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1/23/2010 3:53 AMStray13 wrote:
God dammit. I wanted to see this tonight. btw I saw the 3 white lines on your table and i was like is that blow? I know its not i think its magic markers.... Reply to this
I have to admit that as much as I like Brad and his videos, I have sometimes thought that his constant sniffling and 'heightened' state of being pointed to an external source, if you will. Reply to this
1/23/2010 4:12 AM
Anthony wrote:
Thanks for the review. I was debating on rather or not to go see this. I'll prolly just rent it or somethin later as your suggest. Reply to this
1/23/2010 4:20 AM
bukowski1980 wrote:
I had a feeling the first time i saw the trailer for this movie that it was going to suck.it was like the writers watched the terminator, the prophecy and maximum overdrive and decided to throw all those movies into a blender and ended up with a shitty movie called legion. Reply to this
1/23/2010 4:25 AM
Rae wrote:
I'm so glad you reviewed this. I just got back home from seeing it myself with a large group of friends. Unfortunately, they didn't have the same sense of fun from the film that I did. I KNOW it's a bad movie. I KNEW it would be before seeing it, but I enjoyed it anyway.
Paul Bettany was pretty much the reason I wanted to see the movie. (Him and seeing god portrayed as an asshole not really deserving of obedience) From his first moments on screen I felt Bettany was kinda channeling Gangster No. 1 and really enjoying himself.
But I think my favorite part of the movie was the rather homo-erotic fight scene between Michael and Gabriel. Seriously, that was good, hilarious and really hot.
The movie making no sense didn't bother me much. I'm willing to just let movies exist in their own reality. What bothered me was mostly the "Jeep" character. Every moment he was on screen was a painful experience of over-acting in the worst way, in a "I'm-really-serious" way. That and it was mostly just the female characters that showed any weakness, but that's just me getting my feminist panties in a bunch. It's annoying, but I wasn't expecting ground breaking heroines in this thing.
My friends and I laughed through most of the movie, and you're lucky the audience you saw the movie laughed too. There were a couple people in the audience that complained about us being obnoxious (you know, enjoying the movie audibly). And a police officer actually walked into the theater and sat near us for a few minutes and then left. Crazy. People can be really uptight where I live. Reply to this
1/23/2010 5:08 AMVendavalEste wrote:
This one sounds like it wouldn't be out of place as an 80s actionsploitation rip-off movie, in fact it'd probably be better with those 80s effects instead of that godawful CGI. Reply to this
1/23/2010 5:20 AM
Rockabilly Dolphinman wrote:
Ok. So how was it that god didn't know about this messiah? I thought god was the one in charge of who got to became a messiah and who didn't. Why the hell would god create a messiah to fight against himself? Was this messiah created by the devil? Does this mean that Satan the good guy? What good does shooting an angel do if the angel can just keep coming back until the job is done? Is Bob Hope there to entertain the angel troops, or did he retire shorty after his death? Do they even try to answer any of these questions?
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1/23/2010 10:30 AM
CrimsonDusk wrote:
Still haven't seen the movie, but yeah I looked like a rental the first time a saw the trailer. It looks like the movie has some pretty nice scenes and premise but also some lame, really lame parts.
I think your issue with the movie that it rips off Terminators was the fact the movie has a wide release or it's playing on some cinemas. I think all of Bruno Mattei's unofficial sequels never got cinema releases, he just did his own thing with the material and never had the balls to release his movies in an American cinema when he knew it was ripping off other movies. Like The Asylum movies they profit from peoples gullibility to not check twice the title on the DVDs but they don't release the movies to cinema knowing they are knock-busters. Yeah that would seem with me an issue to have the balls to just change some minor things about The Terminator and name it Legion and than give it a cinema release and expect it to make movie.
Well look on the bright side the movie is going against Cameron's own ripping off "white guilt" and anti-war propaganda movie Avatar. So Cameron isn't a bigger saint than the Director of Legion. Reply to this
I have to admit upfront, my chances of seeing the film are slim. I love a good religious based horror/action/whatever film as much as anyone: The Omen, Prophecy, Dogma and the Exorcist are films I really, really dig, which might sound strange given that I am a Christain. However something about Legion, in addition to taking from better films (more so than I originally thought apparently), makes me think I would probably come out of the film a little ticked off. So I think I might just pass.
