I AM LEGEND

[RaistlinZ]

Originally posted by: Flammable

Originally posted by: johngute

Originally posted by: johnjbruin
I think I am ready to go buy a GT500, and expedition, and the new explorer.
With that I will also take the apple powerbook and a bunch of iPods.
Loved the product placements throughout the movie

don't forget to buy a honda generator or two

wait, what about the crystal lake water bottles?

You gotta admit though, they made that GT500 look pretty damn slick.

 

[slpaulson]

I thought it was a good movie. Will Smith did an excellent job. All the product placement was annoying though. Some parts of that movie were very intense.

 

[thirtythree]

I thought it was very entertaining -- interesting character/situation development and more intense than most zombie-esque movies. The creatures reminded me of The Descent, which I also liked. I don't think a perfectly believable plot is really the point of a movie like this, but that's just me. The ending could have been better, but no biggie.

 

[Jadow]

I thought this movie was A+.

I really liked I am Legend. It was a good story with a nice tight plot. I don't like moves that drag thing out and are longer than necessary. At 100 minutes, I am Legend was a nice tight story without any unnessary scenes and was a good, consise movie.

Way to go!

 

[Gibson486]

I saw this on Tuesday. Won tickets to the screener (no Batman preview)Movie had potential, but it blew it in the end. It started off with a bang, but the last third of the movie just struggled.

SPOILER:
I still do not understand how the woman got there.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: JEDI

Originally posted by: BradT
How did you like it? I just got back from it and I am very undecided. I loved some elements but hated others. I'll need to think about it and its message before I can conclude my feelings on it. Either way though, it was still a good popcorn flick if nothing else.

thought this was part 3 of the trilogy:
28 hrs later
28 days later
Legend was suppose to be 2.8yrs later? (Will Smiths time frame is ~3yrs from start of disaster?)

Absolutely not. I am Legend was never intended to come across as a zombie theme. The book features vampirism.

The way everyone is talking about the movie, I don't think I want to see it. At least in the sense it seems like a complete bastardization of the book.

 

[oznerol]

*Big Spoilers*

Alright, so someone explain these things to me (I watched a bootleg so it's possible I missed key facts because the picture quality was bad):

What was the deal with the mannequin randomly appearing?
Who set that trap that Will Smith got caught in?
What exactly happened to his leg?
How did the woman and kid get on/off the island?
What was Will Smith watching on TV - was it taped editions of the today show or something?

 

[HombrePequeno]

Good movie with a sh!tty ending. The religious allegory in the film kind of annoyed me. It's like they took watched Signs and decided to make an even crappier religious allegory.

 

[RaistlinZ]

Originally posted by: ducci
*Big Spoilers*

Alright, so someone explain these things to me (I watched a bootleg so it's possible I missed key facts because the picture quality was bad):

What was the deal with the mannequin randomly appearing?
Who set that trap that Will Smith got caught in?
What exactly happened to his leg?
How did the woman and kid get on/off the island?
What was Will Smith watching on TV - was it taped editions of the today show or something?

1.The mannequin was bait set to lure him to a trap.

2. Probably the main zombie that seemed to be in charge of the zerg.

3. From what I saw he fell on something when he landed. I think he fell on his own knife that he used to cut himself free of the rope.

4. Not quite sure here. A better question is how did she manage to save Will from the SUV when there were 100 zombies all around him? Are we to believe she single-handedly pulled Will from the SUV, fought all of the zombies, then sped off into the night without a scratch on her? :roll:

5. It looked like he was watching taped recordings of news from the days leading up to the disaster. Probably the only thing he had to keep himself occupied, other than watching all those DVDs from A-Z.

 

[KaOTiK]

Originally posted by: ducci
*Big Spoilers*

Alright, so someone explain these things to me (I watched a bootleg so it's possible I missed key facts because the picture quality was bad):

What was the deal with the mannequin randomly appearing?
Who set that trap that Will Smith got caught in?
What exactly happened to his leg?
How did the woman and kid get on/off the island?
What was Will Smith watching on TV - was it taped editions of the today show or something?

The vampire thing set the trap for Will Smiths character. It was the same one that saw the other one get caught in the same way that Smith did to run his test on what he thought was the cure. Remember it stuck its head out in the sun and was burning. It learned and set a trap the same way Smith did.

Dunno about the kid and woman, I was a bit wtf on that too.
Yeah, looked like he was watching taped news to make things feel a bit normal.

 

[RedBeard]

Also, in the end I think Will stuffed the woman and her child into an incinerator that he used to destroy his test subjects.
It would have been sufficient enough to shield them from the super-duper napalm mega grenade he used.
** My guess.

* Also do you think he was mad about the bacon because he was saving it for his dog?
* I assume the female test subject was in some way emotionally attached to the "zerg" leader?
Has anyone here read the book? Is it worth reading even after seeing the movie?

 

[TheChort]

Did he expect the grenade at the end to kill all the zombies in the basement? I don't expect that it did. If I'm reading this right, then he also managed to destroy 3 years of sextuple backed-up research.

And how did he get so famous in the first place?

 

[antyler]

i thought it was great. but its a pity he and the k9 had to die.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

Originally posted by: rocadelpunk
it was alright. it's too easy to pick apart a zombie flick. will smith did another fine acting job.

omg i made it into a signature! LOL

 

[OOBradm]

I really thought they were going to humanize the vampires more. When Will Smith trapped the female vampire and the male came out in the sunlight and screamed at Will, I felt this was done intentionally to make the viewers realize that these vampires are still people. And then, in the next scene, Will is talking into his webcam or something and says something along the lines of "Today, an infected individual deliberately walked out into direct sunlight. Clearly, the infected are losing all human behavior-like qualities and are truly deteriorating to animals" I thought this was the director foreshadowing that at the end of the movie we would find out that Will was wrong and that they were, in fact, just as human-like as we are, and not deteriorating like Will said. But they never did anything with this and the infected remained soul-less monsters. Kinda sad.

