The trailer for LEGION will crucify you...upside down

Having now watched this trailer twice, I remain confused by Legion. It spins my head from "OMG THIS LOOKS AWESOME!" to "Holy lord this looks like straight garbage" about 8 times in its 3ish minute length. Creepy ice cream man starts us off thinking that this will be some sort of awesome creature a la John Carpenter's The Thing, followed by Paul Bettany and Dennis Quaid forming some sort of anti-awesome Station (B&T's Bogus Journey reference, holler) that instead of being super smart, is super serious and consequently super terrible.

But after two viewings I learned what this movie is...a B horror flick with a budget. Strange creatures, buckets of blood, shotty effects, uncharacteristically bad acting, this is Evil Dead injected with money and demons. Except Legion seems to take itself WAY too seriously. This script should have been handed to Sam Raimi for him to put together after Drag Me To Hell proved he still had what it takes.

There's things in this trailer that really make me want to see it; swearing, wall-crawling grandmas, 'splosions, but there's things in here that really make me not want to see it; good vs. evil schlock, Tyrese Gibson. I implore you to scope this out for yourself multiple times so you can accurately form your own opinion of what in the holy fuck you're looking at.

What do you guys make of this? I don't think I've ever been so baffled. Thanks to myspace for the embed and for /film for the exclusive image, or which they have more, so head on over.

Comments

[Metiphis]

I liked it better when it was called Demon Knight!