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Shuyin

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Posted on 12-18-07 04:45 PM Link | Quote
Will Smith does an excellent job in this movie. The movie doesn't use a soundtrack, which in my opinion, makes it more effective. However, the vampires could have been made to look scarier. They looked like Voldermort.
NUCKLEARKNIGHT

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Posted on 12-23-07 01:52 PM Link | Quote
I concur. The vampires were not really that scary once you got a good look at them in the light.
Spoiler:
Also Sam died way to early in the movie. And I also thought that they could have made the movie a tad bit longer and added in a bit more about how it all started and a little of what happened in the three years before the movies beginning.
Xeoman

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Posted on 12-23-07 06:46 PM Link | Quote
My friends and I said the same thing about the zombies/vampires, they weren't that good.

Other than that though, I really liked it myself.
FX

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Posted on 12-25-07 12:13 AM Link | Quote
Just finished watching it. It was overall good. No score, as with No Country for Old Men, hope it isn't a trend. Although I guess it makes sense.

Local reviews pointed out some plot holes. Some were nonexistent (They asked why he was making a cure if he thought he was the only person alive. It's made obvious though. I mean, ridiculously obvious). Although how people get to Manhattan when the bridges are gone is an interesting question. And a grenade wouldn't make nearly that large of an explosion.

And the zombies were not that bad. They moved fluidly and they had a good amount of detail. Granted they were a bit homogenous, but when you take away hair and skin color, add some deformations, it's expected. They could have gone in and added variations in the facial structure and whatnot, but for that amount of minute details and the little influence it would have, it really doesn't seem worth it.

Also they changed the end from the book. Drastically. Like, changes the meaning of the entire movie. In the book the vampires learn to see in the light, trap Neville, kill him, and become the new dominant species. Very, very, different. That's Hollywood.

Overall, worth seeing, although worth waiting for on DVD.

EDIT: Here's how the book ends:
Originally posted by Wikipedia
As the story progresses, it is revealed that some infected people have discovered a means to hold the disease at bay. However, the "still living" people appear no different from the true vampire during the day while both are immobilized in sleep. Thus, along with the vampires, Neville kills the still living people. He becomes a source of terror to the still living, since he can go around in daylight (which they can only do for a short length of time) and kill them while they sleep.
The still living send a girl named Ruth to spy on Neville, and they cleverly replicate Neville's relationship to the dog. Ruth pretends to be terrified of Neville at first sight, and rather than spend weeks trying to win her over, he attacks her and drags her back to his house. Though Neville is suspicious of her true nature and much of their interaction focuses on Neville's internal struggle between his deep seated paranoia and his hope, it is clear by his seizure of Ruth that the scales have tipped in favor of the irrational. Eventually Neville performs a blood test on her, revealing her true nature to him before she knocks him out. Ruth leaves a note telling him about the group of people like her, explaining that she was sent to spy and how monstrous he appears to them. Months later, the still living people attack, shooting Neville but taking him alive so that he can be executed in front of everyone in the new society.
Before he can be executed, Ruth provides him with an envelope of pills. Neville takes the pills so he will feel no pain when the still living execute him. He finally realizes why the new society of the living infected regards him as a monster. Just as vampires were regarded as legendary monsters that preyed on the vulnerable humans in their beds, Neville has become a mythical figure that kills both vampires and the infected living while they are sleeping. He becomes a legend as the vampires once were, hence the title.


I like it better. More of a point.

EDIT2: Layout in the way.


(Last edited by FX on 12-25-07 03:34 AM)
Lord Vulkas Mormonus

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Posted on 12-26-07 05:06 PM Link | Quote
WARNING spoilers all throughout my post. I don't know the tags for spoilers, so if you really mind, just skip my post.

I just saw it, but that's not the interesting part.

Just before seeing it, I was told by someone who had seen it that it's a happy ending, and he goes on and meets his family. I don't remember who it was, but whoever did, I now have a seriously dislike of.

That said, I enjoyed the movie. It had a sort of good ending, and it was really well made. However, it was still one of the most serious movies I have ever seen. Even the somewhat humorous parts were only humorous in a sad sort of way.

I realy liked how there actually was a message of hope in the end though.


(Last edited by Vulkar on 12-26-07 08:08 PM)
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Posted on 12-27-07 08:44 PM Link | Quote
I was just wondering how many people realize that this movie is a remake, of a
remake?

The book came out, I am Legend. Then the movie with Vincent Price The Last Man on Earth then, The Omega Man with Charleton Heston. Now
they've titled the movie with the same title of the book.

This also allowed them to re-print the original book with a new cover with Will
Smith on it, thus selling more. Makes good business sense from the authors
perspective.

I'm not saying anything against this movie as I've not seen it yet and no matter
what I do intend to see it. I'm also positive I will enjoy it immensely, I'm just
wondering how different it's going to be from the original Last Man on Earth
FX

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Posted on 12-27-07 08:50 PM Link | Quote
The Last Man on Earth was the most loyal to the book. The Omega Man took out all the vampirical aspects. I Am Legend takes out the still alive, and alters the meaning of the entire story.
Fennicy

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Posted on 12-28-07 02:04 AM Link | Quote
You're right the zombies look like voldemort a little. lol

Well I thought it was okay but at the same time it lacked something..I'm not sure what, but it did.
FX

Zombie Marco








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Posted on 12-29-07 03:10 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Shuyin
The movie doesn't use a soundtrack, which in my opinion, makes it more effective.


Quick note: the movie does use a soundtrack, what it doesn't use is a score. The score is the orchestral or otherwise music that is composed for the film and the soundtrack is music that is featured in the film by certain artists.

But I understand. All music used in the movie was diegetic, or part of the world we are perceiving, where as a score (and soundtracks most/all/some of the time) are non-diegetic, or outside of the world, only perceived by the viewer.
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Posted on 12-29-07 04:51 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by FX
Originally posted by Shuyin
The movie doesn't use a soundtrack, which in my opinion, makes it more effective.


Quick note: the movie does use a soundtrack, what it doesn't use is a score. The score is the orchestral or otherwise music that is composed for the film and the soundtrack is music that is featured in the film by certain artists.

But I understand. All music used in the movie was diegetic, or part of the world we are perceiving, where as a score (and soundtracks most/all/some of the time) are non-diegetic, or outside of the world, only perceived by the viewer.

That was probably one of the best aspects of the film. It just worked very well with it.
FX

Zombie Marco








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Posted on 12-29-07 01:41 PM Link | Quote
I have to agree, it helped with the isolation aspect of the film (I wonder, did Cast Away use a score. Because for a lot of the film, this was a sci-fi cast away). It could have been interesting if there was an influx of a score when the other people show up, to symbolize the interaction.
Ryan

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Posted on 12-30-07 01:59 PM Link | Quote
Me and two friends have put the film into our top ten favourite all time films. I loved it.

I've recently aquired a taste for films that have a lot less action in and make you focus more on the characters... I think this beats Phonebooth for me, maybe ties, dunno. But meh, whatever, 'twas a brilliant film.

And Vulkar! You told me you hated it! You're stupid and boring! And so's this chair! I hate you chair! *Blows up*
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