Constantine, the movie.
 

Has anyone else seen the trailer yet? I saw it as a preview to Ocean's 12 lastnight and was pretty impressed. I was at first, of course, thinking "boy this looks like a lame re-creation of The Matrix," but I actually think it has some potential.

To me it kind of looks like The Exorcist meets The Cell meets The Matrix (part one) as far as the visuals and overall "trippy-ness" goes. I'm rather excited for this one to be honest.

-T

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/constantine/

it's got the possibility of being awesome or being absolute shit. Keanu Reeves is not a great actor - the only successful movies he's been in have been mainly successes because of the supporting cast. This one does look like it has promise though.

Just by looking at the trailer, I have to say I'm pretty excited as well.

I love movies like this and although I'm not excited about Mr. Reeves, I would be willing to shill out the cash to see this one.

I've seen the trailer, and I'm coming down firmly on the side of 'absolute shit'.

Reeves as Constantine? Sheesh. Maybe we can have Leo Dicaprio playing Superman next.

Another example of hollywood butchering something they were given.

/not bitter, no sir.

looks like utter crap

on a stick.

I thought it was another Matrix movie when the preview first started.

It has the potential to be interesting, going by the storyline. Is it based on a comic book? I have no clue about comics...

Yup, (nerdity follows)

Constantine was a bit character in DCs Swamp Thing. Later, he got his own series in the Vertigo line of comics (Where you also found things like Sandman and Preacher). Put mildly, the character is a bit of a wanker, although, from the readers perspective, a lovable one. (And yup, he's a brit....Keanu doing an accent...joy). He's a huckster and a trickster, who most definately doesn't go around waving some giant mutant stage pistol. He's much more a Loki figure than he's John Wayne.

The movie looks to be something on the order of Catwoman, where they decided to take the name and throw it on something almost completely unrelated, to me.

I therefore put forth a petition to rename it: The Devils Advocate 2: Daddy Strikes Back

I agree that Reeves is a bad pick for this character. It would be like putting Ryan Reynolds, Jessica Biel, and Parker Posey in a vampire action movie. Oh, wait.....
:)

The movie looked pretty good when I saw the trailer. I meant to look up more about it when I got home but I had forgotten thanks for the reminder! Keannu Reeves looks like he might be just "ok" in that movie but even considering that the movie looks pretty awesome. Can't wait for more trailers and then the actual movie.

Why does anyone let Keanu Reeves act in anything anymore? Seriously? He's got the acting talent of a rock-pumpkin hybrid... But less squishy...

I saw previews this past summer...then it was put on hold, now back again? Does anyone know when it is supposed to come out?

First off Reeves is not John Constantine. This movie is not going to be a John Constantine movie.

If it was called anything but Constantine (or Hellblazer, the name of the comic that Constantine stars in) then I might be mildly interested. Instead its just Hollywood taking a crap on another comic character.

If you want to know about the real Constantine try this link\
http://www.insanerantings.com/hell/

Keanu is playing a character named John Constantine. Whether this is the JC from Hellblazer is a matter of opinnion, for sure, but he is playing John Constantine.

That was hella funny Pellaz. Pardon the NorCal slang. That being said Reeves is a little on the weird side and that could lend well to the role. I hope he doesnt let the comic book community down though. I am looking forward to it though. Looks a lot like hes still The One but with dark powers.

Coming out tomorrow.. (today if you are on the East Coast!) I think it will be good..might try to see it tonight

I'll probably see it. It's can't possibly be worse than Johnny Mnemonic, right?

Right?

Okay, well maybe. But there's no way it can be worse than Attack of the Clones, and Keanu wasn't even in that one.

Buying tickets first thing tomorror for the late-night show!

anyone wanna take bets on who will be the worse actor in this movie, Keanu Reeves or Gavin Rossdale?

Ha, but if it wasn't for the showy trailer which featured music from Celldweller, I wouldn't be excited at all for this movie. Seems cool though.. At least for the special effects. Gavin Rosendale is a cool guy and all but I don't think he's gonna make a good demon.

I don't know what's so bad about the show

I saw it and had a blast.

I agree with what a couple of you have said, the movie looks like it could be sweet or one of the worst movies ever. Kind of like the movie Hellboy. It had the possiblity of being an awesome movie or being bad. I felt that Hellboy fell short for my expectations. And I think that Constantine will fall short as well.

Well I just got back and I enjoyed the movie.. Gavin plays a good part but I had no clue he was in the movie! heh!

Hellboy was really good; I enjoyed it a lot. Cool movie with cool ideas and acting.



