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I Am Legend.
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Ok, it's playing in a theater near my apartment so I'll probably see it tonight. Oh, and it's got The Dark Knight's trailer with it?
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Really stocked to see this. The concept alone sounded awesome. (Not just talkin' about ZOMBIES VS. WILL SMITH.)
My one fear, though, I hear that Will is pretty much ''alone'' for most of the movie, and he basically has the challenge of carrying the film for an hour and a half, sulking….....with only his mutt.
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I think he pulled it off quite well. There's one scene with his dog, Sam, that almost made me cry.
Ok, it's playing in a theater near my apartment so I'll probably see it tonight. Oh, and it's got The Dark Knight's trailer with it?
Yes, it has a "The Dark Knight" trailer in it.
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Yeah, I'm going to be seeing this in like.. an hour. Somewhat spoiled myself by reading the book first since a friend of mine already had it, but I still am excited and looking forward to it. I'm happy that it's been getting some good word-of-mouth.
And about this The Dark Knight trailer: is it the same teaser or a new one?
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Don't know, having never seen anything on it.
It was pretty much random shots of Batman and The Joker with a bunch of explosions thrown in.
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The only trailer I've seen so far is a bunch of dialogue over the Batman logo.. so it sounds different. Good. Now I'm twice as excited.
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Just have something to say… did it follow the book's plot at all? My friend told me they changed the ending, which was the best part of the book...
And wtf? His dog Sam? He never names his dog... nor properly owns it in the first place...
Dammit Hollywood.
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I actually saw this today with a couple friends. It was decent I suppose, the best parts were easily the interaction between Smith and the dog and all of the awesome post-apocalyptic stuff.
And I probably would have been a lot more impressed if I hadn't watched No Country For Old Men right before it.
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I heard the Imax version features an eight minute prequel of sorts to The Dark Knight.
But that aside, I'm kinda interested in this moving. I'll see it since it's not another shoot em up bang bang pic.
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And wtf? His dog Sam? He never names his dog… nor properly owns it in the first place...
Dammit Hollywood.
oh no the dog has a name the movie is ruined
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It seem logical to name the only friendly living creature to me.
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@Cyringohn:
oh no the dog has a name the movie is ruined
! Actually, the dog in the book isn't named, which plays a huge part in it. Wanna find out why? Read the book. Using common sense, its obviously going to be atleast 10 times better than the movie. Also, the dog is the only other living thing he meets, and comes in about half-way through the book (not the beginning), cautiously becoming his friend before the vamp-things kill it, which causes him to have an emotional breakdown. What did they even classify the vamp-things as? Did they mention that it was from a bacteria?
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You'd find out if you watched it.
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That was the worst fucking ending I have ever seen.
It was fantastic until…
! the dog died.
Edit: I just read a summary (Wikipedia, so maybe false) of the original book. The ending to the book version is a thousand times better and would have made the movie infinitely better for me.
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@Cyringohn:
I think he pulled it off quite well. There's one scene with his dog, Sam, that almost made me cry.
Thanks, that's reassuring.
There's one scene with his dog, Sam, that almost made me cry.
So beneath the eyepatch and crusty exterior, there lies a human being. (sniff…)
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I thought it was… good.
[hide]I guess I expected more action. Will Smith just can't play a guy who runs away, IMO. Also, supporting characters are kind of a necessity. I guess I'm just complaining for the sake of complaining, I can't say it was bad because it wasn't.
I sort of got the impression they left out some things that would make it an average Will Smith movie. Also, they wanted to stick to the book, I guess. Which is ironic, because I, Robot had a genuinely cliche plotline, fucked the entire book's plotline, and was totally awesome. In retrospect, I Am Legend also has a cliche storyline, attempted to stick to the book's story, and wasn't as good as a movie then it was as a book.
They had the effects and the actor. They could have strayed from the book a little bit to increase the pace.[/hide]
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I just read a summary on the book, and dear fuck, that shit sounds so awful. Actual vampires? I respect the author's desire to provide a rational explanation to vampirism, and I can also give it a decent chunk of leeway since it was published in 1954, but still. Maybe it's because I hate vampires. Who knows.
Honestly, even though I only read a summary, the movie seems a lot better than the book. How can you not like creatures that perform E.Honda flying headbutts? Come on, now.
But really, the Dog Scene and the scene with him going to the video store for a second time were really, really moving. Will Smith did wonderful with such a serious role.
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Not supprised about Will's great acting. His last movie was also quite moving as well. He's really come into his own
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Just got back, thought it was awesome. The book was awesome itself, but the movie was just as incredible. I can't really say one is better than the other, since they both take the same general idea and take it in two different ways, and both end up telling a very good story.
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Great first half, meh second half.
