I Am Legend

[CharlieAddict]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/iamlegendisolation/

i hope this turns into a film.
looks more interesting.

 

[DotCommunist]

a bit rubbish. Needed a better actor. Fuck it, I'll buy the book

 

[camouflage]

I was wrong about this film, watched it last weekend and thought it was great, scary as well when we first meet the vampires in the dark, chilling like. They changed the plot, but they didn't fuck it up completely. The bit at the end would have been better without the flag-waving, and didn't quite match with the title in the way it did with the book (that line is something I really liked about the way the book ended).

I liked Smiths Robert Neville, and thought the way they showed his loneliness was quite effective... a good film really, I felt abit embarresed for bad-mouthing it to people before I'd seen it to be honest, now I have to go cap in hand and mutter "yeah, was pretty good film for its class".

The book was brilliant but the film wasn't shit, put it that way.

 

[ymu]

some SPOILERS

right, has no one mentioned the bit about the woman and the kid knowing where to go to find will smith and the exact location of a fortified survivor camp - cos fucking well god told her where to go? is this not the weakest ending to any film ever? of shit how are we going to end it now we've made an upbeat ending... i know lets say this lady knows where to take the antidote, cos god told her the address?!

get to fuck.

Spoiler: How the film plot dealt with this

As said, he broadcast an appeal daily asking any survivors to meet him at midday any day at that place. He'd not been there for a while when he bumped into the woman because of (IIRC) getting caught in his own trap and the trauma of the dog dying.

As to where she took the antidote - the film implied that it was just Manhattan getting sealed off to prevent the infection spreading - eg the flashback to people getting screened on the way out and then the bridge being blown up. It wasn't a fortified camp for survivors - it was the outside world.

 

[abernites]

good film but a crap ending

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Surprisingly better than I was expecting but not amazing, the book was better but the film captured some of it during the first half at least.

 

[Structaural]

There's a 7 minute director's cut alternative ending available on pirate bay. I'm downloading it now - it was on Youtube but got taken down. Just as I was watching it

 

[Structaural]

umm, nah it's still shit

 

[subversplat]

I saw this the other day. Utter rubbish. Completely unexplored plotlines (obviously intelligent monsters, for example) and a lead character that commanded entirely no sympathy whatsoever. What tosh.