Movie - I Am Legend [Archive]

Templarian

12-31-2007, 01:21 AM

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Let me first say Will Smith did a great job in this movie. Can't really say anything about the movie other than its good without giving away what the movies about.
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I was looking through the Graphic Novel and it helps explain everything in the movie.
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A few weird things.

Jeff Wheeler

12-31-2007, 01:23 AM

It was a lot of fun; I liked it a lot, minus the cheesy Christian lines at the end. :P

12-31-2007, 01:24 AM

Yeah I enjoyed it

denizengt

12-31-2007, 01:25 AM

It was ok. The CGI was a bit ho hum though, and it does dump pretty hard on the original story and the original story's principles/plot. Smith carried this movie through, else it would have been a considerable mess.

Templarian

12-31-2007, 01:35 AM

My zombie plan now has a dog in it thanks to this movie.

phorte

12-31-2007, 08:20 PM

I havent seen it yet, but from the trailers ive seen i sense a strong similarity to 28days later.

Mik3

01-01-2008, 12:15 AM

I loved the movie. Will Smith did GREAT. The cheesy Christian lines were awesome and should be in every movie. Oh did I say that? haha jk

travis

01-01-2008, 12:18 AM

I liked it overall, not as good as I expected but still a very enjoyable movie.

Digitalosophy

01-01-2008, 02:27 PM

I thought this movie was a total bomb. I expected so much and yet got only so little.

DanontheMoon

01-01-2008, 02:40 PM

That 588 million people died or were turned into zombies doesn't provoke much of an emotional response, yet the very idea of having to put my dog down saddens me deeply. http://www.senocular.com/smilies/dunno.gif

tpspoons

01-01-2008, 02:41 PM

I havent seen it yet, but from the trailers ive seen i sense a strong similarity to 28days later.

I was thinking that too. I agree its a pritty decent film but (IMO) its not as good as 28 days later.

The cheesy Bob Marley bit and the ending kinda annoyed me. :/

Digitalosophy

01-01-2008, 03:23 PM

^ lol yea man that Bob Marley seen sucked ***.

InfestedDemon

01-03-2008, 07:40 PM

I think the story was really good 'till the end. What the hell? Why??!!?!?!

Templarian

01-03-2008, 07:48 PM

^Because then they would be copying the ending of Dawn of the Dead where they escape, but everyone gets killed.

It needed a happy ending.

SlowRoasted

01-03-2008, 09:20 PM

I was literally depressed after that movie. There were some great things about I Am Legend, but it's tough to see them through the depressing plot/events.

phorte

01-04-2008, 01:06 AM

saw this yesterday. I left feeling a bit like the movie missed something. I think there needed to be more development of his research, and the fact that they go down into the lab and there is the zombie who is starting to recover, that was a bit tacky. The emotional part with the dog were stunning, and you really felt for the character, i even felt the whole cinema realise that where he knows he has to put the dog down. But yeah the ending, its really didnt satisfy me. It was only an hour 30 movie. felt to me like, ooh we are runing out of budget, we better rap this up.

InfestedDemon

01-04-2008, 06:48 AM

I meant why did he die for, what gain did the moving get exept from making it more depressing

garyzero

01-04-2008, 08:48 AM

I liked it overall, not as good as I expected but still a very enjoyable movie.

^Exactly how I felt, I was disappointed in the ending and hoped for a book ending. I hope they give us all the stufv they cut out on DVD right away.

So do you think the mutants set that trap with the dummy or did he do it and forget about it? They didn't seem smart enough to do set that trap to me.

Templarian

01-04-2008, 01:12 PM

^That was one of the weird parts I hinted about. It made little sense.

aldomatic

01-04-2008, 01:41 PM

That movie was confusing and not as great.. on the bright side i did love the part with him flying in the red mustang hehe.

thesparky007

01-04-2008, 02:16 PM

I thought this movie was a total bomb. I expected so much and yet got only so little.same here
i liked it but i expected way more from it

DanontheMoon

01-04-2008, 07:36 PM

Okay, say you're the last man on Earth. As far as you know. You wake up and everyone is gone. What do you do?

Jeff Wheeler

01-04-2008, 07:42 PM

See if the internet still works.

mrwicked

01-04-2008, 08:28 PM

I meant why did he die for, what gain did the moving get exept from making it more depressing

He wouldn't be a legend if he didn't die. It would of been something like "I Am Hero" if he didn't die. Nonetheless, I was disappointed that he died.

InfestedDemon

01-05-2008, 04:37 PM

Yeah, but he could've died a bit better, I wouldn't call him legend I would call him suicidal ("I Am Suicidal")

Christov

01-09-2008, 07:21 AM

icio

01-09-2008, 07:48 AM

I havent seen it yet, but from the trailers ive seen i sense a strong similarity to 28days later.

I believe 28 days later was based on the same book, but you might like to confirm that.

I enjoyed the movie - despite their religeous justification for his zombie pwning actions when who really needs one?! My (geeky) girlfriend didn't like the movie because she got too hung up on the fact that they didn't go into enough detail about how they cured the cancer or moddified the measles virus. Go figure.

garyzero

01-09-2008, 10:30 AM

He deserves an Oscar for the scene when he chases his dog into the dark building, I don't do thriller or suspense when I'm watching films but that part literally had my eyes wide open, jaw hanging in anticipation and fingernails dug 3cm into the fabric of the cinema chair...

I agree, him being as scared as he was seemed believeable and it got me tense. I believe my daughter hid her head the entire time we had to tell her what happened later.

And for the people who didn't like that he died, if you read the book or saw Omega Man he had to die. It just would have been better if they followed the book ending. Even the death scene in Omega Man is 100 times better than this remake.

The book cliffhanger is so good though, I just can't believe they passed on it.