Pretty typical in that way, concept is well played out and given shots of, the small plot however is not so greatly resolved.
It tied its ends up, but there wasn't much oomph about the plot.But justw atching Will go around the city day to day was awesome.
Go see it with some friends.
Not a DVD buy though.-Zeph
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Yeah, I don't mean to take anything away from Will Smith. Those of you that are surprised by him playing a serious role should watch Pursuit of Happiness and to a lesser extent, Hitch. Terrific movies right there.
This movie… not so much. To each his own though.
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I thought it was pretty good. I have vague memories of the book, but yeah some things were changed.
I read the comic, and saw both of the movies previous version, The Omega Man, and the Vincent Price one.
This was pretty good in my opinion. Some changes here and there, but it was pretty good despite those and the changes are really nothing to cry over. I did find it odd though that they kind of had some hints to things in the book (comic, other movies) yet they didn't do anything with them. Again, really not a big deal at all. A good time is a good time.
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! Actually, the dog in the book isn't named, which plays a huge part in it. Wanna find out why? Read the book. Using common sense, its obviously going to be atleast 10 times better than the movie. Also, the dog is the only other living thing he meets, and comes in about half-way through the book (not the beginning), cautiously becoming his friend before the vamp-things kill it, which causes him to have an emotional breakdown. What did they even classify the vamp-things as? Did they mention that it was from a bacteria?
Hey, don't start a book vs. movie discussion here. You know what happens to the ending.
I want to see this movie, since I got hooked in the story after watched the version with Vincent Price. At least, I expect to see something better than 30 Days of Night.
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He shouldn't have snapped at Fred like that….
Poor Fred...............
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The first half was great, but everything just went downhill for me during the second. The CGI creatures looked terrible, and the ending was goddamn awful. Felt like I was watching Signs 2.
Smith was really great in it, but the movie as a whole was barely okay.
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I don't know, I thought the movie was pretty good. Not perfect, but definitely not bad.
One thing to keep in mind, from reading the wikipedia summery of the book, I can tell this movie is NOTHING like it in most respects. So if you are a fan of the book and want a faithful adaption, don't bother watching it. If you can treat it as a totally seperate story that happens to share some similarities, you'll have a much easier time enjoying it.
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@Cyringohn:
I just read a summary on the book, and dear fuck, that shit sounds so awful. Actual vampires?
Actually, they weren't vampires. It was a bacteria, you read an incorrect summary. :getlost: It was truly an amazing book. But still, I can't judge, seeing as I haven't seen this movie and it could have great acting and an engaging, although changed, plot.
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Actually, they weren't vampires. It was a bacteria, you read an incorrect summary. :getlost: It was truly an amazing book. But still, I can't judge, seeing as I haven't seen this movie and it could have great acting and an engaging, although changed, plot.
Well, I just hope the hype of the movie makes far easier to find the book.
Really, I couldn't find I, Robot before the movie premiered.
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Actually, they weren't vampires. It was a bacteria, you read an incorrect summary. :getlost:
Yes, I realize that, MORIA. But they're still actual vampires. They have all the traits and characteristics of vampires; the only thing that's different is that it is caused by a bacteria [and he tries to logically explain why they have all the traits of vampirism]. But they're still vampires.
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What a fantastic film. I genuinely enjoyed that.
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@Cyringohn:
Yes, I realize that, MORIA. But they're still actual vampires. They have all the traits and characteristics of vampires; the only thing that's different is that it is caused by a bacteria [and he tries to logically explain why they have all the traits of vampirism]. But they're still vampires.
I agree. Still vampires.
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Agreed about them actually being vampires in the book, and that is the one thing I really liked about it: giving deeper explanations to a lot of the old vampire misconceptions like stakes and the fear of crosses and all that.
Plus, it went by pretty quick since it was barely over 200 pages or so.
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I have been planning of seeing this movie since I'm a fan of "the only one alive" concept. So I was little disappointed when I learnt that there would be some creatures in it but oh well.
I will probably read the book as some point. I have so many other books to read right now that that won't happen before I have seen the movie itself. This is little off topic but over years I have noticed that summeries of books hardly never do any justice toward the books themselves.
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Saw it last night and really enjoyed it. It was really cool seeing all my favorite NYC landmarks abandoned and overgrown. That was really cool.
I got to admit though, the ending sucked. Basically the movie was great until the other survivors show up, and all the god spoke to me bs started. That totally lamed it up for me, but I still enjoyed it overall. The director did a great job making Sam and the mannequins likable characters, considering they never said a word.
