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[CBMT] DC bracket Round Two #1


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I still say that Constantine is the underrated stepchild of the Alan Moore's Books Never Work On Film category.  Yes, it stupidly changes way too much of the backstory just in order to cast Keanu Fucking Reeves as the blonde Englishman; but, did nobody else notice that EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE MOVIE WAS FUCKING INCREDIBLE?  Tilda Swinton playing an angel, and going for broke!  Peter Stormare as Satan , goddammit!  Rachel Weisz firing on all cylinders!  Shia Labouf relegated to his perfect role as the nigh-useless comedy sidekick, who gets murderdeathkilled so hard that it almost makes me feel better about him helping to fuck up the entire Transformers trilogy!  And man, Keanu TRIED, seriously. This isn't Sean Connery fuckin' sleepwalking through League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for a paycheck; Keanu Reaves did the very best he could to try and convey the ash-choked nihilism that makes John Constantine such a different kind of character.  They might have fucked up the micro, but they got the macro just fine. 

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