However, one question: did anyone else think Maximum Overdrive when they saw the trailer? Reply to this
1/23/2010 1:16 PMAlexander wrote:
If angels can be killed, do they go to heaven when they die? And if so, can't they just fly back to earth and pick up were they left off? Reply to this
1/23/2010 5:29 PM
diggerjohn111 wrote:
I was thinking the exact same thing. What happens to them after they die? Another "WTF? moment" from this movie. Reply to this
1/23/2010 1:44 PM
Matrim wrote:
"What do you have against 30 Days Of Night?"
Well, for one they took one of the greatest setups of all time and really didn't do anything with it. It had stupid characters and some of the most annoying monsters I've ever seen. But that's just my opinion. Reply to this
1/23/2010 1:41 PM
Matrim wrote:
My big problem with this film is that it has almost no internal consistency. Things happen for no explainable reason, explanation is given that contradicts other explanations that were given on the same subject, and it's really a no-win scenario (which is just a bummer).
Yeah, it was pretty. Yeah, Paul Bettany was awesome. Just about everything else was either overly confusing or completely pointless. I really wanted to like it, I really did. I just couldn't. Reply to this
1/23/2010 2:59 PM
mrwednesdaynight wrote:
I saw the trailer with killer granny climbing the walls and thats all I needed to see of this movie. That looked like the worst special effect. Down right laughable. Yet they prominently featured it in the trailer. I'll save my money. Reply to this
1/23/2010 8:23 PM
S-3 wrote:
THANK YOU, and if you care or not, GOD BLESS YOU, from saving me from this piece of religiously stupid, religious-extremist, hammy/propanganda bullshit.
If I want a good war movie, I'll look elsewhere, thanks...
As it is- my problem is not with the movies it blatantly rips off without shame(A GOOD MOVIE CAN AND WILL GET AWAY WITH THIS SHIT, PEOPLE. TRUST ME ON THIS IF YOU HOP TO BUILD KNOWLEDGE ON THI COLD HARD TRUTH). It's the fact that this movie itself just comes off as another shitty horror movie that no one, unless you're pitiably stupid- that is, needs to FUCKING see!! The trailer was my first giveaway to avoid it.
Thanks, CS, for furthuring my intuition on this BS... Reply to this
1/23/2010 8:43 PM715 wrote:
Well if angles here can go into there true forms I can see how they can win.
The Angle of death (one of them) is "so tall it would take a human 500 years to walk the distance" made out of shadows with billions of eyes (one eye for every human that with ever be born) while two other angles made out of chains, made out of fire and a mere 500 miles tall flank him. Reply to this
1/23/2010 8:47 PMMartialHorror wrote:
Yeah, I felt the same way. I thought that the characters were well written and the movie had some emotional depth, but the plot was stupid and the action was oddly, pretty lame.
I cant thinking why doesn't God just destroy the world.....He(and angels) do a lot more in the Bible. Reply to this
1/23/2010 8:54 PMJoe wrote:
I went and saw this last night. It's "The Terminator" only with angels instead of cyborgs. That's it. Nothing more. Reply to this
1/24/2010 11:05 PM
Apathetic One wrote:
This is yet another case where the trailer of a movie completely deters me from seeing it. The scene of the old lady turning into that demon/angel thing was extremely laughable... Reply to this
1/24/2010 11:51 PM
Ryan Page wrote:
I thought this looked like a horror comedy? Was it supposed to be real horror? Reply to this
1/25/2010 2:47 AM
surferboy2177 wrote:
I really didn't like this movie at all when I saw it. There was just way too many plot holes and bad writing. The story also made no sense. If god really wanted to destroy mankind why wouldn't, you know just kill them. I mean he is god right? He was able to flood the earth and kill mankind once before, why would he bother possesing people and sending angels to kill humanity when he could just unleash some mass plague or shoot down fire and brimstone and wipe us all out. It was just complete crap. Reply to this
1/25/2010 1:09 PM
torsoboy wrote:
You just have to think about it like Eugene Mirman: God is a 12-year-old boy with Asperger's. Sending angels to possess old ladies and ice cream men was the only possible solution he could think of that made any sense. Reply to this
1/25/2010 11:42 PM
Rockabilly Dolphilnman wrote:
That is the most ironic comedy bit of all time, but I don't think it was meant to be.
