1) There's more to being English than the swear words you use, or which city you love/hate. There's more to Constantine than swearing, drinking and smoking. Your examples are like saying there's no difference between say, Phil and Hex, except the fact one says bloody and bollocks instead of shit and fuck.
There are huge cultural differences between England and the US, and London and LA. One of the great things about Delano's run on Hellblazer is that he wrote and English character. To render the historial, political and social influences on that character down to a difference is swearwords is taking a simplistic view of the chracter. Sorry if that sounds rude, but that's how I see it.
2) Agreed on the Shotgun.
3) *blinks* Okay, could have sworn the black guy with the car in the trailers was meant to be Chas. But I'm laying odds on he's not a 40-something taxi driver with a wife and hoarde of kids at home.
Like I said to Bounce, there's a lot of films I haven't seen, not just because they're bad adaptations, but they're bad movies. Van Helsing, for one, looked absolutely awful in every trailer and review I saw, and the movie reviewers whose opinions I trust said as much. At $14 a ticket, I'm not going to waste my hard-earned on something I already don't like the look of.
You're assuming you know what I want. I want a good movie. It's a bad adaptation, yes. But it is possible to have a bad adaptation still be a good film. "High Fidelity" I like a lot, but it's very unlike the book, by all accounts. "Constantine" looks like another basic Hollywood epic of Good vs Evil, with more CGI than actual acting (and that's from what I've seen of the trailers, btw - Keanu's got all the emotion of a lump of wood). I'm not going to see it for that reason as much as the reason it takes a character I like rather a lot (to the point I've written two rather long fics about him) and essentially turns him into a joke - one, I'm disappointed to realise - will be most people's interpretation of John Constantine.
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Re: It's more than Keanu...
Date: 2005-02-18 04:20 pm (UTC)There are huge cultural differences between England and the US, and London and LA. One of the great things about Delano's run on Hellblazer is that he wrote and English character. To render the historial, political and social influences on that character down to a difference is swearwords is taking a simplistic view of the chracter. Sorry if that sounds rude, but that's how I see it.
2) Agreed on the Shotgun.
3) *blinks* Okay, could have sworn the black guy with the car in the trailers was meant to be Chas. But I'm laying odds on he's not a 40-something taxi driver with a wife and hoarde of kids at home.
Like I said to Bounce, there's a lot of films I haven't seen, not just because they're bad adaptations, but they're bad movies. Van Helsing, for one, looked absolutely awful in every trailer and review I saw, and the movie reviewers whose opinions I trust said as much. At $14 a ticket, I'm not going to waste my hard-earned on something I already don't like the look of.
You're assuming you know what I want. I want a good movie. It's a bad adaptation, yes. But it is possible to have a bad adaptation still be a good film. "High Fidelity" I like a lot, but it's very unlike the book, by all accounts. "Constantine" looks like another basic Hollywood epic of Good vs Evil, with more CGI than actual acting (and that's from what I've seen of the trailers, btw - Keanu's got all the emotion of a lump of wood). I'm not going to see it for that reason as much as the reason it takes a character I like rather a lot (to the point I've written two rather long fics about him) and essentially turns him into a joke - one, I'm disappointed to realise - will be most people's interpretation of John Constantine.