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Oh God, The Prophecy II, shit on a stick.

 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
21:33 / 08.09.01
Possibly known as Gods Army II to our American friends...

Saw this on NTL's pay-per-view yesterday. God it was awful. If you haven't seen the first film I recommend it, it's brilliant, but this was just terrible. It must have been filmed on a drastically reduced budget as they had to constantly reuse scenes from the first movie, and there were no special effects shown. But everything from the first movie was there, angels balancing on chairs, angels jumping out of windows to fight other angels, Gabriel finding a nearly dead person to do his driving for him. The only thing worth watching for at all was Christopher Walken (again) and some amusing dialogue but there wasn't any new ideas (except it was a baby he was after, not a soul) it was just retread rubbish.

There is apparently a third film. Has anyone seen it, is it any good?
 
 
MJ-12
11:55 / 09.09.01
Other than Walken's one liners, no.
 
 
Johnny Mother
11:55 / 09.09.01
I have seen the Prophecy 3. It still stars Walken. Compared to three, two is a masterpice in profundity, carved in celluloid, a cinematic gem of gargantuan proportions. It's shit.
 
 
RiffRaff
10:20 / 10.09.01
A Christopher Walken Anecdote:

I met a guy who was doing production work on the set of Prophecy 3. There was one scene set in a small plaza, with a fountain in the center; whenever they weren't actually shooting film, Walken would just stand and silently stare at the fountain. He'd be acting, they'd say 'Cut', bang - he's looking at the fountain. 'Action' - bang, he's back in character, acting away.

Midday, the director calls for lunch break. Immediatly, Walken strides over to the fountain, strips down to his underwear, climbs into the fountain, and immerses himself up to his nose. He spends the entire lunch break like that, just his eyes peering over the surface of the water, watching everyone going by.

When the director calls the break over, Walken calmly climbs out of the fountain, dries off with a towel someone hands him, dresses, and walks toward the set. On the way he passes (the guy I met, can't remember his name), and says (you have to imagine the Christopher Walken voice here):

"For lunch, I was a crocodile."
 
 
grant
15:15 / 10.09.01
that's a beautiful story.
 
 
A Bigger Boat
15:49 / 10.09.01
What films have you been watching?

Is it possible that the version you saw was horribly mutilated by jealous Hollywood directors?

Since when does "and there were no special effects shown" mean that a film is bad?

Has the whole world gone MMMAAADDD????

These 3 films are one of the few true trilogies to have ever been made (that means you Indie, and you too LOTR, but not you Star Wars)

Coherent, evolving, character driven, fresh and exciting. (Except, perhaps, unfortunate Terminator 2 parallels in the 3rd film). Watch these films in context. They are all low budget. Why the hell should every film with fighting in it have to look like The Matrix these days?

Christopher Walken is the best thing in all 3 films, but he is not the only good thing in any of them.

Rent them all out. Take you phone off the hook. Watch them again.

Don't make me tell you again.
 
 
Lothar Tuppan
16:21 / 10.09.01
I dug the whole trilogy also. I thought the last one had some very nice subtle gnostic moments especially with the Angel (read 'demiurge') on top of his mountain of souls. The Angels who are mistakenly following the wrong 'god', and Gabriel's learning through becoming a descended avatar of his former self.

the straight to video sequels in this movie were light years ahead of most sequels in theatrical release.
 
 
A Bigger Boat
20:13 / 10.09.01
Thank you.
Please explain all that to me - it's sounds bloody fascinating.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
16:13 / 11.09.01
Oh come on Parliament, Prophecy II is not 'Empire Strikes back' here. It's a bland copy of the first movie at best. Most of the actors are entirely charisma free. But when you've got fight scenes which seem copied from the first movie, and special effects as well. It takes forever to get going, and their heading for Eden only for Michael to not give a toss and a ridiculous 'fight' scene between Gabrielle and the woman. It's crap.
 
 
Jamieon
16:26 / 11.09.01
This is amazing!

I have never met anyone that liked any of these movies (they are so notoriously shit); yet here, on Barbelith, debate rages as to which is better, The Prophecy or its sequels.

Weird.
 
 
Johnny Mother
18:31 / 11.09.01
BTTF is the trilogy to end all trilogies my friend
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
18:23 / 12.09.01
The Prophecy I is pretty good, mainly because Walken is backed up by Eric Stoltz and Viggo Mortenson and it has Crazy Eddie from Friends series 2. What more do you need?
 
 
A Bigger Boat
16:33 / 13.09.01
I'm pushed for time here, but I do want to respond. Please accept apologies for UTTER SHITNESS of this post.

BTW, Prophecy 1, 2 & £ good.

Star Wars 1 & 3 bad.

Of course it's no Empire Strikes Back, but what is? Have you seen that film lately, or are you remembering it with those spectacles whose lenses are an off-red hue commonly referred to as rose?

again apologies for UTTER SHITNESS
 
 
A Bigger Boat
16:34 / 13.09.01
Fuck, sid '£' when I meant '3'.

Itchy shift finger.
Sorry again.
 
 
A Bigger Boat
16:36 / 13.09.01
'sid'?

must read words before clicking on 'add reply'.

Of course I realise that this debacle detracts greatly from anything serious I may haveto say about these films later.
 
 
Jack Fear
16:39 / 13.09.01
Y'know, you can edit your posts after the fact by clicking on the little pencil & paper icon.

Just soze ya know.
 
 
A Bigger Boat
16:50 / 14.09.01
cherrs
 
  
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