Superdog

It's ironic that Constantine had a good opening President's Day weekend and as a result I now have the same sunken feeling I had with our President's election.

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Well put. 8-)

constantine set for sequel

"With a strong showing of $34.6 million in its President's Day weekend opening, "Constantine" will get the sequel treatment. "Considering that this was an unknown quantity, we're obviously really pleased with the results and look forward to the sequel," Warner Bros.'s president of domestic distribution Dan Fellman said. Expect Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz back for the sequel.

Doesn't it usually take longer to decide these things? Oh well..... :glare: Maybe the sequel will be better? Anythings possible, I suppose.

And who did Satan bone to create Mammon?

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When they mentioned Satan's son, I thought of in Paradise Lost (if I remember correctly, and I may not) Satan has sort of a reverse holy trinity with him, his son and sort of a perverse Virgin Mary figure/daughter. The three have this incecstous on-going relationship thing going on. That's what I thought of, I kind of doubt that's what they were thinking of when they wrote it.

And actually, I really liked the idea of the devil having written his own holy book. I thought that was cool, actually.

And the thing where he sacrificed himself could have worked if they hadn't emphasized Catholiscm so much, I think. In some protestant sects, I think you just an abundance of faith to be saved.

I dunno, it may have sounded like I was being really hateful, but I'm not. It's the these same kind of things that always irk me in movies like Lost Souls and Stigmata and the like.

Welcome, Superdog. You'll get along fine on this board.

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Thanks. ;)

I thought of another thing that doesn't make any sense, (how can Chas turn into an angel, people do NOT turn into angels when they die) but really, whats the point? :glare:

I really really really hope there isn't a sequel. I just want this to go away, so we don't have to hear about it or see it anymore.

I think it's very un-likely a sequel would be any better, if the first one made enough money to get a sequel, why would they change the formua and risk the sequel bombing?

Here's praying for a sharp drop-off for next weekend and then if video sales are mediocore I don't think we'll see a sequel.

I may have been a little worked up, alot of it is pretty nit-picky I admit freely. I am greatly interested in mythology, and I consider all religions to be mythology, so I find it aggravating when they fiddle with an "established mythology" so much.

All that said

12. How come the devil can let her soul go? The devil is trapped and damned in Hell as much as anyone else. It's not up to him who gets to go where, God created Hell, He puts you there.

So, supposedly, our black haired Constantine lives in the world of Christianity. However, as a failed Catholic/athiest I noticed a great many things that were well, really stupid.

1. The ending. What the **** was that? Apparently, if you sacrifice yourself, God gives you a get into heaven for free card. Riiigght. Wasn't Gabirel just explaining how good deeds don't cancel out bad-ones?

2. And the stupid little set-up they have. "I killed myself when I was a kid, but the para-medics or somthing brought me back. Now I have to go to hell when I die, no ifs ands or buts." If he's still alive he could still be forgiven!! Go to a ****ing conessional booth, the priest will say some ****ing words and you're good as gold. The fact that he's not dead is a pretty big indicator he didn't actually kill himself anyway!!! The soul doesn't leave the body until you're dead. Gone. Kaput. The little ****ing techincality set-up, upon which the whole film is based is TOTAL NON-SENSE.

3. They mentioned something about Gabriel being a half-breed. Why? I have no idea.

4. The demon Mammon is NOT the devil's son, he's the lord of greed and hunger.

5. What the hell was the whole set-up about the acolypse anyway? "if you bring the spear of destiny and an angel together with a psychic impreganted with Son of Satan, the apolypse will take place!" That doesn't make any damn sense!

6. Why would a bible written by the devil contain a section devoted to Paul's letter to the Corinithians?

7. That whole balance thing. Total mumbo-jumbo. And really quite un-neccesary.

8. Did they ever even saying what the supposed half-breeds were? The term half-breed implies the sons or daughters of a union between humans and angels. Yeah, they have those in the bible too, they're giants the size of mountains. So are those guys just demons wearing human skin? Like the robots from terminator? Why the term half-breed then?

I'm sure theres more, can anyone add any more things to this?

That ruled. I'm gonna be showing my friends/fellow fans. :cool:

I can't seem to find the place to change the title under my avatar, anyone wanna point me in the right direction? Or do I need a certain number of posts first?

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That was wierd, forgot to log in...

This place seems pretty cool, I've been looking a while to find a message board like this. For the record, Constantine is my favorite comic book charecter, if not my favorite fictional character in general. I'm currently trying to collect the whole series off of eBay, but it's slow going.

Oh, and the movie was a worthless pile. At the end, when he delivered his little monologue about how God has a plan for all of us and then started chewing gum I wanted to throw a molotov cocktail at the movie screen. So yeah, that' about it.

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