we get [bad] signal!

[rone]

Via Warren Ellis's Bad Signal mailing list, he's let us know that Tilda Swinton will be playing the archangel Gabriel, and Rachel Weisz will play Constantine's partner, in the upcoming Hellblazer abomi^Wmovie. These actually sound like saving graces.

Ellis also says that Keanu is an underrated actor. I think he's just messing with us.

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Another pithy rejoinder: "Dangerous Liaisons"

I think OSC is full of crap. A true actor shouldn't remind you he's not the character he's playing. Reeves fails at this a lot. Even in the Matrix movies, say, you can tell there's flashes where he thinks, "Whoa! I'm not Neo, i'm Keanu!", whereas Carrie Anne Moss is Trinity, always.

Ian McKellen acts with his eyes. Keanu? I guess he has eyes....

[fredfred.livejournal.com]

I thought Keanu doing Shakespeare (he was in Much Ado About Nothing) was a pretty poor attempt too, no matter how cute he is. I think he's better in the Matrix; he's supposed to be a cypher and god knows he worked hard in those martial art scenes.

Carrie-Anne Moss is an excellent (and imho underrated) actor. She plays an uptight bourgeouis French wife in Chocolat, for example.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, i was thinking of Chocolat, too. She did a good job there.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I think that Orson Scott Card says everything he says just to be as contrary as possible.