I did happen to notice one glaring inaccuracy at the beginning of the movie however. It opens with a news interview, and the news ticker at the bottom said that the Patriots defeated the Giants for the second time this season. The only way that would be possible would be if the Giants and Pats had a scheduled regular season game and met again in the Super Bowl. They won't have a regular season game again until 2011 and the following Super Bowl would then be in 2012, yet the news report was supposed to take place in 2009. But after that glaring inaccuracy, I figured I could just suspend disbelief and enjoy a cool sci-fi flick, and so I did.
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I got to admit though, the ending sucked. Basically the movie was great until the other survivors show up, and all the god spoke to me bs started. That totally lamed it up for me, but I still enjoyed it overall.
I found it refreshing amongst the, "God and Christians are bad! LOL!", ideas floating around.
Found it to be a little preachy myself what with her repeating 'hearing' God (personally I think it would have sounded less odd if she said she was 'answering her calling') but it was nice to see a movie do something other than laugh its own ass off at religion.
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I found it refreshing amongst the, "God and Christians are bad! LOL!", ideas floating around.
Found it to be a little preachy myself what with her repeating 'hearing' God (personally I think it would have sounded less odd if she said she was 'answering her calling') but it was nice to see a movie do something other than laugh its own ass off at religion.
If you look at it from an independent stand point though, the ending screamed deus ex machina. There were several subtle things it did to show that there may be something religious in it(I remember a cross swinging back and forth on his rear view mirror in one of his cars.) However, for the most part, it was a pretty random and out of left field ending.
I'm not religious at all and I don't mind the fact that the movie brought in religion, I just don't see where the hell it came from. Maybe I missed a thing or two.
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If you look at it from an independent stand point though, the ending screamed deus ex machina. There were several subtle things it did to show that there may be something religious in it(I remember a cross swinging back and forth on his rear view mirror in one of his cars.) However, for the most part, it was a pretty random and out of left field ending.
I'm not religious at all and I don't mind the fact that the movie brought in religion, I just don't see where the hell it came from. Maybe I missed a thing or two.
Well considering two of the book references for the ending that they had in the movie but did nothing with… I didn't see it as too out of left field. Just... it's like... well yes it was out of left field but not if they went with the book ending. I don't even know where I'm going with this, it just didn't seem to odd to me.
And yeah, I'm sick of the religion bashing thing lately too. People need to get over it
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If you would have told me or any of the friends I went to see it with to take a guess at how the movie would end after Sam died; we would not have even come remotely close to guessing that God would send 2 survivors in a movie that promoted him as the last survivor on earth; and then have God talk to him and tell him what to do.
On a side note, that voice wasn't exactly what I imagined God's voice would sound like.
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Why dogs always have to die?! >_<
I hate that. I think they make it in purpose for the people who just goes "Bleh" when human characters die like….."that"...
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However, for the most part, it was a pretty random and out of left field ending.
Actually the theme was pretty evident throughout the entire film. It only got in your face and awkward when the woman started talking about it literally.
The poster on the barriers.
His family praying together for his protection.
The cross necklace.
The discussion about God and his lost faith.
His daughter making butterflies, the butterfly pattern cracks, the tattoo all coming together saying, "Wake up dude! You ARE here for a reason!"
It seemed pretty solid throughout to me without resorting to him breaking into St. Patrick's Cathederal and screaming or some cliche shit.
Again, wasn't crazy when she got a little freaky talking about, "God told me." That was a little jarring and woah-where's-she-going-here? Being a Christian in name (that doesn't believe in the Resurrection) I even find that talk a little disturbing IRL. That doesn't mean I don't believe shit happens for a reason sometimes. That's not to say I think God 'talks' to people (nor do most Christians I think) since it's something more of a metaphor for occurances they feel they were meant to experience, or see to move them to do something.
Sometimes these 'callings' result in volunteering at community centers, sometimes they result is a twisted psycho fuck using an excuse to kill people with automatic weapons.
But here we just see our main character receive a number of 'too-coincidental to be coincidental' sensory feedbacks in one moment that helps him decide. IRL are these a higher power reaching down urging us to do something, I highly doubt it. Despite believing in God, I doubt he/she/it has any direct influence in our little insignificant lives other than as a bank of faith.
That said, this movie did a nice job of portraying it to a point. I don't think it works to the film's disadvantage.
Plus it makes the whole vampires not being down with Jesus thing make some sense. ^O^
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Sorry if you think I'm jumping on the bash religion bandwagon, I just thought the chick saying god spoke to her was really lame. If that means I hate Christmas than so be it.
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Sorry if you think I'm jumping on the bash religion bandwagon, I just thought the chick saying god spoke to her was really lame. If that means I hate Christmas than so be it.
Hmmm, sounds like you're saying something just to get a reaction out of church goers. But um didn't I say exactly the same thing myself? Minus that oddly random hate-Christmas thing that came out of nowhere.
