ToyMachine228
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Just finished the graphic novel. Judging from what I've seen in the trailers I take it that the film version is quite a bit different. Regardless I think my dad and I are going to go see it this weekend.
Rotten Watch: I Am Legend
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I just realized that the greatest ending ever for this movie would have been
creating super cancer to destroy the cure for regular cancer.
Dali said:
Ikael said:
These two posts pretty much sum up my feelings on the movie.
I wouldn't have minded if the move was an extra 20-30 minutes and went through an overview on the transition of what we know as the normal world to what was the present day in the movie.
Also, I would've have preferred real actors with a mix of a little bit of cgi to handle the creatures.
there are quite a lot of plotholes, the ending is meh, and i'd rather have zombies be real people like in 28 days later. but, overall, i liked it, and smith was pretty good. i wish they'd shown a bit more of what happened after
, though, because i'd like to have seen more of what happened after the outbreak.
the choppah crashed etc.
Watched it a few days ago, can't help but feel like I would've enjoyed it better if they'd called it something else (a la Charlton Heston's Omega Man from 1971).
The script writers either didn't read the book, didn't get it, or just didn't give a damn because it isn't even remotely like the book in any way other than setting and lead character's name.
Hopefully someday the real "I Am Legend" movie will be made, but this wasn't it. Its an ok movie in its own right but is only hurt by the association with one of the great stories of our century.
The script writers either didn't read the book, didn't get it, or just didn't give a damn because it isn't even remotely like the book in any way other than setting and lead character's name.
Hopefully someday the real "I Am Legend" movie will be made, but this wasn't it. Its an ok movie in its own right but is only hurt by the association with one of the great stories of our century.
Visualante
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Fantastical, except the ending. Will Smith is very respectable, he's elevated onto my list of films I will see just if he's involved in it now.
I'm quite indifferent about the use of CG really, I think the exaggerated screaming was a bit much in terms of animation.
I feel a few moments might have been left on the cutting room floor: eg. Smith explaining his computer records and research a bit more, and maybe they borrowed a little too much from Lost (or whoever Lost stole from).
I'm going to read the book, which I should have done first but I can't be bothered to pay inflated movie-book prices. It is pretty much an American take on 28 days later (huge success, lets copy that) but that considered they did a fantastic job.
Film of the year, tied with Zodiac.
I'm quite indifferent about the use of CG really, I think the exaggerated screaming was a bit much in terms of animation.
I feel a few moments might have been left on the cutting room floor: eg. Smith explaining his computer records and research a bit more, and maybe they borrowed a little too much from Lost (or whoever Lost stole from).
I'm going to read the book, which I should have done first but I can't be bothered to pay inflated movie-book prices. It is pretty much an American take on 28 days later (huge success, lets copy that) but that considered they did a fantastic job.
Film of the year, tied with Zodiac.
Dynamite Shikoku
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Holy shit this movie sucked. God that ending was fucking laughably terrible.
Stoney Mason
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Visualante said:
Wow. That's the most unlikely top two ever...
Loved Zodiac. Not this film at all.
just watched it last night, I was thinking "I, Robot" level of shit, but my mates, who pressured me into it, were all up in the air about it. I was pleasantly surprised, but it was very apparent there was a lot of potential, and probably a million different rewrites by different writers, etc. I did love some things though, like the dark building and the leader character.
But they had waaay too much dialog, dialog should have been kept at a minimum, essentially the video diary and moments of desperation. Also the CGI was poop, they should have used make-up, but even more they should not have exposed them so often and so strongly. the first we see of a group in the dark building was a very good exposure I think. Sad to see all this potential wasted. :\
Should I read the book, being that I've seen the film, am I spoiled to some of the major shit?
But they had waaay too much dialog, dialog should have been kept at a minimum, essentially the video diary and moments of desperation. Also the CGI was poop, they should have used make-up, but even more they should not have exposed them so often and so strongly. the first we see of a group in the dark building was a very good exposure I think. Sad to see all this potential wasted. :\
Should I read the book, being that I've seen the film, am I spoiled to some of the major shit?
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jesus will smith is in shape huh.
the bit with finding his dog was great, would have liked to have seen a few of the smart ones in action though. They didn't really cover that. The half a movie thing that someone mentioned was pretty right I think.
I liked his house, despite how worthless it actually was :lol
28 days later was quite a lot better though.
the bit with finding his dog was great, would have liked to have seen a few of the smart ones in action though. They didn't really cover that. The half a movie thing that someone mentioned was pretty right I think.
I liked his house, despite how worthless it actually was :lol
28 days later was quite a lot better though.
