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Constantine
2005 · Film · 121 min
Directed by Francis Lawrence
John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.
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The appeal of labubus is simple: they are cute-looking creatures that show their demonic side. Since many people have it, they find labubus cute.
Remember the first scene in the movie Constantine, where the woman that's being exorcised looks at her demon in the mirror and finds it cute? That's the same thing.
I wstched that show back in 2004 i think. For a year or so, i was hooked as a kid on.that show.
Never again watched it but that was a big science jump for me.
The thing is, i was a science kid from the start and discoverh and national geographic was amazing.
I remember watching a show "is.it real?" When i was like 7-10, not sure but one episode was about stigmata. Just random.thing i remember.
Then many years later, constantine movie i was watching on tv and i recognized the hand and said "thats stigmata".
Stuff like that happens with me daily. I like.it
>The MCU was the height of films because it managed to wrangle more than half-a-century of comic book lore (much of it previously deemed unfilmable) into a coherent and compelling multi-film epic that was both entertaining and (lightly) philosphical and political.
That's more of a parlor trick than art. "See how much simplistic comic book storytelling randomness I can fit in 30+ movies, and even live room for 70% of it be explosions and fight scenes".
>it was an unprecedented undertaking involving the hard work of tens (hundreds?) of thousands of talented artists and technicians across the globe
"Talented" is begging the question.
IMNSHO, not only is the writing, acting, and directing mediocre by-the-numbers blockbuster crap, but even what they supposedly do best (the special effects and fights and such) are shodilly made.
There are movies made from comics that are worth a damn cinematically (Logan, Sin City, Watchmen, Constantine) but 99% of MCU is not in that set.
Your thoughts remind me a bit of the Gabriel character is the end of the movie Constantine - (paraphrased) Since you humans can't seem to appreciate what God's granted you in this free will thing, I'm going to help bring hell on Earth and mass murder you wholesale, so the ones left over will be more appreciative"
Not saying that I have any better alternative... politics have always seemed to me to be more of a "I just want to hold onto control of anything I can manage" system, as opposed to a "I'm going to try to bring understanding and the best good for all" system.
I've been doing vfx for 20+ years. So...
- watch a movie :
2020 Upside Down Magic
2017 The Fate of the Furious (visual effects artist)
2015 San Andreas
2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron
2013 R.I.P.D.
2011 Happy Feet Two
2011 Mars Needs Moms
2009 A Christmas Carol
2008 The Tale of Despereaux
2007 Enchanted
2006 The Shaggy Dog
2005 Constantine
2004 Hellboy
2003 The Matrix Revolutions
2001 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
- or a more recent TV show:
Another Life
Gabby and the Unsittables
Charmed
There's certainly other things I've worked on, but they're lost down the memory hole for good.
Dozens of hollywood movies from Hellboy (2004), Constantine, to R.I.P.D.
Absolutely, and it tracked along with technology and my ability to just cram more particles in the simulation or use new structures entirely like VDBs or Sparse Volumes. But the basic use of many (many many) layers of sculpted Perlin noise never changed.
There needs to be a better way to sort out titles which can refer to multiple items. For instance, "Constantine" only matches the TV show, not the Keanu Reeves movie; "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" only matches the Bay version, not 1990.