john_blazer

It blows that AICN/harry is gonna give constantine a positive review cause really AICN , apart from their spy scoops BLOWS BIG TIME.

Especially harry knowles who is either wrong with his reviews or just points out the obvious.

ANyhoo i've just seen the latest international trailer of hellblazer and sure as heck dig the hell look.

I was actually interested what movie keanu reeves was doing next after he had left the matrix trilogy.

And don''t ask my why but some days later i got linked to this site with the poster of keanu dressed in black and smoking.

I definately dug he poster and soon began buying the comics. Well one thing led to another and i came here

I still prefer this poster over the demons

What i hate about movies in which the the studio has invested heavily , is the whole obligotary love stories.

Constantine did have 1 love (as far as 1 know) and it wasn't destiny that brought them together.

In the end , the chick left him.

Why they have to go and use a love thing for this movie amazes me. Constantine just goes around and screw just about any woman he finds without having any guilt.

This should be done in the movies to , not some destiny filled love story

*sigh*

One thing i'm looking forward too is the whole hell scene being the exact opposite of earth.

I'm definately looking forward to that.

lol , it was only in 1 movie that he used it :wink:

And david had made only 1 crappy movie (due to the heavy involvement of the studio of course).

Seven is still a master piece and that doesn't involve CGI kitchens or green filters.

And the visual style to that movie is very important to the story.

Actually, Hellboy the movie was a pretty big deviation from the Hellboy book. But at least they got the main character right.

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Yyeah but it was made with the full cooperation of the creator. And that makes a huge difference. You can't go on and say that they've raped the comic book character if the creator is also heavily involved in the movie.

Yeah i know . I have to order them them everytime cause for some strange reason they only have the graphic novels.

Still i enjoy the novels more then the comics mainly cause you go on an read them for a longer time.

test screening reviews

 

Chas' becoming an angel and ascending to heaven. Yes, Chas, dies after saving the moment. The visiting of the gravesite and John's farewell was OK, but seeing Chas sprout his wings and ascend into heaven really ruined part of the film for me. Yes, I get the movie is about redemption, but don't suddenly go the easy route to tell me that.

 

WHAT THE FUCK??????? oh, and that's actually from the one kinda positive review, the other two are very negative. yay!

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yeah , but i don't think the last review is one at all. Probably just some damdn idiot trying to ditch the movie without actually seeing it. The review just doesn't look very proper.

Then again maybe i'm wrong and this movie just was really bad for the 3rd reviewer.

Overall i'm quite happy with the first review . It's nice to see someone going into great details about the movie.

Welcome to the boards, John_Blazer! If there's one good thing about this movie, it's that it's attracting people to the comic who ordinarily wouldn't give it a second glance. Which stories have you read?

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Whoops , sorry about logging in as a guest (something that i haven't seen at other forums).

Lemme see , i've bought the graphic novels

DAMNATION'S FLAME

DANGEROUS HABITS

FEAR AND LOATHING

GOOD INTENTIONS

HARD TIME

ORIGINAL SINS

SON OF MAN

TAINTED LOVE

HIGHWATER

They don't have the comics at the store where i buy them , so i just buy these novels.

Hm... 3 reasons for Constantine

1 Francis Lawrence could be the next david fincher

2 I wanna see the work that ESC & Tippett Studios has done on this movie (ESC was the company that the bulk of the VFX work on Matrix 2 & 3, as well as Tippett Studios)

3 I wanna see if the filmcomposer can create a dark unique score (the guy was either nominated or had won an award for best new composer or something)

One thing i definately want to know is why this movie isn't promoted more especially since february isn't that close away.

You'd expect at least the marketing campaign to kick off. And while the 18 min previews were a positive way of promoting constantine, that still doesn't mean that the general audience is going to see it.

A good example of this is HellBoy. A movie made for geeks by a geek.

It got huge praises on various movie review sites such as AICN , got raves on CON's but in the end it opened with 23 million and grosses less then 60 million.

And it's progress was followed by fans all over the internet and the director himself posted often on the official website's messageboard.

Constantine's marketing campaign should begin now. Cause that's the only way that more people are going to see this movie.

I voted for the visuals , even i know that visuals don't have to make a great ( episode 1 :rolleyes: ).

Still , if there is a movie that needs a dark atmosphere with awesome cinematography this is it.

And considering that Francis Lawrence , who very well may be the next david fincher , is doing it promising to be good.

Still i wonder how this movie would've looked if tarsem singh had directed it.

I might as well introduce myself too.

Hi my name is Amit. I'm from the netherlands and got hooked on the HellBlazer stories ever since i heard that they we're making a movie about it.

Normally i wouldn't be interested in it at all , but the fact that i'm a HUGE HUGE HUGE MATRIX FAN , i just was interested in keanu's new movie.

Then after hearing the reviws of the 18 minutes shown at the various CON's , i started buying the graphic novels and the rest is history.

Anyhoo i hope to gather some more info about this movie (spoilerjunkie he he) and just have a good time on another messageboard .

Cheers