Legend (1985)
Directed by Ridley Scott
Set in a timeless mythical forest inhabited by fairies, goblins, unicorns and mortals, this fantastic story follows a mystical forest dweller, chosen by fate, to undertake a heroic quest. He must save the beautiful Princess Lili and defeat the demonic Lord of Darkness, or the world will be plunged into a never-ending ice age.
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But the main villain still feels weak like before (and keeps reminding me of the horned demon character in the old Tom Cruise movie "Legend").
It was obvious that Whedon didn’t care about Justice League ’s themes any more than Ridley Scott cared about the issues of his visually astonishing Legend (1982).
Indeed, from the beginning of the colour-drenched prologue, it's clear the film owes more to cinematic fever-dreams like Ridley Scott's Legend and Walter Murch's Return To Oz than the not-so-magical realism of 21st century fantasy like the Harry Potter franchise.
(Imagine Darth Maul crossed with Tim Curry from Legend.)
I’m the guy who still loves watching Tom Cruise chase the unicorn in Legend.
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Hogan's film is pitched somewhere between the director's cut of Ridley Scott's Legend and the ravaged theatrical version of the same, a picture at war with itself between the desire to present the source faithfully black and the instinct (or financial imperative) to appease a popular perception of the story as one without edges, a schizophrenia underscored by James Newton Howard's light-hearted musical accompaniment to the film's murder and eroticism--misdirection akin, almost, to the attendant banjo music in the rape sequences of Last House on the Left.
Since then it has sold millions of copies all around the globe, did for clowns what Jaws did for sharks and spawned an Emmy-winning miniseries in 1990 that gave star Tim Curry another signature role up there with Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Darkness in Legend .
But oddly, the Scott movie Sanders seems to have studied the closest is the director’s epic 1985 folly, Legend , with its new-agey hodgepodge of demons and goblins and Tom Cruise communing with a white unicorn.
Nor are they the graceful and tragic trophies of Darkness (Tim Curry) in Legend (1985).
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…the entire realization of the character owes more than a little bit to Tim Curry’s Darkness from Legend.
The cold clang of weapons rings through films as varied Gladiator, Legend, Kingdom of Heaven, Robin Hood, and Exodus: Gods and Kings.
…for every classic such as Alien or Blade Runner there are commercially and critically disappointing follow ups such as Legend and Someone to Watch Over Me.
It certainly is not based on movies like Legend (1985), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), or any of a half-dozen other duds; he has arguably made more bad movies than any other "great" director.
He’s bruised our brains with history books ( 1492: Conquest of Paradise , Gladiator ), enlightened our souls with the Bible ( Kingdom of Heaven , Exodus: Gods and Kings ), strangled our necks with science fiction ( Alien , Blade Runner ), scorched our nerves with real-life terror ( Thelma & Louise , Body of Lies ), and just weirded us out ( Legend , The Counselor ).
…remind us that for every The Duellists, Blade Runner and even Black Hawk Down on Scott’s résumé, there is a Legend, G.I. Jane and Hannibal.
His resume became very interesting doing such films as “Legend”, “Gladiator”, “American Gangster” and “Robin Hood”.
It’s odd that people ask that question only now, more than twenty years after the dreadful Legend and comically-bad Black Rain.
If honesty's on the table, let's just say that the only really good Scott pictures are Blade Runner , Alien , the director's cut of Legend , and the oddly exhilarating Black Hawk Down .
But he's always been more miss than hit, with such duds as Legend (1986), Someone to Watch Over Me (1987), Black Rain (1989), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), White Squall (1996), and G.I. Jane (1997).
Yeah, I know that “Legend” and “Someone to Watch Over Me” have their defenders (myself included), but that’s not the point.