DDD

01-09-2008, 10:35 AM

I didnt think it was Oscar worthy but very good. The thing I hated about the movie was I really didnt realize it was the whole world until almost at the end. I thought it was just New York, thus why they destroyed the bridge and such. Shouldnt say hated it, but..... I thought this one was done a bit better than some of the other mass destruction movies, like 28 days and those kinds. Will Smiths acting was impressive and it was believable. I actually think I felt his despair at times, and was on the edge of my seat quite a few times. The CG on the car scene at times was shaky.

fester8542

01-09-2008, 12:48 PM

I'm with most of you. Being Will Smith I set my expectations incredibly high for this movie. It was a good movie, I was just expecting to be blown away.

Templarian

01-09-2008, 01:32 PM

Yea... now I guess we will just have to wait till Hancock... lol.

mrwicked

01-09-2008, 01:42 PM

I think we can all agree the CG was poor.

lunatic

01-09-2008, 01:45 PM

I meant why did he die for, what gain did the moving get exept from making it more depressing

Man I wish you had put some spoiler tags on that one. :(

DDD

01-09-2008, 01:55 PM

Man I wish you had put some spoiler tags on that one. :(

LMAO......Never go into a review thread for a movie if you hadn't seen it. Dont feel bad, someone ruined the ultimate movie ending for my brother it was hella funny too.... He was walking into the theater to watch The Sixth Sense and some dude walked up to him and was like "I cant believe I didn't realize Bruce Willis was dead the whole time"

I fell out laughing when he told me that. He said he watched the whole movie knowing Bruce Willis was dead. Classic.

DDD

01-09-2008, 01:59 PM

One thing that threw me off the trail. Was I thought there was going to be a whole thing with the Zombies gaining intelligence and some fight scene with the dude that seemed to run the Zombies (and it seemed that was his chick Will Smith bagged 'literally'). Kinda of a let down that that never happened. Yet it was kinda cool that it did send me for a loop.

simplistik

01-09-2008, 02:08 PM

First off... I put spoiler tags around the spoilers. Some of you are ridiculously inconsiderate about that stuff.

Second... I didn't like the movie at all. Mainly I thought it was ridiculously predictable from start to finish. I thought Will Smith did a good acting job, but I wasn't feelin the movie as a whole.

InfestedDemon

01-09-2008, 05:43 PM

whats the code for spoiler tags? Thanks!

garyzero

01-09-2008, 05:54 PM

^ditto, I did it once but I can't remember how?

garyzero

01-09-2008, 05:55 PM

Templarian

01-09-2008, 08:13 PM

^ditto, I did it once but I can't remember how?
you couldn't just guess dd

Guess What

lol

InfestedDemon

01-10-2008, 06:00 AM

Thats just mean!

Christov

01-10-2008, 06:09 AM

One part that infuriated me however (and wasn't to do with acting, was to do with story directing, was when he got strung up by the zombie who set the trap for him. When he fell down onto his knife or whatever it was, that part was good. What annoyed me was it was dragged out (quite literally) for what seemed like an eternity. He pulls himself along the floor for nearly 3 minutes and as he gets close to the car he realises SHlT! I STILL HAVE ONE WORKING LEG! and gets up and hops the rest of the way in less than 10 seconds... For a doctor who is supposedly smart enough to save the human race and develop complex genetic solutions to diseases, as well as a history in the services, to not realise he could limp the whole way there. You fool Robert, thanks to your inherent idiocy your dog had to be put down...

DDD

01-10-2008, 10:42 AM

lol...why would you use the spoiler tags in a thread about a movie review? To me that is common sense that you are going to hear tidbits about the movie after all they are reviewing/discussing it.... Not to mention I never knew we had spoiler tags :trout: Ill use em next time.

This movie could have been so much more. It had a commonly used premise but could have been done a bit better. If it werent for Will Smith this movie would have failed miserably. And just think, we used to call this dude "Fresh Prince".

fester8542

01-10-2008, 11:08 AM

There was no nudity either. What the hell. :lol:

lunatic

01-10-2008, 11:47 AM

nude zombies? only you fester :P

garyzero

01-10-2008, 12:37 PM

There was no nudity either. What the hell. :lol:

Well if you look closely you almost see something on the girl on the table, maybe.

I wouldn't call them zombies, they are more like animals reminded me of those morlok things from The Time Machine. I think the dog had more intel than they did.

garyzero

01-10-2008, 12:40 PM

nothing here just testing. HAH!

InfestedDemon

01-10-2008, 03:56 PM

Joking! But what i really hate is how there zombies and not vampires and how they don't hate him for killing them like in the original book

Martens

01-17-2008, 08:15 AM

Dont like it

Jasninder

01-17-2008, 04:31 PM

http://www.filmzzz.com/film.php?filmid=7755

watch it online..dont worry...legal link hehe

InfestedDemon

01-18-2008, 03:39 PM

^Are you SURE?!?!?!

Awesome-O 4000

04-28-2008, 06:31 PM

Boring movie. Too much CGI (and poorly done, to boot) and a terrible ending.
It reminded me of I, Robot with vampires. Or zombies. Or zombpires or whatever.

I did enjoy the little nuances, like Smith having works from the Met in his house, and the Batman/Superman movie poster, among other things.

phonsc

06-11-2008, 06:39 PM

It was a OK movie. Some parts were pretty scary, but the ending was ... meh.

Anogar

06-11-2008, 06:56 PM

The ending totally ruined it. Apparently it wasn't even the ending that was supposed to be on there, but the initial ending showed badly with focus groups. It was a huge step from the book, and the whole concept of the movie - that he was actually the bad guy, the 'boogie man' if you will.

http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/03/05/must-watch-i-am-legends-original-ending-this-is-amazing/