hagren
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Akiva (Batman and Robin) Goldsman is amoung the producers.Okay, so let me get this straight...Sales are down due to poor management and an inept film adaptation, so to fix the situation, they want to remove the best cover artist the series has ever had -- indeed, the only consistently good aspect of the book in recent years? Who's the dipsh*t middle-management type who made THAT decision? 'Cause it's that kind of dimwitted decision-making that is killing the book, not the covers. Christ, Vertigo -- can't you guys do ANYTHING right??
I blame Francis Lawrence,but that's another topic.
i dont think that lawrence is to blame. he had the opportunity to direct a movie, so he would be a freak if he said no or messing with wb too much. i think he tried at least to make the film visually look good. and i dont think that the film itself is to blame for bradstreets going. but if we speak about blaming the film, then i would blame the scriptwriters/producers. they were the only ones who had the possibility to make the film otherwise (and vertigo, wb and the creators a bit).
i know, but what do you want to say with that?
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Oh, c'mon. I objected to the film as much as anyone (well, except Tom, perhaps ;) ), but it's going a bit far to blame it for the fact that sales on the monthly title have been slipping for the past 3 years.
thats what im saying. thats right that the film had a part of the job to make hb more popular, but if it was not succesfull, its not its foult.
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Okay, so let me get this straight...
Sales are down due to poor management and an inept film adaptation, so to fix the situation, they want to remove the best cover artist the series has ever had -- indeed, the only consistently good aspect of the book in recent years? Who's the dipsh*t middle-management type who made THAT decision? 'Cause it's that kind of dimwitted decision-making that is killing the book, not the covers. Christ, Vertigo -- can't you guys do ANYTHING right??
I blame Francis Lawrence,but that's another topic.
i dont think that lawrence is to blame. he had the opportunity to direct a movie, so he would be a freak if he said no or messing with wb too much. i think he tried at least to make the film visually look good. and i dont think that the film itself is to blame for bradstreets going. but if we speak about blaming the film, then i would blame the scriptwriters/producers. they were the only ones who had the possibility to make the film otherwise (and vertigo, wb and the creators a bit).
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someone mentioned david bowie for lucifer. i dont know, but i think he could do a jc too.
hes the ultimate british man for me, so i could see him in any role of a hb film.
kiefer sutherland is also a good choice, but ewan mc gregor, sean bean, mickey rourke, jude law and so on arent so great for me. maybe as gabriel. and gary sinise would be also good as at least as SOMEONE in a hellblazer movie, because he seems dangerous. or kevin bacon.
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wow, that really an honour that guys like bradstreet and carey are writing here on this forum. im glad that there are artists/stars like you with great talent, work AND humanity.
im also with john that when im thinking of constantine then they are the covers of you, mr. bradstreet. you made him look modern but still constantine. your covers on "hard time" where the ONLY things why i read this novel :) theyre really well-drawn, beautiful colored, lifelike, sharp and detailed (one of my friends asked if they where made out of photographs), so its a shame that you are going. hope to see some of your work later on hb (one novel just drawn by you would be wicked!). big thanks to you and good luck on your ongoing career and your life mr. bradstreet!
edit: no. 141 is just drawn by you? if thats the case, someone tell me please where and how i can get one of them!!
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i didnt say that there will be- but if there will, i await it. i enjoyed the film very much and i would love to see more of it, with more complexity, mass (more characters, location etc.) and more based on the comic, but with the almost same team (the scriptwriter could be changed), and almost same style.
i know that here its hated, but what can i do? i cant deny my feelings to it altough the comics are different and heavier.
i think with the money theres no problem for the sequel the dvd sells are good here in germany/austria, but because of the bad word of mouth- altough there were more critizised films with sequels (mummy, underground will have one etc.), so lets see.
im a hoper, so maybe they listen to the critizisers and make changes. but the budget would be really a problem.
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They really should've given us a commentary track.
