Escape to the Movies: Legion

[William Bowles]

Do people really think they're being clever by making God the bad guy? Come on. Am I the only one who finds this disturbing (and not in an dark, creepy, interesting way)?
That's just kinda wrong. And it's not a matter of what you or I believe in. You don't have to believe in something to respect it. Christianity teaches a lot of good things, even though a lot of people used it as an excuse to do some really stupid, evil things.
People can go ahead and say that a religion is corrupt, or say that God doesn't exist. But when they make God the bad guy, I say that's going too far.

Let me put it this way...
Superman first appeared in comics in 1938 (that is, unless wikipedia is screwing with me again). When X-Men first came out in 1963 (again... wikipedia) it takes place in a world where Superman doesn't exist. But how would Jerry Seigel have felt if in X-Men, Stan Lee had made Superman the main villain? See what I mean? Even as a guy who is not a fan of Superman, I'd say that that would have been a pretty scum-bag thing to do.
It also would have been plagiarism. But hey! There's no copyright on religions, so lets all f*ck up everyone else's stuff!

This is why I hate Legion. This is why I hate Bayonetta. This is why a particular video game (that shall remain unnamed) that resides in a dear and special place in my heart is also being monitored at all times by armed guards.

 

[OriginalityImpaired]

I have a massive soft-spot for this type of mythology in fiction, and apocalypses in general,
Thus a revelations-style apocalypse is my favourite,

Did that make this movie any less shitty?
Not even a little bit.

 

[OriginalityImpaired]

Note the story of Noah's Ark, where God tries to drown out the entire human race,
It's essentially the same thing,
Thus God is no less the bad guy than he's already been potrayed as in the Bible
Really most of this kinda fiction goes on the premise that "what if this great being up in the sky who created us all and is supposed to be our greatest sense of safety and comfort decides its time to put us all to the sword"
More than an anti-religious sentiment anyways
In fact, most of this fiction has nothing to do with anti-Christianity, and they just think it's a cool idea (and not quite as overdone as some other things, as far as i've seen anyways)
As MovieBob referenced it's usually just a bunch of idiot teenagers who think it would be cool to flip something like this on its head

 

[Da Joz]

Yeah this recently became available for streaming on netflix so I decided to check it out. Although it wasn't the worst movie I have ever seen it was still pretty bad. The cherub army would have been awesome.