Comments on: Interesting Character Choice for Paul Bettany

By: 1958Debs

1958Debs — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:47:07 +0000

When the early bible was describing angels, it most probably was combining Judaism with an earlier one.

By: Whore of All the Earth

Whore of All the Earth — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:12:14 +0000

Any movie with Paul Bettany can’t be all terrible.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:46:45 +0000

Again, it seems that you hate fun.

A movie that draws from Christian mythology? Oh noes… There are plenty of such movies that are entertaining.

Would you prefer we just film grass growing since it is concrete and real?

By: Matto the Hun

Matto the Hun — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:04:16 +0000

I actually remember the description that Hankins mentioned above (from the one year I attended a Catholic high school). I thought about it when I saw the trailer for this movie.

From what I can tell it looks like God behaving the same as he usually does when he gets cranky about how humans are living… he decides to murder damn near everybody.

By: neosnowqueen

neosnowqueen — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:06:39 +0000

The movie doesn’t look anti-religious, but it does look fairly heretical. Still, I like apocalypses, and I like supernatural stuff with religious themes, so while the movie will probably trigger me something wild (’cause those things I like? Also make my life hell. Long story), I’ll still see it.

On the bright side, God and most of his angels are evil, sadistic sociopaths in this movie (and *cough* in a lot of the Bible). Maybe it’ll help.

By: Quinton

Quinton — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:55:11 +0000

Too bad this movie looks like it will be terrible.

By: Hankins

Hankins — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:52:11 +0000

The best anti-religious propaganda is actually the propaganda put forth by the fundamentalists themselves, but looked at in a logical light. See Jesus Camp.

I think when people see how those cute little romanticized Cherubims were actually described in the bible, they’ll be a bit confused.

“The biblical prophet Ezekiel describes the cherubim as a tetrad of living creatures, each having four faces: of a lion, an ox, an eagle, and a man. They are said to have the stature and hands of a man, the feet of a calf, and four wings.”

By: Calvin

Calvin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:21:23 +0000

I realized this a really long time ago, haha.

I don’t think Legion is gonna be anti-religious. Only people who want it to be anti-religious will think it is.

By: Twewi

Twewi — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:16:43 +0000

That movie actually strkes me as being fairly anti-religious. Basically, it looks like it’s telling the Christian mythology in horror format with god as the antagonist, while showing everyone that he’s kind of a dick.