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RE: I Am Legend... - 1/4/2008 2:07:50 AM
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Wyrms
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For starters, Will Smith has a very good build - a lot of mass for his height imo. He would definitely look a lot bigger in person.
Anyway, movie...
It was excellent. I enjoyed every minute of it.
Easy 9/10 from me.
I REALLY liked that bit (THIS ISN'T A SPOILER) right before the lights came up where the voice-over says ''Light up the dark.''
That was awesome.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 1/4/2008 6:06:09 AM
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First of all Smith is friggin huge and toned to shreds. THe average person's "perfect" body isn't Jay Cutler there IBB. In fact, most girls would love a guy with a body like YOURS. Hell, they'd even settle for mine over most today.
Anyways, I loved the first half of the movie. Quite awesome. The zombies themselves clearly possessed animal intelligence but were desocialized. The one part I hated about it which seemed so tacked on was the girl saying "IT WAS GOD! HE TOLD ME TO COME!" it was just so out of place and clearly a studio inclusion.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 1/4/2008 7:15:25 AM
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One thing I picked on was the fact that he was doing pull-ups behind the neck, which can make one prone to injury. 
Ah, I felt so sad for knowing that...
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RE: I Am Legend... - 1/4/2008 7:57:34 AM
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I thought the movie was actually really bad with probably the worst CG and FX we have seen in a movie all year. I've seen movies from 15 years ago with better FX than I am Legend, this along with a poor and unorigional story ruined it for me.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 1/4/2008 9:03:13 AM
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i thaught it was a good movie apart from the last few minutes like others have said.
and i think will's body looked a hell of al ot better in bad boys 2 in the white tank top
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RE: I Am Legend... - 1/4/2008 12:29:41 PM
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I thought the movie was actually really bad with probably the worst CG and FX we have seen in a movie all year. I've seen movies from 15 years ago with better FX than I am Legend, this along with a poor and unorigional story ruined it for me.
I agree. It was especially obvious in the scene where he tried to drive over the zombies. I mean for a movie like this, you'd think they'd spring for top of the line special fx.
Also the ending was stupid as hell. It's like they went "Well we were supposed to make this movie 2 hours long, but you know what? Fck it. This is good enough."
Because you know, granades usually work best when you just throw them in the direction of the enemy.
I wouldn't call Will anywhere close to huge, but he was pretty ripped I'll give him that.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 1/4/2008 1:14:25 PM
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I don't understand why he didn't get in that little hole with the woman and throw grenade and close door behind him, like he sacraficed himself for no reason at all.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 1/4/2008 9:40:13 PM
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I don't understand why he didn't get in that little hole with the woman and throw grenade and close door behind him, like he sacraficed himself for no reason at all.
They would have opened the door. The door was apparantly blast proof.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 1/4/2008 10:16:02 PM
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ORIGINAL: _Virtuoso_
I don't understand why he didn't get in that little hole with the woman and throw grenade and close door behind him, like he sacraficed himself for no reason at all.
That's exactly what I was thinking.
The more you think about it the more crappy that ending becomes.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 1/5/2008 12:57:48 AM
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Well thanks guys now the movie is ruined for me...
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RE: I Am Legend... - 1/5/2008 6:05:58 AM
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SPOILER WARNING
What's wrong with everyone?! I LOVED that ending! It was awesome.
Not only did it give his character this whole dramatic and noble conclusion but there is a lot of logic behind it.
That little hole could probably only fit the kid and the woman unless it's a tight squeeze, and even then, the zombies would've got through the glass and opened the door.
PLUS, there is NO WAY, he could've pulled the pin on the grenade and made it into the hole before it went off!
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RE: I Am Legend... - 1/5/2008 6:28:30 AM
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Sorry ripped!
But thing is, maybe it is logical that the hole wasn't big enough, but will have to watch it again and check, but thing is the door was able to be locked from inside because he told her not to open it until morning. And even if the door wasnt lockable from the inside, in the time it took her to say his goodbyes bla bla bla he could have climbed in and shut it behind him throwing grenade before zombie had broken through. And grenades have a 5 second period between release and detonation, so he would have had plenty of time to throw it out from the hole and close door behind him. Just made no sense.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 1/5/2008 8:03:09 AM
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Dude.
Picture the situation from a character perspective.
You are sh1t scared because your lab is full of zombies. The only hope for any cure to save the ENTIRE human race is in that vial of blood.
You are panicking, you want to go down with your research and be remembered for saving lives rather than taking chances and risking not only the lives of 2 innocents but the only cure for the infection as well, by using the grenade and running into a hole, squeezing in, AND locking the door of the hole (which might not even fit him) all in the space of about 5 seconds.
I'd rather sacrifice my life than take such a huge risk.
