Filmmaker reacts to Constantine (2005) for the FIRST TIME! 

Peter Stormare is top tier 😈 I also really enjoy Viggo Mortensen's devil in The Prophecy

I still prefer Ellis, but Stormare was great 👍

Agree. And exactly because he IS the combination of those two things.

@@LordVolkov Viggo there gave me nightmares. Can't rewatch that.

Unctuous

And now, that wish is granted. You're welcome. heh.

@@vilefly Wait, are they actually making a Constantine 2? Holy shit.

@@n4rf645 They’re planning on doing one with swamp thing and keanu as constantine

*Lu

I hope Tilda has a role in the second movie. A begrudging team up would be tight, but I really want to see what happens when an angel falls in this universe. Does she end up working at Waffle House? Who knows...

She retreated through a random wardrobe and became a emo queen in a CS Lewis world with random superpowers :)

The Cast and acting of this movie is Top Tier. The only missing is Morgan Freeman as God

I always loved that little "Wow!" she gives feeling pain for the first time.

That’s the correct impression👍

thats exactly what happened

correct

In the comics he’s his guardian angel. He’s not fully human in the source material.... 🤷🏼‍♀️

​@@Persephone_Personified i do believe we cant really go off the source material here, given the source material he was named Chas Chandler and not Chas Kramer and much older than he is in the movie. So going off this movie alone, to me he doesn't seem to be Constantine's guardian angel until after he dies (literally did nothing against Gabriel when if they're both angels, they should have relatively the same strength maybe). Then why does he appear with wings only after the conflict? What reasoning would he have to pretend to be a dead human while all that is going down?

yeaa, need to rewatch it to understand what its mean,

@@billiamnasta7195 I think he's keeping him alive long enough for him to fuck up and sin so he can take him to hell.

thats what the bubble gum in the end is for ... it shows he tries to quit smoking and leave the self-destructive path

@@ollihro82 and it's a great swerve. You totally think he's got a cigarette in his hand with that motion :D

@@ollihro82 right because he wants to make sure he doesn't even come close to line of "taking his own life" by smoking, considering he wad redeemed in the eyes of God at the end and would currently go to heaven if he died

we took movies like this for granted. What fools we were.

I think the reason it is underrated and people are iffy about it; is because it is not comic book accurate. It is an excellent movie but he is not "Constantine"

He’s great in everything I’ve see him in hahaha and in video games!

I really hope he reprises the role in the sequel

I always thought he was Russian. Lol

@@MikeB12800 He`s Swedish albeit Americanized like Alexander Skarsgard IRL.He is very good at the Russian and German accents however which isn`t surprising considering how close Sweden is to Finland and Russia and German and Swedish being linguistically connected since the Viking era.

Fargo ftw. It began with the pancakes.

I need to finish collecting that Swamp Thing run.

I'd say he reinvented the idea of how to write for comics with that even before _Watchmen._ He even wrote _Watchmen_ while writing _Swamp Thing._ That's like writing _Gravity's Rainbow_ while simultaneously writing the Foundation series. Astounding.

@@DrBeardfacePA It's a great run! You should check out the new 52 stories as well especially Animal Man. The way they tied him in was awesome! He's the avatar for the Red, the animal world, and teams up with Swampy to fight the Rot.

@@Theomite Yeah you're probably right. I don't know much about other comics from the early 80s but Moore was always ahead of his time when it comes to mature and philosophical themes in comics. That one story where Swampy carries the skeleton of Alec Holland in a dream as a metaphor for his lost humanity... Gad damn man I don't think I'll ever forget that.

He also created "300", another epic film and graphic novel! 😊

Ahhhhh!

To be fair, I expected it. I watched an interview with Keanu and the interviewer asked "If asked, what role would you love to do a sequel for?" and Keanu legit said "It's not going to happen, but I would love to play John Constantine again." so there you have it. It was actually in an interview about the new Matrix movie I believe. Keanu Reeves asks? Keanu Reeves gets. Keanu Reeves deserves.

