Headlines and annoying movies

This headline just made me giggle:Shoe tossed at ex-Pentagon adviser during debate To quote Austin Powers 'who throws a shoe?' However, I do appreciate the sentiment behind it.

The Constantine movie is out today (They didn't call it Hellblazer I don't have to believe it...) here's the description of Movie!John from CNN.com: From early childhood, Constantine is one of the few humans who could actually see these creatures as they really are -- to the rest of us they appear to be normal people. The images were so disturbing that he attempted suicide as a teenager. He failed, but he did spend two minutes in hell.

Now he spends his life trying to redeem himself. Since this story is based on Catholic dogma, and suicide is a mortal sin, Constantine is destined to return to hell at the end of his life here on earth. He's hoping that if he sends enough demons back to where they came from, he'll get a reprieve in the form of a one-way ticket to the Pearly Gates.

Gah! Hollywood couldn't even leave his backstory alone. John is not a nice guy. He'd probably like to be on some level, but he's gone too far to ever be a nice guy.

I'd also like to point out that it says at the end of the synopsis that he is 'pushing 50' now, so theoretically Sting could've played him. I still wish it was James Marsters though. But Keanu has box office appeal, for whatever reason, so there you go. (Hey, maybe Keanu did sell his soul. That would explain a lot!)

I had other stuff to babble about, but I really should get back to work.

Headlines and annoying movies

This headline just made me giggle:Shoe tossed at ex-Pentagon adviser during debate To quote Austin Powers 'who throws a shoe?' However, I do appreciate the sentiment behind it.

The Constantine movie is out today (They didn't call it Hellblazer I don't have to believe it...) here's the description of Movie!John from CNN.com: From early childhood, Constantine is one of the few humans who could actually see these creatures as they really are -- to the rest of us they appear to be normal people. The images were so disturbing that he attempted suicide as a teenager. He failed, but he did spend two minutes in hell.

Now he spends his life trying to redeem himself. Since this story is based on Catholic dogma, and suicide is a mortal sin, Constantine is destined to return to hell at the end of his life here on earth. He's hoping that if he sends enough demons back to where they came from, he'll get a reprieve in the form of a one-way ticket to the Pearly Gates.

Gah! Hollywood couldn't even leave his backstory alone. John is not a nice guy. He'd probably like to be on some level, but he's gone too far to ever be a nice guy.

I'd also like to point out that it says at the end of the synopsis that he is 'pushing 50' now, so theoretically Sting could've played him. I still wish it was James Marsters though. But Keanu has box office appeal, for whatever reason, so there you go. (Hey, maybe Keanu did sell his soul. That would explain a lot!)

I had other stuff to babble about, but I really should get back to work.

More on Constantine - yes I'm obsessing, why do you ask?

In Alan Moore's own words: One of those early notes was they both wanted to do a character that looked like Sting. I think DC is terrified that Sting will sue them, although Sting has seen the character and commented in Rolling Stone that he thought it was great. He was very flattered to have a comic character who looked like him, but DC gets nervous about these things. They started to eradicate all traces of references in the introduction of the early Swamp Thing books to John Constantine's resemblance to Sting . But I can state categorically that the character only existed because Steve and John wanted to do a character that looked like Sting. Having been given that challenge, how could I fit Sting into Swamp Thing?

I'd often wondered if Sting knew about John Constantinie and the resemblence. V. cool to know. Now I'm wondering what Sting's opinion of the movie would be. I suppose we can always hope that HBO or someone tries to make a series of the book, and does it right. Or, you know, just stick with the comic.

Am now having visions of Sting playing John in his 50's and James Marsters playing John in flashbacks. That'd be cool.

It's a really blood-filled comic graphic novel, and very dark, which is not usually my thing, so why I'm so drawn to JC I don't know, except for the Sting thing. I just love his dark sarcasm, I think. For a really good taste of John with much less blood, I'd recommend Books of Magic, by Neil Gaiman.

4:30 and I am ready for this day to be over.

More on Constantine - yes I'm obsessing, why do you ask?

In Alan Moore's own words: One of those early notes was they both wanted to do a character that looked like Sting. I think DC is terrified that Sting will sue them, although Sting has seen the character and commented in Rolling Stone that he thought it was great. He was very flattered to have a comic character who looked like him, but DC gets nervous about these things. They started to eradicate all traces of references in the introduction of the early Swamp Thing books to John Constantine's resemblance to Sting . But I can state categorically that the character only existed because Steve and John wanted to do a character that looked like Sting. Having been given that challenge, how could I fit Sting into Swamp Thing?

I'd often wondered if Sting knew about John Constantinie and the resemblence. V. cool to know. Now I'm wondering what Sting's opinion of the movie would be. I suppose we can always hope that HBO or someone tries to make a series of the book, and does it right. Or, you know, just stick with the comic.

Am now having visions of Sting playing John in his 50's and James Marsters playing John in flashbacks. That'd be cool.

It's a really blood-filled comic graphic novel, and very dark, which is not usually my thing, so why I'm so drawn to JC I don't know, except for the Sting thing. I just love his dark sarcasm, I think. For a really good taste of John with much less blood, I'd recommend Books of Magic, by Neil Gaiman.

4:30 and I am ready for this day to be over.