They also should have put "FROM THE OSCAR-WINNING WRITER OF LOST IN SPACE AND BATMAN AND ROBIN."
then constantine is really a big jump for him- these two titles you mentioned where extraordinary special super high definition deluxe hardcore shyte. god, i hate lost in space, and batman and robin is just enjoyable for little kids (but at least the song from apollo four fourty isnt so bad)
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i bought the 2 dvd too, its fair for 20 euros and a gratis 16*A4 sized good quality poster here in a shop called libro, austria (but here in europe theres no comic packed with it...wonkers!)
what it makes the buy worth is the brighter, sharper picture with that you can see how well done the film visually is, i saw things on dvd i didnt see in the movie. the cutted scenes are also interesting (2 of them should be included in the film because they are essential) and some documentations about the creation and making of the film. (delano is speaking too and he really pronounce it constantyne, funny :)) so who liked it a bit and dont pitys this money for it, should buy it, who hated it dont will be really changed with the dvd, but who knows? ;) i could watch it every day :)
some as the same joy like the buy of "all his engines" gave me :) but that was 23 euros, puh...now i have no money left after eating, smoking, drinking, buying these things and watching batman begins at cinema :)
(cant wait for batman begins and sin city special edition dvd, where the storys are full lenght - but for this i have to go to work. shyte.)
note: i didnt listen to the commentary track, maybe thats interesting too. but maybe not :) someday...
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i await sin city 2 and 3, constantine 2, and the ongoing new batman franchise. spidy 3 and the others in this franchise too.
i do not await vendetta, 300, x-men 3, hellboy 2 and so on, some because i didnt see their prequels, or because i dont know them/no interest.
and i did heard that there will be books of magic with the !original! jc in it. if thats the case and if this comic is good, i await it too.
fantastic four seems shit, but maybe its fun, who knows.
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If the comic book extras influence someone to pick up a Hellblazer trade or two, well then the WB is doing its job selling its products.
I reeeeaally hope that that happens too!
it happens all the time :)
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it looks like the tunnel of the matrix 2 poster...hmmm, what does that mean??
are there any news about the film?
or any other little information?
im too lazy to read back ;)
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Hans Zimmer did the music. I actually prefer him to having Prince do another. Still like Elfman best.
i didnt say its so bad just that it wasnt always fitting (the car chase, figthing scenes). but i did know that its from hans zimmer :)
so yes, it was a good film, a little too long tough.
i LOVED the using of hallucinogen in the film.
and the explanation of batmans past and gadgets too, altough the new car isnt the batmobile i loved when i was a kid, but the new one isnt also bad, just a more realistic one. and not to speak about bales fantastic performance (except the using of his lower voice), and the funny moments with caine and freeman.
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i like leonardo mancos work the most, because of the use of colours, shadows and because its detailed and professional, frame to frame. after him will simpson cuz i like his use of lines, but sometimes he dont cares too much about making perfect work. steve dillon is also okay, but he draws mostly every person in it the same way. the worst for me is richard corben, the people look like puppets or something.
marcelo frusin seems also okay, but i just saw few pics and its a maybe bit too comiclike for me.
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thx christian :)
the scarecrow as i said, was very good, ras-gul wasnt so important in the film (luckily, i dont like these tibet-stuff really, just in kill bill and in silly-funny films), and his accent was annoying (at least in the german translation).
i would read some batman-comics from miller, but i dont like his drawing-style, only in sin city: the hard goodbye. are they at least good in story?
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oh, btw, is bb basing on a concrete comic?