What I’d love to see is a do over for Dick Tracy. I actually LOVE 1990s Dick Tracy. The cast was out of this world. Even Madonna did a good job in this one. The costumes and makeup were perfection in my opinion. But they kinda blew it with some of the sets and props. Made it look like a high school production. But I still love it.

@@thealphastrain101 as soon as he said it, I was like oh yeah, it’s happening. Movie has a cult following and more people discover and love it all the time, they’d be ignorant to say, naw, we’re not interested in working with you Keanu and that character again.

@@jeanine6328 Agreed. I have loved the film since the first time I saw it and never understood why others didn't. But, Keanu is one of the nicest people in the business, which is why I said he deserves this. You put out good karma you'll get it back in return.

Yeah, And take away from JarJar abrams hands to make the Constantine series...

That's just your opinion. It's been speculated that he was an angel all along.

@@hoon_sol There's a post credit scene that shows him coming back as an angel so @Skotavus made a very good point

@@CaptainCushty: You need to learn to read. Of course I'm aware of that scene, and have been since I saw the movie over a decade ago for the first time. What I'm explaining is that some speculate he was an angel all along, and that he didn't come back as one, it was just his true form.

@@hoon_sol Then why would he let himself get smashed up into the ceiling and floor a bunch? Or take the time to become a cabbie, rehearse a Dirty Harry line or not use some kind of power to get into Midnite's place? It just seems very bizarre for an angel to do all of that for seemingly no reason

@@CaptainCushty: That's a valid question, and the only reasonable answer to that would be as an act for Constantine; this is essentially ultimately what God and Satan are doing after all, putting people in various situations and seeing how they end up handling them, with Constantine being a particularly interesting case (as Satan says, due to how Constantine has been fighting for good so hard, he'd personally come to collect him). Time isn't an issue for angels, obviously, and neither is any of the other things you mention; angels are literally below God in the hierarchy, they have incredible powers. If the entire purpose is to observe and to some extent watch over Constantine, it would make no sense to actually display those powers openly to him, then he'd know immediately.

Funny how that happens haha!

Wait... they're doing a sequel?? #OMG

Yeah I'm pretty eager to see what kind of route they are going to take Constantine was hands down a product of its time so I'm excited to see what they are going to do!

@@tracyhale8336 yeah it got announced a couple of days ago and the original director and writer are returning and of course Keanu is coming back.

@@imjackm2174 oh snap!

Honestly, it's got a lot of the comics in it. Definitely its own interpretation of the comics, but still, obviously from the comics.

@@theblobconsumes4859 totally agree. I just remember fans flipping out that he "doesn't look like Constantine".

@@DJKuroh my response to that will always be “so?! Have you seen this film?” It’s one of my favourite films of all time.

@@realburglazofficial2613 Hard facts. Can't wait for #2

It’s funny how many people seem to consider this one of the best interpretations of Lucifer, considering he’s on screen for about 5 minutes or less.

Completely in agreement with you

Same

In the Classic Anime Evangelion, they referred to this as the Spear of Longinus.

the more ya know!

Tilda was the logical choice: an androgynous actor to play an androgynous being.

Sandman tried to emulate this, but failed spectacularly. Tilda was a great option because she’s genuinely androgynous, she has a unique face and ethereal voice, so if they sell her as a mix of man and woman, you buy it. Christie is VERY obviously a woman. A big one, but a woman nonetheless, so hearing people referring to Lucifer as a male was really distracting. Plus, it seemed like she was trying way too hard to be menacing and it didn’t work. She’s a decent actress, but nowhere near Swinton.

@@alexman378 A lot of people complained it wasn't respectful to Lucifer to be played by a woman

@@HotDogTimeMachine385 Wouldn’t say it’s a matter of respect, more of a matter of common sense. It’s extremely obvious they were going by quotas through the entire show left, right and center though.

@@alexman378 It's interesting how people can accept angels changing shape, looking like any human or even biblical monsters, but a woman playing is too far. Especially when angels are described as feminine with long hair and soft features.

Keanu's filming the sequel to Constantine right now!

same director is attached, so i have high hopes for it.

This, by the bucket load.

