I Am Legend... anyone seen it?

Last Visible Canary said:
well... I'm watching it now.

From what I can tell, in 30 days an night -

it's specialty explosive rounds or nothing.
katana is proabbly, sadly, better then a shotgun.
parkour is a very impressive combat skill.


[edit]: just finished it. My only thought is this: if any of you ever make a film, and its a good film: do not mess it up with cg. just keep it as far away from your film as possible.
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Tell me those vampires were not the best you've seen in a film ?

They had the "fresh from the grave" look.... well maybe 'fresh' isn't the best word , lol.
They had the horrid looking teeth , and those evil faces , especially the female vamp that got her skin cooked , excellent makeup job.
They dressed 'come as you are' not all in leather and pretty Goth clothes like Underworld , etc.
I dug it.

Chiro , I cannot recall the type of rifle in Legend , I do think it was an M4 though
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rebeltf said:
Tell me those vampires were not the best you've seen in a film ?
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well... for straight vampires... probably. I hate overacting dramatics when it comes to the supernatural though, and they had it in spades. all the cat like hissing and wide eyed stare down your nose faces just took away from the good that they had.

when they were keeping it low key, they were excellent.

but if I can include 28 days later in the "vampire" catagory, it trumps it hands down. that movie still impresses me for the intensity and realism of their zombies, even after having seen it 10+times. For zombies, they don't even come close. for vampires, I'd be hard pressed to think of any that are better. the first sequence where he's throwing the girl under the buildings repeatedly as her husband tries to pull her back out was pretty amazing.


I think that in the right hands, or with proper editing/ending change 30 days of night could have been one of the best vampire movies ever made. the ending cgi and last sequence just killed it. in fact, the entire last "how to end the movie" sequence was kind of silly and anticlimactic...

If they had pulled a "the thing" ala carpenter ending, it would have been a bagillion times better. or even a "shining" ending.


what they did was almost like the deleted ending idea from 28 days later where they were the main guy was going to get infected and they were going to have to remove all of his blood and replace it in a transfusion. it was just too silly to even consider.
 
I have just return from seeing this one. It is not a great movie. Once again they have taken an "A" sized budget and made a "B-" grade movie. Some of the CGI is great - espcially the streets of NYC. But, the vampire/zombies/baddies look like the goons from the Mummy/Mummy Returns; they have as much personality as the zoids you blast away by the millions in a video game. Oh-ho there goes another zombie-rabie-infected-thing-a-majig. So what made it so bad? Here we go:

1) Dozens of broken plot ends
2) Poor Acting by Will Smith
3) The abscence of any real supporting cast
4) Poor writing [ok they stole most of it from Omega Man- but, they could have written something - at least a decent hunting scene that doesn't involve a car chase and automatic light caliber weapons fire.]
5) The usual conflicted/insane anti-hero (boring)
6) The lasie story...oh no not again.....the world has ended but for the love of a dumb dog....:thumbdn:
7) How come all of the zombies are naked except for the single girl zombie with the big boobs?

If you are looking for goofy over the top CGI villans, a dumb plot ripped off from another dumb movie, and are willing to overlook a few new broken plot points every five minutes; then this movie is for you. It's formula, it's well worn, it's stale as last weeks news, it's the usual Hollywood junk.

n2s
 
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