Legion

I'm not usually one for religious-themed thrillers... or maybe I am, I've forgotten what I like and don't like.  Anyway, I thought I'd give Legion a shot because the DVD is selling well for my company.  And really, it's not all that bad.  The action sequences are actually pretty good, but there are a few moments that are so dull the movie comes to a screeching halt.  But you have a movie with a fairly standard set of characters, and one by one they're all killed.  All because God has decided humans aren't worthy of his love any more, so he's sent an Angel down to kill the one child who could unite humanity.  Sounds like The Terminator movies kind of.  The characters aren't anything special, and you can sort of guess who will live and who will die, but it's how they die that's interesting.  Worth a rental at least.

Mamma Mia!

The other day I was with a group of people (all Indian) and they turned on the TV to a Bollywood movie.  Now, while I'm not always against Bollywood, in this case it was on Indian TV so there were no subtitles.  I would have spent the next 2-3 hours having no idea what anyone was saying, so I asked if  I could find something else.  I started flipping through the HBO channels when Mamma Mia! showed up.  One person in the group shouted that they had just seen the first hour but never got to see the end, so could we watch?  Of course the movie had started maybe 30 seconds earlier.  So this is how I ended up watching Mamma Mia! for the first time.

All in all, it wasn't that bad.  Predictable, sure.  Pierce Brosnan singing?  Horrible, yes.  But everyone else was pretty good and the music was catchy.  The story could have been resolved in about 15 minutes, but that's OK.  It is definitely a crowd pleaser.  And Amanda Seyfried in a bathing suit for about 10 minutes is worth the price of admission.  Which in this case was zero.  Considering how bad the movies have been theatrically this summer, Mamma Mia! isn't a bad way to spend a couple of hours.