Ya and the sad thing is her character Ellie was one of the few characters from The Comics in The Film aside from John himself,Gabriel,Lucifer,Chas,Papa Midnite and John`s parents Thomas and Mary Ann Quinn Constantine(Who are both never named nor even shown within frame in the film.)

I really would love to see her scenes, and what the film would have been like, had she remained in the film.

@@theblobconsumes4859 Those were on my dvd as extras 15 years or so ago when I got the dvd when it was released

A sequel is coming soon.

Then Legion

yes please, The Prophecy is also highly overlooked and so interesting

I would say "Prophesy" is from the same universe as "Constantine".

Omg! Yes. Someone else finally suggesting it somehow. If he just watches the first 3 movies, he can stop there.

spiderman np way home< nice

I call it elseworld Constantine. Just a different universe style of it.

This is the main reason most Constantine fans did not appreciate the movie. With the changes to John, combined with Archangel Gabriel as the villain and Lucifer as the good guy (ish) mainstream audiences also passed on it. Look at the reaction to The Book of Eli (a fantastic film) put the bible in something and people will feel some type of way about it

It's because you can't believe Keanu he can't play bad people convincingly and Constantine is a bad person

@@elenavorobeva6747 no he isn't. He's just a prick, not a bad person.

I feel like he does capture John though, albeit in a slightly more angry way (which is understandable since he’s dying and knows where he’s going). I think he realized how wrong he was, physically speaking, so he doubled down on his characterisation. I mostly think of the film as an Elseworlds type, not exactly the canon one, but a good film never the less.

The reason this movie didn't get more attention when it came out was because this was Keanu's next action film right after The Matrix trilogy films, and since those got a super amount of hype and attention, this movie seemed small in comparison. So it was just bad timing really.

Absolutely. This film is cold!

@@JamesVSCinema glad you enjoyed it my man. Really glad.

It was the cancer in his lungs, Lucifer cured him.

@@MichaelBrown101 I always thought it was the tar and cancer he ripped from his lungs, that's why he chews a nicotine gum instead of smoking at the end.

@@stewrmo makes more sense hah

ABSOLUTELY!

I own all three films,his Hollywood film debut, Wanted, and other thrillers about the Dark Web, ie Searching, Unfriended, and Profiler on Blu. Timor is great. 😎👏🏿👏🏿recommended.

I'm almost positive this was the moment it got traction. It sticks in my head cause no one expected him to really mention that character. So happy about this!

Whoever rejected it doesn’t deserve to work in Hollywood. No, they deserve Hollywood….. but they sure as heck don’t deserve to even say his name again.

OMGOSH OMGOSH OMGOSH …. Reeves, Lawrence and possibly Del Toro!! That’d be amazing

That’s awesome! Excited for it!

Highly underrated film.

IMO best devil scene in history! Also IMO top 5 picks for best superhero movie of all time!

by the comics , constantine was in swamp thing june of 1985. blade started 1975. both took the whole monster hero's to a whole new level!

this is the one movie that keanu wanted to make a second movie too. on colbert he said he always wanted to make a second constantine film. he got his wish, last week he was said to be on the cast of constantine 2.

James, please look into watching "The Prophecy" ( 1995 ) for the spooky season. A great horror movie with Christopher Walken and Viggo Mortensen with a similar edgy foray into religion. It is also well written and doesn't pull punches.

Me too!! Hoping they could do it justice!

@@JamesVSCinema Ya, in the Comics John was designed after Sting and Lucifer was designed after David Bowie.

I think it reflects a lot of the atmosphere and smaller touches, even if the central story perhaps not so much. Still washed of a lot of the grit, of course, but still.

I would say he only *looks* more like the comics. Keanu captured the personality so much better.

Appreciate this homie! I’m happy others seem to share the same excitement I had during the first viewing!

Plus, Alan Wake is getting a sequel... Coincidence? I think not! 😂 When James brought up Alan Wake, I almost cried; such a damn good game 👍🏽

You’re the best

Yessir!!!

@@JamesVSCinema plus he grew up in my hometown so gots to support lol

Ayyyy happy to see ya!!