 

[chuckywang]

Man, the scene the dog died was such a sad scene and I can't stop thinking about it.

Question though: What was it about the butterfly tattoo on her neck that made him discover the cure was in his blood? I thought he already tried that route to find the cure.

 

[Mr. Lennon]

Originally posted by: johngute
i want to know how the deer, lions, anna and ethan got on the island?
the bridges where blown and the tunnels where flooded

I'm guessing maybe a zoo in the area?

 

[TheChort]

Originally posted by: OOBradm
I really thought they were going to humanize the vampires more. When Will Smith trapped the female vampire and the male came out in the sunlight and screamed at Will, I felt this was done intentionally to make the viewers realize that these vampires are still people. And then, in the next scene, Will is talking into his webcam or something and says something along the lines of "Today, an infected individual deliberately walked out into direct sunlight. Clearly, the infected are losing all human behavior-like qualities and are truly deteriorating to animals" I thought this was the director foreshadowing that at the end of the movie we would find out that Will was wrong and that they were, in fact, just as human-like as we are, and not deteriorating like Will said. But they never did anything with this and the infected remained soul-less monsters. Kinda sad.

While I agree with you in hoping that the director had done more to bring out the personalities of the vampires, I've gotta disagree with you on something.

Will Smith didn't say "Human" behavior. He said there's no sign of "Social" behavior. And that did get disproved when we see that they had a clear leader.

 

[sandorski]

There's a movie I saw made in the '60's that sounds a lot like this. I haven't seen I Am Legend yet, but it all seems vaguely similar to that other movie. Assuming that the '60's movie was the original: In that movie the last guy character survived the plague because he was made Immune to the plague. Years or months(don't recall timeframe) before the Plague hit, he was bit by a bat while in some cave somewhere that was infected with an early strain of the virus/bacteria that eventually became the Plague. It was a pretty cool movie in its' own right and would be worth watching, very dark and very creepy.

 

[TheChort]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Man, the scene the dog died was such a sad scene and I stop thinking about it.

Question though: What was it about the butterfly tattoo on her neck that made him discover the cure was in his blood? I thought he already tried that route to find the cure.

He took the blood from the recovering zombie girl

 

[thirtythree]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Man, the scene the dog died was such a sad scene and I can't stop thinking about it.

Question though: What was it about the butterfly tattoo on her neck that made him discover the cure was in his blood? I thought he already tried that route to find the cure.

It wasn't his blood, it was the blood of the specimen he had down there -- or rather, the stuff he injected into her. They realized it worked when they went down to the basement and saw she was beginning to stabilize/regain pigment. The butterfly tattoo reminded him of his daughter (actually, it seems like he flashed back to his daughter then saw the tattoo, but I'm not really sure how that works unless it really was "supernatural"). It seems that's what motivated him to sacrifice himself.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: OOBradm
I really thought they were going to humanize the vampires more. When Will Smith trapped the female vampire and the male came out in the sunlight and screamed at Will, I felt this was done intentionally to make the viewers realize that these vampires are still people. And then, in the next scene, Will is talking into his webcam or something and says something along the lines of "Today, an infected individual deliberately walked out into direct sunlight. Clearly, the infected are losing all human behavior-like qualities and are truly deteriorating to animals" I thought this was the director foreshadowing that at the end of the movie we would find out that Will was wrong and that they were, in fact, just as human-like as we are, and not deteriorating like Will said. But they never did anything with this and the infected remained soul-less monsters. Kinda sad.

I don't know how the film progressed, but a main part of the novel was to flip the whole scenario of who the monster is. There is a subset of those surviving that have managed to temporarily postpone the effects of the disease, but still have some of it's side-effects, like not being able to go out in the sunlight for anything but a short period of time and sleeping during the day. These people especially retain their humanity, and Smith's character becomes the monster, like vampires to us. Instead of vampires prowling on us at night, Neville (Smith's character) prowls on these people while they sleep killing indiscriminantly (because of sleeping during the day, he can't distinguish between those that are truly infected and those that are keeping the disease at bay) and becoming a source of terror for them. Neville is finally killed, and he became a "legend" among those infected with the disease.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: sandorski
There's a movie I saw made in the '60's that sounds a lot like this. I haven't seen I Am Legend yet, but it all seems vaguely similar to that other movie. Assuming that the '60's movie was the original: In that movie the last guy character survived the plague because he was made Immune to the plague. Years or months(don't recall timeframe) before the Plague hit, he was bit by a bat while in some cave somewhere that was infected with an early strain of the virus/bacteria that eventually became the Plague. It was a pretty cool movie in its' own right and would be worth watching, very dark and very creepy.

Omega Man?

 

[thirtythree]

Originally posted by: RaistlinZ
1.The mannequin was bait set to lure him to a trap.

2. Probably the main zombie that seemed to be in charge of the zerg.

You may be right, and perhaps this is in the book, but I assumed it was a trap Will Smith set before and forgot about -- a sign of his deteriorating mental health. The "things" didn't seem intelligent enough to rig anything like that up (e.g., they were still using their heads as battering rams...). Then again, they were there waiting when the sun started to set, so I dunno.

 

[TheChort]

oh, and one more thing...

How do two human beings headbutt a car and cause it to flip over?