You know, it doesn’t generally take much to get me excited about a movie. And when you tell me you’ve got a picture that has Paul Bettany, Charles S. Dutton, Dennis Quaid, hordes of zombie demons and ass-kicking angels, you’ve got a sale.
Oh, how all that potential is wasted in the film Legion.
File this under the “movies you should have seen but probably didn’t” category. Don’t get me wrong, it did almost $80 million at the domestic box office, so you may have seen it. But very few people I know did.
In fact, I happen to think that Knowing is yet another powerful movie from visionary director Alex Proyas (Dark City).
As it gets closer and closer to statue season, more movies are coming out on DVD (and digital download, thank you sweet redeemer) that will either be nominated for awards this year, or they damn well should have been. Moon, starring Sam Rockwell, the voice of Kevin Spacey and directed by Duncan Jones, will likely fall into the latter.
What better way to start they year (and essentially this blog) than with a look at James Cameron’s latest experiment in wallet-draining escapist entertainment.
