http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/constantine/ movie review and news blog Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:02:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/constantine/comment-page-1/#comment-358 Swamp Thing - Movie Reviews Blog Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:52:26 +0000 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/constantine/#comment-358 [...] Then there are the fans of the comic book, like myself (Swamp Thing is my personal favorite comic book of all time). This movie is going to frustrate readers of the comic from the moment it starts. There are numerous changes to the story, for example, the character of Alice Cable was actually a man in the comic; a very important character named Matt Cable. They changed his gender so that Swamp Thing might have a love-interest. Even more perplexing, is that they went out of their way to *remove* Swamp Thing’s original love-interest, Linda Holland, who was his wife in the comic and not his sister. Arcane is also presented as a suave young man rather then a freakish old coot. The movie was considered so bad at the time that the Swamp Thing comics actually ripped into it on multiple occasions. Even Constantine (a regular in the comics) got a few nasty remarks in about the movie. [...] [...] Then there are the fans of the comic book, like myself (Swamp Thing is my personal favorite comic book of all time). This movie is going to frustrate readers of the comic from the moment it starts. There are numerous changes to the story, for example, the character of Alice Cable was actually a man in the comic; a very important character named Matt Cable. They changed his gender so that Swamp Thing might have a love-interest. Even more perplexing, is that they went out of their way to *remove* Swamp Thing’s original love-interest, Linda Holland, who was his wife in the comic and not his sister. Arcane is also presented as a suave young man rather then a freakish old coot. The movie was considered so bad at the time that the Swamp Thing comics actually ripped into it on multiple occasions. Even Constantine (a regular in the comics) got a few nasty remarks in about the movie. [...]

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