Escape to the Movies: Legion

[JWAN]

This movie looked terrible from the first commercial. It made no sense whatsoever in the story and it force molded bible verses into place like an Iranian Mullah twists the Koran.

The book of Eli was not even on the same planet as Legion. Thats like comparing the first Willy Wonka with Gene Wilder to "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" with Jim Carry because they were both made for children. Its not even close to fair for a comparison.

 

[JWAN]

i went to book of eli with my cousin and uncle, and my cousin wanted to see this movie after that sense the theater was playing it 10 minutes after book of eli. i had just watched your review before i came to the theater, and i said i didnt want to see it. my cousin stuck around and watched while me and my uncle went home. i talked to my cousin today, and asked him how it was. he sad it was one of the worst movies hes seen in a long time. thank you moviebob, you saved my 10 bucks. however, your review of the book of eli was way to harsh. its not gonna be on my top ten favorite films like district 9 or avatar, but it was pretty damn good overall. i can understand why people wouldnt like it though, but the only real problem i had with it was the fact that they never really said what caused the apocalypse in the first place. but the twist ending fucking rocked.

The Book of Eli did something M Knight Shamalammala could never do, pull off a proper twist. I thought the Book of Eli rocked.

 

[JWAN]

I'm sorry, but just how the f**k was Spawn bad?!?

It had a religious undertone (Christian) and therefore is bad in the eyes of bob

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

Not that I'm questioning his acting skill in particular, but has Dennis Quaid ever been in a good movie? I can't think of one he's been in that I found myself remotely interested in...

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ENEMY MINE!?

Only one of the best Sci-fi movies EVER!?

I watched that movie again recently. It was cheesier than I remembered (as far as special effects and such) but the story is well told and interesting. I still enjoyed it a lot. My wife? I think she liked it pretty well, though she'd never seen it as a kid.

 

[Lullabye]

Its just a fact that anything made in japan is 10X more awesome than if it were made in anywhere else.. That or its a freaking crazy as no other than other place.. + everyone knows Japs are the only ones who can pilot Gundams so when the day comes of total war between giant robots the Japs will win!

Have you seen gundam 00? the main character is a freakin middle eastern kid! what do you mean only japs can pilot gundams? they're just the best at it.
OT: I just saw the movie and two things bothered. 1)The fuck is lucifer in all this shit? and 2) how did they fail so terribly?
MB said it wasn't so bad it was good, but I disagree. it was so bad, it turned into a romantic comedy.

 

[Tales of Golden Sun]

Won't watch it.

Question: Does anyone in the movie say: "My name is Legion, for I am many"?

 

[zaengo]

i went to book of eli with my cousin and uncle, and my cousin wanted to see this movie after that sense the theater was playing it 10 minutes after book of eli. i had just watched your review before i came to the theater, and i said i didnt want to see it. my cousin stuck around and watched while me and my uncle went home. i talked to my cousin today, and asked him how it was. he sad it was one of the worst movies hes seen in a long time. thank you moviebob, you saved my 10 bucks. however, your review of the book of eli was way to harsh. its not gonna be on my top ten favorite films like district 9 or avatar, but it was pretty damn good overall. i can understand why people wouldnt like it though, but the only real problem i had with it was the fact that they never really said what caused the apocalypse in the first place. but the twist ending fucking rocked.

The Book of Eli did something M Knight Shamalammala could never do, pull off a proper twist. I thought the Book of Eli rocked.

yeah, i liked it. and you are correct on your stance on m knight shammamalablahbloobah, i hate that guy. i only like one of his movies (the 6th sense) and that was because of the twist ending. and after youve seen it once, it loses its charm and the movie sucks again. and now hes gonna ruin avatar the last airbender. avatar ruining sum *****.

 

[zaengo]

I'm sorry, but just how the f**k was Spawn bad?!?

i would say since issue 1.

