So this year I have been doing Aimee's from My Fluttering Heart Horns and Halos Reading Challenge and one of the options was including movies, which was one of the reasons I set my goal so high because I knew there were some movies I wanted to check out.....so since January I have been sneaking in a few here and few there and must say out of the lot of movies I saw The Book of Eli was my favorite.........instead of doing separate posts for each movie I will do a couple posts with multiple movies.....so onto my take of some great, not so great and absolutely dreadful movies about Heaven, Hell Angels and demons.......

This lost, forsaken, eat your neighbor world is not without hope though as Eli carries something sacred that can bring a person hope or an evil person power. He carries the only King James Bible left in the world, he also carries his gloves, a scary looking blade and never takes off his sunglasses.

During the war years past, most books were burned, all Bibles, Korans...everything. Deemed as evil the books were destroyed, but they missed one and now its Eli who carries it. For over 30 years he has traveled with it, protected it and has always been heading west. But Eli is not the only man who knows of the Book, a man named Carnegie has also been searching for it, he knows the power he would posses if he had access to it. He knows he could use it for his own desires and become the leader of the desperate and willing world. However, Eli's mission is not to give the book to Carnegie, its to take the book west and he will do anything to protect it.

I loved this movie, not only did it appeal to me because of the many dystopian elements but also because I like Denzel Washington. I thought all the actors played very realistic parts and showcased great acting and brought the characters real depth in this twisted society. The ending absolutely shocked me and left me thinking about it for days. A viciously violent movie that contains, gore, blood, cannibalism, rape and murder so not for the light heart, but all in all a great film.

Legion, 2010 by Sony Pictures

1 Star out of 5

Paradise Falls- a little gas station and diner in the middle of nowhere smack dab between a desert and some more desert. A Podunk place that serves traveling persons who happen to have the misfortune of having to eat there. The scene opens with a small staff of workers getting ready for the day to serve whomever they may encounter and begin with a snotty uptown couple with their rebellious, I think I'm a punk-rocker daughter.

Things are about to get pretty exciting for Paradise Falls, as the time of the apocalypse has come and the diners only waitress is just happening to be carrying the coming messiah. So little old ladies weary from a days travel just may happen to be flesh eating demons who say the F-word. Then gracefully scamper across the ceiling like a big twisted lizard. {reminds me of my third grade teacher}

Meanwhile the Arch Angel Michael gets thrown from Heaven and stripped of his wings, a decision he makes so he can help the human race fight against the Angels who are coming to rid the earth of the nastiness that is humans. Angels possess any unfortunate soul that passes them by and turns them into zombie type monsters hell bent on finding Charlie, the one who carries the messiah.

Ummmm how do I say this nicely.......this was without a doubt one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I mean its up there with The Crow 2 and Be Kind Rewind. It could literally melt your eyeballs out. Its a big mess of awful, with its terrible acting, cheesy plot line and horrendous theology. I think it was perhaps written by hyenas. 

Constantine played by Keanu Reeves, is a chain-smoking, exorcism-performing, living the lonely solitude existence ready to fight the good fight for his ticket to heaven. In the process of slowly dying from lung cancer, he spends most of his time sending rule-breaking demons back to hell. In this twisted little story of God verses the devil, Constantine has been born with the ability to see into the spiritual world, something that as a teenager drove him to suicide, his one way ticket to hell but Constantine was brought back and made to stay in the world...thus the whole looking for salvation, to bad about the lung cancer ticking down to his death. His few comforts in life are his cigarettes, his buddy Chas and knowing demons fear him. But instead of basking in the peace of his earthly duties, the angel Gabriel tells him his quest for salvation is hopeless. Well so much for all the demon fighting huh?

When Angela shows up in his life, looking for answers about her twin sisters death, the line between our world and the dimension of Hell cross over. Together the pair will have to defeat Gabriel and find the answers to stop the impending Apocalypse and all before Constantine dies of course.

I seriously liked Constantine, although its theology is basically laughable and its a borderline horror movie, I couldn't help but love Constantine's character. There is something about the cynical, dark superhero in a movie that I can't resist. To take this as a movie of spiritual substance would be a mistake but for a few hours of great special effects and Keanu Reeves, its worth it.