Priest, the second team-up of Legion director Scott Stewart and Legion star Paul Bettany, had its first trailer debut at Comic Con, and it is now online from Daily-Motion for your viewing… well I won’t say pleasure. We’ll leave it at “viewing” alone.
I will admit the trailer for Priest has the film’s production design and art direction going for it. There is the unique atmosphere of a dystopian, steam-punk, desert western with interesting architecture and vehicles. If only the world didn’t seem filled with such bland vampire nonsense- if you are in the market for even more overwrought vampire mythology and useless creature CGI (these people obviously learned fucking nothing from I Am Legend) then this is the one minute and fifty-five seconds for you.
Priest could surprise us– the incessant gang-banging of the vampire and zombie concepts have birthed a few unexpected delights. The cynical mining of an existing comic that pits a “demon possessed undead creature” (thanks Wikipedia) against demons and angels, so those elements can be replaced with a scowling Paul Bettany and boringly uniform vampires doesn’t fill my heart with hope.
The film doesn’t hit for almost a year (May 13th, 2011), but it will do so in the current trend’s requisite number of dimensions.
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The bikes and train bits looked interesting, like something out of 2000ad. The rest is fairly standard genre seafood filler. I guess stuff like this is why they're taking another swing at Judge Dredd.
Didn't make it through the first 30 minutes of Legion, won't even bother with this garbage.
"but it will do so in the current trend's requisite number of dimensions."
Lol.
This isn't what I expected the remake to Antonia Bird's priest-grapples-with-his-homosexuality movie to look like.
Who goes "Wow! It's in 3D! I've GOT to see that now because it's in 3D!" Anyone? Does anyone actually do that?
Preacher! I keep thinking this is Preacher. But no.
3D is Great! It makes everything wonderful. I step on a turd. It sucked….until I learned it was in 3D. Then it was awsome. I was ducking and shit. I can't think what's the most original idea a movie about zombies, a movie about vampires, a movie in 3D, or a movie that sucks starring Paul Bettany in a role he shouldn't be playing. And as of late he seems to keep playing the same sort of wrong part. I think I would rather see Hugh Grant play this part in his nervous British sort of way. And it would be great in 1 d
Hijos de puta los ke dicen mierda de Legion esa peli es legendaria y abra secuela… solo los ineptos amantes del cine romantico y crepusculo dirian esa mierda…. ABRAN LOS OJOS
What is it you guys get off on putting down other peoples work? Based on a 90 second trailer? Can any of you even make a trailer let alone a film?… What has anybody who has posted here ever achieved in comparison with anybody involved in the making if this film?
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