BTW, if you're talking about the Christian God, it's a capital 'G'. It's not a plural form.
Unless of course you're just doing that to be purposely disrespectful. In which I hope you can grow to accept and respect other's beliefs someday even if they differ from your own.
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Man, so I think that god telling the chick how to end the movie is a lame plot device and now I disrespect others religions. Whatever…
BTW the Chiristmas thing was a joke, my dry humor obviously doesn't go over well
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Ah yes, I forgot about the family prayer. However, wasn't the discussion about his lost faith after the girl showed up?
And even then, most of the things that pointed at religion were fairly subtle; which would have worked well in a book. However, in a movie that involved a lot of jumpy moments, subtle things aren't the first thing someone is looking for (except for when he's walking through the street, I caught a combination of Batman and Superman logo, Justice League? XD)
I also don't want to completely bash an ending an then not give an alternate route, since I personally hate it when people bash how an author or such took a certain path, only to say, "I don't know, something better," when asked "what would you have done?" I don't particularly mind the fact that the girl came too much, it would make sense that there is more than 1 survivor. It would have been nice to see their relationship develop. Maybe they could have built a family and Smith could have developed the cure and slowly attempt to restore the human race. Even end the movie with his cure working.
The religious thing just didn't work for me, it seemed far too much like a deus ex machina.
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Man, so I think that god telling the chick how to end the movie is a lame plot device and now I disrespect others religions. Whatever…
You refusal to capitalize a singular God (which is the same for any religion, not just Christianity if it's a one and only god ((here god being used generically)) ) shows clearly that you do indeed lack respect not for religions, (that's your own business), but for those that believe in them. 'Whatever' indeed.
It would have been nice to see their relationship develop.
YES! Although I felt he tried to make it work with the Shrek analogy, it still felt awkward, well, on her end more than Smith's. Smith did a great job reacting to her and the boy ie. living, breathing, normal humans. She on the other hand, making eggs and shit? That was just a little too matter of fact. I think that was also the point, it was supposed to shove normalcy in our face so we'd be as shocked as him, but something about it just didn't feel right.
The religious thing just didn't work for me, it seemed far too much like a deus ex machina.
Literally ^o^
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Smith did a great job reacting to her and the boy ie. living, breathing, normal humans. She on the other hand, making eggs and shit? That was just a little too matter of fact. I think that was also the point, it was supposed to shove normalcy in our face so we'd be as shocked as him, but something about it just didn't feel right.
Once again the way she was reacting and suddenly being their to save him just made me think more that it was going to be the book ending XD
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Maybe I'm missing something, but I haven't really seen any evidence of a " LOL LET'S BASH RELIGION" trend in the film industry. Maybe you guys could expand upon this for me.
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Wow that was pretty darn good! I wasn't expecting much since I love OMega Man, and the book I Am Legend (I'm making it a point to find the Vincent Pryce Last Man Alive movie now) and I'm not usually fond of remakes. But all in all, a well made movie.
More a remake of Omega Man than the book; the title led me to beleive that it'd be closer to the book (which seems to be the trend in remaking movies these days, trying to be closer to the source material) but it was definately more OMega Man 2007 than anything, even down to the Fords. I would've loved to see the family show up (I assume they're saving that for the inevitable sequel)
Early on, when we first encounter the dark seekers, that was a pretty intense sequence. When we first get a glimpse at them, it lasts less than a second but it had everyone in the theater jump…....yeah, scary moments like that are rare these days.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but I haven't really seen any evidence of a " LOL LET'S BASH RELIGION" trend in the film industry.
You mean in addition to film stars mocking the religion, whenever something about Christianity is cast in a realistic positive light the film is instantly has 'Christian elements' which becomes this huge deal as if that were a bad thing, anti-war films of all kinds, documentaries, mockumentaries, Michael Moore whatevers, are always taking potshots at it, films like There Will Be Blood creates talking points for the people who are already ignorant to it and they use that as a reason to say, "See look, religion is bad n' stuff".
I'm not talking about material that criticizes it. Christianity could, like any other belief, use some critiquing, especially in popular media. That's one of the reasons I love South Park, it doesn't outright say, "Religion sucks! Christianity started the Iraq war!", it takes an objective look and says, "Um, look guys, this right here, it's stupid. The Catholic League….yeah no. You're pretty fucked up. Statues bleeding and shit? Yeah no."
As opposed to:
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"But Greg, she's a comedian!"
But…there's nothing there she's parodying that's even remotely timely. Thanking Jesus for an award? When's the last time someone did that in Hollywood? It's so out of place it's just strange. It's just part of the "LOL! Christianity is stupid and therefore we shall laugh at it."
The funny thing is I agree with her too, but parading those statements around like an ass just to get headlines is sick.