{"id":1053,"date":"2005-03-14T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-14T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/03\/constantine\/"},"modified":"2005-03-14T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-14T10:01:00","slug":"constantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/constantine\/","title":{"rendered":"Constantine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the days when I read comics regularly, I was a big fan of the Alan Moore <em>Swamp Thing<\/em>s and it introduced the character of John Constantine. He then got his own comic, Hellblazer which I began to read at the start. On a primary level, Constantine is blond and British.<br \/>\nSo when Keeanu Reeves pops up speaking a decidedly American accent and with his trademark dark hair, you know something&#8217;s amiss. In fact <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0360486\/\">Constantine<\/a> doesn&#8217;t deviate massively from the mood of the comics, but it does commit the cardinal sin of being dull.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d explain the plot, but it really isn&#8217;t worth bothering with. He hooks up with Rachel Weisz and lots of CGI effects ensue. To give it&#8217;s due, the effects are first rate, but overall it amounts to not very much. It&#8217;s just dull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the days when I read comics regularly, I was a big fan of the Alan Moore Swamp Things and it introduced the character of John Constantine. He then got his own comic, Hellblazer which I began to read at the start. On a primary level, Constantine is blond and British. So when Keeanu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}