 

[LostTimeLady]

Angels aren't God's black ops team.....
EDIT: And am I the only one tired of that stupid bible quote "I am Legion, for we are many" getting quoted in places where it either doesn't belong or makes no sense

I thought I'd quote this as part of the point I am going to make. Firstly, when people make films/books/TV programmes/write poems about regilious cannon or mythology they should do their homework. Seriously though, why does Chirstianity have to be the exception to this rule.
Take the "I am Legion, for we are many" thing. If it is that miss-quoted all the time that surely is proof that somewhere down the line someone didn't take the time to look up the quote in context which was when Jesus cast out a legion of demons from a man, they went into a heard of pigs and the pigs drowned themselves in lake Galiliee.

To have the narrow view of angels somehow being 'God's black ops team' is actually quite amusing really. The 'angel of death' appears in the old testiment during passover killing the first born sons of the Egyptians, but there's more to it than that. Good grief, it's like looking at the whole Vampire myth and picking up on the rediculous accent that Dracula is always given and nothing else (yes, I realise that's a hyperbolous example).

And yes, before anyone asks, I am a Christian. I frankly can't be offended by this film as a debasement of my believes as it's so far from what Christians believe in. It would be like an astrophysist being offended by Warp drives in Star Trek. I am not going to watch it because it's not the kind of film that I enjoy, but it has nothing to do with my faith.

Oh, and one more thing, angels are never portrayed as cherabs either. Cherabin and Seraphin to my knowledge weren't cute little babies with wings. Have a look at this link to have a read about the different types of angels that are referenced in the bible:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_angelic_hierarchy#Seraphim

 

[Bourguit]

Nicely done Bob.

 

[Starrs]

Anyone know what movie or series that the picture just before Spawn comes from? I haven't seen it in this thread, or elsewhere on the boards and was curious about it.

 

[Sakon]

I actually saw this movie a few days ago. Normally I like bad movies, and goodness have I seen my share of them. This movie... was... mostly just boring. There was way too much talking and for all the dialog being thrown at us the vast majority of it was pointless babble. This movie did nothing new, reused just about every other idea in the last twenty years and didn't even do so very well. I can forgive less than stellar CGI but all in all it was just... a snoozefest.

 

[Sakon]

I'm sorry, but just how the f**k was Spawn bad?!?

It had a religious undertone (Christian) and therefore is bad in the eyes of bob

Spawn had plenty wrong with it and doubtfully Bob's issues with it had little to do with its (weak) religious under or overtones. You're just yet another religious or religiously sensitive person who can't even accept that some people don't buy into the whole faith thing so you get butt-hurt over the silliest things.

 

[JWAN]

I'm sorry, but just how the f**k was Spawn bad?!?

It had a religious undertone (Christian) and therefore is bad in the eyes of bob

Spawn had plenty wrong with it and doubtfully Bob's issues with it had little to do with its (weak) religious under or overtones. You're just yet another religious or religiously sensitive person who can't even accept that some people don't buy into the whole faith thing so you get butt-hurt over the silliest things.

My religion is important to me and you don't have to bash things you don't believe in. I don't see you people bashing Islam or Buddhism its always Christianity.
By you people I mean cowards who pick fights over the internet.

 

[Lusulpher]

After watching the trailer for this movie, I knew it that it's gonna be bad. As long as guns and violence is in place, people will watch it irregardless if it's related to religion or not.

Why even bother making this movie, 'Dogma' covered the material better. They should have just added more guns to the angel scene in Dogma.

I'm just so thrilled at the Evangelion shout out. WOOOOOTTTT!
The mechs were one third the awesome!
Live action movie in the works, WETA used their assets for those aweful Transformers disasters. I really want to see them butcher the single greatest anime of all time.[don't worry Akira and Cowboy bebop are also slated for butchering ]- ]

Spawn was terrible, now that rewatch it. But MovieBob is clearly anti-religion. I now take his reviews of films with overtones with a grain of salt, I recommend you do the same.

 

[Lusulpher]

BTW, Neon Genesis has nothing to do with Christianity. They used the names because they thought they sounded cool and non of the people involved were Christin and has third hand knowledge of Christianity at best.