Keep in mind, 'The Bible' was written by normal people. Reply to this
1/26/2010 2:59 AM
ColinJ wrote:
So in this movie God has deemed mankind right for extinction?
Maybe he saw a few episodes of JERSEY SHORE. In which case, I wouldn;t blame him. Reply to this
1/27/2010 5:31 PMValdez Leel wrote:
Weird...It appears I have the same name as your cat. The sound of you gently cooing the words, "Hello Lloyd," with the warm patronising affection usually reserved for animals will haunt my dreams forever more. Reply to this
1/28/2010 4:25 AM
danM wrote:
when their heads were shaking it reminded me of Jacob's ladder or silent hill some creatures from both of those do it and i didn't think it was a bad effect Reply to this
1/30/2010 9:49 AM
Adamo wrote:
Ciao Brad! I see you like italian movies. That`s good. My name is Adamo Benassi, I am italian director, and, basing on popularity of that Legion movie, i`m gonna make a Legion II, that is quite similar to the movie you just reviewed. I wrote a script (which is quite similar to the original one, but some things are different) and I got about 1 mln $ for directing this movie. How will I do it? The action takes place in Naples (nowadays). The whole cast are italians. Most of the angels wear an italian-like mustaches and has ("Forza Italia" tatoos). The pregnant girl is also haunted by a motorcycle gang, ruled by Marco, ex-mafia member. The Carabinieri (Police) were able to defend the Naples from enemy angel army, so people here are safe for now, but in the same time Rome have fallen (there will be only few shots of destroyed building shot somewhere in a city destroyed by the earthquake - like Haiti - and included to the movie pretending to be attacked Rome). The main difference is that people are not getting possessed, but the humans are getting destroyed by the attack of regular heaven forces from heaven, which is in the sky. The heavens, attacking Italia, has rather outdated technology, so the planes they`re attacking Italia are old (from WWII). (OK, we can hire a guys from computer effects, but it`s another 50 thousands; we could use WWII archive pictures instead). So it is possible to defend big cities by Civil Guard. But the main threat is, that hell angels are going to kill that pregnant girl. As I said, she is also haunted by a gang that named also Hell`s Angels. Why the hell is going to kill the humankind savior - not the heaven, which caused all that mess? We won`t get know that from the movie, there`s nothing in the script about it. I won`t tell you the whole script, but. Anyway, the girl manages to escape the band, hides somewhere in the province and give birth to the child. Happy end in the background of sunset (or sunrise, depend when we finish the shooting). The humankind (or at least Italia) is saved. Oh. I forgot to mention about sex scenes. The main character, girl, is young lesbian, wchich periodically meets pretty girls on her way and they`re having sex, sometimes with the Fanco, black guy, very famous in the business. And how did she get pregnant? Because 1 month later she was raped by a demon named Bruno, a former SS officer. Ok, that`s enough for now, you will have to wait till the release (it will be also released with the "Angel`s revenge" and "Il grande pericolo del mondo" alternato tiles). I also planned to add the transmutation of dead nazis into the zombies but I removed it from the script, because I`m afraid we won`t have enough money. I plan to shot the movie in 8-10 weeks, so just wait till it`s done! Keep the knees for the project! Reply to this
2/5/2010 10:16 AM
nekoshema wrote:
nice review. i am a HUGE Paul Bettany fan, and that was the only reason i want to see this movie, it doesn't look that great, but he's in it. i'll probably rent it like you said.
