Mmmmm. Brains.

[reddragdiva]

• As you know, I'm strictly attracted by minds.

• There's got to be a Stephen King story in this.

• Why Hollywood must be destroyed. Now. Utterly.

I'm off work today, being unable even to get to the station. I'm hobbling a bit better, though, and fear I'll be able to show up tomorrow. arkady's mad 'l33t bandaging sk1llz have proven most efficacious. So it's a quiet day in with redcountess, hoping and praying the milk for coffee doesn't run out. Because then one of us would have to leave the house.

Comments

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Tilda Swinton? Gabriel? Demon? What?

Yeah, no kidding.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

See, I've been saying for years - all this, and tits and arse too!

[reddragdiva]

When I talk to your chest, it's a sign of my tremendous respect for your quick wit and sharp intellect. Ask any of my female friends!

And the Weekly World News is certainly as highly respectable as any other scientific journal.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I hate to say it, but I don't think they said anything _specifically_ about arses.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear the bandage is helping. Did you get my email, BTW?

[reddragdiva]

Yep! Is cyberratty working again? It's your outgoing address.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

It's working mail-wise; it's the site itself that now appears to be b0rked.

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Keaneau Reeves seems to see himself as the natural heir to Kevin Costner's Christ/Martyr fixation. I bet his accent skills are almost as good as Kevin's as well.

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

I've been saying that for months now man. The truly sad thing is he actually believes he's an actor. Sort of like how Bush truly believes he's the pResident.

[redcountess]

They're tring for a PG-13 rating? Grrrr, Arrrggh!!

[rocketmelee.livejournal.com]

Keanu Reeves is playing MY John Constantine?!?!
::weeps::

[reddragdiva]

I have no freaking idea whose John Constantine he's supposed to be playing. Certainly not one having anything to do with comics.

[ruthi.livejournal.com]

Yay for Big Branez.

Phone and wail at me, and I shall bring milk. If I have to. You'll have to throw me the keys from the window, or let me crawl in therough the catflap.

[reddragdiva]

You get an icon present for that!

Mmm, brains.

You don't have to :-)

[ferretboi.livejournal.com]

oh sweet merciful maker, Keanu as John Constantine... *sigh* I heard that a while ago but hoped it was simply vapour like the Sandman movie or the last two or three Superman and Batman movies. The works part (as said before) is that Keanu thinks he's an actor. This delusion that he has great talent. Three words: Bram Stoker's Dracula. He's right for certain kinds of roles. The Matrix he was good in as it was a little boy lost kind of role in the first movie. Him as the hero who was sacrificing him self in later movies, not quite as convincing but it still incorporated elements of that lost character. Speed it also kinda worked in as he was that sorta punk kid. Just why god PG-13!

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

Why PG-13? Probably because the contract provided by the financiers required it to be so. You have to remember, the logic runs: Constantine is an adaptation of a comic, and all comics are for kids, so any comic adaptation HAS to be PG-13 so the comic's readers are able to see it. Hence, the reason why the producers of both League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and From Hell went out of their way to disassociate the productions with their comics sources.

Otherwise, I find it quite ironic that SciFiWire covered it. If the film sucks farts from dead cats as badly as that "interview" suggests, it'll probably become an exclusive to the Skiffy Channel solely because nobody else in their right mind would pay real money for it.

[ferretboi.livejournal.com]

True enough. Mind you I didn't like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I made the mistake of reading the comic BEFORE seeing the movie. :-P But I see where you are coming from. The Hellboy movie looks like it may attempt to break that mould. But I'll believe it when I see it. That being said Road to Predition, Ghostworld and American Splendour are all comics. We are slowly realising comics don't have to be for kids but I think when fantastical themes are there producers think big budget action fest and forget that grown ups like reading about men in tights too.

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

And once again, either those were "art films" that needed to hype up the comics connection to get anything approximating an audience, or (in the case of Road to Perdition) the publicity team did everything in its power to hide the fact that the source material was a comic. When we're talking about films with budgets above that of a used car, and the idea is to make a comic-based movie that might possibly appeal to the 99.99999972 percent of the public that hasn't read a comic book since grade school, PG-13 is nice and safe. Maximum return, minimum risk.

[t-werevyrn.livejournal.com]

I'm brainy! Hoorayyyyy for boobies!!!!

[reddragdiva]

Mmmmm. Come up to my room and I'll test your IQ.

[giolla.livejournal.com]

Why Hollywood must be destroyed. Now. Utterly.

Kill them, kill them now and slowly, and keep them the hell away from V.