Also, you'd be SH1TTING YOURSELF to even think that the latter is even a good idea and that you might just be under the perception that it's better because there's a higher chance of saving your own life. And again, you don't wanna take that risk.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 1/5/2008 8:59:23 AM
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Yeh but picture this:
You want to save the cure, you know the nade your going to use is going to kill everything within the vecinity, but you don't know that the cure you give to the woman is going to get anywhere safe because you don't know if she will get anywhere alive because as far as you know there are no more survivors, plus the fact that those weren't all the zombies, only a small few, so she could have still easily died, plus if the cure did have some problems further down the line you wouldn't be there to tweak it.
He spent about a minute talking to her whilst zombie man was breaking through telling her what to do, could have just pushed her in hole, climbed in, pulled pin on nade, thrown, shut door and then saved his life, nothing hard about that!
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RE: I Am Legend... - 1/5/2008 10:33:58 AM
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Yeah just completely ruined it...blah.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 1/5/2008 11:42:34 AM
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lol at all the people being mad at others spoiling the movie, when they're the ones reading a I am Legend thread.
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Yeh but picture this:
You want to save the cure, you know the nade your going to use is going to kill everything within the vecinity, but you don't know that the cure you give to the woman is going to get anywhere safe because you don't know if she will get anywhere alive because as far as you know there are no more survivors, plus the fact that those weren't all the zombies, only a small few, so she could have still easily died, plus if the cure did have some problems further down the line you wouldn't be there to tweak it.
He spent about a minute talking to her whilst zombie man was breaking through telling her what to do, could have just pushed her in hole, climbed in, pulled pin on nade, thrown, shut door and then saved his life, nothing hard about that!
x2 he could have just thrown the grenade in the hole in the glass before it shattered comletely and then hid. A granade in a small space like that would have killed all the zombies one way or another.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 4/21/2008 12:44:39 PM
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I just saw this last weekend... It is funny I remembered this thread, and I had stayed away from it once the spoilers started, and am glad that I did.
I was so impressed by the lack of hollywoodization. No boy meets girl ,fall in love garbage. NO OVER exaggeration of CGI effects. Things moved in a unnatural and almost impossible way, sure they are zombies. BUT, it never went to far, it was believable, I was so terribly pleased about that. Control goes a long long way.
Smith did a great job conveying his characters plight with very few words.
It was cerebral, for an action movie. It was about his (smiths), cracking, finally after a long isolation.
I thought it was brilliant. I agree with all the 9/10's!
And yes another will go down in infamy of one of the all time horrible "dog scenes", for me (in a very good way). Both my BF and I shed more than 1 tear, pretty pathetic really, but we are both serious dog lovers, and that was hard, even though you knew it was going to go that way.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 4/21/2008 2:58:44 PM
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I just saw this last weekend... It is funny I remembered this thread, and I had stayed away from it once the spoilers started, and am glad that I did.
I was so impressed by the lack of hollywoodization. No boy meets girl ,fall in love garbage. NO OVER exaggeration of CGI effects. Things moved in a unnatural and almost impossible way, sure they are zombies. BUT, it never went to far, it was believable, I was so terribly pleased about that. Control goes a long long way.
Smith did a great job conveying his characters plight with very few words.
It was cerebral, for an action movie. It was about his (smiths), cracking, finally after a long isolation.
I thought it was brilliant. I agree with all the 9/10's!
And yes another will go down in infamy of one of the all time horrible "dog scenes", for me (in a very good way). Both my BF and I shed more than 1 tear, pretty pathetic really, but we are both serious dog lovers, and that was hard, even though you knew it was going to go that way.
I know, it was pretty bad. I cried. It wasn't as bad in the book.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 4/21/2008 3:29:44 PM
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Finally rented this on my Apple TV Saturday night. I wish I had read this thread first -could've saved myself $5
Jeziz, what a stupid movie. About the only thing that impressed me was how they managed to depict NYC utterly abandoned. Aside from that, the CGI zombies were laughably stupid-looking. WTF?? Is there some reason other than Will Smith sucking up the entire acting payroll why they couldn't use real people with makeup? It's like I've always said about Star Wars: Yoda was twenty-times more believable as a rubber puppet than he was as a digital construct. But directors just don't get that anymore.
I liked the premise of a viral cure for cancer going horribly haywire -something I'd expect Michael Crichton to write. And I'm perfectly happy with movies where everyone dies in the end. It's just too bad this one couldn't be one of those movies. How many times do we have to see this retarded "We blew everything up and everyone dies... almost" crap? War of the Worlds (and, yes, I know that was H.G. Wells' fault, not a studio), Deep Impact, Waterworld, Armageddon, Independence Day, Titan A.E., etc, etc... Give me a small break.
Will someone with some balls please make a movie depicting human extinction without the tidy "colony of survivors" B.S. ending??
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