Just got back from Constantine. They managed to turn a movie that could have been incredible into trash. Maybe worth a DVD rental. The horrible use of CGI in parts that didn't need CGI ruined the entire movie. If you can't make it look real, moviemakers, don't use it. The acting was pretty good, not the best. Pretty mediocre movie. People who go to the movies for popcorn and soda will like it.

Which is the majority of America :) I think it'll be interesting to see how ticket sales went.

i thought Hellboy was great, but i wasn't familiar with the comic books...

Hellboy was pretty good, compared to a lot of other things. If Constantine turns out to be at least as good as Hellboy, I'll consider it worth my money.

On the 'true to comic roots' score, it looks to fail miserably. According to what I've read about Hellblazer and the review I've read of this movie, they seem to have almost nothing in common at all.

I saw it today, I thought it was a decent movie. I was definately entertained, and that's all I ask for in a movie. Would I see it again? Probably not.

I just saw the movie and I thought it was pretty good. I liked the way they made the devil and hell look. The movie meet my expectations. I probally would see it again.

I thought Constantine was great! I thoroughly enjoyed everything about it. I'm not a comic book fan at all, so I go into all these 'comic book character turned movie star' movies open minded. I was not disappointed in Constantine in the least.

Hellboy, on the other hand, was complete crap and a waste of 9 bucks. Every enemy was the same enemy and the ending was thrown together in what seemed like 10 seconds. The fish-type dude was cool, though. :)

The movie needed better acting, writing, directing, and most of all editing. I was literally falling asleep in some parts, and the movie dragged in many places. The acting was wooden and some of the dialogue was so stupid I was pained. Bottom line, it was better than I expected, but only because I was expecting something as bad as AvP.

Much agreed

I just got back from it, and I usually hate these types of movies, but I was entertained. The local paper gave it 3 1/2 stars (HAHA), and the theater was packed. It was a pretty average movie but I don't feel like it was a waste of money.

When I first saw the name of it I thought "Oh boy a movie about Constinapole! I love Bronze-Age war movies!"

It was a pretty good movie. I too was expecting to be dissapointed but I'm glad I wasn't. I was expecting some cliche lines but there was none. This was Keanue's better movies (I know it's not saying much). I did enjoy his smart ass/asshole'ish attitude too. Him giving the bird to Lucifer was sweet :)

I would recomend it to anyone that liked the trailer.

Just saw it tonight, and enjoyed it overall. Worth a ticket.

THere were some terribly bad dialogue though.. Whats John gonna do now? He's got some cleaning up to do. Will he see his woman around? Yeah. He'd like that.. I was angered throughout the movie at parts where I could barely hear what they were saying, which was quite often.. with people dying so much, last words were whispered every 5 minutes or so.

I didn't mind the CGI for the most part, only when Lucifer appeared I thought it was a little superfluous.

Apparently the director felt Reeves would not be a convincing Brit and so they made him originate from California.

Overall, I was pretty impressed with this treatment. As usual, Reeves turned in a sub par acting performance. But at least they didn't turn this into an outright action movie. Except for the Holy Shotgun of Antioch, I thought they stuck pretty well to the overall feel of the comics. The movie would have been better if they had found an English actor to play Constantine, though. They would be able to pull off John's dry wit better than Keanu, who made it look forced at times.

Um, Constantinople was the name of Istanbul in the middle ages. In the Bronze Age, it was called Byzantium.

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Looks good to me, I plan on seeing it soon.

I was suprisingly entertained by this movie- and I hate keanu with a cark and seething passion- I am not a hardcore fan of the comics, but am fammiliar with them, and thought they did not do poorly with the adaptation, and they made it accessable without gutting it as they often do.....

I saw it the other night and I rather enjoyed it.

Its tone reminded me somewhat of Hellboy, which I also enjoyed.

As to the comic, I've not read that particular one so I can't make a comparison.

I'm just wishin' that JC was a blonde
from Christ Almighty
looked like "STING" and all mighty
HIGH

I saw it last week...it was not the best movie but i watched it as just entertainment. im not christian so the stuff about the Spear of Destiny i really didnt follow to closely...but Keanu's acting is just like that in Matrix. He can only handle one liners and there were scenes when he was actually sarcastic/funny.
Btw, i saw an earlier post bout Gavin Rossdale...whose that?

Saw it on opening night and liked it. Don't see what the negative fuss is about. Maybe because I've never read the comic?

i think the fuss is over keanu's acting ability rather than the actual movie

Thank god for that, keanu is at his best when they don't give him anything to think about. I thought it was pretty decent, alot better than Hellboy at least =p.

So Keanu actually showed up for this one? When he's on, he's OK - nothing to write home about, but pretty solid - but when he's off, he's wretched.

As stated somewhere above I think, the big fuss was that Constantine in the comics is a blond Englishman, and a very deep character. Keanu Reeves isn't blond, English, or deep personality wise, at least when acting. But like I said before, the movie wasn't a bad crack at bringing the comic to the big screen, Keanu and all.

