Actually, I was meaning that the movie should burn in hell for making Shia LaBeouff an angel.DarkPanda XIII said:
Constantine, urm, what?
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Really? I thought Dogma was way below the standard of his other movies. But I thought Ben Affleck in Chasing Amy was actually pretty good...surprisingly...Parallel Streaks said:
It was a fun movie but well, That wasn't John Constantine... John Constantine is a Scoucer who looks sort of like Sting (the singer not the wrestler) in the early days. Constantine was a shit fighter who relied on tricking the opponent and playing dirty. Also he had a tendency to get his mates or who ever he was trying to help killed or worse off then they were before he helped out.
The Constantine in the comics is American and goes about hunting demons in that action hero sort of way... and the movie was good and would have worked if only it was released under a different name or title.
The Constantine in the comics is American and goes about hunting demons in that action hero sort of way... and the movie was good and would have worked if only it was released under a different name or title.
Constantine made me yawn, which I found offensive.
The beginning was pretty cool, but like so many movies like this, it really petered out somewhere in the middle.
And it had NOTHING to do with the important Christian figure, which really pissed me off...
The beginning was pretty cool, but like so many movies like this, it really petered out somewhere in the middle.
And it had NOTHING to do with the important Christian figure, which really pissed me off...
I thought it was crap. I was amazed out how the plot was so serious, yet so ridiculously stupid. God and the Devil making a bets? Evil Gabriel? Keanu Reeves straddling a demon and reciting the lord's prayer? What is this shit? The only thing I liked was the stylish portrayal of Satan.
Since it was such an awesome comic, I just went ahead and assumed it would be a bad movie and didn't watch it. Turns out I was right.
I first heard of Constantine through a Youtube comment on someones homemade video to go with A Perfect Circle's song Passive and i rented it off of iTunes to see what it was like. I'm happy to say I liked the film and it's still one of my favourites to date.
I guess, having not read the comics, I didn't get the full gist of the story but I still enjoyed it as a film.
I'm pretty much fine with any actor in any role (except Keira Knightly...) so I didn't care about any of the characters, in fact, I think they played their parts very well..
All in all, I don't get why people think it was such a bad film when there are so many other worse ones out there.
I guess, having not read the comics, I didn't get the full gist of the story but I still enjoyed it as a film.
I'm pretty much fine with any actor in any role (except Keira Knightly...) so I didn't care about any of the characters, in fact, I think they played their parts very well..
All in all, I don't get why people think it was such a bad film when there are so many other worse ones out there.
Oh man, that takes me all the way back to 9th Grade Growth of Western Civ class. My teacher played that when we were on the topic of the rise of the Ottoman Empire.Matt_LRR said:
On topic: I thought it was good, and I'm a Christian. Then again, I'm usually into that sort of stuff.
The character's name was chosen from Emporer Constantine of Rome who first legalized Christianity. Constantine dreamed that God commanded him to pain crosses on all of his warriors' shields for when they marched into battle. Constantine did this and enjoyed an epic victory. Christianity, which at that point had been outlawed, got it's first (real) chance to flourish. Given that the Vertigo comic book character John Constantine defends the world against divine (heaven, hell, and otherwise) encroachment and allows people to live their lives in peace, one might say he was aptly titled.
The movie "Constantine" was based on the British comic "Hellblazer" written first by John Delaney then Garth Ennis. Keanu Reeves played a decent, albeit angstier John Constantine than the basis character -who was a smarmy, smart-aleck. The story worked pretty well on its own with moderately interesting characters. It was a fairly creepy Exorcism-superhero story.
I first saw the movie when I was an extremely pious Catholic.
And I loved the hell out of it.
If you understand Catholicism as a fear-based faith (seriously, we/they pray to God to get them into Heaven because they're afraid of Hell), then Constantine follows naturally. If you're not down for that, it's a playful stab at how the God/Satan dichotomy played out and what's really at stake in the Divine Game.
Like any piece of fiction, it's only as corrosive or offensive as the reader/viewer chooses to make it.
The movie "Constantine" was based on the British comic "Hellblazer" written first by John Delaney then Garth Ennis. Keanu Reeves played a decent, albeit angstier John Constantine than the basis character -who was a smarmy, smart-aleck. The story worked pretty well on its own with moderately interesting characters. It was a fairly creepy Exorcism-superhero story.
I first saw the movie when I was an extremely pious Catholic.
And I loved the hell out of it.
If you understand Catholicism as a fear-based faith (seriously, we/they pray to God to get them into Heaven because they're afraid of Hell), then Constantine follows naturally. If you're not down for that, it's a playful stab at how the God/Satan dichotomy played out and what's really at stake in the Divine Game.
Like any piece of fiction, it's only as corrosive or offensive as the reader/viewer chooses to make it.
I've never seen Constantine, but I think it's about the same Constantine we learned about in History. If that's so, it shouldn't have offended any Christians. Constantine's mom was a hard-core Christian - and she convinced him to legalize Christianity.