» The only boy who could ever teach me...
The Good : Preacher, while flawed at times (with a major sag in quality about three-quarters of the way through), was one of the best comics of the '90s. It was funny, violent, spun a cracking yarn and did all that Grail stuff a million times better than The Da Vinci Code (I'm fairly sure that the latter didn't include a grossly corpulent, bulemic priest falling out of a helicopter). The idea of doing a movie, given that it's a lengthy saga that spun out over sixty-odd issues and ten trade paperbacks, is quite a ridiculous one, and it's no surprise that it never got off the ground. As with Watchmen and Sandman, the only way this could ever really work would be as a HBO series. Which is what this will be.
The Bad : Mark. Steven. Johnson. That's Mark Steven "I did Daredevil, but that didn't stop them letting me do another one, so I'm about to release Ghost Rider, which looks even worse!" Johnson. Damn.
The Ugly : Oh, alright then. This is what Preacher's most infamous character, Arseface, might have looked like if the movie had got off the ground (it's a genuine make-up test). Will they pull it off in the series? Will they even pull off the series? Time will tell...
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http://www.newsarama.com/movies/Preacher/MSJPreacher.html
Sounds promising, so it does.
By Jonathan Capps on Thursday, December 7, 2006 @ 13:28
To be fair... Johnson's director's cut of DareDevil is a much better film than the garbage that got released. I suggest you watch it.
By Andrew Edmark on Friday, December 8, 2006 @ 19:20
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