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Oct. 23rd, 2007 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oselleI just watched the movie Constantine, recommended to me by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
baylorsr and just loved it. I remember it getting pretty poor reviews but while the plot was at times mystifying, the imagery was absolutely spectacular. And scary? Forget about it. If I had a wish for Supernatural it would be that the show could actually be scary. I'm afraid it doesn't make me afraid. Demons disguised as pretty girls do not freak me out. Demons entirely made out of cockroaches? Yes. That freaks me out. I realize that Supernatural doesn't have anywhere near the budget it would take to go with really terrifying CGI and I also wouldn't want it to turn into an SFX-heavy show. But I'd like to see some really...demonic demons, for a change.
That said, Constantine was released in 2005, but it seems like some of the imagery from the movie made it into the show, like the black demon eyes, the liberal use of holy water, the sulfur residue...that sort of thing. At one point in the movie, a roomful of demons is dispatched via a sprinkler system whose water has been blessed...John Winchester did almost exactly the same thing in "Salvation" at the end of Season One.
These kinds of movies also give me a bad case of the willies. I'm Catholic and I can't help being superstitiously swayed by these themes. I should say I'm a lapsed Catholic because I haven't been to church in months and have in fact, completely apostatized. The other day, I found my cross and Miraculous Medal, which I used to wear every day, on the shelf where I left them months ago. They had turned almost completely black. Now okay, they're silver and that's what happens when you don't wear your silver every day. But still, it was a creepy sight. Then I'm watching Supernatural and I'm watching this movie and Hell's been on my mind a lot. What if salvation is trying to get at me, not through the "still, small voice" of God but through the BIG LOUD BANG of idiotic pop culture?
baylorsr and just loved it. I remember it getting pretty poor reviews but while the plot was at times mystifying, the imagery was absolutely spectacular. And scary? Forget about it. If I had a wish for Supernatural it would be that the show could actually be scary. I'm afraid it doesn't make me afraid. Demons disguised as pretty girls do not freak me out. Demons entirely made out of cockroaches? Yes. That freaks me out. I realize that Supernatural doesn't have anywhere near the budget it would take to go with really terrifying CGI and I also wouldn't want it to turn into an SFX-heavy show. But I'd like to see some really...demonic demons, for a change.That said, Constantine was released in 2005, but it seems like some of the imagery from the movie made it into the show, like the black demon eyes, the liberal use of holy water, the sulfur residue...that sort of thing. At one point in the movie, a roomful of demons is dispatched via a sprinkler system whose water has been blessed...John Winchester did almost exactly the same thing in "Salvation" at the end of Season One.
These kinds of movies also give me a bad case of the willies. I'm Catholic and I can't help being superstitiously swayed by these themes. I should say I'm a lapsed Catholic because I haven't been to church in months and have in fact, completely apostatized. The other day, I found my cross and Miraculous Medal, which I used to wear every day, on the shelf where I left them months ago. They had turned almost completely black. Now okay, they're silver and that's what happens when you don't wear your silver every day. But still, it was a creepy sight. Then I'm watching Supernatural and I'm watching this movie and Hell's been on my mind a lot. What if salvation is trying to get at me, not through the "still, small voice" of God but through the BIG LOUD BANG of idiotic pop culture?