Reviews

For some reason, I dvr'd this movie the other day, because I love the Dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench. I didn't watch it until last night. I started at 1am and watched the whole thing, even though I was exhausted. I am an old romantic.

At the beginning, my friend and I just couldn't figure out what was wrong with Ursula and we figured out she was falling in love with the boy. Wow! It was so obvious after a while, and I reminisced about the time I fell in love with someone so much younger than me. It was a treat to see Maggie Smith, trying to protect and comfort her sister in her obvious agony of the just impossible love she was feeling for the boy. How sad.

The end was a poignant and subtle end to a fabulous SHORT story. I actually thought they were in the islands off the southern coast.. I believe they are Jersey.. (like "The Others", and didn't realize it was pre-WWII, hence the hint at all of the Britons suspicions of Germans at the time.

What a fabulous story. I absolutely loved it!.

I had heard about this movie, but really was waiting to see it on DVD. I went with a friend last night and was really surprised to see that it had a decent story and the effects were pretty cool. Not too overwhelming, but just enough to make its point. I thought Balthazar was HOT!. I read some of the comments and it still amuses me to this day how most people in this society are so needy to have a stereotypical image of what Gabriel, or God or devils or demons look like. It's so lame that it's hilarious. Yes, Lucifer was supposed to be a BEAUTY, but the producer thought Peter Storare (sp) was the best to depict Satan. The beauty behind this is that if I am putting up millions of dollars to make a movie, I will make the characters look how I want them to look, not just because mullein of church teachings, say that the Devil has a red face and horns. Give me a break people. This is the 21st century. This movie is worth watching twice, because I really trying to keep up for a while in the movie, understanding what was happening. It seems that it has a little of the Dogma movie rolled into it, the way Gabriel is punished for his/her transgression.

My point is this, enjoy movies because of their creativity, its insight and its originality. If you go to a movie, expecting something to appear that way you have formed in your little minds, you should save 10 bucks and stay home. That is why I love movies, the enjoy the brilliance of those that create them. If we were all such experts on the damn things, we would be making them ourselves.

Constantine is a good movie. Go see it, if you don't like it.. you have no originality, imagination or fantasy.

CaryRa California