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thx :)
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(warning: spoilers ahead and opinions about other comicfilms. maybe a bit too long, take a cig' and some guiness, steak and chips or whatever you like :))
yesterday i saw it at last on the biggest moviescreen in my life.
its a good movie, but not fully to 100% enjoyable, for me at last, cause it was a bit too long in places and tried to often to be slimy/teaching, what could not gain everytime my feelings.
the actionsequences where shot so fast, i couldnt see much, but maybe it was because of this fu***** huge screen :)
the music wasnt also not everytime that good, while the music in the death-sequences of bruces parents were very sad, and the music in overall was okay, it was sometimes a bit to slow paced for the actionsequences. also there were some very headache giving oneliners like "dude, cool car!"
but besides these things its a good movie, full with good ideas.
i liked the explanations for how he became batman, the matureness and i liked bales acting/character very much, and the humorous sequences with him/plus caine and freeman.
neeson was also good, but he wasnt enough evil to me, the way of destroying gotham nevertheless was one of the greatest ideas i saw in a movie. this sequences with the hallucinogen stuff were frightening and beautifully shot and very cool. that was really 100% pure evil, great! :) shame that everybody saw the same when hallucinating in a group. i also liked that its more mature and the design of his gimmicks, except the batmobile, what didnt look bad, but wasnt batman for me (i LOVED the batmobile when i was a kid, i always wanted to have one of these, or at least kitt from knight rider ora big truck with my flat in it :))
katie holmes was well...beautiful, and gary oldman didnt convince me.
i enjoyed it more than sin city [what was to a 95% perfect adaptation (95% because of cutting some sequences like marv goes to his mom, claiming gladys, and because marvs story was the only one transisted 100% from page to page ), but was unspectacular as film itself (too much monologues (at least not as much as in the comic), unfitting music for the action (why didnt they use the great music from the trailer?) and because of these being boring a bit. visually it was ok (the big cameraswings, the use of colours and shadows), but not so stunning everytime. great adaptation, middleclass film. not everything fits as a movie], but not so much like constantine [you can say what you want, my biggest movieexperience of my life was this film, i cant undo my great feelings after it. its sarcastic, beautiful, cool, interesting and sometimes thrilling film, with atmosphere made of the tone of it; surprising, some fresh ideas. and i think that there are things relating to the comics (mostly the behaviour from one character to other, like the hate and distance you see between midnite and jc on the beginning, or how jc uses chas altough he likes him very much, or between him and the first of the fallen, gabriels snobism on the beginning, and the kindness afterwards like when in the comics he fell in love with ellie; the visuals reminded me of the "all his engines" graphic novels, and altough its based on original sins and dangerous habits, there are hints to other novels (the spider in the glass was in the end of original sins 2, the holy water confronting the demons and balti looked like in the newcastle comic, when the camera goes up from the bottom of hell, it looks like in "all his engines" hell on earth, and there are some hints of the being of hell like in the film the"behind every wall..."-line; the fall of gabriel similar to like it was in tainted love i think etc.).
altough john should show god also his finger, he said many things not very flattery about god, and the line in the end "i had to die twice" was neutral, not for god. not to forget that satan helped him, and god didnt, and the cutted scene with ellie etc., so it didnt show a good picture about god, i liked that too.
it had unneccesary changes, but for me it also had some essence of hellblazer in it. maybe they changed so many because of other films like harry potter (also an english magician) and so on, who knows? i dont blame them, because at least there are now some people who want to pick up the novels, and if they think the film is shite, you can say (and already everyone knows), that "the comic is otherwise, so maybe you like it" :)) but for me a great film. its not near perfect (the sometimes slow pacing, the sometimes cliched dialogue/happening, the sometimes strange music, keanus coughs were bad), and as big as a "requiem for a dream", but what it does in his category is very ok (you know, everyone sees things otherwise, so please dont blame me, i like both medias).
so in sum i can say that AS FILMS (so not as adaptations) these are my ratings:
constantine 80-85%
men in black 1/2 80-85%(silly but entertaining films)
batman begins 75-85%
spiderman 1 80% (everythings ok, but the actionsequences)
sin city 70%
hulk 60% (i liked his fathers mutating, the feelings of hulk, but the end was very dumb, also the actionsequences)
i thought i never want to see batman begins again because of its longness but now :)
and spidey too :)
(Bradstreet) It's been a great run folks . . .
in Hellblazer
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thanks sethos, but im in austria and i think i cant get that here :(