p.s. gangster no. 1, fucking awesome, Paul was epic in that one. the ending was questionable, there were a few things i shook my head at, but still, good recommendation for people Reply to this
2/9/2010 6:21 AM
Glenn wrote:
Angels kicking backside always looks good on paper. But the films are always so ho-hum. It's like biker films. The idea of big engines, speed, nasty stuff and a great soundtrack gets you all excited. But the reality is long ponderous shots of mullet men on their hogs, some Ry Cooder style guitar playing and unconvincing beer gut fighting. With films like Legion, it's always "ooh so he's an angel and they're demons", followed by a bit of acceptable, but not great entertainment! Reply to this
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God dammit. I wanted to see this tonight. btw I saw the 3 white lines on your table and i was like is that blow? I know its not i think its magic markers....
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It's the glove on the table. Those lines run down each of the fingers.
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Don't worry, I thought the same thing.
I have to admit that as much as I like Brad and his videos, I have sometimes thought that his constant sniffling and 'heightened' state of being pointed to an external source, if you will.
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Thanks for the review. I was debating on rather or not to go see this. I'll prolly just rent it or somethin later as your suggest.
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I had a feeling the first time i saw the trailer for this movie that it was going to suck.it was like the writers watched the terminator, the prophecy and maximum overdrive and decided to throw all those movies into a blender and ended up with a
shitty movie called legion.
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I'm so glad you reviewed this. I just got back home from seeing it myself with a large group of friends. Unfortunately, they didn't have the same sense of fun from the film that I did. I KNOW it's a bad movie. I KNEW it would be before seeing it, but I enjoyed it anyway.
Paul Bettany was pretty much the reason I wanted to see the movie. (Him and seeing god portrayed as an asshole not really deserving of obedience) From his first moments on screen I felt Bettany was kinda channeling Gangster No. 1 and really enjoying himself.
But I think my favorite part of the movie was the rather homo-erotic fight scene between Michael and Gabriel. Seriously, that was good, hilarious and really hot.
The movie making no sense didn't bother me much. I'm willing to just let movies exist in their own reality. What bothered me was mostly the "Jeep" character. Every moment he was on screen was a painful experience of over-acting in the worst way, in a "I'm-really-serious" way. That and it was mostly just the female characters that showed any weakness, but that's just me getting my feminist panties in a bunch. It's annoying, but I wasn't expecting ground breaking heroines in this thing.
My friends and I laughed through most of the movie, and you're lucky the audience you saw the movie laughed too. There were a couple people in the audience that complained about us being obnoxious (you know, enjoying the movie audibly). And a police officer actually walked into the theater and sat near us for a few minutes and then left. Crazy. People can be really uptight where I live.
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This one sounds like it wouldn't be out of place as an 80s actionsploitation rip-off movie, in fact it'd probably be better with those 80s effects instead of that godawful CGI.
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Ok. So how was it that god didn't know about this messiah? I thought god was the one in charge of who got to became a messiah and who didn't. Why the hell would god create a messiah to fight against himself? Was this messiah created by the devil? Does this mean that Satan the good guy? What good does shooting an angel do if the angel can just keep coming back until the job is done? Is Bob Hope there to entertain the angel troops, or did he retire shorty after his death? Do they even try to answer any of these questions?
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN THIS MOVIE?!?!?!
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The plot sounded a lot more like Bayonetta ^_^
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Still haven't seen the movie, but yeah I looked like a rental the first time a saw the trailer. It looks like the movie has some pretty nice scenes and premise but also some lame, really lame parts.
I think your issue with the movie that it rips off Terminators was the fact the movie has a wide release or it's playing on some cinemas. I think all of Bruno Mattei's unofficial sequels never got cinema releases, he just did his own thing with the material and never had the balls to release his movies in an American cinema when he knew it was ripping off other movies. Like The Asylum movies they profit from peoples gullibility to not check twice the title on the DVDs but they don't release the movies to cinema knowing they are knock-busters. Yeah that would seem with me an issue to have the balls to just change some minor things about The Terminator and name it Legion and than give it a cinema release and expect it to make movie.
