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[yagathai]

1) Fuck you, Randall Munroe. And I mean that even more than I did the last time. Goddamn it! Sad robots get me right in the breadbasket, every single fucking time.

2) The movie Legion has demonic possession, killer children, machine guns and a giant angry dude wearing armor and wielding a two-handed bladed mace with a spinning head and a two-foot spike that shoots out of the tip. They crucified a man upside down and (SPOILER ALERT) pumped him so full of acid that he exploded! There was a gothed-up foulmouthed jailbait character wearing boots and a miniskirt and shooting guns! Sounds great, right? And yet despite that, the damn movie somehow managed to suck and blow at the same time. It was terrible. I just don't understand it. There was a rocket launcher and everything!

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[arya.livejournal.com]

But it sounds awesome from everything you describe! And the trailer looked hilarious! (as in "I want to see, even if not for the intended reasons" kind of way)

[yagathai.livejournal.com]

I know! I don't have an explanation either.

[harrytheheir.livejournal.com]

I think they wasted most of their second act on bullshit "character" "development" scenes--I'm thinking of the Michael-Jeep "I got inspired from watching you" conversation, among others--which were both ineffective in actually developing character AND killed the momentum in between angel fights. If it hadn't dragged so much, it would have been a lot better.

[yagathai.livejournal.com]

The obviously-reshot-after-the-original-ending-tested-badly ending didn't help either, certainly.

Plus... this is the apocalypse and the best God can do is a hundred or so random possessed guys, none of whom have guns, and none of whom is, I dunno, a pilot?

[harrytheheir.livejournal.com]

Sure. But if the movie was paced better, I doubt that people would give a shit about the plausibility of a movie where angels have bullet-proof wings.

[yagathai.livejournal.com]

Point.