I liked it. Better than I expected.

My friends dad just went and saw this, he is fairly picky about movies, and he said he liked it. He said it was a very original idea for a movie.

:lol: I thought it was going to be a Victorian-era costume drama, with nice weepy scenes for the people who like that sort of thing. They should have at least giving the movie a subtitle for people who don't follow comic books.

He is the lead singer for the band Bush... you might recall one of their hits "Machine Head" back in the 90's. He is currently engaged to Gwen Stefani the lead singer of the band No Doubt. Apparently he acts too
:confused:

I saw it and was thoroughly entertained. I'm a Jew, but all these notions of heaven and hell fascinate me. The storyline was sweet, the effects rocked, and the guy who played Satan was awesome.

Also, stop complaining about Keanu Reeves. We all know he's made some shitty movies (with the exception of Point Break...Fuck you! It was awesome!), but come on. He found his niche, he's making his millions, more power to him. I think we should be far more concerned with ridding movies of such people as Ja Rule.

I too am surprised at how much people are bagging Keanu on this one, I think it's something a lot of people are doing because it's the 'cool' thing to do. Keanu did a wonderful job in this role and made it quite believable, I know he differs a bit from the original Constantine but what he and the movie tried to make him out to be he did successfully.

I too am always facinated by the struggles of heaven and hell, and I love dark subject matter, the way everything was executed here was remarkable. Francis Lawrence is a hell of a director, every shot oozed style and not in an MTV sort of way, a more David Fincher sort of way. Can't wait to see future projects helmed by this guy.

I saw it, and I want to exicute every mother fucker involved in it. Even getting past they way they pissed all over the comic book, it was total shit. My firend who saw it with me didn't even know it was based on a comic book untill I told him, and he thought it was crap. Weak plot, bad casting, worse acting. Shit, shit, shit, and more shit. Someone, please kill Reeves before he makes another movie.

[QUOTE=Mr.Deflok]I too am surprised at how much people are bagging Keanu on this one, I think it's something a lot of people are doing because it's the 'cool' thing to do. QUOTE]

I think they are baggin on him because he can't act his way out of a wet paper bag. The only movie he was ever any good in was Bill and Ted. Everything else the guy has done, he has SUCKED at. Any movie that he has been in that was good, was good because of of script and supporting actors, and every movie has done could be improved by casting a dead raoch in his role.

I know I'm just splitting tangental hairs here, but he's been married to her since September (I think) 2002.

I liked it. Pretty much what I expected from it.

I also wasn't able to understand the dialogue at some parts, but overall, I was entertained.

I liked it and it had a good moral to it.

another matrix...lol

i think it will be very good when i see it.

I enjoyed Constantine...but I think it would have been better with any actor other than Keanu.

I agree with Seer666...Keanu cannot act for anything. Keanu was decent, but a good actor would have made it a huge movie, in my opinion.

i liked it. not top notch, but quite entertaining.

in case it was missed earlier, gavin rosdale was balthazaar.

and i think keanu wasn't a bad choice. constantine was supposed to be a cynical, dry, rather emotionless guy. and thats him, for sure.

That deserves a lol

I really enjoyed the movie. I aint a fan of Keanu but he seems to be able pick these parts. Good blend of horror sci fi and battle between good and evil worth checking out.

i personally liked keanu in this movie...*runs away*

I'd liked his too. He did the cynical thing pretty well, and he seemed deepish...I mean, he's no Pacific Ocean, but maybe a deep lake...Or an inland sea...
Now I want to read the comics. :p
But, come on, have they ever made a comic book-based movie that didn't piss off anyone who's read the comics? I mean, X-Men? X-Men 2? They sucked for those of us who knew anything about the comics, or the cartoons.

And I had NO IDEA that was Gavin Rossdale. Crazy.

Aside from having Keanu Reeves as the lead, this movie has no similarities to any of the Matrix movies.

I thought it was pretty good. I am a sucker for movies that wrap in some sort of catholic veiws or veiws that challange those. The acting was bad, but the action and story was pretty cool

I liked this movie. I am not too big of a fan of Hellblazer so the minor changes they made didnt bother me. I actually thought Keanu did a good job as John Constantine. He has the personality for the part and I think this may have been one of his best roles to date. The storyline had me on edge although there were a couple slow parts. The special efeects were good and I am looking forward to seeing the sequel.

I saw it two weeks ago or so, thought it was pretty good.
Did anyone stay till the end of the credits for that last scene in the movie? It was pretty cool.:D

Its been out for awhile and ive been wanting to see it but havent gotten around to do it =(
Maybe next time...