Well look on the bright side the movie is going against Cameron's own ripping off "white guilt" and anti-war propaganda movie Avatar. So Cameron isn't a bigger saint than the Director of Legion.
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Interesting review.
I have to admit upfront, my chances of seeing the film are slim. I love a good religious based horror/action/whatever film as much as anyone: The Omen, Prophecy, Dogma and the Exorcist are films I really, really dig, which might sound strange given that I am a Christain. However something about Legion, in addition to taking from better films (more so than I originally thought apparently), makes me think I would probably come out of the film a little ticked off. So I think I might just pass.
However, one question: did anyone else think Maximum Overdrive when they saw the trailer?
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If angels can be killed, do they go to heaven when they die? And if so, can't they just fly back to earth and pick up were they left off?
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I was thinking the exact same thing. What happens to them after they die? Another "WTF? moment" from this movie.
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WOE. Hold on Brad...
What do you have against 30 Days Of Night?
That rocked!
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"What do you have against 30 Days Of Night?"
Well, for one they took one of the greatest setups of all time and really didn't do anything with it. It had stupid characters and some of the most annoying monsters I've ever seen. But that's just my opinion.
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And your opinion is right.
30 DAYS OF NIGHT was crap.
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My big problem with this film is that it has almost no internal consistency. Things happen for no explainable reason, explanation is given that contradicts other explanations that were given on the same subject, and it's really a no-win scenario (which is just a bummer).
Yeah, it was pretty. Yeah, Paul Bettany was awesome. Just about everything else was either overly confusing or completely pointless. I really wanted to like it, I really did. I just couldn't.
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I saw the trailer with killer granny climbing the walls and thats all I needed to see of this movie. That looked like the worst special effect. Down right laughable. Yet they prominently featured it in the trailer. I'll save my money.
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J.T. Walsh, FTW!!
One of the greatest character actors of our time.
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i like your cat can you focus on him more in the future?
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THANK YOU, and if you care or not, GOD BLESS YOU, from saving me from this piece of religiously stupid, religious-extremist, hammy/propanganda bullshit.
If I want a good war movie, I'll look elsewhere, thanks...
As it is- my problem is not with the movies it blatantly rips off without shame(A GOOD MOVIE CAN AND WILL GET AWAY WITH THIS SHIT, PEOPLE. TRUST ME ON THIS IF YOU HOP TO BUILD KNOWLEDGE ON THI COLD HARD TRUTH). It's the fact that this movie itself just comes off as another shitty horror movie that no one, unless you're pitiably stupid- that is, needs to FUCKING see!! The trailer was my first giveaway to avoid it.
Thanks, CS, for furthuring my intuition on this BS...
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Well if angles here can go into there true forms I can see how they can win.
The Angle of death (one of them) is "so tall it would take a human 500 years to walk the distance" made out of shadows with billions of eyes (one eye for every human that with ever be born) while two other angles made out of chains, made out of fire and a mere 500 miles tall flank him.
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Yeah, I felt the same way. I thought that the characters were well written and the movie had some emotional depth, but the plot was stupid and the action was oddly, pretty lame.
I cant thinking why doesn't God just destroy the world.....He(and angels) do a lot more in the Bible.
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I went and saw this last night. It's "The Terminator" only with angels instead of cyborgs. That's it. Nothing more.
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Movie was alright, cute cat btw
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The movie is good to me...I like it!
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I really like it when the cats get screen time.
Is he named after LLoyd Kaufman?
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This is yet another case where the trailer of a movie completely deters me from seeing it. The scene of the old lady turning into that demon/angel thing was extremely laughable...
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I thought this looked like a horror comedy? Was it supposed to be real horror?
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I really didn't like this movie at all when I saw it. There was just way too many plot holes and bad writing. The story also made no sense. If god really wanted to destroy mankind why wouldn't, you know just kill them. I mean he is god right? He was able to flood the earth and kill mankind once before, why would he bother possesing people and sending angels to kill humanity when he could just unleash some mass plague or shoot down fire and brimstone and wipe us all out. It was just complete crap.
