The greatest movie of all time. Okay, the second greatest movie of all time. Okay, maybe we just want to be entertained. We all know that Neil Marshall will be able to pull magic out of a hat one more time, right? Right?! This may or may not be it, but am looking forward to it anyway. And besides, Olga Kurylyenko isn't hard on the eyes.
Centurion update.
Less historical accuracy and more hollywood extravagance will ruin this movie. Marshall has a problem with restraint.
I thought The Descent was pretty restrained.
I think he gets shit on due to Doomsday (a movie which I watched on DVD with some friends and beers and found to be pretty g'damn entertaining in truth). I can completely understand people's dislike of the movie, but I kinda took it as an 80's homage, and in that sense it seemed right on the money in terms of being nutty and over the top. I just recently watched Mad Max 2 again... Ass-less leather chaps and a feral kid with a razor-rang. I mean... It was a loopy decade.
The basic idea and setting sounds neat. Have yet to see anything by Marshall, even "The Descent", so I don't know how he'll deal with extravagance over restraint, although in terms of era and genre he seems to jump around in a healthy manner thus far.
I wonder what part Sean Pertwee will play and what sort of gloriously horrible death Marshall has in store for him.
Man, been waiting for years for someone to do something with the Ninth Legion. famously lost in the mists beyond Hadrian's Wall in the dying days of the Roman occupation of Britain, historians have speculated on their fate. I've wanted to see something filmed on this since reading Rosemary Sutcliff's enduring classic novel Eagle of the Ninth as a kid. I hope this has more in common with Dog Soldiers and The Descent than Doomsday.
As much as I love Marshall's output so far, I personally hope he's got all the nods and winks to scenes from his favourite movies out of his system and can concentrate on making something a little more original. Either way, count me in on opening night.
I loved the Descent, and had a blast with Doomsday, so I have high hopes for this.
In Dean R. Koontz' "Phantoms" (the book) wasn't it a giant amoeba which ate the 9th legion?
Would be fun (hokey, but fun!) if that's the direction Marshall is thinking in...
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