No! Dammit, NO!

[go_team]

The idea of a John Constantine movie starring Keanu Reeves as the title character makes me grumpy in a very petty, childish way (although that's no doubt helped by the fact that I'm up way past my bedtime, and yes I know it's stupid early, but I digress). I mean, what the felch? Constantine's modeled after Sting, for chrissakes, the least they could do is have him played by a blond Brit, not a pan-Asian California boy! Grumpitty grump grump grump. I think I'll go drown my disgruntlement in dessert and then sleep. Argle-bargle!

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be careful what you wish for

[thrasymachos.livejournal.com]

I can see the studio heads now - "hmmm we need someone blond and 'grizzly...' I know! Seann William Scott! He was great as Stiffler in American Pie!"

Guy Pearce wouldn't suck though.

Oh, man, now you've done it....

[goteam.livejournal.com]

I'm kinda with trenchwench in hoping nobody dumb enough to cast Keanu is ever allowed to make a Hellblazer movie, perhaps because your Seann William Scott scenario is entirely too believable (which in and of itself makes me want to break shit --- hello, much too YOUNG?) I love Guy Pearce, but he'll always be Felicia Jollygoodfellow to me, so just imagining him as Constantine sends me into fits of giggles: I can't help but imagine him making bitchy comments about some demon's terrible fashion sense ("Nothing like a new frock to brighten up your day!"), and it all goes downhill from there. I have similar problems with Hugo Weaving (who is nonetheless one of my favorite actors ever): in the Matrix movies, he's Mitzi the Malevolent, and I can't even read the Lord of the Rings passages about Elrond without my brain inserting an "...and he looked FABULOUS" whenever possible. Any excuse to invoke The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, I tells you, any excuse.

Re: Oh, man, now you've done it....

[poppydos.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. Priscilla totally ruined L.A. Confidential for me. But it was totally worth it. :)