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You just have to think about it like Eugene Mirman: God is a 12-year-old boy with Asperger's. Sending angels to possess old ladies and ice cream men was the only possible solution he could think of that made any sense.
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That is the most ironic comedy bit of all time, but I don't think it was meant to be.
Keep in mind, 'The Bible' was written by normal people.
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So in this movie God has deemed mankind right for extinction?
Maybe he saw a few episodes of JERSEY SHORE. In which case, I wouldn;t blame him.
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Weird...It appears I have the same name as your cat. The sound of you gently cooing the words, "Hello Lloyd," with the warm patronising affection usually reserved for animals will haunt my dreams forever more.
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when their heads were shaking it reminded me of Jacob's ladder or silent hill some creatures from both of those do it and i didn't think it was a bad effect
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I was thinking the same thing, danM.
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Ciao Brad! I see you like italian movies. That`s good. My name is Adamo Benassi, I am italian director, and, basing on popularity of that Legion movie, i`m gonna make a Legion II, that is quite similar to the movie you just reviewed. I wrote a script (which is quite similar to the original one, but some things are different) and I got about 1 mln $ for directing this movie. How will I do it?
The action takes place in Naples (nowadays). The whole cast are italians. Most of the angels wear an italian-like mustaches and has ("Forza Italia" tatoos). The pregnant girl is also haunted by a motorcycle gang, ruled by Marco, ex-mafia member. The Carabinieri (Police) were able to defend the Naples from enemy angel army, so people here are safe for now, but in the same time Rome have fallen (there will be only few shots of destroyed building shot somewhere in a city destroyed by the earthquake - like Haiti - and included to the movie pretending to be attacked Rome).
The main difference is that people are not getting possessed, but the humans are getting destroyed by the attack of regular heaven forces from heaven, which is in the sky. The heavens, attacking Italia, has rather outdated technology, so the planes they`re attacking Italia are old (from WWII). (OK, we can hire a guys from computer effects, but it`s another 50 thousands; we could use WWII archive pictures instead).
So it is possible to defend big cities by Civil Guard. But the main threat is, that hell angels are going to kill that pregnant girl. As I said, she is also haunted by a gang that named also Hell`s Angels. Why the hell is going to kill the humankind savior - not the heaven, which caused all that mess? We won`t get know that from the movie, there`s nothing in the script about it.
I won`t tell you the whole script, but. Anyway, the girl manages to escape the band, hides somewhere in the province and give birth to the child. Happy end in the background of sunset (or sunrise, depend when we finish the shooting). The humankind (or at least Italia) is saved. Oh. I forgot to mention about sex scenes. The main character, girl, is young lesbian, wchich periodically meets pretty girls on her way and they`re having sex, sometimes with the Fanco, black guy, very famous in the business. And how did she get pregnant? Because 1 month later she was raped by a demon named Bruno, a former SS officer.
Ok, that`s enough for now, you will have to wait till the release (it will be also released with the "Angel`s revenge" and "Il grande pericolo del mondo" alternato tiles). I also planned to add the transmutation of dead nazis into the zombies but I removed it from the script, because I`m afraid we won`t have enough money.
I plan to shot the movie in 8-10 weeks, so just wait till it`s done!
Keep the knees for the project!
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nice review. i am a HUGE Paul Bettany fan, and that was the only reason i want to see this movie, it doesn't look that great, but he's in it. i'll probably rent it like you said.
p.s. gangster no. 1, fucking awesome, Paul was epic in that one. the ending was questionable, there were a few things i shook my head at, but still, good recommendation for people
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Hm. Terminator meets the Prophecy trilogy. Sounds like trashy fun to me.
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Angels kicking backside always looks good on paper. But the films are always so ho-hum.
It's like biker films. The idea of big engines, speed, nasty stuff and a great soundtrack gets you all excited. But the reality is long ponderous shots of mullet men on their hogs, some Ry Cooder style guitar playing and unconvincing beer gut fighting.
With films like Legion, it's always "ooh so he's an angel and they're demons", followed by a bit of acceptable, but not great entertainment!
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