I really liked it. It felt as if it actually had a story to tell. I wouldn't say it's perfectly deserving of a 5/5, but it's a movie I warmly recommend.
Poll: I Am Legend...
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This movie sucked. Really, it did. Nothing about it was coherent or made sense, every action scene felt stupid and tacked on and required a positively *huge* amount of suspension of disbelief.
"We decided to come visit the bridge in the middle of the night and brought our buddy, THE SUN, to back us up."
"You can throw grenades?"
"Here's one vial of blood which will, all on it's own, save an entire world full of these fuckers."
Yeah.... no.
It doesn't help that I Am Legend is one of the greatest horror books ever, and is listed as an inspiration by all the top horror writers of the last several decades. This film is like the Hannibal Lecter version of that book. Like a monster disguised in the skin of something I thought I wanted. This movie is the EXACT OPPOSITE of the book. I can't believe they managed to get it quite so completely wrong.
Here's the thing. I know Will Smith doesn't like to play "bad men", and I've heard the rumor that the reason everything changed is because he didn't want to play the giant cockbag that the role required him to be. I'm here to tell you that this makes him either a terrible actor, and a spoiled one at that, or completely wrong for this material. Or both.
I'm sorry you liked it so much. I would think having such bad taste would probably hurt.
- J
"We decided to come visit the bridge in the middle of the night and brought our buddy, THE SUN, to back us up."
"You can throw grenades?"
"Here's one vial of blood which will, all on it's own, save an entire world full of these fuckers."
Yeah.... no.
It doesn't help that I Am Legend is one of the greatest horror books ever, and is listed as an inspiration by all the top horror writers of the last several decades. This film is like the Hannibal Lecter version of that book. Like a monster disguised in the skin of something I thought I wanted. This movie is the EXACT OPPOSITE of the book. I can't believe they managed to get it quite so completely wrong.
Here's the thing. I know Will Smith doesn't like to play "bad men", and I've heard the rumor that the reason everything changed is because he didn't want to play the giant cockbag that the role required him to be. I'm here to tell you that this makes him either a terrible actor, and a spoiled one at that, or completely wrong for this material. Or both.
I'm sorry you liked it so much. I would think having such bad taste would probably hurt.
- J
3 if we're talking the theatrical.
3.5 if we're talking the one with the better ending.
But still is overall a forgettable movie. Saw it once and I really have no intention or will to see it again...
3.5 if we're talking the one with the better ending.
But still is overall a forgettable movie. Saw it once and I really have no intention or will to see it again...
The one with Will Smith? It sucked. Not the main part of the movie so much, but definitely the ending. For those who don't know...
SPOILER!
The actual plot(ie not the failure of a remake I Am Legend) ends with our protagonist being shown to be the bad guy and the vampires to be the good guys. It gives a moral story, but test audiences for I Am Legend didn't appreciate we humans appearing as bad guys, so the ending was rewritten. Released as "The controversial alternate ending" on DVD, you get to watch the real ending, but it's still not as good as the original. So...1 out of 5 because they failed to capture the original message of the movie, and remade it into a mindless action flick aka Hollywood generic failure.
SPOILER!
The actual plot(ie not the failure of a remake I Am Legend) ends with our protagonist being shown to be the bad guy and the vampires to be the good guys. It gives a moral story, but test audiences for I Am Legend didn't appreciate we humans appearing as bad guys, so the ending was rewritten. Released as "The controversial alternate ending" on DVD, you get to watch the real ending, but it's still not as good as the original. So...1 out of 5 because they failed to capture the original message of the movie, and remade it into a mindless action flick aka Hollywood generic failure.
Does anyone find it ironic he posted a topic on the Escapist before the movie had finished saying how gripping it was?
Hmm.
Hmm.
I thought it was interesting in story, characters as well as atmosphere. The movie compelled its audience to reflect and wonder.
Me and my friend cried when the dog died does not matter how manly you are that was the saddest thing, to be left alone without even the simple companion of his dog, the last thing he had to keep him sane and he had to kill it himself (cries loudly).
EDIT: Don't like the first ending? WHAT? He had too die he wanted to die his purpose was served and his time came the seconed ending his just a feel good ending where everthing turns out ok, thats a boring ending and is a lie not everthing is going to turn out ok they ere lucky to get the cure I thought the first ending should have steped it up with all humans being taken over due to are time as a species passing moving to something new and wild those vampire things in the movie began to show intellegince and they could have taken that somewhere like in land of the dead exept not lame.
EDIT: Don't like the first ending? WHAT? He had too die he wanted to die his purpose was served and his time came the seconed ending his just a feel good ending where everthing turns out ok, thats a boring ending and is a lie not everthing is going to turn out ok they ere lucky to get the cure I thought the first ending should have steped it up with all humans being taken over due to are time as a species passing moving to something new and wild those vampire things in the movie began to show intellegince and they could have taken that somewhere like in land of the dead exept not lame.
4/5
Because the alternative ending was hundred times better.
Because the alternative ending was hundred times better.
Turns out that the creatures came for the captured creature, which was a female. They were showed as intelligent, emotional beings, and not rabid animals from the original ending. In this version, it turns out that the humans were the monsters.
Aye. Manly tears of manliness appeared on my face too.Mcupobob said:
now that last statement was just uncalled fortiredinnuendo said:
I mean okay typical anger against changing the original work, but don't directly attack someone's opinion on things
anyway...
I haven't read the book, and I've only seen the movie once like over a year ago so I don't think I'm one to comment on it until I've seen it again (or read the book)
Oh hooray, an entire movie where the only characters are Will smith, A dog, And a bunch of bad CG.
AND THE DOG DIES.
It had great potential. The apocolypse it created was interesting. If you get the DVD, you get to see some motion comics taking place in the same world, and those were great. Really great, actualy. I was much MUCH more interested in that Japanese girls who kills herself, Or that guy who busts out of prison only to find out that the world has ended.
I think if it had a plot, more characters, and a more interesting lead, it could have been an awsome movie.
AND THE DOG DIES.
It had great potential. The apocolypse it created was interesting. If you get the DVD, you get to see some motion comics taking place in the same world, and those were great. Really great, actualy. I was much MUCH more interested in that Japanese girls who kills herself, Or that guy who busts out of prison only to find out that the world has ended.
I think if it had a plot, more characters, and a more interesting lead, it could have been an awsome movie.