So this isn’t going to be a very long post, and I know it’s a day late, but it’s Easter, so I’m calling in a Holiday.

Now, if you’ve ever read the book as a child, you may be into this film. It’s kind of fun, seeing all the memorable monsters coming to life, and since they used suits instead of CG, it makes it that much better.

That being said, it’s really the best part of the movie. The main character Max, was hard to get attached to. The kid has a good life, his mother loves him, and gives him a good home, he has toys, a dog, everything a kid that age could every want or need. But his sister’s friend wrecks his igloo, and his Mom has company and can’t play with him, so he flips out and runs away from home. He’s a brat.And the monsters are the same, none of them are characters you can connect with, and the one that is the most relatable gets ignored for the majority of the movie.

Now, this isn’t to say that it’s not a decent movie. There are definitely people who would appreciate it a lot more than I did. I wont recommend this movie, but only because I wasn’t very impressed. But if your child at heart is still bugging you, it’s not absolutely horrid.

Either way, later.

My friend and I had been waiting since September of oh nine to see this movie, and it was well worth the wait. Legion is among the most intense apocalyptic movies I’ve seen in a long time. I have very little complaints.

The story follows a group of people at a gas station diner in the middle of nowhere desert. Among them are the father and son team that run the place, a one handed chef, a pregnant waitress, and some travellers seeking car repairs and directions the hell out of there.

It seems like a pretty normal situation until an old lady shows up, and tells the pregnant woman that her baby is going to burn. Shit turns crazy when the old lady takes a bite out of one of the travellers necks and climbs the walls in a straight-out-of-the-exorcist style scene.

When she’s finally taken care of with a comically stereotypical shot fired from the token black guys concealed weapon, a stranger shows up. Michael. Now, Michael is a complete bad ass angel who’s chosen to go against God’s word.

What I like most about Legion is the way it takes on the explanation of the situation. In other films when a character asks the main badass what’s going on, they take five or ten minutes and explain the whole ordeal. Michael does that, but he seems hurried the entire way through, which is the way it should be. Angels are coming to kill you, and you’re sitting around discussing it? Not on Michael’s watch.

However, little, to no explination has it’s downfalls as well. If you’re not familiar with Angelic lore at all, you’d have missed the point behind the Earth shaking sound that comes shortly before the appearance of Gabriel. In lore Gabriel is always pictured with a horn, I thought the horn blast was really well done. Very well done, you get the sense of impending doom when you hear it. But they skipped telling you what it was.

However, this is soon forgotten during the Angel fight.

I wont give away the ending, but I will say that it could have been a little less cheesy in my opinion, but it did the job. All in all a pretty entertaining end of the world scenario, I think it was worth the ten bucks just to see it on the big screen. I’m not sure if I would buy the DVD though, it feels more like a rental, or a download.

Either way, later.

So I’ve seen this movie before, but while stumbling around the Internet I came across a Google Video of Bill Maher’s Religulous. Now, I thought this the first time I watched it, but I only thought to write about it this time. Bill Maher has a good idea with this video!

However, with his good ideas of questioning the existence of God, or gods, he also doesn’t have very many arguments that are, well, good enough. If someone were questioning my belief in a certain deity, should I soundly believe in one, I would want more solid questions than “How can you believe that?”

Bill Maher scrutinizes people for answering his simple question with a simple answer. If he were to ask “How can you believe that?” and get the answer “Because I do.” Frankly I think that’s enough. If he had more complex questions, and didn’t just repeat the same one over and over, I would appreciate this film a lot more. But amoung the everyday believers, he did manage to talk to some authorities, two from the Vatican, and several from other religions as well, including Muslim, and Judism. The two from the Vatican were actually the two that offered up the best points for Maher’s side of the debate.

But again, Maher does have a good idea, and a good meaning behind Religulous. People as a whole need to stop letting religious differences get between them. The most intense war that’s been waging for centuries in the middle east wouldn’t be happening if it weren’t for religion.

It’s an interesting movie, and I would suggest watching it, if not for the ideas being tossed aroung, but for the hilarity in some of the conversations.

Religulous.