I Am Legend.

Jon ! Why you have to go and do that ! :lol: I was soooooo lookin forward to this movie ! Make your spoilers BLACK !!! Otherwise, idiots like me absorb them on the way down accidentally :lol:

Well, I still am looking forward . Ina way it reminds me of "Night of the Comet" a 'lil bit. Anyone remember that cute little "B" movie? I know, I know, different reason for the circumstances of him being "alone", but the previews sort of give it that general feel.

FP
 
I got to see it last night on the IMAX... Batman preview... AWESOME! The movie... just as good. Very dark, emotional, intense and well acted. Normaly I dont like end of the world type movies but this one was all about the characters with alot of intersting twists. I wont say any more other then you wont be disapointed. And I think I am one of the few who wasnt that bugged out by the CG. I though the special effects were really great.
 
Gonna be a great day today! Got a gun show this morning and going to see I am Legend tonight! I am really excited about this movie!
 
All though it was a good action film, I didn't really like it that much




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One thing I didn't like was how the vampires were turned into more zombie-like creatures that didn't show very much intelligence (besides setting a trap). While I'm talking about the trap I might as well say what I didn't like about that particular scene. When the vampire leader releases the infected dogs where does he go? did he just think "oh the dogs will handle it" and leave? don't you think he'd want to stay and make sure his nemesis was destroyed? also Robert knew the sun was setting and he saw the dogs coming, why does he only starting hopping on his foot when he is 3 feet away from his car, and butt-slide the rest of the way? I know that it must've hurt like heck to have that knife in his leg but don't you think he would rather endure pain in his leg and live then butt-slide and get eaten?
Also, considering that the lead vampire's counterpart in the book was Ben Cortman(his next door neighbor) I was hoping that the leader would have had some pre-infection relationship with Robert.....or at least say something besides "AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!". It also bugged me that there actually was other survivors (didn't he say in the millions) and if the vampires could scale his house, why couldn't they climb over that puny wall around the survivor colony?
The two main things that bugged me about the ending was that 1) there were other immune people. And 2) the ending completely changed the meaning of the title, in the book the title was a reference to the fact that since he was now the only human he was now the legend while before vampires were the legend. While in the movie they said "His cure is our legend".


and then there was his grenade that was equal to several pounds of C4:lol:










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Even my friends that didn't read the book or even knew there was a book left the theatre looking like this:angry. But I'd go see it at the IMAX just for the 5 minutes of Dark Knight.









 
Well, I am with those of you who were a bit disappointed.

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I really thought this movie was going to be more about a guy being alone in the big city (kinda the opposite of Castaway) and if they had to throw a vampire/zombie element in, at least they would make sense. These things didn't make any sense at all. I hear it was very different in the book... but they just ruined the movie for me. And for such a big budget film, this has to have been some of the worst CGI I have ever seen...
 
Well surprisingly i did like the movie a lot.



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it had its up and downs sure the CG wasn't perfect but do any of us know wat a vamp/zombie realy looks like, and who said they were vamps in the first place i didn't see any fangs, and it was a man made virus, not an ancient natural mutation/virus. Anyways i realy don't have any complaints, i thought it was worth every penny.
 
For those who are complaining about the CG, the zombies were originally going to be actors with prosthetics, but a last minute change made them CG because they could do so much more that way.
 
I thought the CG was pretty decent.. Although those lions weren't very convincing.. Other than that, I don't see why anyone would say it was horrible..
 
There were other immune people? When in the film did it say that? Besides when she takes them the cure?


A 3 inch knife into Will's right thigh...I don't think he could hop up right away for that... Plus, he got stabbed, by falling about 15 feet, with a cut on his head...
The CG wasn't that great, but it was still awesome. (IMO)

And it was a colony, they could have equipped a bunch of craziness, just like Will did, with the car bombs, and UV lights.

I am not arguing here, just giving my view on this crazy awesome film.

Edited: Fixed errors in text.
 
All I cared about was that it had zombies. I could be damned if I cared about more than that. I am proud to say that I have seen every single zombie movie from the past 3 years.
 
This book is my favourite book of all time!
Brilliantly written.

Chances are hollywood has trashed the whole idea behind the book in that in the vampires eyes HE is the bad guy (a legend)

I'm still looking forward to it though :)
 
This book is my favourite book of all time!
Brilliantly written.

Chances are hollywood has trashed the whole idea behind the book in that in the vampires eyes HE is the bad guy (a legend)

I'm still looking forward to it though :)


They did downplay the vampire theme from the books, the infected are vampiric in nature, but the idea of vampires is not a theme in the movie.

I thought it was well done however.

Making books into movies doesn't always work out, I'm surprised it turned out as well as it did seeing as how the book is over 50 years old

-Quinn
 
Meh, I was disappointed. Will Smith seems to be one the the big factors selling this movie. That and almost ALL the action is in the trailer. I almost knocked out a few times during the slow parts. I did love the somewhat first person scene in the dark building. The huddling zombie-vampire-undead-people kinda reminded me of Silent Hill. Now there's a good movie. Go see Silent Hill and pee your pants.

I'd say this movie is still worth watching, but the ending seemed like they wanted you to be thinking "what JUST HAPPENED?!" but instead they handed you all the facts, and it's more like, "oh, ok." My favorite part was seeing a Mac get smashed.
 
The Clayster said:
There were other immune people? When in the film did it say that? Besides when she takes them the cure?

It was right before Will yelled at the lady "EVERYBODY"S DEAD!!!!!!!"
he started rambling off about percentages and how many people were infected and stuff.

CombatBaby said:
I'm surprised it turned out as well as it did seeing as how the book is over 50 years old
Both Lord of the Rings and I Am Legend were published the same year. So I don't think it really matters how old the book is, it's more of : what can the director and writer fit into a reasonable length movie without losing too much of what people like about the book. Personally I think the best format for the book would be a tv mini-series. Then it could still keep those great cliffhangers at the end of each chapter
 
The movie is about a man's loneliness turning him insane. Sam was the last living being in his life, and even when the woman and the boy came around, he was bent on the idea that there was no colony and that he was the last person left.
 
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