BlueTsunami
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I liked it, alot. Its one of those movies for me where the bits of good acting and vista made me forget about the horrible stuff (CG infected humans, should have gone with real people and CG for the acrobatic shit).
Will Smith was AWESOME in this movie
Oh and the Dark Knight trailer was fucken sweet
Will Smith was AWESOME in this movie
the scenes where hes chasing his dog, when hes trying to talk to the mannequins, when his dog dies (oh my fucken god was that scene painful, I won't lie, I almost teared up) and when hes trying to get the mannequin to say hello (effects isolation and losing his only companion boiling over).
From when he meets the lady and the boy and till the end, the movie basically fell apart for me.
Oh and the Dark Knight trailer was fucken sweet
Watched it yesterday first half was good the next 20 minutes the movie gets lost and goes a bit weird though the ending had a satisfying resolution. I say its a good movie nothing special but defiantly worth seeing. Though in saying that all the scenes with the lady, her son and Will Smith in the movie are utter crap like when
I will have to see it again to pass proper judgment
Will first wakes up and eats at the table "I was saving the bacon" :lol and that shrek bit were so stupid. Not to mention the god/angel stuff that was going on
I will have to see it again to pass proper judgment
James Power
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So basically Will Smith is a black model, an athlete who works out several hours a day, he has the rank of a General in the U.S. Army, he is a medical doctor but not just some general practitioner, he's able to do top of the line research on unproven grounds, he's scouting the city every day, plays with his dog, catches and kills zombies, all that during a typical 12 hour sunlit day mind you and he still finds the time to watch DVD's for eight hours a day? Alright. :lol
BlueTsunami
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James Power said:
Fresh Prince fo ya'. Nigs came up from Philly straight to Bell Air and goes on to this shit. Will Smith movies are better when you think of the characters origins in that way
Wellington
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?BlueTsunami said:Fresh Prince fo ya'. Nigs came up from Philly straight to Bell Air and goes on to this shit. Will Smith movies are better when you think of the characters origins in that way
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Wellington said:
Oops :/ Yeah I meant it that way but didn't think it would be frowned upon
Spinning Plates
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James Power said:
I think he has weekends off which he spends watching DVD's.
James Power
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James Power said:
I forget he's also a handy craftsman who can build a laboratory and various defence mechanisms.
Just got back from seeing the movie. I'm really not sure how to describe it honestly. The good parts
are pretty fucking good.
. After that it slides a little bit, but I'm not too bummed, even with the ending. I was kind of surprised to see them diverge from the book so much towards the end but not disappointed. Trying to shoehorn the extra action in there hurt it a little.
mostly from when the movie really starts (after the Mustang ride through the city) to where Anna shows up
The scene from when Robert sprung the trap to Sam saving him to having to kill her and then his precipitous fall off the edge of sanity may have been the best 20-25 minutes of film I've seen this year
Green Shinobi
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Yes, certain things about the book wouldn't work as well in a movie, but I think the book's ending would have worked quite well. They could have even done it in a Shyamalan twist kind of wayJdFoX187 said:
Oh my god, the vampires are intelligent now?!? I'm the monster to them?
Darko
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saw it again,the third act works well
as a comedy :lol , ppl were cracking up at the "THEYREDEAD! THEYRE ALL DEAD!" , Bob/Damien Marley, Terrible Cgi, Overly long Shrek bit, basically anything after the scene where he goes back to the video store and speaks to the manniquen is trash.... and the last little speach "this is his legend" :lol :lol :lol
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Saw the movie today.
As an adaptation of the novella it was horrible hinging on unrecognisable. As a movie it was watchable but hardly anything memorable until the last part of the film where it became a pamphlet for Christianity.
What a joke.
As an adaptation of the novella it was horrible hinging on unrecognisable. As a movie it was watchable but hardly anything memorable until the last part of the film where it became a pamphlet for Christianity.
What a joke.
phillipgessert
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This is pretty OT, but damn man I'm pissed right off and want to make sure I'm not crazy or someshit.
So this buddy and I have a routine of watching zombie movies every Friday, we've done it for probably like 6 months now. We've seen most all of the classics, and quite a few of the crappy ones as well. It's been fun.
So when this movie comes out I do some research on it and start hyping the hell out of it to my friend. This was when they were still showing just the short teasers on TV. We both got the book, rented Omega Man and downloaded Last Man on Earth (from internet archive), and just generally started getting worked up and ready to see this one.
