*** Official LEGION Discussion Thread (1 Viewer)

[todd stone]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/legion/

looks fantastic!

 

[Chuck Mayer]

I saw this when it was called Underworld It even cribs lines from The Prophecy.

I love who they got for Gabriel though.

 

[Richard Travale]

The trailer looks fantastic. I'll definitely be catching this.
I don't mind that they've nicked from Underworld and The Prophecy, I dug both of those flicks.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

I can see this film getting some serious protestors. Here you have a horror film with God as the bad guy. The trailer attached to District 9 makes the film look even more controversial than it is, since it seems to imply that Paul Bettany's protagonist is Lucifer and the pregnant woman is carrying the Antichrist. In fact:
Paul Bettany plays the archangel Michael, who has turned away from God to ensure the Second Coming of Christ, who will be born to the pregnant woman in the trailer. This will probably cause its own controversy since it pits the archangel of mercy that many Jews hold as their advocate against Gabriel, the archangel that revealed the Qur'an to Mohammed.
With all of that being said, I found the trailer disturbing but completely compelling. Are we to believe the old lady in the diner with the Exorcist-esque lobster walk up the walls is also an angel?

 

[TravisR]

Originally Posted by Adam Lenhardt

I can see this film getting some serious protestors.

Controversy is great free marketing so I'm sure they're hoping for it. Especially since the people that would protest a movie would probably have never seen this anyway.

 

[DaveF]

Saw the preview last night. In its opening seconds, I thought it was a sequel to Constantine which excited me. But as it went on it looked pretty horrible. God as the bad guy and presumably the unborn spawn of satan is the hero. No thanks.

 

[JediFonger]

face contortion fx is still not good enough imho =P. it needs to be more subtle than what it is here =P anyways, it's prolly another piece of entertainment. similar release date patterns as Constantine BTW =).

 

[MattFini]

This looked like it could be kind of fun, but more than that I found myself wishing that they'd release a 16x9 version of The Prophecy.

 

[Andy Sheets]

When God loses faith in Mankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse.

I think I did that in that old computer game, Populous...

The movie looks entertaining although the demonic senior citizen scampering around the diner at the beginning was more funny than unnerving.

 

[Phil Florian]

Originally Posted by Andy Sheets


I think I did that in that old computer game, Populous...

The movie looks entertaining although the demonic senior citizen scampering around the diner at the beginning was more funny than unnerving.

Hey, they should make a POPULOUS movie! If they can do MONOPOLY and whatever other board games why not that fun computer game? Anyway, I loved the demonic senior citizen scene. I think the movie looks to be too much of a PROPHECY retread as I was hoping for a group of people stuck in a diner fighting of crazy old people instead.

I think if they want to do a cool Satan-as-good-guy movie they should do an adaptation of Moorcock's WARHOUND AND THE WORLD'S PAIN which is a cool novel wherein Satan hooks up with a hero (from 1600's? Can't remember now) to help him find the Holy Grail to get back in the good graces of God. Cool!

 

[Brett_M]

If the movie is as bad as that trailer, I'll be very disappointed. Great premise poorly executed (so far).

 

[Jerome Grate]

Count me out of this one. The concept of fighting angels, then these angels turn into demon like monsters, doesn't make any sense to me.

 

[mattCR]

With a little bit of "Actraiser" mixed in, don't you think?

Yeah, what this really looks like is "The Prophecy" but not neary as good.

 

[todd s]

The tv show Supernatural has been doing this for the past season. Angels have been causing trouble while God is not paying attention.

 

[Gary Hightower]

Cheesey looking movie. Won't be getting my cash.

 

[Ron-P]

While I won't see this in the theater I'll blind-buy the Blu-ray, looks just too damn cool...and lots of fun.

 

[RobertR]

The whole concept sounds incredibly stupid to me:


God as the "bad guy" and a "fallen angel" as the "good guy" who, according to Adam's spoiler, is around to help ensure the second coming of Christ, which God appears to be utterly oblivious to or opposed to. WTF?? Utterly ludicrous and self-contradicting.
But I suppose some people will watch it just to see/hear neat-o fight scenes and FX. Ugh.

 

[dpippel]

Looks like a yawner to me. Maybe, MAYBE, I'll give it a rent when it hits Blu-ray.

 

[todd s]

This guy just creeps the crap out of me.

 

[EricW]

This guy just creeps the crap out of me.

that's actually a pet peeve of mine, this "skin stretching" technique has got to be the laziest type of CG in the book. it's basically a normal looking face that stretches like a rubber band. when it's unstretched, there's no skin flaps like a st. bernard or whatever. just smooth stretchable skin