Are You Saying This is the Apocalypse??

The trailer for Legion is almost certainly what convinced Dan to start this blog. It begins with a nice misdirection - the sun rising, mystical music, and then a cut to the No-Country-For-Old-Men scrub brush desert with mandatory barbwire fence. The voice over is of a sad woman reminiscing about her mother's prophesy of "a time when all the world would be covered in darkness." So, this is an artsy drama, or maybe a Michael Moore film, right?

Or is it? Next we find ourselves in a diner in Paradise Falls, and everything changes. I don't want to ruin the diner scene for you, so you should watch the trailer now:

The old woman puts this way over the top. There is one more great moment in the trailer, as you no doubt already know - "I knew He'd send you, Gabriel. You were always so eager to please Him."

The rest is, to be sure, competent trailersmanship . An angel firing two automatic weapons at once. Gabriel using some sort of modern club or flail not unlike the Witch-King of Angmar's. Dennis Quaid looking his folksiest. And the final line - "Are We Safe Now? ... No." We know where we'll be on January 22.