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Having watched Legion (2010), an apocalyptic supernatural thriller film, I am reminded of Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006). Yes. I know that is bizarre. Hear me out.
In that flick, there is a memorable scene where John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell engage in their now famous "Baby Jesus" argument. John C. Reilly (can't remember his character's name), said something like, "I like my Jesus to be in a rock band, with a band of angels behind him, and I am in the front row drunk off my ass..." Okay, I may have botched that quote (feel free to add the correct quote in our forums).
Legion is in some ways just like John C. Reilly's rock band vision of heaven in Talledega Nights. Only, in Legion the angels kick ass, shoot machine guns, fight hordes of zombie-like humans--they are assassins with wings!
Directed by Scott Stewart, written by Peter Schink and re-done by Stewart Legion is a competently made flick. Paul Bettany, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson, Adrianne Palicki, Kate Walsh and Dennis Quaid round out the cast. Yeah, that is right: Dennis Quaid. He plays a fry cook. I got no problem with the cast.
To be fair, there are some campy gems. Probably my favorite scene was at the clichéd roadside diner, where a clichéd nice old lady told a clichéd pregnant waitress that because she is not married, "...her fucking baby was going to burn in hell." They quickly find out she is a zombie-like creature and have to mangle her in the diner. Thus, begins a fucked-up end-of-days scenario, where angels come to wipe out humanity, becuase God fell asleep at the wheel of fate or something.
Exactly why we are all turned to zobmie-like creatures was not clear, but I could give two flying angel-winged shits about that. Legion is more or less masturbatory fantasy with no real cohesivness. It's aim is to simply paint a two hour movie picture of somethign you would likely find in a comic book nerd's notebook; you know, the spaz who could draw well, and always sat in the back of the room in school - this is that type of dude's movie. Not that I am complaining. After all, there aer dorky nerds and cool nerds. In fact, I might just be one of the later.
But, if we are going to talk about a damn plot, well, I'll have you know that the last bastion of defense is the diner. Luckily, they are aided by Michael, God's second in commmand, who feels that the Big Cheese really doesn't want to wipe out humanity. He then decides to fight for them.
So is it a good film? Well, if you like your jesus to be in a rock band and you are in the front row drunk off your ass, then yes, you will enjoy Legion.
So is it good? I guess it is entertaining. I wouldn't say it is good.
Editor's Note: This is what I like to call a shot gun blast movie review. It would be the equivalent of a stub article on Wikipedia. The idea is why wait forever to get this stuff out of my head... When, it can at least be crawled by the Gods sooner rather than later. Anyway..
The Wolfman was a much better movie than I expected it to be. Based on the originally lackluster reception it garnered, my expectations were sufficiently lowered. However, The Wolfman was pretty damn good - solid in acting, cinematic elements, what have you. The gore was great. Many heads and body parts get cleaved, mauled, ripped apart, tossed, and more.
Benicio del Toro was well cast as the Wolfman. He has that weird look about him that makes him a good choice for a doppelganger. Anthony Hopkins was brilliant as he typically is in these sorts of films (i.e., Bram Stoker's Dracula). I won't go into all the detail about the plot, but generally you can figure it out from the title. Dude is a wolf.
Perhaps I enjoyed it more because it hearkens back to a day when creatures of the night were not thinly veiled metaphors for social outcasts and angst-ridden teens. There is no freaking Team Jacob. Just the Wolfman. In the Wolfman, you get your damn head bitten off. Yes, he had a loved interest. He told her to beat it to London, because he knew that when the Moon was high in the sky, she was next. Solid flick. Unexpected. King.
Pet Sematary is campy, yet somehow strangely entertaining flick bordering on total schlock and a complete waste of time. It is not a good haunted house flick, but it is entertaining. There is something of Stephen King’s trademark touches on the movie, which saves it from total collapse (as well there should be, since he wrote the screenplay as well as the book this film is based upon). The presence of legendary actor Fred Gwynne (a.k.a. Herman Munster) really helped rescue it from total failure as well.
As the film opens, a new family is arriving in a rural Maine town. Quite an original opening for a haunted house film, eh? The father of the family is Louis Creed (Midkiff), an MD, who is relocating his tribe here to become the new town doctor. The Creeds settle on a house that is by the side of a dangerous road (and not a friend to man). Foreshadowing is quite heavy as large powerful trucks race along this highway.
I am not so sure The Lovely Bones is a ghost movie in so much as a sentimental film, much in the same spirit of Ghost, the classic 1990 movie which featured the legendary Patrick Swayze-Demi More pottery making scene. The Lovely Bones does involve a haunting from beyond, but from beyond with a blissful smile. Well, at least until the spirit remembers it was murdered, it was blissful. The Lovely Bones was not as a good as Ghost, but it was not bad. Not real bad at least.
In The Lovely Bones a 14-year-old girl is murdered and she tells us this through narration. Her name is Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan). With the last name of a fish I inclined to think the character’s last name has much metaphorical weight as in this girl is going to make a journey to say the least.
It is always delightful to discover a gem of a film perhaps lost in today’s deluge of blood and gore. Such is the case with the The Legend of Hell House, which first haunted the silver screen in 1973. Starring a horror legend himself, Roddy McDowall, The Legend of Hell House is the classic, if not clichéd, story of the atypical haunted house and the team of investigators sent to go prove if it is haunted or not; the experts, if you will, concerned with a supernatural task. I mean isn’t this the plot of most Scooby-Doo episodes? It doesn’t matter.
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Having watched Legion (2010), an apocalyptic supernatural thriller film, I am reminded of Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006). Yes. I know that is bizarre. Hear me out.
Editor's Note: This is what I like to call a shot gun blast movie review. It would be the equivalent of a stub article on Wikipedia. The idea is why wait forever to get this stuff out of my head... When, it can at least be crawled by the Gods sooner rather than later. Anyway..
Pet Sematary is campy, yet somehow strangely entertaining flick bordering on total schlock and a complete waste of time. It is not a good haunted house flick, but it is entertaining. There is something of Stephen King’s trademark touches on the movie, which saves it from total collapse (as well there should be, since he wrote the screenplay as well as the book this film is based upon). The presence of legendary actor Fred Gwynne (a.k.a. Herman Munster) really helped rescue it from total failure as well. 
I am not so sure The Lovely Bones is a ghost movie in so much as a sentimental film, much in the same spirit of Ghost, the classic 1990 movie which featured the legendary Patrick Swayze-Demi More pottery making scene. The Lovely Bones does involve a haunting from beyond, but from beyond with a blissful smile. Well, at least until the spirit remembers it was murdered, it was blissful. The Lovely Bones was not as a good as Ghost, but it was not bad. Not real bad at least. 
It is always delightful to discover a gem of a film perhaps lost in today’s deluge of blood and gore. Such is the case with the The Legend of Hell House, which first haunted the silver screen in 1973. Starring a horror legend himself, Roddy McDowall, The Legend of Hell House is the classic, if not clichéd, story of the atypical haunted house and the team of investigators sent to go prove if it is haunted or not; the experts, if you will, concerned with a supernatural task. I mean isn’t this the plot of most Scooby-Doo episodes? It doesn’t matter.