I Am Legend

[Raiha]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"][i]So normally I don't start threads here, but on the occasion that a movie rolls around that I really did appreciate.....it's time for me to roll out the gushing fangirl carpet and go wild.

"I Am Legend"

Will Smith, A dog, and a fracturing sense of self as he attempts to right his wrongs.

See it! Unless of course you're unhappy with heavy philosophical symbolism and characteristically incapable of appreciating good acting without a reliance on many characters to buoy up the story.

Also worth seeing if only because 'The Dark Knight' trailer was also shown in the previews. It's one I have yet to find online, and it features almost exclusively...THE JOKER. Health Ledger's dialogue is golden, and honestly the trailer would be more accurately titled if it was called 'The Joker' because Bruce Wayne has like what? Five lines?

But anyway, I now charge you all to go see it. Less disappointing than "Beowulf" and more shiny and horror-tastic than say...."Hitman."[/i][/FONT][/COLOR]

[TheShinje]

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But anyway, I now charge you all to go see it. Less disappointing than "Beowulf" and more shiny and horror-tastic than say...."Hitman."[/i][/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE]

That should be a mark most films pass. Beowulf looks like the intro to a PS2 game and Hitman, well, is Hitman. :p


I Am Legend is the one movie that I am most looking forward to next year. It will be interesting to see how long they can keep the movie engrossing with only one main character with no one else to bounce chemistry off. It'll be hit or miss, that's for sure.

[eleanor]

[font="trebuchet ms"] [i]I Am Legend[/i] was so good I was literally shaking throughout the first 2/3 of the movie. Well, not really shaking, but I have no other word to describe it.

The only thing I did not like, at all, was the ending. I think it would have been better if they were more faithful to the book in why [spoiler]Neville dies in the end. The butterfly on the glass, butterfly tattoo on Anna's neck moment was just incredibly lame to me.[/spoiler] The movie simply lost momentum at some point and trailed off a bit. Not a lot, because it was still a great movie, but it just could've been much better.

The 2/3 of the movie was great, because we got to saw how Neville coped with living alone surrounded by crazy vampires. [Spoiler]When Sam died, it was sad, but when we saw Neville plead with the mannequin to say "hello" my heart broke and my friend literally sobbed into her hoodie. [/spoiler] (Will Smith's acting is perfect, which was gratifying because half the reason I went to see the movie was because he was in it.) But the [spoiler] arrival of Anna and Ethan suddenly puts the movie on a more plot-driven track, which leads to a rather dissappointing end. I thought the book's end to be far superior.[/spoiler]

And I have to rave over the special effects. The CGI backgrounds and imagery of NYC were incredible, although the animated Lions were very tacky to me.

Overally, definitely a movie I'm buying when it comes out on DVD. If the end were different, I would be completely and absolutely in love with the movie.[/font]

[Gavin]

[SIZE="1"]Just got back from "I am Legend" and I really can't articulate how much I was disappointed by the film. I suppose I have to admit, I knew nothing about the plot, only hearing it was supposed to be quite a good film and thought it might be worth a watch. I hate horror films with a passion and upon realising the film was a horror, I pretty much lost interest.

Will Smith, to his credit, played his role excellently, he was believable, at least as much as the character allowed him to and really helped sell the concept of the last man on Earth. A worse actor really would have made the film unwatchable, as opposed to tolerable if you're a fan of the genre.

Plot-wise, there were more holes than Swiss-cheese, yes a cliché analogy, but really a cliché film deserves it. I figured out the ending well before it actually reached that point. Funnily enough, throughout the whole thing, my mind kept wandering back to the RPG Dead Diaries which Mike/Zen created earlier in the year, and I think we actually had the better written plot.

5/10. Go see it in the cinema only if you're a fan of the genre, otherwise wait for the DVD, and even then, consider it only if you can't find a better film. [/SIZE]

[ZachIsAPanda]

Very good film, but, I wish it was related more to the book. I felt the title should be "I'm Another Legend". Well, it was still great anyways, plenty of action and suspense.