So I get online a minute ago and I see I have a message from the dude and it bascially says he's cancelling our Friday zombie movie routine tomorrow to see this movie with some dude he works with. And I'm like all crushed and shit because
a)Fridays are zombie days, man shit
b)This is essentially a zombie movie
c)I'm the one that hyped it
d)We had plans to see the damn thing
And it feels pretty wierd to get all pissed because I mean this is essentially equivalemt to like 'poker night' or some shit but its a damn routine that I enjoy and this is some inconsiderate shit. Am I unreasonable for getting damn furious here?
So this buddy and I have a routine of watching zombie movies every Friday, we've done it for probably like 6 months now. We've seen most all of the classics, and quite a few of the crappy ones as well. It's been fun.
So when this movie comes out I do some research on it and start hyping the hell out of it to my friend. This was when they were still showing just the short teasers on TV. We both got the book, rented Omega Man and downloaded Last Man on Earth (from internet archive), and just generally started getting worked up and ready to see this one.
So I get online a minute ago and I see I have a message from the dude and it bascially says he's cancelling our Friday zombie movie routine tomorrow to see this movie with some dude he works with. And I'm like all crushed and shit because
a)Fridays are zombie days, man shit
b)This is essentially a zombie movie
c)I'm the one that hyped it
d)We had plans to see the damn thing
And it feels pretty wierd to get all pissed because I mean this is essentially equivalemt to like 'poker night' or some shit but its a damn routine that I enjoy and this is some inconsiderate shit. Am I unreasonable for getting damn furious here?
Adol said:
No, I'd be really pissed too. I don't think your friend knew it mattered that much to you though, or he wouldn't do something inconsiderate like this. You should tell him you're angry about it.
Also, I liked I Am Legend. Maybe not what it was hyped up to be, but a very enjoyable movie nonetheless.
AtomskEater
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I actually kind of kept waiting for some of the book's plot to kick in
But from what I'd heard previously, I guess I shouldn't have expected much.
I cried like a little bitch at
And WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE FRED was :lol worthy.
Not a bad movie, but it was much better before the lady and her kid showed up.
such as what's-his-face getting taken as a prisoner by the zombies that one scene where he ambushed them at night and finding out that he is the monster, omg.
I cried like a little bitch at
Sam's death.
And WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE FRED was :lol worthy.
Not a bad movie, but it was much better before the lady and her kid showed up.
phillipgessert
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Oh I did, I had a damn meltdown. That's why I posted, wanted to make sure I wasn't nuts.Stridone said:
And yeah it looks like reactions are mixed, but it can't be worse than The Quick and the Undead. We've been scraping the bottom of the zombarrel.
Finally saw the movie. Two things I didn't understand or just bugged me:
Also,
1. At the end he seemed surprised when he heard the vampires outside and realized they must have followed them to his house. But at the beginning of the movie he heard them outside and reacted as though it happens every night. What's up with that?
2. At the end, if that one vampire thing that had it out for him was smart enough to set traps and stuff, wouldn't he have gotten the fuck out once he saw Neville pull the pin out of a grenade instead of continuing to bang on the glass? eh, just a continuity problem in the creature's intelligence I noticed.
2. At the end, if that one vampire thing that had it out for him was smart enough to set traps and stuff, wouldn't he have gotten the fuck out once he saw Neville pull the pin out of a grenade instead of continuing to bang on the glass? eh, just a continuity problem in the creature's intelligence I noticed.
Also,
I think they should have stuck more with the vampire theme and not so much with a generic zombie theme for the monsters since it would have better explained certain things about the monsters, such as the adverse reaction to UV light. I just accepted it probably because I'd read the book and still thought of them as vampires, but had I not read the book I probably would have found that kind of random and a little too 'convenient' for the plot.
Mike Works
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man, i'm not one of those guys/nerds who goes nuts when a movie doesn't fully follow the book it was based on, but they changed the entire reason the movie was called I Am Legend
that's just terrible
that's just terrible
ToyMachine228
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I never posted here that I saw the movie...After finishing the graphic novel recently I can't say I like the direction they took the movie as opposed to the book. If I were Director I would have at least kept a lot of the elements from book in the movie such as [spoilers]Ben Cortman, them gathering outside every night and Neville losing his mind, the girl actually being part of a new society, the ending etc...[/spoiler]But that said I didn't think the movie was bad at all. It was drastically different from the book and was something different entirely.
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demon said:
1. He was scared because they knew exactly where he lived at the end. In the beginning they were just running everywhere.
2. The darkseeker was learning new things. He wasn't smart enough to know what a bomb was. But he could learn and that's how he made that trap.
2. The darkseeker was learning new things. He wasn't smart enough to know what a bomb was. But he could learn and that's how he made that trap.
mckmas8808 said:
1. Still, as soon as he heard them that last night, it was as if he instantly knew they had followed them. How was it any different from any other night?