What do you mean it's not symbolic? [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitlebqmxtrir9bav?from=Main.WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic]

If MB is going to invoke tvtropes, then so will I.

There's also exploiting religious source material for profit. Anno has admitted that the Christan elements sounded interesting, thus admiring he was exploiting it for all it was worth. Besides, he was just as if not more fucked up than his own characters. Depression is one thing, but making such a controversial series then saying "Fuck You!" to the fans by viciously disembowling and slaughtering the characters in End of Evangellion and then not even giving us a straight ending?

There's always a deeper pit in hell reserved for the next guy, Anno. Rest assured, there's a spaced in the ninth circle reserved especially for you.

You should click on that link. I think you'll find it interesting.

Anno is not the person who said that, it was his assistant...Anno made Wings of Honneamise, about a pilot who meets a Christian missionary, and then tries to rape her. Only to realize he is not going to Hell, he is already in it, and so is the rest of the world.

Anno, said "Freud and the Holy Bible made perfect sense, and got me OUT OF MY DEPRESSION". That was when he was asked about what saved him. Ypu will find Freud and Apocrypha gobsmacked into every crevice of Evangelion. And Nadia/Honneamise/his live action projects. It's quite clear he became a Christian back in the '70s.

And I'm finding alot of misinformation about Evangelion the last few years as waves of "fans" try to sterilize it of it's religious overtones.

Sorry for derailing but you got to end this before it becomes an Evangelion thread.
Also, RahXephon was shit. ]-

 

[Lusulpher]

"BTW, Neon Genesis has nothing to do with Christianity. They used the names because they thought they sounded cool and non of the people involved were Christin and has third hand knowledge of Christianity at best."

If nothing else, the horrible mindboggling monstrosities they call "angels" in Evangelion are a much more appropriate representation of what people assumed angels actually looked like up until just before the 20th century when the idea of "humans with wings" started taking hold in popular culture more than it did in the actual bible. At most only the absolute lowest ranks of angels actually looked like that according to christian and angelologic interpretation(I.E. inhuman monstrosities that put the C'thulhu Mythos to shame).

Apocryphal point, and game!

I'm now intrigued by the cute Angel idea now...baby cherubs...hehe.
And someone noticed the abortion aspect of this movie. So nobody at the studio actually read the Bible EVER...that's exploitation folks. Can the Bible sue?

Book of Eli should not be compared to this. That's disrespectful.

 

[pcload1etter]

Winged babies doing the killing would have been infinitely better.

 

[Sakon]

I'm sorry, but just how the f**k was Spawn bad?!?

It had a religious undertone (Christian) and therefore is bad in the eyes of bob

Spawn had plenty wrong with it and doubtfully Bob's issues with it had little to do with its (weak) religious under or overtones. You're just yet another religious or religiously sensitive person who can't even accept that some people don't buy into the whole faith thing so you get butt-hurt over the silliest things.

My religion is important to me and you don't have to bash things you don't believe in. I don't see you people bashing Islam or Buddhism its always Christianity.
By you people I mean cowards who pick fights over the internet.

I'm so sorry you think that I think Christianity is worse than Islam or any of the other silly religions. Don't worry, I think they're all equally invalid, its just that as an American I get Christ shoved in my face constantly, not Mohammad, thus it making a more logical target.

And don't pull the Martyr card, if you actually look around and pay attention all the big three get picked on constantly (Islam, Christianity and Judaism). Just because you can't be arsed to look into other opinions, cultures and whatnot doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

 

[Danglybits]

Also, up until now, I was of the opinion that Dennis Quaid was impervious to making a bad film.

Wasn't Quaid in Jaws 3D? That was a really bad movie.

He was in Jaws 3 (I didn't know it was 3D), and yes, it was easily the worst one of the franchise. Including Jaws the Revenge.


Now I really want to find or stage a Shakespeare in the Park production of Goku vs. Vegita. My life has meaning again!!

Seriously, I thought this was another zombie movie from the trailers.