First, see here, here, and here.
So, I've digested all 15 issues, and seen the movie for comparison.
My verdict on the comic-
Gory and raunchy as hell.
But, the storyline, and the philosophy underpinning it, total bullshit.
Tedious, droning, repeating, pretentious bullshit.
I've concluded that Satanists are just crypto-Catholics.
They'd despise being described that way, but...oh well, too bad.
They play around in the same bullshit mythology, they're just as homophobic and misogynistic, they believe in the same concept of sexual sin, and blindly lump it in with all the others, and given how much Catholics breed, they're actually doing just as much fucking, just Satanists swing more, and use birth control.
They both stole their ritual and iconography from Paganism.
Their decoration sense is equally gaudy and tacky.
And, they're both obsessed with showmanship.
It's just punk rock Catholicism.
Same bullshit, different costumes.
If you read the comic, you're gonna get an earful of it.
And by "earful", I mean a cement truck with a funnel at the end of the chute emptying into your head until you pop.
My verdict on the film-
As an adaptation, it's actually fucking great.
Totally captures the spirit, if not the letter of the comics.
There's a lot left out, but there's a lot you CAN leave out, because the books are padded and repetitive as fuck.
No way that should have been 15 issues.
Took the guy as long to make the thing as it took me to get Harry published.
Insane.
Anyhoo, Mònica Van Campen dead-on nails the character of Claire, right down to her poses, and hand gestures.
She was probably the best part of this thing.
It totally falls apart at the end, but, so does the comic in its own way.
All supernatural/religious stories fall part at the end, because they have nothing to say.
Their philosophical assertions aren't true.
That matters.
And it proves out in the end product.
Always does.
I just try to enjoy the ride before the crash.
Anyway, stalwart effort by Brian Yuzna.
My apologies to him.
It was a good job after all.
Final verdict of the whole multimedia entity-
Watch porn instead.
It's better for you.
Seriously.
1 comment:
"All supernatural/religious stories fall part at the end, because they have nothing to say.
Their philosophical assertions aren't true.
That matters".
Okay, let me clarify.
Stories with supernatural ELEMENTS can have things to say about the human condition, and I've enjoyed many of them.
Stores RELIANT on the bullshit to make their point, those are the ones that fall on their face.
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