2. Okay, I guess so, but I still don't buy it. They had the intelligence to learn from one trap and set up their own, but they have no memories of what a grenade is? Whatever. They should have just stuck to the book more as far as the vampires IMO. I was just disappointed that I didn't get to see Ben Cortman running out of the darkness at Neville, yelling his name.
2. Okay, I guess so, but I still don't buy it. They had the intelligence to learn from one trap and set up their own, but they have no memories of what a grenade is? Whatever. They should have just stuck to the book more as far as the vampires IMO. I was just disappointed that I didn't get to see Ben Cortman running out of the darkness at Neville, yelling his name.
Pretty much.Mike Works said:
I got not problems with taking significant liberties in adaptations and I don't expect them to live up to the book. But to completely and totally diverge from the very nature of the book, just to turn it into a fluff piece like they did?
Weak attempt.
You know how you make I Am Legend right?
You hire Andrew Kevin Walker to write it and M. Night Shamylan to direct. You can even have Will Smith star still. Your end result would be arguably the greatest sci-fi thriller of all time.
demon said:
I'm a little hazy on what happened toward the end of the movie. It's been a couple weeks since I saw it. But the screams were a lot louder at the end and were more concentrated rather than at night when they were off in the distance. I could be wrong. And he also was telling the woman to be careful when she was taking him home, so that was probably in the back of his mind.
And as far as the Dark Seeker at the end. I don't think he cared whether he lived or died. All he wanted was Neville for taking his mate or girl or whatever you want to call it. He'd rather die than let Neville go. So I think he was just going to do whatever it took, even if that meant sacrificing himself.
And as far as the Dark Seeker at the end. I don't think he cared whether he lived or died. All he wanted was Neville for taking his mate or girl or whatever you want to call it. He'd rather die than let Neville go. So I think he was just going to do whatever it took, even if that meant sacrificing himself.
Mike Works
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The thing is, I liked a lot of things the director did with the movie. The mannequins, the dog being his sole companion from the start, the dark room scene, the emptiness of NY, etc... I think if he kept the first two thirds of the movie basically the same, and replaced the last third with the (book spoiler):Drek said:
new society of intelligent vampires cropping up, the woman and kid both being them, and then bringing him out and executing him in front of a huge crowd of both angry and scared vampires, with a voiceover/internal monologue similar to that of Neville's from the book about why they fear him and how he's a legend, that would've been great. Hell, when the woman and kid were first introduced, I was like, man, that kid is gonna be a creepy vampire, this is pretty cool. And then they found Jesus and went to the colony and Robert Neville's legend is he found a cure that won't have any applicable uses and it's not like he already wasn't a f'n legend in the first place from that point of view hfdjghlhfd
PS: the CG fucking sucked ass
Destructo Spin
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I thought Will Smith was pretty awesome in this.
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If they had just updated Omega Man, this movie would have been so much better.
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Darko said:
Neville is successful in creating the serum and administers it to Lisa's teenage brother Richie (Eric Laneuville) who is on the verge of the advanced mutant stage of the plague. Once cured, the idealistic and naive Richie goes to The Family to try to convince them to take the serum as well. Matthias refuses to believe that Neville would try to help and accuses Richie of being sent by Neville and has him murdered. Neville later finds a note Richie left about going to talk to the Family, and discovers Richie strung up where The Family left him. Neville, caught outside after dark, is stalled in his attempts to reach home but manages to fight off the Family.
During this, Lisa unexpectedly changes into a nocturnal and betrays Neville and gives the Family access to Neville's bunker-apartment. Returning home, Neville is confronted by Matthias, who then forces Neville to watch his home be destroyed by The Family. He manages to break free and once outside, he turns and raises his sub-machine gun in an attempt to kill Matthias (who is looking down from the balcony). His weapon jams and he is impaled by a spear thrown by Matthias. The final scene shows the human survivors departing in a Land Rover after the dying Neville gives them a flask of blood serum, presumably to restore humanity.
During this, Lisa unexpectedly changes into a nocturnal and betrays Neville and gives the Family access to Neville's bunker-apartment. Returning home, Neville is confronted by Matthias, who then forces Neville to watch his home be destroyed by The Family. He manages to break free and once outside, he turns and raises his sub-machine gun in an attempt to kill Matthias (who is looking down from the balcony). His weapon jams and he is impaled by a spear thrown by Matthias. The final scene shows the human survivors departing in a Land Rover after the dying Neville gives them a flask of blood serum, presumably to restore humanity.
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