
Observe and Report
makes my head spin:
SETH ROGEN: When we're having sex and she's unconscious like you can literally feel the audience thinking, like, how the fuck are they going to make this okay? Like, what can possibly be said or done that I'm not going to walk out of the movie theater in the next thirty seconds? . . . And then she says, like, the one thing that makes it all okay:
BRANDI: "Why are you stopping, motherfucker?"
From Gawker. I don't even want to watch the R-rated trailer. Just, ick.
Maybe I'll give it a look one day.
If you want a loaner, I can send the Apocalypse Suite TPB.
Aw, thanks, Cash! But the library has it, so I just put it on hold. All the copies are checked out right now!
It won an Eisner! It doesn't completely suck!
It did? Very cool! I am excited to read it now. I already know I'll love the covers, at least.
What about the second volume? How's that?
