OMG, looks like I'm be re-watching.I love the film but I'd not seen the bit after the credits till this thread, cool ending.
Constantine - Under Rated?
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there certainly is...
also check out Viggo Mortensen in "Prophecy"
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Yeah, that's another of the best depictions. Just love Gabriel's (Christopher Walken) explanation of how humans got the philtrum.
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You know, I forgot he was in prophecy.
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I'm just not really in to the angels demons and stuff like that, and I wonder if that was part of the reason it failed? I can't really think of any other, because it pretty much had everything it needed to be a success.
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Possibly that and this came out before the comic book boom, before this the only real successful film similar was Blade.
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Not sure I've seen the first one, will check it out.
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Another under rated film: Equilibrium.
No, it looks like you posted a fake trailer
Aha, I thought it odd it hadn't been mentioned.
Equilibrium is one of those films I wish they'd touch up and re-release, but sadly they wont.
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Equilibrium was great. Constantine was bang average, and practically nothing like the comic it was based on
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So...Here's the thing about comic book movies. A lot of them get made, they're loved for different reasons but the one commonality all them has is that they're made with a certain degree of embarrassment of the source material because despite comic book nerds spending divorce inducing amounts of money on collectible comics, statues and literally bringing a franchise back from the dead (here's looking at you, star trek) - the community is not seen as profitable.
It makes sense, you should always make your product to appeal to the widest possible audience (this is why I think the MCU phase I to III did so well, and the others have done relatively poorly), but the production and the storytelling suffers a lot of the time because of it, and because I think people that hold the purse strings look at metrics and lack the vision to see beyond the comic book genre.
Constantine for example would make a fantastic, all out horror but they rarely make any money on the large screen.
It makes sense, you should always make your product to appeal to the widest possible audience (this is why I think the MCU phase I to III did so well, and the others have done relatively poorly), but the production and the storytelling suffers a lot of the time because of it, and because I think people that hold the purse strings look at metrics and lack the vision to see beyond the comic book genre.
Constantine for example would make a fantastic, all out horror but they rarely make any money on the large screen.
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Did anyone watch the series they made? that to me was pretty close to the graphic novel, a shame it never got any traction but i think everyone only cared about Supernatural.
The series was shockingly perfect. Like genuinely as close as you were going to get to the comics.
I've got it, but haven't watched it yet, along with tens, hundreds of film's and series!